10 Best poetry books like A Sand Book by Ariana Reines

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A Sand Book

By: Ariana Reines

4.13

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hu…

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1. Averno

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more

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  • poetry
  • contemporary
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."

-Louise Glück, Averno

"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"

-Louise Glück, Averno

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2. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

By: David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

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3. The Ethics of Ambiguity

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer i… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Ravishing of Lol Stein

By: Marguerite Duras , None , Diệp Anh

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life--and a voyeur… read more

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5. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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  • nonfiction

6. The Albertine Workout

By: Anne Carson

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Albertine Workout contains fifty-nine paragraphs, with appendices, summarizing Anne Carson's re… read more

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7. The Gangster We Are All Looking For

By: Lê Thi Diem Thúy

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

This acclaimed novel reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of… read more

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8. Lessico famigliare

By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more

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9. A Year With Swollen Appendices

By: Brian Eno

4.60

Format: None pages,

Provocateur, cult figure, cerebral rock star, and studio experimentalist, Brian Eno has greatly inf… read more

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10. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

11. Because They Wanted To

By: Mary Gaitskill , None

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Paperback

From the author of Bad Behavior comes a new compilation of clever and cutting-edge stories propelli… read more

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12. Calling a Wolf a Wolf

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rare… read more

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13. The First Bad Man

By: Miranda July

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You,a… read more

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14. 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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15. Live or Die

By: Anne Sexton

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness … read more

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16. On Beauty and Being Just

By: Elaine Scarry

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments… read more

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17. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • contemporary
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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18. 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

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19. 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
  • contemporary
"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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20. Be Here Now

By: Ram Dass

4.33

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Be here now."

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"Be here, now!"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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21. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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22. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
"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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23. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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  • contemporary
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24. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

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25. Pure Colour

By: Sheila Heti

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. … read more

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  • contemporary
"And what opens one heart opens many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"The body becomes a woman and it cannot turn back."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many."

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

"Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?"

-Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

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26. Wrong Norma

By: Anne Carson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"

-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

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27. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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  • poetry
  • contemporary
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28. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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29. A Sand Book

By: Ariana Reines

4.13

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hu… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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30. Romance or the End

By: Elaine Kahn

3.53

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between… read more

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  • poetry
  • contemporary
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31. Runaway: New Poems

By: Jorie Graham

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

An NPR Best Book of the Year A new collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporar… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

10 must-read contemporary books like A Sand Book by Ariana Reines

Transform Your Habits

Averno

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Homie

Danez Smith

4.42

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7 Best nonfiction books like The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

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Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing

4.01

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