19 must-read poetry books like Soul Trash, Space Garbage by Michelle Awad

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Soul Trash, Space Garbage

By: Michelle Awad

4.77

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Written during a time of significant upheaval, Soul Trash, Space Garbage is a poetry collection for…

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1. Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

By: Courtney Peppernell , Rosy Bullot , None

3.82

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love and raw emotions. It… read more

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  • poetry
"My heart is not in my body; it's lying under the castle you burned down."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"I had a dream that I was under my skin, lost and wandering around my body."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"Does art make sense to you? You are so brave an quiet; I think you would understand."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"Of all the tragedies on this earth, there is none more tragic than a person who cannot see their worth."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

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2. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded sea… read more

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3. Eleven Minutes

By: Margaret Jull Costa , Paulo Coelho

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eleven Minutesis the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent br… read more

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4. What Kind of Woman: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.07

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more

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  • poetry
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

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5. LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms

By: Atticus Poetry

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For the first time since he began writing, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is … read more

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  • poetry
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6. 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
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7. Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison

By: Mike Sorrentino

4.32

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino gives fans the inside scoop they’ve been begging for with his explo… read more

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8. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more

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  • poetry
"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"

-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems

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9. Obit

By: Victoria Chang

4.27

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grie… read more

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  • poetry
"That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence."

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is g…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

"The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't b…"

-Victoria Chang, Obit

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10. Queen Charlotte

By: Julia Quinn

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn and television pioneer Shonda Rhimes comes a … read more

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11. How to Be Eaten

By: Maria Adelmann

3.60

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in… read more

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"But something changes after tragedy,"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"Morals create a labyrinth of rules geared toward blaming the victim"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"What if, for some of us, moving on involves finding good in the bad? Or being thankful for how we changed? That doesn't mean we wished it to happen."

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

"Maybe just don't leave the house at all", Gretel pipes in. "Maybe stay home". "But isn't that where accidents happen?" says Ashlee. "So lock all of the doors", says Ruby. "Doesn't always help", says …"

-Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

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12. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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  • poetry
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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13. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky

By: Rudy Francisco

4.64

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more

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  • poetry
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14. Aphrodite Made Me Do It

By: Trista Mateer

3.97

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer takes an imaginative approach to self-care in th… read more

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  • poetry
"Not all gods are born. Plenty of us rise."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my parents taught me."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"love has little to do with blood relations and more to do with who you choose to bleed for"

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

"The thing about embracing your own chaos is that it never becomes clear when you need to stop."

-Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

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15. Late Bloomer

By: Mazey Eddings

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A sapphic opposites-attract romance with Mazey Edding's signature sparkling voice! Winning the l… read more

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"Fuck anything and anyone that made you have to survive instead of live. You deserve a life so peaceful it feels deliciously boring. A life filled with flowers and sunny days and people who show you a…"

-Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer

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16. Small Town, Big Magic (Witchlore, #1)

By: Hazel Beck

3.32

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

A witchy rom-com in which a bookstore owner who is fighting to revitalize a small midwestern town c… read more

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"But I have always believed that a woman's best and biggest champion should be herself. The world sure isn't going to step up and cheer on its own."

-Hazel Beck, Small Town, Big Magic (Witchlore, #1)

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17. The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.93

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for f… read more

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"She basically just told kindness to fuck off."

-Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

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18. How to Be a Moonflower (Katie Daisy)

By: Katie Daisy

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Discover the world that awakens after dark and embrace the magic of the moon in this field guide by… read more

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  • poetry
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19. Good Grief

By: Brianna M. Pastor

4.06

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An expanded edition with over forty brand-new poems of the bestselling poetry collection Good Grief… read more

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  • poetry
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20. Girlhood

By: Melissa Febos

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and … read more

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"Nature isn't cruel, but unconcerned with human frailty."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My wonder was bottomless for the world empty of stories, mine alone to name."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"I have since learned that recognizing the invisible parts of oneself in another person can feel like a radiant kind of love."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

"My poor body. My precious body. How had I let her be treated this way? My body was me. To hate my own body was to suffer from an autoimmune disease of the mind."

-Melissa Febos, Girlhood

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21. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

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  • poetry
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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22. The Surrender Theory

By: Caitlin Conlon

4.01

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and … read more

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  • poetry
"In retrospect I can see that you gave me very little and I tried to build an entire future with it. You must understand, I had never been remembered like that, before. With purpose. Without begging f…"

-Caitlin Conlon, The Surrender Theory

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23. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

By: Joy Sullivan

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more

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  • poetry
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24. Harmony

By: Whitney Hanson

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the cadences of lo… read more

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  • poetry
"it is impossible to unlace my heartstrings from yours how do I untangle a connection authored by the stars?"

-Whitney Hanson, Harmony

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25. Ephemera

By: Sierra DeMulder

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments,… read more

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  • poetry
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26. Like the Palm Trees Sway: Love Poems

By: Lauren Eden

4.50

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Love poems that will drip down your chin like honey, Like the Palm Trees Sway, is about taking the … read more

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27. Soul Trash, Space Garbage

By: Michelle Awad

4.77

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Written during a time of significant upheaval, Soul Trash, Space Garbage is a poetry collection for… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist (Maple Hollow, #1) by Ali K. Mulford

28. Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist (Maple Hollow, #1)

By: Ali K. Mulford

4.15

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Get ready for a bewitching tale of love, laughter, and supernatural shenanigans in the heart of Map… read more

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29. When The Bee Stings

By: Raquel Franco

4.12

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Divided into 4 parts, this collection journeys into the intricacies of girlhood, the bond of sister… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Sex Is From Mars But I Love You From Venus

By: Isabelle Correa

4.88

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

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31. Peeling Oranges

By: Maria Giesbrecht

3.75

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Peeling Oranges is a collection of contemporary poetry that peels back the complicated layers of fi… read more

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  • poetry

22 must-read nonfiction books like Good Grief by Brianna M. Pastor

Transform Your Habits

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Clarity & Connection

Yung Pueblo

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Velvet Dragonflies

Billy Chapata

4.14

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