15 Best nonfiction books like More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry by Kayo Chingonyi

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More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

By: Kayo Chingonyi

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times - 5 Best Poetry Books of 2022 In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Ka…

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1. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • poetry
Cover of Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

2. 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

3. 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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4. On Writers and Writing

By: Margaret Atwood

2.56

Format: 201 pages,

After having been through the "wash-and-spin cycle" a few times, Margaret Atwood realized that her … read more

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5. Saga, Vol. 3 (Saga, #3)

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From the Hugo Award-winning duo of Brian K. Vaughan (The Private Eye, Y: The Last Man) and Fiona St… read more

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6. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

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"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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7. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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  • poetry
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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8. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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9. When I Arrived at the Castle

By: Emily Carroll

3.69

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood." Like many before her tha… read more

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10. Pew

By: Catherine Lacey

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more

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"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

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11. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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12. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

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  • nonfiction
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

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13. Let the Light Pour In

By: Lemn Sissay

3.67

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE BOOK TO G… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. The Perseverance

By: Raymond Antrobus

4.31

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging ac… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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15. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

By: Margaret Atwood

4.07

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

This brilliant selection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient—seeks ans… read more

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"However, this does not make The Handmaid’s Tale a “feminist dystopia"

-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

"Do you as a writer expand the meanings of words, or are you merely their tool? Is your own language programming you like a computer, or are you wielding it like Prospero’s magic charms, and is there …"

-Margaret Atwood, Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

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16. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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17. Small Joys

By: Elvin James Mensah

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected friendship saves a young man's life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chos… read more

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"He was tired of there being something shameful or unsettling about the blunt expression of friendship, of the simple desire to be there for someone needing to be mocked before it could be respected, …"

-Elvin James Mensah, Small Joys

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18. Intimations

By: Zadie Smith

3.99

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of loc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Strange inversions proliferate."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"When in the presence of a child, get on the floor."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"The enviable style of the young is little protection against catastrophe."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

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19. Flèche

By: Mary Jean Chan

4.23

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What does three years of famine teach a person? Nothing."

-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche

"if the legislators of our world looked to their trees for guidance would they reconsider everything?"

-Mary Jean Chan, Flèche

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20. brother. do. you. love. me.

By: Manni Coe

4.39

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilie… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Isola

By: Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen

3.41

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

Una giovane ragazza danese ha nostalgia di un’isola verde e impervia battuta dai venti del Nord, un… read more

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"Le riusciva facile nuotare, ma non tenersi a galla. Era una di quelle anime fatte così."

-Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen, Isola

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22. Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color

By: Christopher Soto

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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23. The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

By: William Sieghart

4.45

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

'A matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss' Stephen Fry on William Sieghart's bestselling Poetry … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, Why not find a better job?"

-William Sieghart, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

"We are made beautiful and glorious not by the ways in which we differ from the rest of the biosphere, but by our place, perhaps unique in the universe, in this community of living things."

-William Sieghart, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

"You want to lash out at the parts of your self that seem to hold you back. At moments like that, it's important to be able to sit down and speak gently within yourself, as if saying a prayer or readi…"

-William Sieghart, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

"It takes solidarity and generosity of spirit to build a society in which anyone can feel safe. Empathy can be hard to find, especially for people who look or sound different, or believe different thi…"

-William Sieghart, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

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24. Soho

By: Richard Scott

4.09

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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25. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker

By: Eve Smith

3.66

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Manorism

By: Yomi Sode

4.30

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Manorism is a poetic examination of the lives of Black British men and boys: propped up and hemmed … read more

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Cover of Letter To My Younger Self: 100 inspiring people on the moments that shaped their lives by Jane Graham

27. Letter To My Younger Self: 100 inspiring people on the moments that shaped their lives

By: Jane Graham

3.59

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? More than 10 years ago, The… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry

By: Kayo Chingonyi

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times - 5 Best Poetry Books of 2022 In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Ka… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poetry by Helen Bowell

29. Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poetry

By: Helen Bowell

4.45

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

The first-ever anthology of poems written by those who identify under the bi+ umbrella, Bi+ Lines i… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Ambush at Still Lake (Carcanet Poetry) by Caroline  Bird

30. Ambush at Still Lake (Carcanet Poetry)

By: Caroline Bird

4.38

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the ha… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry by Lemn Sissay

31. The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry

By: Lemn Sissay

4.00

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This seminal collection of Black British poets ignited a movement when it was first published in 19… read more

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17 must-read poetry books like More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry by Kayo Chingonyi

Transform Your Habits

Goblin Market

Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

3.54

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Assembly

Natasha Brown

3.84

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Recitatif

Toni Morrison

4.31

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Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.04

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