6 Best poetry books like Branches by Rhiannon McGavin

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Branches

By: Rhiannon McGavin

4.58

Format: None pages, None

Microscopes swivel and flowers spread as the poet wrestles with a spectrum of growing pains. These …

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1. Snow & Rose

By: Emily Winfield Martin

4.04

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times bestselling author-illustrator brings readers into the woods to meet two young sis… read more

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"Rose pictured herself as a tidy bow, and Snow was a wild tangle."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"Snow and Rose didn't know that they were living in a fairy tale--people never do."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"A feeling of celebration spread through the woods as the changed ones found their long-forgotten voices"

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

"To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader ."

-Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

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2. The Bones Below

By: Sierra DeMulder

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A clear voice of her generation, Sierra DeMulder's writing offers a gritty, sincere perspective on … read more

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  • poetry
  • contemporary
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3. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • contemporary

4. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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5. Through the Woods

By: Emily Carroll

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more

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"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

6. 1922

By: Stephen King

4.15

Format: 222 pages,

1922is a novella by Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars(2010). The story … read more

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7. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Ann Jacobs

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more

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8. Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately

By: Alicia Cook

4.21

Format: 539 pages,

In Alicia Cook's second poetic effort, designed in the style of an old mixtape, she sets her though… read more

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9. Graffiti

By: Savannah Brown , None

4.01

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

My late teenage years were an emotional train wreck, and lucky for me, they're all fully documented… read more

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10. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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  • contemporary
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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11. Lanny

By: Max Porter

4.06

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more

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  • poetry
  • contemporary
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."

-Max Porter, Lanny

"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."

-Max Porter, Lanny

"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

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12. Girls Against God

By: Jenny Hval

3.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more

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  • contemporary
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"

-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God

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13. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

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  • contemporary
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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14. Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more

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  • contemporary
"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

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15. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

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  • contemporary
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

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16. Shit Cassandra Saw

By: Gwen E. Kirby

3.83

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking po… read more

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  • contemporary
Cover of To Make Monsters Out of Girls (Things that Haunt, #1) by Amanda Lovelace

17. To Make Monsters Out of Girls (Things that Haunt, #1)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.73

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

"What happens when the man of your dreams turns out to be a nightmare with sharp teeth and claws?"W… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"darling, you are worthy."

-Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls (Things that Haunt, #1)

"yet here i am. i stand before you the woman who managed to become everything you said she could never one day be."

-Amanda Lovelace, To Make Monsters Out of Girls (Things that Haunt, #1)

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18. Closer Baby Closer

By: Savannah Brown

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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19. Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more

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  • poetry
  • contemporary
Cover of Branches by Rhiannon McGavin

20. Branches

By: Rhiannon McGavin

4.58

Format: None pages, None

Microscopes swivel and flowers spread as the poet wrestles with a spectrum of growing pains. These … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary

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Sierra DeMulder

4.37

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Maggie Nelson

4.22

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Adania Shibli

4.20

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Lanny

Max Porter

4.06

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Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.04

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Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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