Negative Space
By: Luljeta Lleshanaku
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
*Shortlist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize* “Language arrived fragmentary / split i…
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1. The Book Of Nightmares
By: Galway Kinnell
4.21
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Galway Kinnell's poetry has always been marked by richness of language, devotion to the things and … read more
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- poetry
"And yet perhaps this is the reason you cry, this the nightmare you wake screaming from: being forever in the pre-trembling of a house that falls."-Galway Kinnell, The Book Of Nightmares
2. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
3. Unburnable
By: Marie-Elena John
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this riveting narrative of family, betrayal, vengeance, and murder, Lillian Baptiste is willed b… read more
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4. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
5. The Teacher of Cheops
By: Albert Salvadó
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
This is the history of the time of Pharaoh Snefru and Queen Hetepheres, the parents of Cheops, who … read more
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6. Talking to My Body
By: Czesław Miłosz , Anna Świrszczyńska , None
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Anna Swir's poetry is featured in the best-selling anthologies Ten Poems to Set You Freeand Risking… read more
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- poetry
7. Transit
By: Rachel Cusk
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Revi… read more
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8. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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9. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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10. Trans-Atlantyk
By: Witold Gombrowicz , None , None
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A semi-autobiographical, satirical novel that throws into perspective all of Gombrowicz's major lit… read more
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11. The Literature Express
By: Lasha Bugadze
3.43
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
A bevy of mediocre writers are invited to a seminar aboard a specially chartered train, and this no… read more
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12. 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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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. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
(1939 translation) read more
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15. Last Night in Nuuk
By: Niviaq Korneliussen
3.59
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty and fearless debut from a stunning new voice, Last Night in Nuuk is a work of daring invent… read more
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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
17. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
18. The Mermaid of Black Conch
By: Monique Roffey
3.89
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn't ex… read more
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"Womanhood was a dangerous business if you didn't get it right."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"The sea was the giant woman of the planet, fluid and contrary."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"It was the magic that music makes, the song that lives within every creature on earth, including mermaids."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"Life change quick boy. Another planet so. Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, till it come"-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
19. 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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- poetry
"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
20. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
21. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
22. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
By: Souvankham Thammavongsa
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more
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"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
23. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
24. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
25. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
26. Harlem Shadows: Poems
By: Claude McKay
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance first published in 1922, this collection of poignant, lyrical… read more
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"All art is the product of the entirety of an artist’s life, whether that art is biographical or confessional or neither."-Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows: Poems
27. Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems
By: Valzhyna Mort
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New Yor… read more
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28. Chrysalis
By: Anna Metcalfe
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society… read more
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29. Autobiography of Death
By: Kim Hyesoon
4.08
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nin… read more
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30. Building The Barricade and Other Poems
By: Anna Świrszczyńska
4.51
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
"William Blake was inclined to see human sins as phases through which humans pass and not as someth… read more
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31. Negative Space
By: Luljeta Lleshanaku
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
*Shortlist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize* “Language arrived fragmentary / split i… read more
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