9 best-selling poetry books like Woke Up No Light by Leila Mottley

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Woke Up No Light

By: Leila Mottley

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakl…

If you liked the poetry plot in Woke Up No Light by Leila Mottley , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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2. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

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  • adult
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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3. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

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  • adult
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4. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Leila Mottley's Woke Up No Light

  • poetry
  • race
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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5. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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6. 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 Leila Mottley's Woke Up No Light

  • poetry
  • adult
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7. How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

By: Shayla Lawson

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose....… read more

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8. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

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  • adult
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9. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

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10. Woke Up No Light

By: Leila Mottley

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakl… read more

Similar categories in Leila Mottley's Woke Up No Light book and Leila Mottley's Woke Up No Light

  • poetry
  • race
  • african american
  • womens
  • adult
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11. Rangikura

By: Tayi Tibble

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
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12. 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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  • adult
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13. 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

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  • poetry
  • womens
"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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14. 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

By: Nam Le

4.05

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The Boat In his first … read more

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  • poetry
  • race
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15. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

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  • race
Cover of Instructions for Traveling West: Poems by Joy Sullivan

16. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

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  • poetry
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17. Blood Orange

By: Yaffa As

4.60

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

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18. Role Play

By: Clara Drummond

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Role Play is a fresh satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consci… read more

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19. 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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  • adult
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20. 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

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and Leila Mottley's Woke Up No Light

  • womens
  • adult
"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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21. Bluff: Poems

By: Danez Smith

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more

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  • poetry

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Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Myriam Gurba

4.37

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3.24

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4.11

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Miranda July

3.81

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3.24

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Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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