22 best-selling nonfiction books like The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal by James Crews

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The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal

By: James Crews

4.38

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness  pr…

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1. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By: Shaun Usher

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Letters of Noteis a collection of one hundred and twenty five of the world's most entertaining, ins… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. The Summerhouse

By: Jude Deveraux

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Three women, good friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. They plan to share … read more

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3. New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

By: Mary Oliver

3.90

Format: 448 pages,

Understand, I am always trying to figure out what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape- Ne… read more

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4. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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5. 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
  • nature
"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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6. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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7. 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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8. 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
  • nature
"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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9. Where Hope Comes From

By: Nikita Gill

4.01

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In Where Hope Comes From: poems for a broken world, Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill return… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?"

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

"Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma."

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

"Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary."

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

"I, too, hope to be that confident in a love. Someone who I know will still love me, even if I do not run to them every time they call."

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

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10. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

By: Jami Attenberg

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
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12. 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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13. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.86

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"

-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

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14. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • nature
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15. These Are the Words: fearless verse to find your voice

By: Nikita Gill

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From international poetry sensation Nikita Gill comes her highly anticipated YA debut These Are the… read more

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  • poetry
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16. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

By: Nova Jacobs

3.55

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician,… read more

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"Her brother's desk was austere, save for a small photo of Lewis and a coffee mug featuring a math geek's coy declaration of love: √-1 <3 μ."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

"Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with a…"

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

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17. A Year of Last Things: Poems

By: Michael Ondaatje

3.61

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began h… read more

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  • poetry
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18. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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20. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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21. Summer Solstice: An Essay

By: Nina MacLaughlin

4.29

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Summer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dream… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"…it is summer and there is freedom, and time, and luck to be had."

-Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice: An Essay

"June verges. It shifts. And it holds two forces at once: the start of summer, the start of darkening."

-Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice: An Essay

"Long light and there’s something in the air. Frog-song and bug-song in the air. Honeysuckle in the air. Dew in the air and beading on the tips of petal tongues."

-Nina MacLaughlin, Summer Solstice: An Essay

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22. Dragonhearts

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.86

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

“COME AND SEE HOW I HAVE TAMED THE MONSTER THAT ONCE TRIED TO KILL THE GOOD IN ME.”three of today’s… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"know when you need to draw your lines in the sand. know when you need to lock your windows & your doors. know when you need to put your fences up. (& when you need to lace them with barber wire.) tru…"

-Amanda Lovelace, Dragonhearts

"my spiraling thoughts are keeping me up late. again. i text her & i’m surprised to find that she’s still awake. she texts back to let me know that she’s being haunted too, & how she guesses that mean…"

-Amanda Lovelace, Dragonhearts

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23. Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words

By: Anne Curzan

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the g… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal

By: James Crews

4.38

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness  pr… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • nature
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25. Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them

By: Tess Taylor

4.09

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voi… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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26. The Blue Mimes: Poems

By: Sara Daniele Rivera

4.21

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Sara Daniele Rivera’s award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastr… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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27. The Music Was Just Getting Good

By: Alicia Cook

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Some good things must come to an end, for new things to begin. Poet Alicia Cook explores this griev… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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28. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

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29. Brittle Joints

By: Maria Sweeney

4.54

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

An evocative and heartfelt graphic memoir about the challenges of living with a progressive disabil… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. All the Honey

By: Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

4.56

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In All the Honey, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer holds both fine, honest sensuality and slow exploratio… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr

31. A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry

By: Gregory Orr

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry guides the young poet toward a deeper understanding of how… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

20 must-read poetry books like The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal by James Crews

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Ada Limon

4.34

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Musical Tables: Poems

Billy Collins

3.79

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The Carrying

Ada Limon

4.40

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Where Hope Comes From

Nikita Gill

4.01

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Matt Bell

4.46

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed

3.71

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