14 Top nonfiction books like Beyond Belief: Poems by John Koethe

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Beyond Belief: Poems

By: John Koethe

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A rich, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe, the "necessary and great poet" ( Hype…

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1. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.10

Format: None pages,

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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2. 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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3. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness

By: Melissa Bond

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. 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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  • poetry
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5. 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

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

  • 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

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6. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

Similar categories in Jhumpa Lahiri's Roman Stories book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

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7. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Odell's Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"

-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

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8. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • poetry
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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9. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)

By: Andrew Sean Greer

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more

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10. 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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  • poetry
  • 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

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11. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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12. Musical Tables: Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more

Similar categories in Billy Collins's Musical Tables: Poems book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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13. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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14. My Government Means to Kill Me

By: Rasheed Newson

4.25

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more

Similar categories in Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"

-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me

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15. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

By: Anna Gazmarian

3.63

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Night of the Living Rez book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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17. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

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  • poetry
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18. Mothman Apologia

By: Robert Wood Lynn

4.52

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores love, grief, the opioid epidemic, and comi… read more

Similar categories in Robert Wood Lynn's Mothman Apologia book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

  • poetry
Cover of The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan

19. The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

By: Steven Hassan

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One of America’s leading experts in cults and mind-control provides an eye-opening analysis of Trum… read more

Similar categories in Steven Hassan's The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

  • nonfiction
"Nobody will be tougher on ISIS than me. Nobody,"

-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

"At the time, casting Trump as host was seen as a huge gamble. He had been labeled a “D-lister"

-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

"In the Moonies, I was taught to suppress negative thoughts by using a technique called thought stopping. I repeated the phrase “Crush Satan"

-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

"Certitude is not evidence of truth. Nor does repetition make it true. If anything, repetition should make you suspicious. Truth always stands up to scrutiny on its merits."

-Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

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20. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Hundred Lovers: Poems by Richie Hofmann

21. A Hundred Lovers: Poems

By: Richie Hofmann

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly a… read more

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  • poetry
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22. suddenly we

By: Evie Shockley

4.34

Format: 112 pages, Audiobook

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious "we"In her new poet… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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23. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America’s most e… read more

Similar categories in Carl Phillips's Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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24. To 2040

By: Jorie Graham

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of How to Communicate: Poems by John Lee Clark

25. How to Communicate: Poems

By: John Lee Clark

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry A stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBl… read more

Similar categories in John Lee Clark's How to Communicate: Poems book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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26. Now Do You Know Where You Are

By: Dana Levin

3.84

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Books We Love 2022 … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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27. Beyond Belief: Poems

By: John Koethe

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A rich, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe, the "necessary and great poet" ( Hype… read more

Similar categories in John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems book and John Koethe's Beyond Belief: Poems

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • poetry
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28. Beautiful Days: Stories

By: Zach Williams

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a stagg… read more

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29. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

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30. Path of Totality: Poems

By: Niina Pollari

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Exploring the sudden loss of her child, the hope that precedes this crisis, and the suffering that … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

16 best-selling poetry books like Beyond Belief: Poems by John Koethe

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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13 must-read adult books like Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond

Transform Your Habits

Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness

Melissa Bond

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Stash: My Life in Hiding

Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Stephanie Land

3.62

Transform Your Habits

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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