6 Best poetry books like Saigyo by Saigyō

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Saigyo

By: Saigyō

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are alm…

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1. L'Écume des jours

By: Boris Vian

3.93

Format: 351 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Chick, Alise, Chloé et Colin passent leur temps à dire des choses rigolotes, à écouter Duke Ellingt… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"Per me, ciccino mio"

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

"Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir."

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

"Те се умълчаха за миг. Една кана използва настъпилата тишина, за да издаде сребрист звук, който отекна о стените."

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

"Le ciel bleu-vert pendait presque jusqu'au pavé et de grandes taches blanches marquaient sur le sol la place où des nuages venaient de se fracasser. (p. 220)"

-Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

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2. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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3. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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4. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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5. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • buddhism
  • philosophy
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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6. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • philosophy
  • japanese literature
  • japan
Cover of Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke, Joanna Macy, Anita Barrows

7. Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Joanna Macy , Anita Barrows

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he h… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • philosophy
Cover of Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3) by Tove Jansson, Elizabeth Portch

8. Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.42

Format: None pages,

It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snuf… read more

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  • classics
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9. A Village Life

By: Louise Glück

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village,… read more

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  • poetry
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10. The Wild Geese

By: Ōgai Mori , Sanford Goldstein , Kingo Ochiai

4.25

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled lov… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • japanese literature

11. The Dhammapada

By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more

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12. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

13. The Old Capital

By: Yasunari Kawabata , J. Martin Holman

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

The Old Capitalis one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they award… read more

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14. The Book of Tea

By: Kakuzō Okakura

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add gra… read more

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15. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

By: Matsuo Bashō , None

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his atte… read more

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16. 100 Poems from the Japanese

By: Kenneth Rexroth

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshuand Hyakunin Isshucollections, b… read more

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17. L'Arabe du futur 6 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1994–2011

By: Riad Sattouf

4.61

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

L'Arabe du futur, une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient est une série de bande dessinée en six tomes, écrite… read more

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18. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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19. Saigyo

By: Saigyō

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are alm… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • buddhism
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • japanese literature
  • japan
Cover of Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha: The Life and Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi by Tangen Harada

20. Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha: The Life and Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi

By: Tangen Harada

4.54

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From narrowly surviving World War II through enduring the profound rigors of traditional Zen traini… read more

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  • buddhism
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21. As sete mortes de uma sereia

By: Lis Vilas Boas

4.55

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

Os gatos vem e vão como querem, mas quando chegam na villa de Madre Luzia os pescadores sabem que s… read more

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9 must-read classics books like Saigyo by Saigyō

Transform Your Habits

L'Écume des jours

Boris Vian

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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11 Best nonfiction books like L'Arabe du futur 6 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1994–2011 by Riad Sattouf

Transform Your Habits

L'Arabe du futur 6 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1994–2011

Riad Sattouf

4.61

Transform Your Habits

De la Turquie à la Grèce (L'Odyssée d'Hakim #2)

Fabien Toulmé

4.75

Transform Your Habits

De la Macédoine à la France (L'Odyssée d'Hakim #3)

Fabien Toulmé

4.81

Transform Your Habits

Le Monde sans fin

Jean-Marc Jancovici

4.47

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