6 must-read poetry books like We Make Spaces Divine by Pooja Nansi

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We Make Spaces Divine

By: Pooja Nansi

4.24

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

These poems walk through cities in bodies that don’t belong. They speak through moments in migratio…

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1. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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2. The Face: Strangers on a Pier

By: Tash Aw

3.87

Format: 411 pages,

LA TimesBook Prize Finalist: The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose "Tash Aw's … read more

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3. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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4. No Matter the Wreckage

By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more

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5. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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6. 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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7. Galatea

By: Madeline Miller

4.09

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his master… read more

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8. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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9. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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10. Interior Chinatown

By: Charles Yu

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles … read more

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"LOVE STORY FOR A GENERIC ASIAN MAN???"

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"As everyone knows, water hates poor people."

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"If she could move freely between worlds, why can't you?"

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

"IDK, I never represented someone for self-imprisonment before."

-Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

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11. Conversations on Love

By: Natasha Lunn

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more

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"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

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12. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

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"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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13. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

By: Jia Tolentino

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more

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"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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14. Cleopatra and Frankenstein

By: Coco Mellors

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more

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"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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15. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

By: Baek Se-hee

3.28

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more

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"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

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16. Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore

By: Esther Vincent

4.11

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Making Kin aspires to be ecofeminist in nature, in terms of acknowledging the intersectional mode o… read more

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"The girl comes to a profound realisation — that life goes on in spite of her."

-Esther Vincent, Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore

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17. Roadkill for Beginners

By: Stephanie Chan

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Roadkill for Beginners is Stephanie Chan’s first collection of poetry. It’s part scrapbook of love … read more

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18. We Make Spaces Divine

By: Pooja Nansi

4.24

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

These poems walk through cities in bodies that don’t belong. They speak through moments in migratio… read more

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19. What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian

By: Shailey Hingorani

4.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A celebration of the slippages, strife and secret histories that make us—for better or worse—who we… read more

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20. Shantih Shantih Shantih

By: Daryl Qilin Yam

4.04

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

An art student chances upon a former fling at Punggol MRT station. A reporter lies awake at four in… read more

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21. The Orchid Folios

By: Mok Zining

4.23

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of … read more

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11 best-selling poetry books like Roadkill for Beginners by Stephanie Chan

Transform Your Habits

One Fierce Hour

Alfian Sa'at

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

4.19

Transform Your Habits

A History of Clocks

Jennifer Anne Champion

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Amanda Gorman

4.56

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