11 Top poetry books like Floozie by Becca Fang

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Floozie

By: Becca Fang

4.36

Format: 32 pages, None

Becca Fang's second pamphlet is an impassioned eye-roll to the tribulations of modern girlhood. …

If you liked the poetry plot in Floozie by Becca Fang , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Woman at Point Zero

By: Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata

4.19

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells o… read more

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"Who said to kill does not require gentleness?"

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

"Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu."

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

"Sastra yang baik selalu merupakan cermin sebuah masyarakat."

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

"I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die."

-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

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2. Bones & All

By: Camille DeAngelis

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Maren Yearly doesn’t just break hearts, she devours them. Since she was a baby, Maren has had w… read more

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"That night I learned there are two kinds of hunger. The first I can satisfy with cheeseburgers and chocolate milk, but there’s a second part of me, biding it’s time. It can go on like that for months…"

-Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All

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3. 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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4. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

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  • poetry
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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5. Autumn

By: Ali Smith

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more

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6. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

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7. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

8. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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9. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

10. 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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11. Graffiti

By: Savannah Brown , None

4.01

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

My late teenage years were an emotional train wreck, and lucky for me, they're all fully documented… read more

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12. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

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"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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13. Moi les hommes, je les déteste

By: Pauline Harmange

3.82

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more

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"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

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14. Things We Say in the Dark

By: Kirsty Logan

3.79

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing … read more

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"I want to know what haunts me. The ghosts that obscure my face in the mirror, that speak in my head when I’m trying to think, that pull my hands back when I try to reach out. I know there’s something…"

-Kirsty Logan, Things We Say in the Dark

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15. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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16. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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17. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Open Throat by Henry Hoke

18. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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19. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

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"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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20. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

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"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

Cover of C+nto and Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor

21. 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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  • poetry
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22. Exciting Times

By: Naoise Dolan

3.23

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled… read more

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"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

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23. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

By: Chen Chen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more

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  • poetry
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"

-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

Cover of Closer Baby Closer by Savannah   Brown

24. Closer Baby Closer

By: Savannah Brown

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy … read more

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  • poetry
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25. Antonyms for Burial

By: Ellora Sutton

4.50

Format: 36 pages, None

A reader about to taste the zestful phrasing of antonyms for burial should prepare themselves: this… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary by Juno  Dawson

26. What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

By: Juno Dawson

4.34

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first centu… read more

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"That's the thing with kids, isn't it? You're never quite sure what you're going to get. If you don't want an LGBTQ+ child, use a condom!"

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

"Imagine feeling like—on top of being a quirk of nature—you also have to battle your parents. Well, that just makes a tough situation tougher."

-Juno Dawson, What's the T? The Guide to All Things Trans and/or Nonbinary

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27. Sweetdark

By: Savannah Brown

4.16

Format: None pages, None

Savannah Brown’s long-awaited second collection of poetry is at once philosophical and accessible, … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Floozie by Becca Fang

28. Floozie

By: Becca Fang

4.36

Format: 32 pages, None

Becca Fang's second pamphlet is an impassioned eye-roll to the tribulations of modern girlhood. … read more

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  • poetry
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29. Grocery List Poems

By: Rhiannon McGavin

4.28

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

If the word stanza means "room", then this book is an orchard. Rhiannon McGavin crafts poems with s… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Break the Nose of Every Beautiful Thing

By: Jack Cooper

4.06

Format: None pages, None

Curiosity drives Jack Cooper’s debut pamphlet. Drawing from his experience in biomedical research, … read more

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  • poetry
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31. Memory Foam

By: Dan Power

4.33

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In Dan Power's Memory Foam, a mild-mannered AI offers its view on mortal topics like loneliness and… read more

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  • poetry

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Mary Oliver

4.21

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Maggie Nelson

4.22

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Claire Keegan

3.86

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Eliza Clark

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