Selected Poems
By: Kamala Suraiyya Das
4.25
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
A major poet in English, Kamala Das’s taboo-breaking work explores themes of love and betrayal, the…
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1. Karukku
By: Bama , Lakshmi Holmström
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
In 1992 when a Dalit woman left the convent and wrote her autobiography, the Tamil publishing indus… read more
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2. 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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"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
3. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
4. Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
By: Mary Renault
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from G… read more
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5. The Liberation of Sita
By: Volga
2.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
Valmiki's Ramayana is the story of Rama's exile and return to Ayodhya, a triumphant king who will a… read more
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- feminism
- india
- indian literature
6. The Prophet
By: Kahlil Gibran
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more
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- poetry
7. The Day the Crayons Quit
By: Oliver Jeffers , Drew Daywalt
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Hardcover
Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all s… read more
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8. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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- feminism
9. Gitanjali: Song Offerings
By: W.B. Yeats , Rabindranath Tagore
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
"Gitanjali," or Song Offerings, is a collection of poems translated by the author, Rabindranath Tag… read more
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10. The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
By: Nora Sakavic
4.02
Format: 237 pages, ebook
Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast… read more
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- romance
"Shirt off."-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
"Are you stupid?"-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
"Give your back to me."-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
"I don’t understand suicide,"-Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court (All for the Game, #1)
11. Kari
By: Amruta Patil
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
They were inseparable - until the day they jumped. Ruth, saved by safety nets, leaves the city. Kar… read more
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12. The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
By: John Truby
4.26
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, an… read more
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"Audiences love both the feeling part (reliving the life) and the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle) of a story. Every good story has both."-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
"No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements."-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
"Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the character to do what he did."-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
"The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life condensed and heightened so that the audience can gain a better understanding of how lif…"-John Truby, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
13. War of the Foxes
By: Richard Siken
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more
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14. No Exit
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unf… read more
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15. 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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16. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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17. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
18. All the Lovers in the Night
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more
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- romance
- asia
"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
19. Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
By: K.J. Charles
4.04
Format: 265 pages, ebook
Will Darling came back from the Great War with a few scars, a lot of medals, and no idea what to do… read more
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- romance
"Libra smiled. It gave Will the impression he'd sent off a postal order for a booklet on Smiling for Beginners."-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
"Britain was full of men like him, trying to find something to do in a country that had managed perfectly well without them."-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
"He'd been apprenticed to a joiner before the war, but that felt like decades ago: all he was good at now was killing people, which was discouraged."-K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
20. 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
21. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
22. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
By: Eric LaRocca
2.96
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more
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23. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
24. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
By: Eric Jorgenson
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more
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"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
25. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
26. The Pisces
By: Melissa Broder
3.30
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from th… read more
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- romance
"I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life."-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"He took off my flip-flops and began kissing my feet, sucking my toes."-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"Feelings were a luxory of the young, or someone much stronger than me - someone more at ease with being human"-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
"I'd been wrong about death ... There was no gentle escape. When I had taken those Ambien in Phoenix I thought there was a peaceful way to just kind of disappear. But death wasn't gentle. It was a rob…"-Melissa Broder, The Pisces
27. The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more
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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
28. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
29. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
By: Elif Shafak
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020 Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We fee… read more
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"Biti lišen glasa znači biti lišen utjecaja na vlastiti život."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Do not be afraid of complexity. Be afraid of people who promise an easy shortcut to simplicity."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Uskraćivanjem spremnosti da saslušamo druge osiguravamo da se i oni osjećaju kao da ih nitko ne čuje. I krug se nastavlja, i sa svakim okretajem sve se više pogoršava."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
"Onog trenutka kad prestanemo slušati mišljenja koja se razlikuju od naših, prestajemo i učiti. Jer istina je da od jednakog i jednoličnog ne učimo baš mnogo. Obično učimo iz razlika."-Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
30. Frankissstein: A Love Story
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.54
Format: 344 pages, ebook
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more
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"Yet I wish I had a cat."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"Stars in the sky like uncounted chances."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
31. Selected Poems
By: Kamala Suraiyya Das
4.25
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
A major poet in English, Kamala Das’s taboo-breaking work explores themes of love and betrayal, the… read more
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- romance
- poetry
- feminism
- asia
- indian literature
- india
