10 best-selling poetry books like American Sycamore by Lisbeth White

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American Sycamore

By: Lisbeth White

4.68

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

From the bayou, to Belgium, to Barbados, Lisbeth White's debut collection AMERICAN SYCAMORE examine…

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Cover of Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

1. Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person

By: Shonda Rhimes

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the … read more

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2. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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3. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

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4. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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5. When My Brother Was an Aztec

By: Natalie Díaz

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"I write hungrysentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and… read more

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6. 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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7. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.19

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Colum… read more

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"What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"We have become a place of long weeping A house of scattered feathers There is no home for us between earth and sky. —From Collected Lamentations from the Night of Knives"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

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8. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

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"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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9. These Precious Days: Essays

By: Ann Patchett

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more

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"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

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10. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

By: Jane Alison

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, origin… read more

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"So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narrat…"

-Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

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11. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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12. All Boys Aren’t Blue

By: George M. Johnson

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explor… read more

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"History has an interesting way of painting."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"We are not as different as you think, and all our stories deserve to be celebrated and told."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

"When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself."

-George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

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13. The Renunciations: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

4.29

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more

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Cover of Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

14. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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15. We All Want Impossible Things

By: Catherine Newman

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more

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"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."

-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

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16. Return

By: Emily Lee Luan

4.26

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorr… read more

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17. Tethered to Stars: Poems

By: Fady Joudah

3.43

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A  Library Journal  Best Book of Poetry of 2021 A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of o… read more

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18. a Year & other poems

By: Jos Charles

3.42

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recou… read more

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19. I'm Always so Serious

By: Karisma Price

4.31

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

 " I’m Always so Serious  is brilliant.”   —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for  … read more

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20. American Sycamore

By: Lisbeth White

4.68

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

From the bayou, to Belgium, to Barbados, Lisbeth White's debut collection AMERICAN SYCAMORE examine… read more

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21. The Book Eaters

By: Carolina Hotchandani

4.89

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Carolina Hotchandani's debut collection THE BOOK EATERS is a study in shifting cultural and persona… read more

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7 Top fiction books like The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

Transform Your Habits

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Donika Kelly

4.29

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