5 must-read poetry books like An Early Afterlife by Linda Pastan

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An Early Afterlife

By: Linda Pastan

4.24

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Whether her subject is the return of childhood ghosts or the metaphor of baseball, whether it is th…

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Cover of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin, Cristina García

1. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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  • poetry
"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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2. News of the World

By: Philip Levine

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A superb new collection from "a great American poet . . . still at work on his almost-song of himse… read more

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  • poetry

3. New Selected Poems

By: Philip Levine

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Philip Levine'sNew Selected Poems(1984) by adding to it a generous choice of major from each of the… read more

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  • poetry
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4. Snow Falling on Cedars

By: David Guterson

3.91

Format: None pages,

Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric -a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken an… read more

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  • literary fiction
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5. The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more

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6. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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7. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Hardcover

Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more

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8. Franny and Zooey

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more

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9. Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970

By: Richard Brautigan , Gordon Legge

3.40

Format: None pages,

A collection of 62 very short stories set in 1960s California, particularly around the author's hom… read more

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10. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more

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11. Cathedral

By: Raymond Carver

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the cano… read more

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12. 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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13. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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14. Burning Bright

By: Ron Rash

4.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" … read more

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15. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more

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  • literary fiction
"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."

-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

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16. 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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17. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)

By: Helene Tursten

3.76

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781641290111 Content: - An elderly lady has accommodation prob… read more

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"Maud placed two small cartons of rollmops in the basket of her wheeled walker, followed by a larger pack of herring salad. They were soon joined by a Stilton cheese in a blue porcelain pot, a mature …"

-Helene Tursten, An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)

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18. Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

By: John Markoff

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Told by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of icon… read more

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19. An Early Afterlife

By: Linda Pastan

4.24

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Whether her subject is the return of childhood ghosts or the metaphor of baseball, whether it is th… read more

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  • poetry
  • literary fiction

14 Best fiction books like The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.14

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Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

4.75

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Hilary Mantel

4.00

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A.S. Byatt , None

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