Elegies
By: Carol Ann Duffy
3.38
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
In Elegies Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language’s best-loved living poets arrays from her o…
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1. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
2. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
By: Emily Dickinson
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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- poetry
3. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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4. Translations
By: Brian Friel
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile … read more
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5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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7. Let Them Eat Chaos
By: Kae Tempest
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the albu… read more
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8. Shakespeare's Sonnets
By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more
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9. Maud Martha
By: Gwendolyn Brooks
3.75
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poe… read more
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10. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
By: Jon Klassen
4.26
Format: 105 pages, None
Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more
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11. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- poetry
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
12. 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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"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
13. Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things
By: Amanda Lovelace
3.82
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
in her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things , bestselling & award-winn… read more
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"but she was wearing a short skirt."-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things
"everyone loves a strong woman until that woman no longer tolerates their bullshit. —the age-old proverb."-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things
"some days i wake up & think, i would still do anything for the person you made me think you were. —it’s too bad he doesn’t exist."-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things
"i refuse to be ashamed of taking up my rightful. i refuse to apologize for daring to have an opinion. —it’s a pleasure to disappoint you."-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things
14. 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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15. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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16. A Book of Days
By: Patti Smith
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more
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17. The Whistling
By: Rebecca Netley
3.69
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more
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18. Our Strangers: Stories
By: Lydia Davis
3.92
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more
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19. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
By: Victoria Mackenzie
3.85
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more
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"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
20. On Sun Swallowing
By: Dakota Warren
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
“On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinne… read more
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"IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE"-Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing
21. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
22. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
23. Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)
By: Amanda Lovelace
3.85
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
“life is not something that can be experienced on a deadline.”amanda lovelace, the bestselling & aw… read more
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"actually, no, i don’t take it as a compliment when you tell me how “hot"-Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)
"you truly don’t have to wait until a special occasion to do anything, so go on & put the holiday tree up in august. stay up till dawn making that instagram-worthy cake. wear those glistening green he…"-Amanda Lovelace, Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)
24. Strega
By: Johanne Lykke Holm
3.20
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Powerfully inventive and atmospheric, a modern gothic story of nine young women sent to work at a r… read more
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"Hun åbnede munden og smagte på den væske, som dryppede fra månen."-Johanne Lykke Holm, Strega
25. Frankissstein: A Love Story
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.54
Format: 344 pages, ebook
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more
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"Yet I wish I had a cat."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"Stars in the sky like uncounted chances."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
26. Blossomise
By: Simon Armitage
4.22
Format: 63 pages, Hardcover
Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more
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27. Cairn
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more
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28. The Wolf's Secret
By: Myriam Dahman
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A modern fairytale about a wolf and a young woman, exploring friendship and sacrifice. read more
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29. Poetry Please: The Seasons (Faber Poetry)
By: BBC Radio
3.82
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request pr… read more
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30. Elegies
By: Carol Ann Duffy
3.38
Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition
In Elegies Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language’s best-loved living poets arrays from her o… read more
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31. Oak
By: Katharine Towers
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A fascinating collection concerning the life cycle of the oak tree, from the winner of the Seamus H… read more
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