13 must-read nonfiction books like Cat Poems by New Directions

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Cat Poems

By: New Directions

3.52

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A gorgeous gift edition, dedicated to the mystery, grace, and charm of the cat  Across the ages, ca…

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1. Murder in the Cathedral

By: T.S. Eliot

3.72

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel… read more

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  • poetry
"Friendship should be more than biting Time can sever."

-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

"A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident."

-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

"Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended"

-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

"Meanwhile the substance of our first act Will be shadows, and the strife with shadows."

-T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

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2. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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  • poetry
"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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3. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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4. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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5. The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

By: E.B. Hudspeth

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages--… read more

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6. Forty Rooms

By: Olga Grushin

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Fort… read more

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7. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • poetry
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8. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

By: Lenny Bruce , Eric Bogosian

3.70

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction

9. Sombrero Fallout

By: Richard Brautigan

4.08

Format: 176 pages,

Concerns a writer trying to cope with the break-up of a relationship. Trying to escape his misery, … read more

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10. Plum Pudding Murder (Hannah Swensen, #12)

By: Joanne Fluke

3.62

Format: None pages,

Holiday business is booming at Hannah Swenson's Cookie Jar pastry shop, but the mysterious murder o… read more

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11. The Ruin of a Rake (The Turner Series, #3)

By: Cat Sebastian

3.85

Format: None pages, ebook

Rogue. Libertine. Rake. Lord Courtenay has been called many things and has never much cared. But af… read more

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12. 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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13. When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

By: Kara Cooney

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cl… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It should come as no surprise that women need to work doubly hard to prove their right to power. They have to look to their menfolk around them who can support their claim, rather than detract from i…"

-Kara Cooney, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

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14. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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15. 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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16. Barbie Chang

By: Victoria Chang

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Barbie’s cultural artifice is unmasked by Victoria Chang’s imagination, lifting the struggle of Asi… read more

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  • poetry
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17. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

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  • animals
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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18. 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

"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."

-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

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19. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)

By: Serj Tankian

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Parade

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A brief, disquieting companion to the bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, set during a summer aft… read more

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22. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge

By: Lizzie Pook

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her … read more

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23. Fence, Vol. 6: Redemption

By: C.S. Pacat

4.42

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A mysterious new fencer arrives at Halverton in the newest chapter of the GLAAD Media Award-nominat… read more

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24. Beasts of War

By: Ayana Gray

4.01

Format: 442 pages, Hardcover

In this epic conclusion to her New York Times bestselling series, Ayana Gray delivers a heart-pound… read more

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25. The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

By: Steffanie Strathdee

4.39

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of one woman's effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A wise person once said, "The most important two days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why."

-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

"It's no joke that hospitals are now often referred to as the worst place to get well. Superbugs are looking out the hospital windows, licking their chops at the feast that awaits them in this era of …"

-Steffanie Strathdee, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

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26. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

By: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everywhere we go, no matter how hard we try to avoid it, capitalism follows us."

-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

"Science is supposedly about asking questions, except about scientists and how science is done."

-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

"Access to a dark night sky—to see and be inspired by the universe as it really is—should be a human right, not a luxury for the chosen few."

-Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

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27. You Are What You Watch

By: Walter Hickey

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Data expert Walter Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, h… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping Wisdom for Heart and Soul After the Loss of a Beloved Feline by Liz Eastwood

28. Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers: Coping Wisdom for Heart and Soul After the Loss of a Beloved Feline

By: Liz Eastwood

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"...more than just another book on pet loss. Reading this book is like talking to a friend who know… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • cats
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29. The Ethics Of Infatuation Dynamics

By: Lauren James

4.52

Format: 12 pages, ebook

Nick and Charlie face some confusion and a little jealousy when Charlie has a celebrity crush. A… read more

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30. Cat Poems

By: New Directions

3.52

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A gorgeous gift edition, dedicated to the mystery, grace, and charm of the cat  Across the ages, ca… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • cats
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31. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Murder in the Cathedral

T.S. Eliot

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Mary Oliver

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

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Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Transform Your Habits

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

4.47

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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

Grace Blakeley

4.15

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Rashid Khalidi

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