6 Best poetry books like Tits on the Moon by Dessa

Cover of Tits on the Moon by Dessa

Tits on the Moon

By: Dessa

4.57

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

Tits on the Moon features a dozen “stage poems,” many of which Dessa performs at her legendary live…

"Make yourself into a battery to store some of this feeling; it is the currency of your life... There will be many months and some years where you will receive no payments at all... while your friends buy dogs and houses."

-Dessa, Tits on the Moon

"Make yourself into a battery to store some of this feeling; it is the currency of your life... There will be many months and some years where you will receive no payments at all... while your friends buy dogs and houses."

-Dessa, Tits on the Moon

If you liked the poetry plot in Tits on the Moon by Dessa , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

By: Warsan Shire

4.25

Format: 37 pages, Paperback

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more

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  • poetry
"Her body is one long sigh."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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2. The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

By: Nancy Farmer

4.08

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns … read more

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"After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?"

-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

"Tom is a filthy little pustule. If you quote me, I'll deny it!"

-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

"Some people make think slowly, but they're very thorough about it."

-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

"Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it."

-Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)

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3. Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller Washington PostBestseller The author of the blockbuster New York Timesbest… read more

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4. Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.97

Format: 112 pages,

A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar v… read more

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5. Pussy: A Reclamation

By: Regena Thomashauer

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Required reading for every woman who longs to step into her power and li… read more

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6. LaRose

By: Louise Erdrich

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more

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7. Tris's Book (Circle of Magic, #2)

By: Tamora Pierce

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Earthquake damage leaves Winding Circle vulnerable to pirate attack, so everyone - including the yo… read more

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8. The Hod King (The Books of Babel, #3)

By: Josiah Bancroft

4.21

Format: 539 pages,

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9. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

Cover of Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1) by Emily Tesh

10. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

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"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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11. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.99

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more

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"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

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12. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

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13. Cryptid Club

By: Sarah Andersen

4.27

Format: 112 pages, ebook

Do you hate social gatherings? Dodge cameras? Enjoy staying up just a little too late at night? You… read more

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14. Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

By: Aja Barber

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the … read more

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15. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

By: Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more

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  • poetry
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

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16. Little Fish

By: Casey Plett

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more

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"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

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17. Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more

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"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

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18. M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel

By: Talia Dutton

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frank… read more

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19. Banned Book Club

By: Kim Hyun Sook

3.97

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her … read more

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"In times like this, no act is apolitical."

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

"Everyone has a right to the truth. But I don't owe you mine."

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

"But you can learn a lot about history by figuring out what people wanted to hide."

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

"But if they're going to keep calling us communists, we might as well learn what that means!"

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

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20. Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

3.87

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the … read more

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"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just…"

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

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21. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

4.05

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful stor… read more

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22. Mortal Follies

By: Alexis Hall

3.43

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A young noblewoman must pair up with a rumoured witch to ward off a curse. It is the year 1814 a… read more

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"I’ve half a mind to seek her out right now and tell her to corrupt my daughter immediately"

-Alexis Hall, Mortal Follies

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23. Hot Springs Drive

By: Lindsay Hunter

3.52

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Jackie loved her best friend Theresa from the moment they met nearly fifteen years ago. Now, Theres… read more

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24. Harlem Shadows: Poems

By: Claude McKay

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance first published in 1922, this collection of poignant, lyrical… read more

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  • poetry
"All art is the product of the entirety of an artist’s life, whether that art is biographical or confessional or neither."

-Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows: Poems

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25. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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26. Where the Dead Sleep (Ben Packard #2)

By: Joshua Moehling

3.96

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

A small town's dark secrets turn deadly... When an early morning call brings Deputy Ben Packard … read more

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27. Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

By: Sam Anderson

4.38

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative … read more

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"Oklahoma City has chaos in its DNA."

-Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

"Oklahoma City is tiny and huge at the same time."

-Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

"Most places have one sky. Oklahoma city has about 12."

-Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

"If a Starbucks drink could be a church, it would be LifeChurch.TV"

-Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

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28. The Pairing

By: Casey McQuiston

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more

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"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

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29. Corazón

By: Yesika Salgado

4.38

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger … read more

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  • poetry
"and if he loves you, what is next?"

-Yesika Salgado, Corazón

"I am good at this / turning heart ache into a party"

-Yesika Salgado, Corazón

"tonight I'll dance I'll be alive and ain't that worth the party?"

-Yesika Salgado, Corazón

"I come from women who fend for themselves the blade is our friend and you? you are a weed I know how to slice you out of me"

-Yesika Salgado, Corazón

Cover of Tits on the Moon by Dessa

30. Tits on the Moon

By: Dessa

4.57

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

Tits on the Moon features a dozen “stage poems,” many of which Dessa performs at her legendary live… read more

Similar categories in Dessa's Tits on the Moon book and Dessa's Tits on the Moon

  • poetry
"Make yourself into a battery to store some of this feeling; it is the currency of your life... There will be many months and some years where you will receive no payments at all... while your friends…"

-Dessa, Tits on the Moon

Cover of The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy

31. The Octopus Museum

By: Brenda Shaughnessy

3.70

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

This collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our curre… read more

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  • poetry

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Rebecca Thorne

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