The Naomi Letters
By: Rachel Mennies
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Naomi Letters is a collection of epistles, mostly love letters, written from one woman to anoth…
Want to Read $ 8.49If you liked the queer plot in The Naomi Letters by Rachel Mennies , here is a list of 10 books like this:
1. 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
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- 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
2. Letters to Milena
By: Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská
3.89
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as … read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Franz Kafka's Letters to Milena book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- nonfiction
"I can't hold enough of you in my hands."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
3. The Interestings
By: Meg Wolitzer
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
4. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- nonfiction
- queer
5. Holy the Firm
By: Annie Dillard
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
6. Naturally
By: None
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This book is about nature. Human nature. The conclusion of a poetic journey, which lives inside us … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in None's Naturally book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
7. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Natalie Díaz's When My Brother Was an Aztec book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
8. Ferals (Ferals #1)
By: Jacob Grey
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A sinister threat. A city in danger. A boy with the power to command the crows. Feralsis the first … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jacob Grey's Ferals (Ferals #1) book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
9. War of the Foxes
By: Richard Siken
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Richard Siken's War of the Foxes book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
10. No Exit
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unf… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
11. blud
By: Rachel McKibbens
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Rachel McKibbens's blud book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
12. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
13. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Kate Baer's What Kind of Woman: Poems book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- nonfiction
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
14. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
15. frank: sonnets
By: Diane Seuss
4.50
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets
16. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
17. 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
Want to Read $ 9.49Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- nonfiction
"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
18. The Adventure Zone Vol.1: Here There Be Gerblins
By: Clint McElroy
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the Adventure Zone! SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Clint McElroy's The Adventure Zone Vol.1: Here There Be Gerblins book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- lgbt
19. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's I Do Everything I'm Told book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
20. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
Want to Read $ 10.99Similar categories in Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- nonfiction
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
21. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
22. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Donika Kelly's The Renunciations: Poems book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- lesbian
- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
23. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Maggie Millner's Couplets book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- lesbian
- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
24. Grand Tour: Poems
By: Elisa Gonzalez
3.92
Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition
Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it g… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Elisa Gonzalez's Grand Tour: Poems book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- nonfiction
25. Pig: Poems
By: Sam Sax
4.32
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Sam Sax's Pig: Poems book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- queer
- jewish
- lgbt
26. Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
By: Aria Aber
4.50
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documenta… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Aria Aber's Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry) book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
"And I cannot see / their faces, who is foreign, who native."-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
"I feed her a spoonful of glass. By morning, she will be a window."-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
"Ich. Ich: far from Auge, the eye. Sounds like licht, which is light, or dicht, which is dense - I, the dense light of my eyeball that strives to look forward only."-Aria Aber, Hard Damage (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
27. The Adventure Zone Vol. 2: Murder on the Rockport Limited!
By: Clint McElroy
4.60
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D po… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Clint McElroy's The Adventure Zone Vol. 2: Murder on the Rockport Limited! book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
28. The Adventure Zone Vol. 3: Petals to the Metal
By: Clint McElroy
4.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
START YOUR ENGINES, friends, as we hit the road again with Taako, Magnus and Merle, the beloved age… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Clint McElroy's The Adventure Zone Vol. 3: Petals to the Metal book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- queer
- lgbt
29. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
By: torrin a. greathouse
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a dev… read more
Want to Read $ 8.49Similar categories in torrin a. greathouse's Wound from the Mouth of a Wound book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
30. Good Boys: Poems
By: Megan Fernandes
4.26
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a … read more
Want to Read $ 14.33Similar categories in Megan Fernandes's Good Boys: Poems book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- poetry
- lgbt
31. The Naomi Letters
By: Rachel Mennies
4.34
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The Naomi Letters is a collection of epistles, mostly love letters, written from one woman to anoth… read more
Want to Read $ 8.49Similar categories in Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters book and Rachel Mennies's The Naomi Letters
- lesbian
- poetry
- jewish
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
