5 Best nonfiction books like Wild Peach by S*an D. Henry-Smith

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Wild Peach

By: S*an D. Henry-Smith

4.71

Format: None pages, None

The author of two chapbooks, Wild Peach, S*an’s first full length collection of poems and photograp…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Wild Peach by S*an D. Henry-Smith , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Play It As It Lays

By: Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more

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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

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2. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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3. McGlue

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.67

Format: None pages,

Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more

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4. I Love Dick

By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more

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5. Young Tambling

By: Kate Greenstreet

4.08

Format: 581 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry

6. Crystallography

By: Christian Bök

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1994, Crystallographywas a gem of a book, an instant hit that was nominated for the Ge… read more

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7. SCUM Manifesto

By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more

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8. The Strange Library

By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more

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9. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

10. 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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11. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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12. We Had to Remove This Post

By: Hanna Bervoets

2.93

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more

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"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

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13. Bliss Montage

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more

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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."

-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

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14. 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

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15. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

3.98

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Live your life like no one’s listening"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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16. 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
  • nonfiction
"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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17. Daddy

By: Emma Cline

3.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The stories in Emma Cline’s stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience… read more

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18. None of This Is Serious

By: Catherine Prasifka

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and S… read more

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"I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

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19. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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  • poetry
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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20. Detransition, Baby

By: Torrey Peters

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more

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"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

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21. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

By: Sylvia Plath

3.98

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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  • poetry
"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"

-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom

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22. DMZ Colony

By: Don Mee Choi

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years …"

-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony

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23. Outgoing Vessel

By: Ursula Andkjær Olsen

4.46

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen. this is a shape I cannot remain in. W… read more

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  • poetry
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24. In the Desert of Mute Squares

By: M Kitchell

4.32

Format: 454 pages, Paperback

The titanic new text object from M Kitchell. In its production is the escape from the spaces of ind… read more

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25. Perfidia

By: Sky Hopinka

4.62

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Sky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective,… read more

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26. AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper

By: Giovanni Singleton

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Art. Inspired by African American spirit writing, sacred sound, Tibetan meditation practice… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Midnights (Artist/Poet Collaboration Series)

By: Jane Miller

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Poet Jane Miller collaborates with artist Beverly Pepper on a highly personal journey through the d… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Kissing Other People or the House of Fame by Kay Gabriel

28. Kissing Other People or the House of Fame

By: Kay Gabriel

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

— where when you’re back we’ll be having rice and pulses hold in gasses kiss and flip off the one … read more

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  • poetry
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29. Wild Peach

By: S*an D. Henry-Smith

4.71

Format: None pages, None

The author of two chapbooks, Wild Peach, S*an’s first full length collection of poems and photograp… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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30. Dereliction

By: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker

4.45

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Dereliction, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker's debut collection of poetry, moves through childhood and int… read more

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  • poetry

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Transform Your Habits

Young Tambling

Kate Greenstreet

4.08

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Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Lana Del Rey

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Couplets

Maggie Millner

3.76

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.12

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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