9 best-selling memoir books like Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis

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Cry Perfume

By: Sadie Dupuis

3.65

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Lyrical poems that engage with grief and loss and the toll of overdose and addiction with an activi…

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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

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  • 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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2. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

By: bell hooks

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more

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  • poetry
  • memoir
"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."

-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"

-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

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3. 100 Selected Poems

By: E.E. Cummings

4.29

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

E.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of the 20th century, and this volume, firs… read more

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  • poetry
"tomorrow is our permanent address"

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

"for every mile the feet go the heart goes nine"

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

"love’s to giving as to keeping’s give; as yes is to if,love is to yes"

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

"Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves."

-E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

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4. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

By: Leonora Carrington , Kathryn Davis , Kathrine Talbot

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Paperback

Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeo… read more

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5. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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  • poetry
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6. Incarnadine: Poems

By: Mary Szybist

3.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own lo… read more

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  • poetry
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7. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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8. Love Poems

By: Pablo Neruda , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel… read more

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  • poetry

9. 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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10. Animals

By: Emma Jane Unsworth

3.68

Format: 200 pages, ebook

Laura and Tyler are two young women who have been tearing up the city streets for ten years, leavin… read more

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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

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12. The Collected Poems

By: Sylvia Plath , Ted Hughes

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

"By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. T… read more

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13. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • music
  • memoir
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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14. 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

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  • poetry
  • memoir
"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

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15. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • poetry
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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16. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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17. 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

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  • poetry
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18. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • poetry
  • memoir
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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19. Quiet

By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley

4.12

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more

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  • poetry
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20. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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21. Family Lore

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more

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Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

22. 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
  • memoir
Cover of Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems by Megan Fox

23. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

By: Megan Fox

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over… read more

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  • poetry
  • memoir
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24. 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

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  • poetry
"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

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25. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

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26. A Fire So Wild

By: Sarah Ruiz Grossman

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional echoes of  Little Fires Everywhere  and the lush atmosphere of  Disappearing Ear… read more

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27. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

28. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

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  • memoir
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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29. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

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30. Cry Perfume

By: Sadie Dupuis

3.65

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Lyrical poems that engage with grief and loss and the toll of overdose and addiction with an activi… read more

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  • music
  • poetry
  • memoir
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31. Poems to Night

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

3.77

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A collection of haunting, mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of whi… read more

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  • poetry

16 Top poetry books like Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

bell hooks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

100 Selected Poems

E.E. Cummings

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

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Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

My Darling Dreadful Thing

Johanna van Veen

3.89

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A Good Happy Girl

Marissa Higgins

3.01

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