Scared Violent Like Horses: Poems
By: John McCarthy
4.40
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy’s Scared Violent Li…
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1. When the Only Light Is Fire
By: Saeed Jones
4.31
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on t… read more
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"I’ve lined my throat with the river bottom’s best silt, allowed my fingers to shrivel and be taken for crawfish. I’ve laced my eyelashes with algae. I blink emerald. I blink sea glass green. I am wha…"-Saeed Jones, When the Only Light Is Fire
2. Dream Work
By: Mary Oliver
4.35
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more
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- nonfiction
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
3. Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a wor… read more
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"We are winning,"-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"The moon is profound except when we land on it."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
4. Slow Lightning
By: Eduardo C. Corral
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such dis… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
5. A Journal of the Plague Year
By: Daniel Defoe , None , Cynthia Wall
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the … read more
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- nonfiction
6. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Loose Woman
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects … read more
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- poetry
8. The Good House
By: Tananarive Due
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that townspeople in Sac… read more
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9. 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
- nonfiction
10. Here
By: Richard McGuire
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more
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11. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
12. Based on a True Story
By: Norm Macdonald
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, ra… read more
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13. Journal of a Solitude
By: May Sarton
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' l… read more
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14. When My Brother Was an Aztec
By: Natalie Díaz
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more
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15. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
By: Katherine Boo
3.96
Format: None pages,
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dr… read more
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16. The Violent Bear It Away
By: Flannery O'Connor
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Awayis now a landmark in American literature. It is a … read more
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17. 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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18. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
19. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
20. 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
- nonfiction
"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
21. Jawbone
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So ho… read more
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"Una bala que sale y luego regresa para darte en el corazón: eso es una hija."-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
" A veces me gusta imaginar que el universo es el cadáver de Dios descomponiéndose , le dijo Annelise durante una tarde de clases extra. Imagine, Miss Clara, que fuéramos solo eso: la enorme y flotant…"-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
22. Paradais
By: Fernanda Melchor
3.64
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more
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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais
23. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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24. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
25. Bluest Nude: Poems
By: Ama Codjoe
4.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated de… read more
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26. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- nonfiction
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
27. On a Sunbeam
By: Tillie Walden
4.30
Format: 533 pages, Paperback
Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more
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"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
28. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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29. Borealis
By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
4.03
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
An intimate essay on the art of Alaskan glaciers, memory, loneliness, and blackness in wild spaces.… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Scared Violent Like Horses: Poems
By: John McCarthy
4.40
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, John McCarthy’s Scared Violent Li… read more
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