11 must-read audiobook books like Side Notes from the Archivist by Anastacia-Reneé

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Side Notes from the Archivist

By: Anastacia-Reneé

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable femi…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Side Notes from the Archivist by Anastacia-Reneé , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more

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2. Mamut

By: Eva Baltasar

3.58

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more

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  • lgbt
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3. The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more

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  • lgbt
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

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4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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5. Girl Juice

By: Benji Nate

3.95

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A hilarious slice of twentysomething life in the twenty-first century Welcome to the Girl Juice … read more

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  • lgbt
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6. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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7. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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8. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

Cover of Besaydoo: Poems (Jake Adam York Prize) by Yalie Kamara

11. Besaydoo: Poems (Jake Adam York Prize)

By: Yalie Kamara

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Trace Evidence: Poems

By: Charif Shanahan

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD… read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
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13. A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World's Most Misunderstood Bird

By: Rosemary Mosco

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Part field guide, part history, part ornithology primer, and altogether fun. Pigeons are amazin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
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15. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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16. What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

By: Desiree C. Bailey

4.41

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale Series of Younger Poets volume is a… read more

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  • poetry
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17. Spectral Evidence: Poems

By: Gregory Pardlo

4.11

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-win… read more

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  • poetry
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18. Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

By: Tania De Rozario

4.18

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

“A penetrating series of personal essays… a memoir that scratches a layer deeper than expected. The… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"No wonder they come to your house looking for ghosts. Ghosts are spilling out of the walls."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"What they do not understand when they come to your house is that you have lived your whole life with ghosts."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command."

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

"There is nothing like a horror film to reveal the cultural anxieties of one’s time and place. And if horror has taught me anything, it is that nothing has been as enduringly terrifying across time an…"

-Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

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19. Chrome Valley: Poems

By: Mahogany L. Browne

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"you ain’t had freedom / ’til you climb on bus 62 / & head to the closest mall / for a good seat at the girl fight."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

"give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world."

-Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

Cover of Side Notes from the Archivist by Anastacia-Reneé

20. Side Notes from the Archivist

By: Anastacia-Reneé

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable femi… read more

Similar categories in Anastacia-Reneé's Side Notes from the Archivist book and Anastacia-Reneé's Side Notes from the Archivist

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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21. ballast

By: Quenton Baker

4.69

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to vie… read more

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  • poetry

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Transform Your Habits

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Transform Your Habits

Girls That Never Die: Poems

Safia Elhillo

4.30

Transform Your Habits

From From: Poems

Monica Youn

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Above Ground

Clint Smith

4.56

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Transform Your Habits

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

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Leonard Koren

4.18

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Joy Harjo

4.28

Transform Your Habits

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Diane Seuss

4.50

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