11 Best nonfiction books like Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood

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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…

"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

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Sharks in the Rivers

By: Ada Limon

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's Sharks in the Rivers book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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2. peluda

By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva

3.98

Format: 392 pages,

One of the most original performance poets of her generation, Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated c… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lozada-Oliva's peluda book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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3. No Matter the Wreckage

By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kay's No Matter the Wreckage book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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4. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

Similar categories in Danez Smith's Don't Call Us Dead: Poems book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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5. Depression & Other Magic Tricks

By: Sabrina Benaim

4.27

Format: 359 pages,

Depression & Other Magic Tricksis the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performa… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Benaim's Depression & Other Magic Tricks book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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6. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

Similar categories in Richard Siken's Crush book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • contemporary
  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt

7. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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8. Today Means Amen

By: Sierra DeMulder

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Vivid, courageous, and candid, the poetry of Sierra deMulder speaks straight to the heart. Dear you… read more

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9. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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10. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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11. 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

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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

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12. 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 Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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13. 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

Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • queer
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14. 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

Similar categories in Chen Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

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15. Space Struck

By: Paige Lewis

4.07

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Consider this glowing debut from Paige Lewis a menagerie of near-extinction. Space Struck explores … read more

Similar categories in Paige Lewis's Space Struck book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"A miracle is anything that God forgot to forbid."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"On this planet, you have to be useful to be kept around"

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"I’m the vice president of panic, and the president is missing."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

"I might ask you one day to go camping, and if you have the desire to dance."

-Paige Lewis, Space Struck

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16. 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

Similar categories in Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"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

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17. If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

By: Blythe Baird

4.36

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and tri… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry) book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Remember: you did the best you could in the situation you were in with the materials you had."

-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

"Even though trauma has a way of becoming the wallpaper of my head, watch me drag the art out of my suffering. Watch me plant seeds down my spine and bloom into a garden of poetry from every horrible …"

-Blythe Baird, If My Body Could Speak (Button Poetry)

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18. Sweet, Young, & Worried

By: Blythe Baird

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird. This… read more

Similar categories in Blythe Baird's Sweet, Young, & Worried book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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19. 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

Similar categories in Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • adult
  • queer
"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

Cover of Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley

20. Nothing Is Okay

By: Rachel Wiley

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Nothing is Okay is the second full-length collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously dec… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wiley's Nothing Is Okay book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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21. Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

By: Sherman Kennon

4.35

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Whisk Of Dust is a book of poetry. It aims to uplift and inspire, as it speaks of love, peace, and … read more

Similar categories in Sherman Kennon's Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance book and Olivia Gatwood's Life of the Party

  • contemporary
"Each moment embrace or more so cherish. As gentle the wind blows,"

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Still I chase the wind and float as a gentle breeze up among the stars then descending as a bird down amidst the trees."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

"Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find good."

-Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

13 Best contemporary books like Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

peluda

Melissa Lozada-Oliva

3.98

Transform Your Habits

No Matter the Wreckage

Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

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10 best-selling contemporary books like Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley

Transform Your Habits

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

peluda

Melissa Lozada-Oliva

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Depression & Other Magic Tricks

Sabrina Benaim

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Our Numbered Days

Neil Hilborn

4.24

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