7 must-read poetry books like The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech by Stephen Dobyns

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The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech

By: Stephen Dobyns

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemer…

If you liked the poetry plot in The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech by Stephen Dobyns , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

By: Louise Penny

4.07

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide w… read more

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"If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

"You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?" "They start as a lump in the throat," she said."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

"Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

"He wasn't addicted to pain, to panic, but he might be addicted to the bliss of having them stop. The mind, he knew, really was its own place."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

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2. The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)

By: Louise Penny

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

The brilliant new novel in the New York Times best-selling series by Louise Penny, one of the most … read more

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3. Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13)

By: Louise Penny

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

When a mysterious figure appears on the village green on a cold November day in Three Pines, Armand… read more

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4. The Lola Quartet

By: Emily St. John Mandel

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he's fired in disgrace followi… read more

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5. Gutshot Straight

By: Lou Berney

4.13

Format: None pages,

Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man is too nice a guy for the life he's led, but not ni… read more

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6. Knots

By: R.D. Laing

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

R.D. Laing's new book marks a fascinating departure--in form and content--from his previous works. … read more

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7. The Rain in Portugal: New Poems

By: Billy Collins

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly f… read more

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8. A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)

By: Louise Penny

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerfu… read more

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9. The Singer's Gun

By: Emily St. John Mandel

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career… read more

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10. The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11)

By: Louise Penny

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to w… read more

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11. Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

By: Frank Bidart

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The collected works of one of contemporary poetry's most original voices Gathered together, the poe… read more

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12. How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9)

By: Louise Penny

3.62

Format: 272 pages,

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec digs beneath the idyllic surface of village … read more

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13. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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14. Whiplash River: A Novel

By: Lou Berney

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Having left his life of crime behind, former getaway driver Charles "Shake" Bouchon has finally rea… read more

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15. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

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16. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

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"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

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17. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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18. Musical Tables: Poems

By: Billy Collins

3.79

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more

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19. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

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20. All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

By: Louise Penny

4.43

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sû… read more

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"You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"Regarding Notre Dame cathedral: "He could see the huge rose window that had, incredibly, survived the fire. It looked, behind the works, like a giant third eye. Gazing perpetually out at the City of …"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I’m put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

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21. A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

By: Louise Penny

4.30

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet… read more

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"Consequences,"

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"Civility. How can we expect it if we don't give it?"

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"It was, he knew, a sign of End of Days. Ruth refusing booze."

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"Chief Inspector Gamache’s says there are ‘four sentences that lead to wisdom: I don’t know. I need help. I’m sorry. I was wrong."

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

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22. Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

By: Louise Penny

4.33

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head o… read more

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"I don’t know. I need help. I was wrong. I’m sorry."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"In time, it wasn't all that long ago, but measured in events, it was an eternity."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"They looked at each other, and then, in unison, all three said, "Tell me what you know."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

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23. Razzmatazz

By: Christopher Moore

4.10

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Repeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of San Franc… read more

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"When he walked into Cookie's, everyone shouted, "Happy New Year," and he found a bit of a smile had been hiding somewhere way back in his heart."

-Christopher Moore, Razzmatazz

"There's too much day when you get up in the morning,' Moo Shoes whined. 'How do they do it? Citizens?' 'Suckers,' I said. 'You notice everyone is in a really foul mood in the morning? I don't recomme…"

-Christopher Moore, Razzmatazz

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24. Last Night in Montreal

By: Emily St. John Mandel

3.73

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adol… read more

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"She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"It was never very easy to reach her, like loving someone who was rarely in the same room"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest dramas; someone has to remember them"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

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25. The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

By: Louise Penny

4.19

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Arma… read more

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"As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Armand knew the terror of that first step. He also knew that the key to a full life was taking it. The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Isabelle [Lacoste] sat quietly for a moment, looking into the naked woods. Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees. Homicide, she thought, was a perpetual winter."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"[Daniel and Annie] offered to stay on, but both Reine-Marie and Armand had said that it would probably be best if they returned when there wasn't a murderer among them. Which, in Three Pines, might p…"

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

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26. Judas Goat: Poems

By: Gabrielle Bates

4.21

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships.… read more

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27. Whale Day: And Other Poems

By: Billy Collins

4.08

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

A collection of all-new poetry from former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Billy Collins's thir… read more

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"But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life,"

-Billy Collins, Whale Day: And Other Poems

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28. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

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"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

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29. Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems

By: Stephanie Burt

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the… read more

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30. Like: Poems

By: A.E. Stallings

4.07

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry A stunning new collection by the award-winning young p… read more

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31. The Day's Last Light Reddens the Leaves of the Copper Beech

By: Stephen Dobyns

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

This new collection from best-selling poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns focuses on the hard, ephemer… read more

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Kristin Hannah

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4.14

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