10 Best poetry books like The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia

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The Savage Coloniser Book

By: Tusiata Avia

4.29

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white The voices of Tusiata Avia ar…

If you liked the poetry plot in The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Spin (Spin, #1)

By: Robert Charles Wilson

3.66

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more

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2. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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3. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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4. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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5. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

By: Shoshana Zuboff

4.06

Format: 691 pages, Hardcover

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"

-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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6. 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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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"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

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7. James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

By: James Acaster

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This is a self help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is help… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I knew I had a problem when I found myself saying, to my reflection, in my laptop screen, 'What has two gigantic thumbs and needs to quit social media?' 'This guy'... before bursting into laughter, t…"

-James Acaster, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

"Even without a profile, searching your name on twitter is extremely common, especially if you're a celebrity, as I am and will be until the day I die. I shamefully admit that after quitting twitter, …"

-James Acaster, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

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8. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

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  • poetry
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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9. The Glow

By: Jessie Gaynor

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy … read more

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"Everyone agreed that he was brilliant, but he wore his intelligence like his perfect jean jacket- I stole it from my mom, he'd confessed on their first date- an effortless afterthought."

-Jessie Gaynor, The Glow

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10. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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11. 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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"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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12. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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13. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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14. Faebound (Faebound, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more

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15. Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised

By: Alice Te Punga Somerville

4.51

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

A first book of poetry from acclaimed Maori writer and scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville. read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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16. The Bone Tree

By: Airana Ngarewa

3.71

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't… read more

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17. Mrs. S

By: K. Patrick

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more

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"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."

-K. Patrick, Mrs. S

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18. Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more

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19. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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20. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • poetry
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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21. Rangikura

By: Tayi Tibble

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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22. Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over

By: Julia Ebner

3.77

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

'Piercingly revelatory ... a tour de force' - Carl Miller, author of The Death of the Gods'...a mus… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Meat Lovers

By: Rebecca Hawkes

4.20

Format: 92 pages, ebook

In this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawke… read more

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  • poetry
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24. The Artist

By: Ruby Solly

4.57

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

At first there is nothing but black sand, then something begins to grow; a gentle song emerges so b… read more

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  • poetry
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25. Kitten

By: Olive Nuttall

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Rosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous b… read more

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26. Ash

By: Louise Wallace

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more

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27. Aria

By: Jessica Hinerangi

4.52

Format: 93 pages, Kindle Edition

Where is my tongue?On display, a trophy of war.Where is my tikanga?Kept in the basement.Where is my… read more

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  • poetry
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28. The Savage Coloniser Book

By: Tusiata Avia

4.29

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white The voices of Tusiata Avia ar… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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29. All That We Know

By: Shilo Kino

4.61

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard l… read more

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30. Vā: Stories by Women of the Moana

By: Lani Wendt Young

4.25

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories that tell Covid how we really feel, where a Centipede God watches on with wry humour and wr… read more

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31. Talia

By: Isla Huia

4.41

Format: 87 pages, None

Talia is the debut poetry collection from Isla Huia (Te Āti Haunui a-Pāpārangi, Uenuku). It is a cr… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Warsan Shire

4.21

Transform Your Habits

James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

James Acaster

3.39

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Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised

Alice Te Punga Somerville

4.51

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Transform Your Habits

Pet

Catherine Chidgey

4.06

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How to Loiter in a Turf War

Coco Solid

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Lioness

Emily Perkins

3.43

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Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

Josie Shapiro

4.21

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