6 must-read poetry books like Poems of Sleep and Dreams (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Peter Washington

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Poems of Sleep and Dreams (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

By: Peter Washington

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our li…

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1. This Book Is Gay

By: None , Juno Dawson

3.77

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of … read more

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"Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Who do you want to be? There's only one rule: Always be true to yourself."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Your sexuality or gender is as natural as your eye color, and you should never be ashamed of it."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Let me tell you something, boys and girls, you can "straight act" all you want, but if you're sleeping with your own sex, to the rest of the world, you're as gay as John Waters living in a pink tent …"

-None, This Book Is Gay

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2. 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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3. Villanelles

By: Annie Finch , Marie-Elizabeth Mali

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The first of its kind--a comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle, a delightful poeti… read more

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4. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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5. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

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6. Poems Dead and Undead

By: Tony Barnstone , Helene Cardona , Michelle Mitchell-Foust

4.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In time for Halloween: a one-of-a-kind hardcover collection of poems from ancient times to the pres… read more

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7. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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8. The Four Seasons: Poems

By: J.D. McClatchy

3.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

For the poet, even the most minute details of the natural world are starting points for flights of … read more

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9. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

10. Poems of the Sea

By: J.D. McClatchy

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankin… read more

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11. The Door

By: Magda Szabó , Len Rix

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a f… read more

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12. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more

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13. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.34

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more

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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

14. Anna Akhmatova

By: Anna Akhmatova , D.M. Thomas

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna A… read more

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15. Homesick for Another World

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.62

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time Otte… read more

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"It's a lonely life."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"Nothing made me happy."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"Be careful with women,"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

"I hated my boyfriend but I liked the neighborhood."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

16. Girl, Interrupted

By: Susanna Kaysen

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

"Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight." First pu… read more

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17. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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18. The Dance Tree

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more

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19. Underland: A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.22

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more

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20. Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more

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"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

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21. The Flame

By: Leonard Cohen

4.05

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span gene… read more

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"And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"Straighten up, little warrior [...] It's not as though you wasted your life by loving me."

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"the flags from the nation but your absence comes from a terrible sleep under a huge museum Enter the moth holes of my longing"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

"I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I’m old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering com…"

-Leonard Cohen, The Flame

Cover of The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2) by Mackenzi Lee

22. The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)

By: Mackenzi Lee

4.05

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

A year after an accidentally whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has ret… read more

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"You’re being sarcastic."

-Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)

"I don’t know what you’re referencing, madam,"

-Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)

"If you can't win the game, you have to cheat."

-Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)

"There is a unique sort of agony to entering a party alone."

-Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)

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23. All's Well

By: Mona Awad

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career le… read more

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"I'm supposed to feel bad that I'm better now? I'm supposed to cry over a little cut. To what? To make you feel like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you'll know I…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

"I gesture to the window and smile. Budding branches. Pale green leaves. Spring. Spring, does she see that? A time when everything is in bloom. Everything is having sex. Everything is so damp and frag…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

"But not too much pain, am I right? Not too much, never too much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to do with me, would you? Too much would make you uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would lea…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say. He looks confused. "Guilty?" "That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning around? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the floor, crying i…"

-Mona Awad, All's Well

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24. Death in Her Hands

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.24

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more

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"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

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25. 100 Queer Poems

By: Mary Jean Chan

3.82

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more

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Cover of In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life by Juliet Annan

26. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

By: Juliet Annan

4.05

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more

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Cover of The Bear and the Paving Stone by Toshiyuki Horie

27. The Bear and the Paving Stone

By: Toshiyuki Horie

3.25

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war Visiting a frie… read more

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Cover of Poems of Sleep and Dreams (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) by Peter Washington

28. Poems of Sleep and Dreams (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

By: Peter Washington

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our li… read more

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Transform Your Habits

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Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai

3.78

Transform Your Habits

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3.27

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3.37

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