7 Top poetry books like 100 Poems To Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch

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100 Poems To Break Your Heart

By: Edward Hirsch

3.72

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collectio…

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1. The Girls from Corona del Mar

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A fiercely beautiful debut blazing with emotion: a major first novel about friendships made in yout… read more

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  • adult
"Whatever it is that hurts you, don't talk to anyone about it."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

"Non ci meritiamo la primavera, e non ci meritiamo nemmeno l'inverno. Esistono e basta."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

"How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself?"

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

"What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that it would still be funny."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar

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2. A Poetry Handbook

By: Mary Oliver

4.22

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"(...) A Poetry Handbook was written with writers of poetry most vividly in my mind; their needs an… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"A poem on the page speaks to the listening mind."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"The language of the poem is the language of particulars."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents"

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

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3. Dear Fang, With Love

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Girls from Corona del Mar, a sprawling, ambitious new novel about … read more

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  • adult

4. Getting the Love You Want : A Guide for Couples

By: Harville Hendrix

3.92

Format: 358 pages,

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5. Selected Poems

By: Anna Akhmatova , D.M. Thomas

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

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6. Maktub

By: Paulo Coelho

4.60

Format: None pages,

Maktub nao e um livro de conselhos, mas uma troca de experiencias. A maior parte dos textos se refe… read more

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7. Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

By: Jennifer E. Smith

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

On the night before they leave for college, Clare and Aidan have only one thing left to do: figure … read more

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8. Le Jardin, Paris

By: Gaëlle Geniller

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Le Jardin" est un cabaret parisien au succès grandissant dirigé par une femme. Toutes celles qui … read more

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9. Black Girl, Call Home

By: Jasmine Mans

4.44

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, a… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"I know grace and mercy was raised by the same single mother."

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

"Are women labeled crazy when you feel like their rage outweighs the evidence of their pain?"

-Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

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10. Tunnels

By: Rutu Modan

3.75

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the internatio… read more

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"In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation ma…"

-Rutu Modan, Tunnels

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11. The Hero of This Book

By: Elizabeth McCracken

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, abo… read more

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"As for me, I don't think writing is that hard, as long as you're comfortable with failure on every single level."

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"My mother's favorite cats were male and nervous and needed her. "Come to Mommy," my mother would say to one of them. "Yes, I love you, too." "You are not that cat's mother," I said, sitting on the so…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

"I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her childr…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, The Hero of This Book

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12. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver

4.58

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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13. Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab

By: Huda Fahmy

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

At some point in our lives, we’ve all felt a little out of place. Huda Fahmy has found it’s a littl… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
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14. Oceanic

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her fourth collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil hums a bright blue note—a sensuous love song to the… read more

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  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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15. Where Reasons End

By: Yiyun Li

3.76

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and lo… read more

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"If we don’t have to earn our time, how easily we squander it."

-Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

"Sadness is a helpless garrison against the blindness of tragedy."

-Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

"Not knowing is okay, he had once said, but pretending to know is not."

-Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

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16. The Knockout Queen

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.70

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs Bu… read more

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"At root, I seemed to be upset about the existence of physical power at all. That violence is nothing but another kind of touching."

-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen

"You can hit. Not anybody in this world can really and truly stop you if hitting is how you want to be. But if you do, you’re risking all that love you could have. Because nobody, nobody, nobody is go…"

-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen

"But sometimes when you are in a moment, it’s so close to your face, reality, it’s pressed up so close to you, that you just flinch, you react, and then your fate is decided, and all you have done was…"

-Rufi Thorpe, The Knockout Queen

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17. The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature

By: Ludovic Slimak

3.69

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species’ unique form … read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. The Asking: New and Selected Poems

By: Jane Hirshfield

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in… read more

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  • poetry
"Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder."

-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems

"The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hand…"

-Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems

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19. 100 Poems To Break Your Heart

By: Edward Hirsch

3.72

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collectio… read more

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  • poetry
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
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20. A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

By: Alex Riley

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A fascinating, “rich, and generous” ( Financial Times ) look at the treatment of depression by an a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Poems for Tortured Souls

By: Liz Ison

3.71

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

Dear Reader, these poems are an introduction to the passionate words of some of the English languag… read more

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  • poetry

7 must-read adult books like 100 Poems To Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch

Transform Your Habits

The Girls from Corona del Mar

Rufi Thorpe

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Dear Fang, With Love

Rufi Thorpe

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver

4.58

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8 best-selling adult books like Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab by Huda Fahmy

Transform Your Habits

Cyanide & Happiness: Stab Factory

Kris Wilson , Rob DenBleyker , Dave McElfatrick , Matt Melvin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Girl Town

Casey Nowak

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo

Kris Wilson

4.00

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