7 must-read poetry books like The Feel-Good Movie of the Year by Luke Wright

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The Feel-Good Movie of the Year

By: Luke Wright

4.23

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Divorced, and perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads of southern Engla…

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1. Serious Concerns

By: Wendy Cope

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more

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"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"

-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns

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2. Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.95

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enc… read more

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"Our memories change as we do."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"Most of us can only see the world we know."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"Love affairs are discoveries of new worlds."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"The future is not fixed unless we allow it to be so."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

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3. A Scattering

By: Christopher Reid

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A tribute to the author's wife consisting of poems written during her final illness and after her d… read more

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4. The Other Country

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Carol Ann Duffy's third collection takes us to the other country' - the places that we visit in fan… read more

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5. Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

By: John Cooper Clarke , None

2.00

Format: None pages,

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6. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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7. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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8. DallerGut Dream Department Store

By: Lee Mi-ye

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

|| THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD|| In a mysterious town that lies h… read more

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"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"Adakalanya kekhawatiran kemarin menghilang seperti salju yang meleleh atau kekuatan untuk hidup menjalani hari ini muncul hanya dengan tidur yang nyenyak."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I don't think humans are some self-driving car racing toward the finish line. We must own our lives, start the engine ourselves, and sometimes put on brakes."

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

"I believe there are two ways to love your life, Penny. The first is to work hard to change your life when you feel unsatisfied.' 'That seems about right.' Penny nods. 'The second option may look easi…"

-Lee Mi-ye, DallerGut Dream Department Store

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9. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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10. Two Dead Wives (DCI Clements, #2)

By: Adele Parks

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An overprotective father has lived as a recluse until his adult daughter – Stacie Jones – returns f… read more

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11. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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12. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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13. How to Kill Your Family

By: Bella Mackie

3.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more

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"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

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14. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

By: Mick Herron

4.37

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more

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"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"

-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

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15. In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)

By: Jo Callaghan

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an ey… read more

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16. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

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"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

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17. God Complex

By: Rachael Allen

3.94

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

God Complex, Rachael Allen's second collection, is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem … read more

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18. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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19. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

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"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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20. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

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21. The Fine Art of Invisible Detection

By: Robert Goddard

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The no. 1 ebook from the Sunday Times bestseller 'He's the high priest of plot ... deftly woven, bu… read more

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22. The Dinner Guest

By: B.P. Walter

3.63

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave. Matthew: the perfect … read more

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23. The Botanist (Washington Poe, #5)

By: M.W. Craven

4.55

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

'I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home . . .' Detective Serge… read more

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24. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

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"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

Cover of They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick

25. They: A Sequence of Unease

By: Kay Dick

3.38

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more

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"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

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26. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

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"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

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27. Wonderful

By: Harry Baker

4.75

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker's third collection celebrates what it is to be alive. Follow… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Hungry

By: Grace Dent

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yea… read more

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"Are you hungry?' I say, slightly mischievously. 'Very, he says, unfurling his napkin. This is a shame, because we're sitting down for a tasting menu that will not be a meal, but more a random collect…"

-Grace Dent, Hungry

Cover of The Feel-Good Movie of the Year by Luke Wright

29. The Feel-Good Movie of the Year

By: Luke Wright

4.23

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Divorced, and perhaps a little bruised, Luke Wright journeys off the sunken roads of southern Engla… read more

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  • poetry
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30. The Blue Hour

By: Paula Hawkins

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. … read more

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31. Makeover

By: Laurie Bolger

4.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Makeover is a book dripping with nostalgia, cigarette ash and sour cream dip. Lit by too-close TV s… read more

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19 Top fiction books like DallerGut Dream Department Store by Lee Mi-ye

Transform Your Habits

La asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom

Kim Ho-yeon

4.04

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DallerGut Dream Department Store

Lee Mi-ye

3.79

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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Transform Your Habits

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3.65

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