7 Top poetry books like Where Stories Gather by Karuna Ezara Parikh

Cover of Where Stories Gather by Karuna Ezara Parikh

Where Stories Gather

By: Karuna Ezara Parikh

3.98

Format: 122 pages, Hardcover

Where Stories Gather, Karuna Ezara Parikh's first volume of poetry, presents a curation of her most…

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Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

1. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

2. Ghachar Ghochar

By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more

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3. Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories

By: Ruskin Bond

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

An enchanting collection of stories from the little-known heartland of India. Ruskin Bond's charact… read more

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4. Train to Pakistan

By: Khushwant Singh

3.85

Format: 128 pages,

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5. In Other Words

By: Jhumpa Lahiri , Ann Goldstein

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize winner, a surprising, powerful, and eloquent nonfiction debut In Other Word… read more

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6. Paro: Dreams Of Passion

By: Namita Gokhale

2.83

Format: 288 pages,

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7. LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms

By: Atticus Poetry

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For the first time since he began writing, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is … read more

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Cover of Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

8. Independence

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more

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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence

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9. Birthday Girl

By: Haruki Murakami

3.57

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if t… read more

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"She rested her elbow on the bar and looked at me. “Tell me,"

-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl

"The old man raised both hands, palms toward her. “No, miss, don’t you give it a second thought. The kind of ‘present’ I have in mind is not something tangible, not something with a price tag. To put …"

-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl

"Of course I’d like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can’t imagine what would happen to me if any of those things came true. They might be more than I could handle. I still don’t really…"

-Haruki Murakami, Birthday Girl

Cover of The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra

10. The Book of Everlasting Things

By: Aanchal Malhotra

4.16

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perf… read more

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11. The Forest of Enchantments

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.20

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant ret… read more

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"-the girl I'd been on that day, burnished with innocence, believing that goodness and love were armour enough."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

"I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

"A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley"

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

"My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments

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12. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat

By: Perumal Murugan

4.11

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more

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13. Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3.96

Format: 173 pages, ebook

The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following a… read more

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"Yet, even so, Mieko and I shared our lives. But Meiko had an accident and fell into a vegetative state. Her eyes no longer saw; her ears no longer heard. My children grieved, but as much as I felt it…"

-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)

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14. And Yet: Poems

By: Kate Baer

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more

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"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

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15. Everything the Light Touches

By: Janice Pariat

3.75

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious nov… read more

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16. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

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"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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17. Qabar

By: K.R. Meera

3.95

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

As the foundations are laid for a temple to rise on the site of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, voices ris… read more

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18. Girl in White Cotton

By: Avni Doshi

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more

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19. Where Stories Gather

By: Karuna Ezara Parikh

3.98

Format: 122 pages, Hardcover

Where Stories Gather, Karuna Ezara Parikh's first volume of poetry, presents a curation of her most… read more

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20. Teething

By: Megha Rao

4.20

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

A story told in verse, Teething begins when Kochu, a young boy in Kerala, is caught kissing the nei… read more

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"The earth is damp from all the things women never say. I hope somewhere, our mother is still writing."

-Megha Rao, Teething

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21. 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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