7 must-read poetry books like War of the Beasts and the Animals by Maria Stepanova

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War of the Beasts and the Animals

By: Maria Stepanova

3.58

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

War of the Beasts and the Animals is Russian poet Maria Stepanova’s first full English-language col…

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1. Of Love and Other Demons

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more

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"<>, dijo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Do not allow me to forget you"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

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2. The Book of Disquiet

By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more

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  • poetry
"My past is everything I failed to be."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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3. Faces of Love

By: Hafez , Dick Davis , Jahan Malek Khatun , None

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourt… read more

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  • poetry
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4. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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5. Dear Life: Stories

By: Alice Munro

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more

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6. The Piano Teacher

By: Joachim Neugroschel , Elfriede Jelinek

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The Piano Teacher,the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize i… read more

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7. The Diary of a Nobody

By: George Grossmith , Weedon Grossmith

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Paperback

Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and … read more

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8. Una donna

By: Sibilla Aleramo , Maria Corti

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

Questo romanzo di Sibilla Aleramo e del 1906. La sua immediata fortuna in Italia e nei paesi in cui… read more

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9. Os Transparentes

By: Ondjaki

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Mitten im Zentrum der angolanischen Hauptstadt Luanda steht das Maianga-Gebaude, ein heruntergekomm… read more

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10. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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  • poetry
"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

11. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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12. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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13. 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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14. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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15. Vi avverto che vivo per l'ultima volta. Noi e Anna Achmatova

By: Paolo Nori

3.80

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

«E noi, che cosa stiamo diventando? E io, cosa sono diventato?» si chiede Paolo Nori. E la risposta… read more

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  • poetry
  • russia
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16. 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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17. Quelques mois dans ma vie: Octobre 2022 - Mars 2023

By: Michel Houellebecq

2.59

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Pour la première fois dans ma vie je me sentis traité, absolument, comme l'objet d'un documentaire… read more

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18. 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
"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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19. The City and Its Uncertain Walls

By: Haruki Murakami

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessen… read more

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"Vielleicht ist das einer der Problempunkte an der Ewigkeit. Dass man nun mal nicht weiß, wohin man sich fortan wenden soll. Aber was ist eine Liebe wert, die nicht nach Ewigkeit strebt?"

-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

"Später war er so freundlich, mir in einem Satz zu erklären, warum er im Alltag immer einen Rock trug. "Vor allem fühle ich mich, wenn ich einen Rock trage, wie die Zeilen eines schönen Gedichts."

-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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20. The Sleepover

By: Michael Regina

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this middle grade graphic novel a group of kids are trying to cheer up their friend after a rece… read more

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21. War of the Beasts and the Animals

By: Maria Stepanova

3.58

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

War of the Beasts and the Animals is Russian poet Maria Stepanova’s first full English-language col… read more

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  • poetry
  • russia
  • russian literature

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