Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A macabre love story in verse about celebrity, loss, and longing following a poet who resurrects po…
Want to Read $ 11.99"New York is cool because you only start dating someone so that it's easier to pay the rent."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
"Today, I walked into a coffee shop but no one was there who looked like they could completely fuck up my life and inspire a mediocre poem and a half so I just left."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
"I want You to keep chasing me and I don’t want you to know how far I would go to find out the truth of something, to scratch an itch that will tear the whole universe open."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
"You and me are having sex to a movie Or during a move? Or at a move? In a conversation with? At least we're un the dark enough so I don't have to feel bad about my body. At least there's only this light from the actors' faces, floating across my skin. I'm afraid even my orgasms have dimples."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
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2. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
3. Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women
By: Molly Llewellyn
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Phi… read more
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4. Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more
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"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting
5. Patricia Wants to Cuddle
By: Samantha Allen
3.56
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more
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6. Soft Science
By: Franny Choi
3.93
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grou… read more
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"having been hurt before"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"fiended; fell for another"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"it's too late to stop smiling."-Franny Choi, Soft Science
"shouldn't a god have blood to lose"-Franny Choi, Soft Science
7. 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
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8. Thirst
By: Marina Yuszczuk
3.58
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more
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9. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
10. You Exist Too Much
By: Zaina Arafat
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more
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"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much
11. So to Speak (Penguin Poets)
By: Terrance Hayes
4.17
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–w… read more
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12. Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A macabre love story in verse about celebrity, loss, and longing following a poet who resurrects po… read more
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"New York is cool because you only start dating someone so that it's easier to pay the rent."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
"Today, I walked into a coffee shop but no one was there who looked like they could completely fuck up my life and inspire a mediocre poem and a half so I just left."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
"I want You to keep chasing me and I don’t want you to know how far I would go to find out the truth of something, to scratch an itch that will tear the whole universe open."-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
"You and me are having sex to a movie Or during a move? Or at a move? In a conversation with? At least we're un the dark enough so I don't have to feel bad about my body. At least there's only this li…"-Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
13. Root Fractures: Poems
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
4.31
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a family’s… read more
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14. Oye
By: Melissa Mogollon
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more
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15. Life of the Party
By: Olivia Gatwood
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalize… read more
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"Some things are more a feeling than they are a memory."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"The truth is: It is a privilege to have your body looked for."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed."-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
"I want to know what it means to survive something. does it just mean I get to keep my body?"-Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
16. Anzu and the Realm of Darkness: A Graphic Novel
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4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
5 Worlds meets Spirited Away in this tale of a girl fighting her way back home after getting trappe… read more
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17. The Z Word
By: Lindsay King-Miller
3.48
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more
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18. Mouth: Stories
By: Puloma Ghosh
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
BESTIARY MEETS THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED IN THIS COLLECTION OF 11 EERIE, UNCANNY, AND SURREAL S… read more
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19. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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20. Graveyard Shift
By: M.L. Rio
3.49
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more
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21. Little Rot
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more
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