6 must-read poetry books like Soekenjin by Bibi Slippers

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Soekenjin

By: Bibi Slippers

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Soekenjin (Search Engine) is a collection of contemporary poems about desire and life in the time o…

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1. A Short History of the Girl Next Door

By: Jared Reck

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The unrequited love of the girl next door is the centerpiece of this fiercely funny, yet heart-brea… read more

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2. Ons Is Nie Almal So Nie

By: Jeanne Goosen

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Wat het 'n mooi Afrikanervrou in die 1950's gedoen as die lewe begin druk? As haar man 'n verbitter… read more

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3. Body Bereft

By: Antjie Krog

3.33

Format: None pages,

The taboos within the tidal moods of menopause are described with an anger and a verbal intensity t… read more

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4. Still Alice

By: Lisa Genova

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset… read more

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5. 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

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6. Dead at Daybreak

By: Deon Meyer , Madeleine Van Biljon

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

An antiques dealer robbed and killed, and the only clues are a scrap of blank paper and the unusual… read more

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7. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

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8. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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9. Kwaaiwater (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Irna van Zyl

3.88

Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition

Die grootste uitdaging van haar loopbaan wag op speuradjudant Storm van der Merwe. Die kusdorp Herm… read more

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10. Luster

By: Raven Leilani

3.52

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office,… read more

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"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"

-Raven Leilani, Luster

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11. Leo (Bennie Griessel, #8) (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Deon Meyer

4.41

Format: 552 pages, Kindle Edition

’n Student se dood in die berg by Stellenbosch lyk verdag. ’n Oud-recce vermoor as ’n boodskap. ’n … read more

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12. Vlug (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Wilna Adriaanse

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Milla Roux is ’n veearts wat werk by ’n rehabilitasiesentrum vir sjimpansees in die DRK. Spoedig be… read more

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13. Vleisfees op Karibib

By: Isa Konrad

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ná haar egskeiding keer Alet Snyman terug na Karibib toe om die drade wat sy aan die begin van die … read more

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14. Hoerkind: Die memoires van ‘n randeier (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Herman Lategan

3.87

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Die joernalis en skrywer Herman Lategan word vroeg reeds ʼn hoerkind genoem. Hy is buite die eg gebo… read more

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15. Die teenoorgestelde is net so waar

By: Azille Coetzee

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lien, Katryn en Charlotte was jare lank beste vriendinne. Die vriendskap was van die begin af onwaa… read more

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16. In my vel: 'n Reis

By: Azille Coetzee

4.18

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

Met haar Nederlandse lover aan haar sy voel Azille Coetzee lig en bevryd. Sy hou van die sosiale ge… read more

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17. Plunder

By: Antjie Krog

4.69

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In dié jongste bundel van Krog ontwikkel sy voormalige temas soos die landskap van die vrou, die hu… read more

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18. Alles het niet kom wôd

By: Nathan Trantraal

4.20

Format: 59 pages, Paperback

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19. De sneeuwslaper

By: Marlene van Niekerk

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Hoe ontstaan stories, en waarom? Dít is die vrae wat die skeppende skrywer besig hou. Wat is die vo… read more

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20. As in die mond

By: Nicole Jaekel Strauss

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

’n Kinderlose ma op ’n Griekse eiland, die helder kleure vir haar oe grys. ’n Tuisnywerheid-bakker … read more

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21. Soekenjin

By: Bibi Slippers

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Soekenjin (Search Engine) is a collection of contemporary poems about desire and life in the time o… read more

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22. pienk ceramic-hondjies

By: Ryan Pedro

4.42

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

In Ryan Pedro se debuutbundel kom 'n sterk nuwe stem aan die woord in roerende gedigte wat dikwels … read more

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23. Skepsel (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Willem Anker

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Aan die Kaapse Weskus versorg Rebecca Maas haar sterwende pa in ’n tegnologies gevorderde slimhuis,… read more

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24. Onder 'n bloedrooi hemel: Liefde en geweld in Suid-Afrika: 'n Memoir (Afrikaans Edition)

By: Annemarié van Niekerk

4.53

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

Die skrywer woon in Den Haag, maar kom terug Suid-Afrika toe vir die begrafnis van haar vriend, Rub… read more

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25. Ek wens, ek wens

By: Zirk van den Berg

4.02

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

As lykbesorger by White Lily Funerals het Seb al talle lyke gebalsem, organe teruggepak in lyfholte… read more

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26. Die dao van Daan van der Walt

By: Lodewyk G. Du Plessis

4.49

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Toe die eertydse Kalahari-boer Daan van der Walt 'n vertigo-aanval kry op besoek aan sy vervreemde … read more

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27. Die onsigbare pou

By: Zirk van den Berg

3.63

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

In die 1980’s verower die sanger genaamd Ober die Afrikaanse musiektoneel . . . Jare later belig s… read more

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28. The Child

By: Alistair Mackay

4.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

After suffering a mental breakdown and losing his job at a New York advertising agency, a young man… read more

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29. Mixtape van die liefde

By: Antjie Krog

4.11

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Hierdie bundel gedigte verken die verskillende dimensies van die liefde: Verliefdheid ('n rimpelvel… read more

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30. Ontaard

By: Pieter Odendaal

4.45

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Pieter Odendaal se langverwagte tweede bundel skryf hy oor aktuele temas soos queer-identiteitsp… read more

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31. Oolog

By: Nathan Trantraal

4.63

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

None read more

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6 Best poetry books like pienk ceramic-hondjies by Ryan Pedro

Transform Your Habits

Home Body

Rupi Kaur

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Plunder

Antjie Krog

4.69

Transform Your Habits

Soekenjin

Bibi Slippers

4.46

Transform Your Habits

pienk ceramic-hondjies

Ryan Pedro

4.42

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