SPELLS: 21st Century Occult Poetry
By: Sarah Shin
3.59
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Spells brings together thirty-six contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfho…
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1. Histoire de la violence
By: Édouard Louis
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre… read more
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"I’m sorry, monsieur, but now this is a criminal proceeding. It’s out of your hands."-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
"I’ve been trying to construct a memory that would let me undo the past, that would amplify it and destroy it, so that the more I remember and the more I lose myself in the images that remain, the les…"-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
"I know from experience that the isolation of those who try to forget the past is as terrible as the isolation of those for whom the past is an obsession; I’ve learned that the question is never wheth…"-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
"I was sure that if I kept acting like a trauma victim, that’s what I’d become the effects would be even worse and would last longer. Meanwhile my body knew exactly what was going on. I told Clara: th…"-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence
2. Regarde les lumières mon amour
By: Annie Ernaux
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
Pendant un an, Annie Ernaux a tenu le journal de ses visites a l'hypermarche Auchan du centre comme… read more
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3. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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4. Calling a Wolf a Wolf
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more
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5. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
By: Édouard Louis
4.13
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more
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- queer
"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
6. The Lost Spells
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more
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- poetry
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells
7. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- poetry
- queer
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
8. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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9. God Complex
By: Rachael Allen
3.94
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
God Complex, Rachael Allen's second collection, is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem … read more
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10. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
By: Nghi Vo
3.95
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more
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"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
11. Pretending
By: Holly Bourne
3.86
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
WHY BE YOURSELF WHEN YOU CAN BE PERFECT? 'Perceptive. Hilarious. Reassuring. Brilliant.' Laura Jan… read more
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12. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- poetry
- queer
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
13. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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- poetry
- queer
14. Weird Fucks
By: Lynne Tillman
3.17
Format: None pages, None
Fiction. Women's Studies. Art by Amy Sillman. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant L… read more
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15. The Liar's Dictionary
By: Eley Williams
3.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the… read more
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"Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"He was a sweet man who loved words, and played chess with ghosts."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"Onomatopoeia is onomatopoeia for mashing your hands unthinkingly but hopefully onto a keyboard."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
"All words are made up," I said. "That is true," David Swansby replied, "and also not a useful contribution."-Eley Williams, The Liar's Dictionary
16. Another Way to Split Water
By: Alycia Pirmohamed
4.37
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
LONGLISTED 2023 JHALAK PRIZE LONGLISTED 2023 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLISTED 2023 RAYMON… read more
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"I stoop into my longings, plot a seed in every corner. Last week I titled another page within my body and surrendered every bending, spitting line of myself to the making."-Alycia Pirmohamed, Another Way to Split Water
17. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
By: Sara Ahmed
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more
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"Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls"-Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
18. Like Love: Essays and Conversations
By: Maggie Nelson
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more
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19. Witch
By: Rebecca Tamás
3.52
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
WITCH by Rebecca Tamás is a raw, strange book of poems that merges feminist exploration with occult… read more
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- queer
- occult
- witches
- witchcraft
20. SPELLS: 21st Century Occult Poetry
By: Sarah Shin
3.59
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Spells brings together thirty-six contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfho… read more
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- queer
- occult
- witches
- witchcraft
21. Saturn Returns: Your Cosmic Coming Of Age
By: Caggie Dunlop
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Comforting, wise and so empowering.' Kirsty Gallagher, author of bestseller Lunar Living 'A beauti… read more
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