17 Best poetry books like The Poetry of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

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The Poetry of Walt Whitman

By: Walt Whitman

3.75

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Revered as one of the most influential American poets of all time, Walt Whitman used his own money …

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Cover of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Reginald Snell

1. 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
"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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2. The Invisible Man

By: H.G. Wells , Дмитро Паламарчук

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a … read more

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"But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!"

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

"I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion."

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

"And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men…"

-H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

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3. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

By: Michael Chabon

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in sixteen parts - a series of l… read more

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4. The Monogram Murders

By: Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah

3.13

Format: 192 pages, ebook

'I'm a dead woman, or I shall be soon...' Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is … read more

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5. W.B. Yeats

By: W.B. Yeats , John Kelly

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Ireland's most influential poet, Yeats's poems express both powerful personal feelings and somethin… read more

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6. Gratitude

By: Oliver Sacks

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. In January 2015, Oliver Sacks was… read more

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7. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

By: Valeria Luiselli

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American chil… read more

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8. The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.35

Format: 71 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Princess Princess Ever After comes The Tea Dragon Society, a charm… read more

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"when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"los recuerdos no sólo viven en tu interior minette. Residen en toda la gente y objetos con los que compartes tu vida"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"Just because something comes easily to you, does not mean it has no value. You find it effortless because you love it, and that is why it is your gift."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

"everything that happens is part of your wholeness. the sadness, the loss, the hurt, as well as the joy, the love, the friendship -- it is all part of your tapestry .... remember that you are whole."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

9. Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (Deadpool Killogy, #1)

By: Cullen Bunn , None

3.84

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

What if everything you thought was funny about Deadpool was actually just disturbing? What if he de… read more

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10. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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  • poetry
"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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11. The Sprite and the Gardener

By: Rii Abrego

4.11

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Long, long ago, sprites were the caretakers of gardens. Every flower was grown by their hand. But w… read more

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"Oh, I wonder... I was trying to fix the whole thing at once... But maybe it needs to be done one step at a time? I can do this... I can do this!!"

-Rii Abrego, The Sprite and the Gardener

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12. Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

By: Lin-Manuel Miranda

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

From the creator and star of Hamilton, with beautiful illustrations by Jonny Sun, comes a book of a… read more

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"Do not get stuck in the comment section of life today."

-Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

"You are not defined by the speed of your surroundings, your mind is racing."

-Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

"You will have to say no to things to say yes to your work. It will be worth it."

-Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

"Don’t wait on anyone to make your favorite thing. Make your own favorite thing."

-Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

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13. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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  • poetry
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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14. And Yet: Poems

By: Kate Baer

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more

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  • poetry
"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

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15. Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more

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"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

Cover of Tunnel of Bones (Cassidy Blake, #2) by Victoria Schwab

16. Tunnel of Bones (Cassidy Blake, #2)

By: Victoria Schwab

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual. She (plus her ghost best friend, J… read more

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17. The Factory

By: Hiroko Oyamada

3.34

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Jap… read more

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"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."

-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory

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18. Translating Myself and Others

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary transla… read more

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"To translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

"To translate is to alter one’s linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

"Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mi…"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

"We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose ex…"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

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19. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

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  • poetry
"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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20. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

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". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

Cover of A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1) by Bethany C. Morrow

21. A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1)

By: Bethany C. Morrow

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Tavia is already at odds with the world, forced to keep her siren identity under wraps in a society… read more

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22. The Cottage Fairy Companion: A Cottagecore Guide to Slow Living, Connecting to Nature, and Becoming Enchanted Again

By: Paola Merrill

4.32

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

The Cottage Fairy Companion is your accessible and beautiful guide to mindful living. It teaches th… read more

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  • poetry
"I believe that peace of mind is not only achievable but grows in abundance once we begin to nourish it. I see it as a life long journey of letting go of unnecessary burdens, again and again, casting …"

-Paola Merrill, The Cottage Fairy Companion: A Cottagecore Guide to Slow Living, Connecting to Nature, and Becoming Enchanted Again

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23. A Fortune for Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: None pages, None

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and mu… read more

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  • poetry
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24. When the World Didn't End

By: Caroline Kaufman

3.91

Format: 175 pages, Hardcover

Teen Instagram sensation and author of Light Filters In @poeticpoison returns with a second collect… read more

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"I am a book with the pages all worn. the cover is tearing, the ink is fading, but I swear I'm worth the read."

-Caroline Kaufman, When the World Didn't End

"well, you made it. you survived. the unbearable weight suddenly lifted. the endless night broke into dawn. the uphill battle led you to a peak, and now you stand tall at the summit. so what now? what…"

-Caroline Kaufman, When the World Didn't End

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25. The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

By: Arcturus Publishing

3.72

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Sensitive and extraordinary, thoughtful yet emotional, Emily Dickinson's unique poems are a treasur… read more

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  • poetry
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26. The Poetry of Walt Whitman

By: Walt Whitman

3.75

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Revered as one of the most influential American poets of all time, Walt Whitman used his own money … read more

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  • poetry
  • reference
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27. The Poetry of Oscar Wilde

By: Oscar Wilde

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This collection of Oscar Wilde's greatest poems, including The Ballad of Reading Gaol and The Burde… read more

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  • poetry
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28. The Poetry of John Donne

By: John Donne

3.31

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A central figure of the 17th century metaphysical movement, John Donne is considered one of the gre… read more

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  • poetry
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29. The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By: Barrett Browning

3.80

Format: 224 pages, paperback

Elizabeth Barrett Browning is an incredibly talented Victorian poet. She addressed the subject of f… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Brown: Poems

By: Kevin Young

4.07

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prize-winning author of Blue L… read more

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"We were never young."

-Kevin Young, Brown: Poems

"Sixth grade you didn't survive just endured."

-Kevin Young, Brown: Poems

"Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die to get there."

-Kevin Young, Brown: Poems

"a calm that would undo most anyone who thought noise worse than its opposite"

-Kevin Young, Brown: Poems

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Jen Wang

4.35

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4.00

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