Us (Faber Poetry)
By: Zaffar Kunial
3.97
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize 'Rich in form and reverent refe…
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
3. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
4. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
5. Grief is the Thing with Feathers
By: Max Porter
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more
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6. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
7. Girl Meets Boy
By: Ali Smith
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new s… read more
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9. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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10. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
11. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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12. The God of Carnage
By: Yasmina Reza , Christopher Hampton
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A… read more
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13. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
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14. Human Chain
By: Seamus Heaney
3.43
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A Boston GlobeBest Poetry Book of 2011 Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2011 P… read more
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15. 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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16. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
17. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
18. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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19. 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
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"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
20. C+nto and Othered Poems
By: Joelle Taylor
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more
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21. The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
By: Tomihiko Morimi
3.55
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE* An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four pa… read more
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"Most of our distress begins when we imagine how different life should have been. Entrusting your hopes to something as flimsy as your possibilities is the root of all evil."-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
"He didn't take any sort of action but boldly specialized in simply living his life. That was either a gentlemanly manner maintained by formidable self-control or the height of idiocy."-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
"When your chance comes, don’t miss it. When it comes, you can’t go idly doing the same things you’ve always done. Be bold, and try seizing your chance by doing sometimes completely different. If you …"-Tomihiko Morimi, The Tatami Galaxy (Tatami Series, #1)
22. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
23. Bad Diaspora Poems
By: Momtaza Mehri
4.29
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2023*Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on yo… read more
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24. Flèche
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.23
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of… read more
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"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
"if the legislators of our world looked to their trees for guidance would they reconsider everything?"-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche
25. Poor
By: Caleb Femi
4.46
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman … read more
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"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will rememb…"-Caleb Femi, Poor
26. Us (Faber Poetry)
By: Zaffar Kunial
3.97
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize 'Rich in form and reverent refe… read more
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27. Was It for This: Poems
By: Hannah Sullivan
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A hybrid new collection from the author of Three Poems ―about London, terror, new motherhood, the G… read more
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28. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
29. Rendang
By: Will Harris
3.88
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
In RENDANG, Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. … read more
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30. Brother Poem (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Will Harris
4.07
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG … read more
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31. Up Late
By: Nick Laird
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions… read more
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