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…
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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
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- poetry
- classics
- fiction
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
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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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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- classics
- fiction
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
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- romance
- poetry
- classics
- fiction
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
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- classics
- fiction
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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- lesbian
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
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
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
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- 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)
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
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- poetry
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
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
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
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
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- romance
- poetry
- classics
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
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
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
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
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- romance
- poetry
- lesbian
- classics
- gay
- lgbt
- fiction
- queer
