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1. Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
By: Lita Judge
4.34
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A young adult biography of Frankenstein's profound young author, Mary Shelley, coinciding with the … read more
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- poetry
"I AM SEVENTEEN Already I am daughter to a ghost and mother to bones."-Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
"They will be scorned and considered loathsome, because people reject those who don’t fit their vision of a perfect ideal."-Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
"Home is not an address with fine curtains and fancy furnishings. Home is a place in the mind where thoughts grow rich enough to become stories, breaking the silence that exists between souls."-Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
"Father didn't expect us to sew, or play with dolls like other girls. Instead he gave us the books our mother had written, and encouraged us to read. He taught us independence is admirable, and imagin…"-Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
2. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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- poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
3. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By: Angela Y. Davis , Maryse Condé , Richard Philcox
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contempo… read more
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4. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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- poetry
- school
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
5. Eurydice
By: Sarah Ruhl
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more
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6. Happiness
By: Aminatta Forna
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
"Not since Remains of the Dayhas an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are ofte… read more
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7. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
8. Sublime Blue: Selected Early Odes by Pablo Neruda
By: Pablo Neruda
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
A translation of Pablo Neruda's early collections of odes, this book features poems that are addres… read more
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9. Why I Wake Early
By: Mary Oliver
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snak… read more
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10. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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11. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more
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12. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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- poetry
- school
"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
13. Spear
By: Nicola Griffith
4.08
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more
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"My lord."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"I never knew my father,"-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Even the dead had names."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."-Nicola Griffith, Spear
14. Norse Mythology
By: Neil Gaiman
4.10
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780393356182 Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient … read more
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"Ragnarok is coming."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"And the game begins anew."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"Rebirth always follows death."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
15. 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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"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
16. There There
By: Tommy Orange
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more
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"Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."-Tommy Orange, There There
"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."-Tommy Orange, There There
"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."-Tommy Orange, There There
17. 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
- school
"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
18. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
19. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
20. Crying in the Bathroom
By: Erika L. Sánchez
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more
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21. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- poetry
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
22. Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN
By: Anaïs Mitchell
4.57
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
"Working On A Song is one of the best books about lyric writing for the theater I've read."—Lin-Man… read more
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- poetry
"A little moonshine ain't no sin"-Anaïs Mitchell, Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN
"People turn on you just like the wind Everybody is a fair weather friend In the end, you're better off alone"-Anaïs Mitchell, Working on a Song: The Lyrics of HADESTOWN
23. Nightbitch
By: Rachel Yoder
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more
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"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch
24. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- poetry
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
25. How Religion Evolved
By: Robin I.M. Dunbar
3.98
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our incr… read more
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"Religion is simply the cost that had to be paid in order to maximize evolutionary fitness."-Robin I.M. Dunbar, How Religion Evolved
"The world of science and the world of everyday experience do not always connect especially well."-Robin I.M. Dunbar, How Religion Evolved
"Intense religious experiences and crisis conversions seem to be a common response when the contradictions and tragedies of life create existencial threats."-Robin I.M. Dunbar, How Religion Evolved
"Belief that invisible forces are responsible for what happens in the world, and especially injurious things, is widespread in all cultures and times, and remains prevalent even today."-Robin I.M. Dunbar, How Religion Evolved
26. Guillotine: Poems
By: Eduardo C. Corral
4.34
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more
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- poetry
- school
27. Long Island Compromise
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.88
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more
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28. I, JOAN
By: Charlie Josephine
3.97
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
"Oh if we can just quiet the world for a moment. And listen within. There's a voice guiding you. I … read more
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- school
30. Pieces of a Girl
By: Stephanie Kuehnert
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A raw and bold YA memoir about abuse and addiction, and the power of expression and community that … read more
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31. Wilderness//Kingdom
By: Jory Mickelson
4.38
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
“Jory Mickelson’s Wilderness//Kingdom blew me away with its tender heart and flinty eyes. Like the … read more
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- poetry
