14 Best nonfiction books like Still Life by Jay Hopler

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Still Life

By: Jay Hopler

4.14

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler―author of the National Book Award-finalist …

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1. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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2. The New Testament

By: Jericho Brown

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In The New Testament, Jericho Brown continues his tender examination of race, masculinity, and sexu… read more

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  • poetry

3. Shiner

By: Maggie Nelson

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poetry. "Maggie Nelson has such drive in her language. Things do not dangle off this drive, but rat… read more

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4. War of the Foxes

By: Richard Siken

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more

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5. Generations: A Memoir

By: Lucille Clifton

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Unknown Binding

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6. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

By: Aimee Bender

4.01

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, u… read more

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7. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

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  • poetry
"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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8. 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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  • poetry
"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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9. 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

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"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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10. 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
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11. Woman Without Shame: Poems

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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12. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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13. Musical Tables: Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. Winter Recipes from the Collective

By: Louise Glück

3.99

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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15. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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16. Same Bed Different Dreams

By: Ed Park

3.77

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more

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17. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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  • poetry
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18. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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19. My Work

By: Olga Ravn

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more

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  • poetry
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20. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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21. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

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  • poetry
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22. Ghost Of

By: Diana Khoi Nguyen

4.36

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Ghost Of elegizes a brother lost via suicide, is a mourning song for the idea of family, a family h… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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23. Normal Distance

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.70

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A collection of funny and thought-provoking poems inspired by surprising facts that will appeal to … read more

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  • poetry
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24. A Fortune for Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: None pages, None

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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25. 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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  • poetry
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26. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America’s most e… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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27. Still Life

By: Jay Hopler

4.14

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Confronted with a terminal cancer diagnosis, Jay Hopler―author of the National Book Award-finalist … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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28. Wade in the Water: Poems

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.10

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"History is a ship forever setting sail."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"

-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems

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29. Tripas: Poems

By: Brandon Som

3.95

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poet… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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30. Pleasure Principle: Poems

By: Madeleine Cravens

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth. In her stunning debu… read more

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  • poetry
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31. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

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The New Testament

Jericho Brown

3.44

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Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

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The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Monica Youn

4.18

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Anne Carson

4.33

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