100 Poems
By: Seamus Heaney
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Selected poems from a Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of …
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1. The Pleasures of the Damned
By: Charles Bukowski , John Martin
4.35
Format: 557 pages, Hardcover
To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was—and remains—the quintessential counterculture icon. A … read more
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- poetry
- classics
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- 20th century
- fiction
"I want quiet thunder."-Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned
"a poem is a city burning"-Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned
"we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning."-Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned
"no te precipites. si existe la luz ella misma dará contigo."-Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned
2. Selected Poems
By: Langston Hughes
4.31
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poem… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
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"Consider me, Descended also From the Mystery."-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
"The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water."-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
"Hell no! It's time to talk back now! History says it's time"-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
"Joe has sense enough to know He is a god. So many gods don't know."-Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
3. Poems
By: Charles Baudelaire
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical maste… read more
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- poetry
- classics
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"Have you sunk into so deep a stupor that you are happy only in your unhappiness? - Anywhere, Out of this World "-Charles Baudelaire, Poems
4. Collected Poems
By: Philip Larkin , Anthony Thwaite
4.21
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a … read more
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- poetry
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
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"Life is slow dying."-Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
"Time is the echo of an axe Within a wood."-Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
"Death is no different whined at than withstood."-Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
"I take off my cycle-clips in awkward reverence."-Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
5. The Golden Key
By: George MacDonald , Maurice Sendak
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The adventurous wanderings of a boy and girl to find the keyhole which fits the rainbow's golden ke… read more
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- classics
- fiction
6. The Meaning of Life
By: Terry Eagleton
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty … read more
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7. Juno and the Paycock
By: Seán O'Casey
3.23
Format: 403 pages,
The most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced thr… read more
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- classics
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
8. Free Will: A Very Short Introduction
By: Thomas Pink
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of choices: some trivial, others so consequential … read more
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9. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more
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- poetry
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
10. The Selected Poetry
By: Edna St. Vincent Millay , Nancy Milford
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
One of America's most celebrated poets--and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923--Edna St. Vincent … read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
- fiction
11. Paris France
By: Gertrude Stein
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Stein's incomparable, impressionistic memoir of Paris. Published in 1940, on the day that Paris fel… read more
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- classics
12. Selected Poems
By: John Keats , John Barnard
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poeti… read more
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13. Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
By: Billy Collins
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America's Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems a… read more
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14. Selected Poems
By: W.B. Yeats , John Kelly
3.27
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: " "One time it was a woman's face, or worse-" "T… read more
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15. Morning in the Burned House
By: Margaret Atwood
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate - … read more
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16. The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)
By: Edna O'Brien
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they … read more
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17. The Complete Poems
By: Emily Brontë , Irene Taylor , None
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1846 a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell appeared on the British litera… read more
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18. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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19. Go Down, Moses
By: William Faulkner
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone a… read more
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20. Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year
By: Malcolm Guite
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Paperback
Poetry has always been a central element of Christian spirituality and is increasingly used in wors… read more
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21. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
22. The Perseverance
By: Raymond Antrobus
4.31
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging ac… read more
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- poetry
23. 100 Poems
By: Seamus Heaney
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Selected poems from a Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of … read more
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- nobel prize
- classics
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- read for school
- 20th century
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- nature
24. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
By: William Neuman
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2022 and the National Endowment for Democracy Notable Books of … read more
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25. The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
By: Wendell Berry
4.03
Format: 513 pages, Paperback
Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continue… read more
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26. The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
By: Samantha Harvey
3.58
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A Vulture Best Book of 2020 This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samanth… read more
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"If the mind is a cacophony, the subconscious is silent theatre."-Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
"You need to believe that you can sleep again.’ ‘Since when was sleep a matter of faith?"-Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
"To write fiction you have to engage in organised fraud, the laundering of experience into the offshore haven of words."-Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
"The mind is a prison. And when we write the noise is distilled and alchemised, and the self can find a way out, which I think is what love is – the escape of the self from the self."-Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
27. And Then? And Then? What Else?
By: Daniel Handler
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold, candid, vulnerable, and entertaining memoir of the literary life of Daniel Handler, the wri… read more
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"A universally loved rebel, an immensely popular loner, the imaginary writer is everyone's favorite, if only because you don't have to read anything to appreciate their work, although I must say I pre…"-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
"Surely all artistic output stems from something a little nobler than boredom. It’s why I like to dress it up and say ennui instead, to mean another kind of boredom, a French kind, more glamorous, bet…"-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
"There is, in fact, a whole planet of literary appreciation that is only distantly orbiting the actual texts. People declare themselves in favor of Jeffersonian democracy, or label a situation Kafkaes…"-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?
28. Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
By: Nell Greenfieldboyce
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science intimate essays about the intersection of scienc… read more
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- nature
29. Oh, to Be a Painter! (ekphrasis)
By: Virginia Woolf
4.04
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings… read more
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- classics
30. The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words
By: Tom Mole
3.93
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We… read more
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31. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
By: Ann Powers
3.51
Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition
For decades Joni Mitchell’s life and music have enraptured listeners. One of the most celebrated ar… read more
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