19 must-read poetry books like Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit

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Tiger Girl

By: Pascale Petit

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Pascale Petit’s Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to exp…

If you liked the poetry plot in Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

1. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

By: Warsan Shire

4.25

Format: 37 pages, Paperback

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more

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  • poetry
"Her body is one long sigh."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

2. To Sweeten Bitter

By: Raymond Antrobus

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
Cover of Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

3. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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5. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

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  • poetry
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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6. If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more

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  • poetry
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

Cover of Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo

7. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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  • poetry
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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8. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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  • poetry
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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9. 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
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10. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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  • fiction
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

Cover of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix

11. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

By: Camonghne Felix

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

 When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more

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  • poetry
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

Cover of Judas Goat: Poems by Gabrielle Bates

12. 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
  • fiction
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13. 100 Queer Poems

By: Mary Jean Chan

3.82

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Magnolia, 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles

14. Magnolia, 木蘭

By: Nina Mingya Powles

4.08

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"This is a book of the body and the senses, whether the million tiny nerve endings of young love; t… read more

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  • poetry
"Drift,"

-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭

"I want to know the names of the trees in all other languages too so that I find out what they taste like to other people. But my mouth can only hold so much."

-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭

"When reading her stories in translation it’s like trying to see her from a great distance. Or through a thick pane of glass. I am standing outside, peering into rooms where her ghost has been."

-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭

"My phone is vibrating, telling me: You have a new memory. Here is a stream of pictures collected into an album, all taken somewhere far away. Home is not a place but a string of colours threaded toge…"

-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭

Cover of All the Names Given: Poems by Raymond Antrobus

15. All the Names Given: Poems

By: Raymond Antrobus

4.19

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A Guardian Best Book of the Year Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Costa Poetry Award “Exq… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas

16. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

By: Taylor Byas

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit

17. Tiger Girl

By: Pascale Petit

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Pascale Petit’s Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to exp… read more

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  • poetry
  • animals
  • fiction
Cover of Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century by Youssef Daoudi

18. Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century

By: Youssef Daoudi

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of July 4, 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nev… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick

19. Eat or We Both Starve

By: Victoria Kennefick

4.10

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

A daring first collection from an exciting young Irish poet, tackling how to live with the past and… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of My Darling from the Lions by Rachel  Long

20. My Darling from the Lions

By: Rachel Long

3.78

Format: None pages, None

Described as a narrative collection in three parts, My Darling from the Lions “threads experiences … read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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21. What Girls Do in the Dark

By: Rosie Garland

3.85

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Rosie Garland’s dauntless and enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites… read more

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  • poetry

5 must-read fiction books like Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit

Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Souls

Cecile Pin

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Judas Goat: Poems

Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Tiger Girl

Pascale Petit

4.03

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13 Top adult books like If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

If They Come for Us

Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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