8 must-read romance books like The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library) by Willis Barnstone

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The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

By: Willis Barnstone

4.37

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and tra…

If you liked the romance plot in The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library) by Willis Barnstone , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Women of Trachis by C.K. Williams, Sophocles, Gregory W. Dickerson

1. Women of Trachis

By: C.K. Williams , Sophocles , Gregory W. Dickerson

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Mutability; uncertainty; a universe of precipitous these themes are at the heart of Sophocles' tra… read more

Similar categories in C.K. Williams's Women of Trachis book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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2. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • lgbt
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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3. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.96

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless Y… read more

Similar categories in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • classics
  • fiction
"Sons of suicides seldom do well."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"God damn it, you've got to be kind."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

"May I ask you a highly personal question?" "It's what life does all the time."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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4. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

Similar categories in Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • poetry
  • classics
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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5. The Acharnians

By: Aristophanes , Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva , None , Richard Thomas Elliott

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Aristophanes's The Acharnians book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • classics
  • fiction
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6. Love Poems

By: Pablo Neruda , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel… read more

Similar categories in Pablo Neruda's Love Poems book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. Arcadia

By: Tom Stoppard

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more

Similar categories in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • classics
  • fiction
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8. Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more

Similar categories in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction

9. Einstein's Dreams

By: Alan Lightman

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

A modern classic, Einstein's Dreamsis a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in … read more

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10. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

11. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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12. The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)

By: Anne Rice

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the d… read more

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13. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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14. Iphigenia in Aulis

By: Euripides , Nicholas Rudall

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Troj… read more

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15. Euthyphro

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more

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16. 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

Similar categories in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • lesbian
  • classics
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"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

17. Selected Poems

By: W.B. Yeats , John Kelly

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: " "One time it was a woman's face, or worse-" "T… read more

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18. The Price of Salt, or Carol

By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan

4.02

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, or Carol book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • classics
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"She hated cleaning up after making something."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

19. The Essential Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

0.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES Between them, our great visionary poets of the America… read more

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20. 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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21. How to Find a Missing Girl

By: Victoria Wlosok

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sap… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Wlosok's How to Find a Missing Girl book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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22. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more

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"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

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23. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

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24. 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

Similar categories in Ocean Vuong's Time Is a Mother book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • poetry
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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25. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

3.98

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more

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  • romance
  • poetry
"Live your life like no one’s listening"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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26. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

By: Deya Muniz

4.40

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A funny, heartfelt YA romance about finding love—and lots of grilled cheese sandwiches—in the place… read more

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  • romance
  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
Cover of The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope

27. 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

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's The Orange and Other Poems book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • romance
  • poetry
  • classics
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28. L'Ordre du jour

By: Éric Vuillard

3.90

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

L’Allemagne nazie a sa légende. On y voit une armée rapide, moderne, dont le triomphe parait inexor… read more

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"The sun is a cold star."

-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour

"Political maneuvering tramples facts."

-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour

"Si l'on soulève les haillons hideux de l'Histoire, on trouve cela: la hiérarchie contre légalité et l'ordre contre la liberté. (p127)"

-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour

"They might not give in to the demands of justice, they might not yield to an insurgent populace, but they'll always fold before a bluff."

-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour

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29. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 1

By: Luo Di Cheng Qiu

4.57

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Feared and hated for his sinister abilities, Wei Wuxian–the grandmaster of demonic cultivation–was … read more

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  • romance
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Everyday means everyday."

-Luo Di Cheng Qiu, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 1

"So what? My hatred would persist, even if he dies thousands of times!"

-Luo Di Cheng Qiu, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 1

"The tone in which he replied, however, was still the single syllable, as steady as ever, “Mnn."

-Luo Di Cheng Qiu, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 1

". . . I don't know, I really don't know!" This was the only thing Nie HuaiSang knew to say when he was desperate."

-Luo Di Cheng Qiu, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 1

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30. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

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  • fiction
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

Cover of The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library) by Willis Barnstone

31. The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

By: Willis Barnstone

4.37

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and tra… read more

Similar categories in Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library) book and Willis Barnstone's The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library)

  • romance
  • poetry
  • lesbian
  • classics
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer

15 Top fiction books like The Pocket Sappho (Shambhala Pocket Library) by Willis Barnstone

Transform Your Habits

Women of Trachis

C.K. Williams , Sophocles , Gregory W. Dickerson

3.84

Transform Your Habits

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Acharnians

Aristophanes , Maria de Fátima Sousa e Silva , None , Richard Thomas Elliott

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Love Poems

Pablo Neruda , None

3.00

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23 must-read contemporary books like The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope

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A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Mary Oliver

4.21

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Bluets

Maggie Nelson

4.22

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Antarctica

Claire Keegan

3.86

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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