19 must-read nonfiction books like What the Chickadee Knows by Margaret Noodin

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What the Chickadee Knows

By: Margaret Noodin

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Margaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, What the Chickadee Knows (Gij…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in What the Chickadee Knows by Margaret Noodin , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Salt

By: Nayyirah Waheed

4.24

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

salt. a literary work. read more

Similar categories in Nayyirah Waheed's Salt book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"i like myself. when i am myself."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"poetry. is the fire leaving my body."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"healing begins the moment you want it to"

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

"she was a beautiful place to bare my legs."

-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

2. Fair Play

By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more

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3. Bluebeard

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.06

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at ag… read more

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"It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"Why should a real man stay home when he could be raping a virgin continent?"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard

4. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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5. The True Deceiver

By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal

4.36

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A New York Review Books Original The lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others--is the sub… read more

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6. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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7. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

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  • indigenous
"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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8. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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9. The Incendiaries

By: R.O. Kwon

3.22

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elit… read more

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10. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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11. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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12. Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

By: Erin Williams

3.73

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision women mus… read more

Similar categories in Erin Williams's Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
"Perspective can be hard to come by, when you spend most of your time licking your own wounds."

-Erin Williams, Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

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13. I Left The House Today!

By: Cassandra Calin

4.03

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Hilarious and relatable comics about one young woman's life, relationships, and day-to-day humorous… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Calin's I Left The House Today! book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
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14. Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a … read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1) book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • indigenous
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15. Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1)

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and … read more

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16. So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.17

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles … read more

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018 book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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17. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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18. Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

3.91

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • indigenous
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

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19. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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20. The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

4.27

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this … read more

Similar categories in Linda LeGarde Grover's The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • indigenous
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21. What the Chickadee Knows

By: Margaret Noodin

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Margaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, What the Chickadee Knows (Gij… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • indigenous
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22. On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller Th… read more

Similar categories in Susan Orlean's On Animals book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
  • nature
"I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone."

-Susan Orlean, On Animals

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23. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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24. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Leland's The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"

-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

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25. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

By: Barry Lopez

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, deeply moving final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Ar… read more

Similar categories in Barry Lopez's Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

26. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Janega's The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
Cover of Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice

27. Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice rec… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlin B. Curtice's Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • indigenous
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28. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

Similar categories in Patty Krawec's Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • indigenous
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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29. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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30. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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31. Words Like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers

By: Lois Beardslee

4.09

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers is a collection of poetry by award-winning Oji… read more

Similar categories in Lois Beardslee's Words Like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers book and Margaret Noodin's What the Chickadee Knows

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous

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Nayyirah Waheed

4.24

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4.34

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Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

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Ursula K. Le Guin

4.17

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Miranda July

3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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