14 best-selling poetry books like The Home Child by Liz Berry

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The Home Child

By: Liz Berry

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winnin…

If you liked the poetry plot in The Home Child by Liz Berry , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. Summer in Baden-Baden

By: Susan Sontag , Roger Keys , Leonid Tsypkin , Angela Keys

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Summer in Baden-Badenwas acclaimed by The New York Review of Booksas "a short poetic masterpiece" a… read more

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  • fiction

2. Physical

By: Andrew McMillan

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Raw and urgent, these poems are hy… read more

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3. A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

By: Juliet Nicolson

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable wome… read more

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4. Stag's Leap: Poems

By: Sharon Olds

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more

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5. The Final Year

By: Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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6. Pity

By: Andrew McMillan

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and … read more

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  • fiction
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7. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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8. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. In Defence of the Act

By: Effie Black

4.12

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the tr… read more

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  • fiction
"Anorexia is a secretive disease, it fed on Beth's stories of conquering her past demons."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

"We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep."

-Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

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11. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • fiction
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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12. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

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"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

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13. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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14. Let the Light Pour In

By: Lemn Sissay

3.67

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO G… read more

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  • poetry
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15. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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16. Parasol Against the Axe

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Bright Fear

By: Mary Jean Chan

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more

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  • poetry
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18. England's Green

By: Zaffar Kunial

4.08

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single wor… read more

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  • poetry
"There is something locked-in about grief, but there is something horribly unlocked about grieving. - Ings "

-Zaffar Kunial, England's Green

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19. Self-Portrait as Othello

By: Jason Allen-Paisant

4.02

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more

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  • poetry
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20. Blossomise

By: Simon Armitage

4.22

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Somebody Loves You

By: Mona Arshi

3.60

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, k… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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22. Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

By: Jen Campbell

4.34

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologisin… read more

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  • poetry
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23. Playtime

By: Andrew McMillan

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and … read more

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  • poetry
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24. The Home Child

By: Liz Berry

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Liz Berry's The Home Child book and Liz Berry's The Home Child

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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25. Cairn

By: Kathleen Jamie

4.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more

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  • poetry
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26. The Night Alphabet

By: Joelle Taylor

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

'Joelle Taylor has a Midas touch with words' Diana Souhami The tattoo was a reclamation, a flag… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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27. Sonnets for Albert

By: Anthony Joseph

3.99

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his ea… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

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  • fiction
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29. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

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  • fiction
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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30. Rosarita

By: Anita Desai

3.29

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Brother Poem (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Will Harris

31. Brother Poem (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Will Harris

4.07

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG … read more

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  • poetry

16 Top fiction books like The Home Child by Liz Berry

Summer in Baden-Baden

Susan Sontag , Roger Keys , Leonid Tsypkin , Angela Keys

4.73

Transform Your Habits

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Pity

Andrew McMillan

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Absolutely and Forever

Rose Tremain

3.90

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19 must-read fiction books like Rosarita by Anita Desai

Transform Your Habits

Crooked Seeds

Karen Jennings

3.53

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Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

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The Gentleman From Peru

André Aciman

3.56

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Orbital

Samantha Harvey

3.73

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