8 Best fiction books like Bright Poems for Dark Days: An Anthology for Hope by Julie Sutherland

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Bright Poems for Dark Days: An Anthology for Hope

By: Julie Sutherland

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

This book of joyous and uplifting verse is a welcome beacon of hope and happiness in difficult and …

If you liked the fiction plot in Bright Poems for Dark Days: An Anthology for Hope by Julie Sutherland , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

By: bell hooks

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more

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  • poetry
"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."

-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"

-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

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2. A Thousand Mornings: Poems

By: Mary Oliver

4.21

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more

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  • poetry
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"

-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

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3. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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4. Thirst

By: Mary Oliver

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Thirst,a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Upstream: Selected Essays

By: Mary Oliver

2.43

Format: None pages,

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more

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  • poetry
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6. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

By: W.B. Yeats , Richard J. Finneran

4.15

Format: 333 pages,

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeatsincludes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in hi… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction

7. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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8. A Night Without Armor

By: Jewel

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

One of the most respected artists in popular music today, Jewel is much more than a music industry … read more

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9. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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10. The Truth About Magic

By: Atticus Poetry

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ATTICUS! From the internationally bestselling author of The Dark Between Star… read more

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  • poetry
"All I wish is for you to one day love you the way I do."

-Atticus Poetry, The Truth About Magic

"She wasn’t looking for a fairytale just to feel a little less lonely."

-Atticus Poetry, The Truth About Magic

"Some girls look good in diamonds, some girls make diamonds look good."

-Atticus Poetry, The Truth About Magic

"We lay there within the lonely silence of all the things we didn’t say."

-Atticus Poetry, The Truth About Magic

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11. Sea of Strangers

By: Lang Leav

3.68

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Sea of Strangers  by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books including… read more

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  • poetry
"The distance from you is measured in how far I've come."

-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

"I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you."

-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

"love is a dormant volcano, lying in wait, biding its time."

-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

"I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here."

-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

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12. All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.22

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An… read more

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  • poetry
"It takes courage to live through heartbreak. Breathing is n o small feat"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"I will stretch my hands up to the sky, to say, “I am afraid but I will try,"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"While we are trying to make sense of things, may we learn to make peace with things."

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"She no longer had the desire to bend herself into the frame of photographs where she was unwelcome"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

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13. The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One brand-new, long-awaited novella, and one Hugo and Nebula award winning novella, both featuring … read more

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  • fiction
"Death said he would wait for me, but not forever."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

"You will have to excuse me, I am not even sure if I could tell you what a friend looks like, or what they do. But I think you might be my one friend, if that should suit you."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

"The worst thing in the world is not to lose all you have. The worst thing in this world is not having your heart broken. Loss passes, pain passes - even heartbreak passes. The very worst thing in thi…"

-Peter S. Beagle, The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)

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14. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

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"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

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15. 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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  • poetry
"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

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16. Where Hope Comes From

By: Nikita Gill

4.01

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In Where Hope Comes From: poems for a broken world, Instagram superstar and poet Nikita Gill return… read more

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  • poetry
"A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?"

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

"Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma."

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

"Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary."

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

"I, too, hope to be that confident in a love. Someone who I know will still love me, even if I do not run to them every time they call."

-Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From

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17. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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18. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

By: Megan Fox

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over… read more

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  • poetry
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19. Lore Olympus: Volume Seven (Lore Olympus, #7)

By: Rachel Smythe

4.49

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love—the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a r… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

20. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

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"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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21. Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

By: Virginia Woolf

4.46

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless… read more

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"I miss you even more than I could have believed ;and I was prepared to miss you a good deal"

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

"Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this."

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

"I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross; that its to be pulled through only in …"

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

"And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into wo…"

-Virginia Woolf, Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

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22. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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  • poetry
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23. Cursed Princess Club, vol. 1

By: LambCat

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Meet Gwendolyn – living proof that princesses don’t always have it all. See, although she lives in … read more

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  • fiction
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24. Serenity: Poems

By: F.S. Yousaf

3.76

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Soft spoken yet powerful, Serenity perfectly captures the constant battle of fear and courage that … read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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25. Flowers on the Moon

By: Billy Chapata

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Social media sensation Billy Chapata shares insight and advice into the powerful world of love, hea… read more

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  • poetry
"darling, if you have to convince them of your worthiness, they might not be worth holding on to. poison comes in shiny bottles too."

-Billy Chapata, Flowers on the Moon

"darling, you don't have to be seen to be worthy. you are still whole without their acknowledgment. you will still breathe without their surveillance. you still exist."

-Billy Chapata, Flowers on the Moon

"as my relationships with others change, my relationship with myself evolves too. at times i can’t get enough of myself, and at other times i need a hiatus from me. at times i understand myself, and a…"

-Billy Chapata, Flowers on the Moon

"your journey will scare some people. the steps that you take will intimidate others, and the paths that you take will confuse some. people are afraid of things they can’t control, and when they reali…"

-Billy Chapata, Flowers on the Moon

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26. Chameleon Aura

By: Billy Chapata

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Zimbabwean poet Billy Chapata provides a thought-provoking take on the universal experiences of lov… read more

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  • poetry
"your awareness opened me, but your overanalyzing closed me."

-Billy Chapata, Chameleon Aura

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27. 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

Cover of The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy by James Crews

28. The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy

By: James Crews

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An Indie Poetry Bestseller and Nautilus Award Winner! Crews, a fine poet and teacher, appears to h… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times: A Practical Guide to Stoicism for Self-Improvement and Personal Growth by Brigid Delaney

29. Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times: A Practical Guide to Stoicism for Self-Improvement and Personal Growth

By: Brigid Delaney

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this heartfelt and soul-searching work, brimming with warmth, humor, and insight, the beloved Gu… read more

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"You are more likely to feel an inner disturbance if you set your heart and mind on something that is beyond your control to obtain."

-Brigid Delaney, Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times: A Practical Guide to Stoicism for Self-Improvement and Personal Growth

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30. The Bell and the Blackbird

By: David Whyte

4.38

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

The House of Belonging has sold over 100,000 copies and contains some of his most beloved read more

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  • poetry
"BLESSING FOR THE LIGHT I thank you, light, again, for helping me to find the outline of my daughter’s face, I thank you light, for the subtle way your merest touch gives shape to such things I could …"

-David Whyte, The Bell and the Blackbird

"BLESSING FOR SOUND I thank you, for the smallest sound, for the way my ears open even before my eyes, as if to remember the way everything began with an original, vibrant, note, and I thank you for t…"

-David Whyte, The Bell and the Blackbird

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31. Bright Poems for Dark Days: An Anthology for Hope

By: Julie Sutherland

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

This book of joyous and uplifting verse is a welcome beacon of hope and happiness in difficult and … read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction

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