6 Top audiobook books like Lean Against This Late Hour by Garous Abdolmalekian

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Lean Against This Late Hour

By: Garous Abdolmalekian

4.32

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid, affecting portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English…

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1. 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

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2. No Matter the Wreckage

By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more

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  • poetry

3. Dearest Creature

By: Amy Gerstler

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A surreal new collection from an acclaimed poet Hallucinogenic plants chant in chorus. A thoughtful… read more

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  • poetry

4. Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs, #9)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.89

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

In this latest entry in the acclaimed, bestselling mystery series, Maisie Dobbs takes on her most p… read more

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5. Walking with the Wind

By: Abbas Kiarostami , احمد کریمی‌حکاک , None

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

This bilingual edition of recent verse by the celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (award-… read more

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6. The Stone Diaries

By: Carol Shields

3.89

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy St… read more

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"From surfeit to loss is a short line."

-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

"Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground."

-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

"It was as though she had veered, accidentally, into her own life."

-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

"A bedjacket speaks of desperation, and what it says is: toodle-oo."

-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

7. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

By: غسان كنفاني , None

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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8. 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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9. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran

By: Shahrnush Parsipur , Kamran Talattof , Jocelyn Sharlet , None

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Menin her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was a… read more

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10. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

By: Derek Beres

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. 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
  • audiobook
"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

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12. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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  • audiobook
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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13. 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
  • audiobook
"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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14. Little Weirds

By: Jenny Slate

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find… read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."

-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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15. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more

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"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."

-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

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16. Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

By: Forugh Farrokhzad

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad… read more

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  • poetry
  • iran
"I dreamed of that red star when I wasn’t asleep"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

"Düşler daima Saflıklarının yüksekliğinden fırlatılıp ölürler"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

"Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette in the narcotic repose between two love-makings or the absent gaze of a passerby who takes off his hat to another passerby with a meaningless smile and a good …"

-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season

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17. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

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  • poetry
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18. You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems

By: Maya abu Al-Hayyat

4.29

Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition

Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf draws on two dec… read more

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  • poetry
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19. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

By: Victoria Chang

4.50

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For … read more

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  • poetry
"My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers."

-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

"If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become …"

-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

"What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew t…"

-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

"Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face…"

-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

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20. Husbandry: Poems

By: Matthew Dickman

4.44

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, moving volume of poems on the anxieties and love of single fatherhood and domestic lif… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Lean Against This Late Hour by Garous Abdolmalekian

21. Lean Against This Late Hour

By: Garous Abdolmalekian

4.32

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid, affecting portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English… read more

Similar categories in Garous Abdolmalekian's Lean Against This Late Hour book and Garous Abdolmalekian's Lean Against This Late Hour

  • poetry
  • iran
  • audiobook

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The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

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No Matter the Wreckage

Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz

3.86

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Amy Gerstler

4.43

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The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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What the Living Do: Poems

Marie Howe

3.00

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frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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Above Ground

Clint Smith

4.56

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