How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars
By: Alysia Nicole Harris
4.19
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2015 New Women's Voices Series How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars by…
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1. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
By: Warsan Shire
4.25
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more
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"Her body is one long sigh."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
2. Another Brooklyn
By: Jacqueline Woodson
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Running into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her … read more
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3. No Matter the Wreckage
By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more
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- poetry
4. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
5. All American Boys
By: Jason Reynolds , Brendan Kiely
4.02
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rashad is absent again today. That's the sidewalk graffiti that started it all... Well, no, actuall… read more
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6. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
7. Mouthful of Forevers
By: Clementine von Radics
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Titled after the poem that burned up on Tumblr and has inspired wedding vows, paintings, songs, You… read more
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- poetry
8. Together and By Ourselves
By: Alex Dimitrov
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry."--Los Angeles Review of Books "Truth-telling, r… read more
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9. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
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10. 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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11. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
By: Stephen King
3.96
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more
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12. 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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13. Lullabies
By: Lang Leav
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A sequel to the hugely popular, best-selling Love & Misadventure, Lullabiescontinues to explore the… read more
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14. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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15. Yerba Buena
By: Nina LaCour
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two wo… read more
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"How special it was, that first sip, and each sip that came after. How it had settled and warmed her, made her feel that she was welcome. That's what Sara did."-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena
"I was a vase. The thought struck her as she gazed at the wall of them. She had been a vessel; it was true. She'd stepped into this shop, introduced herself, asked for a job, hoped it would fill her. …"-Nina LaCour, Yerba Buena
16. Felon: Poems
By: Reginald Dwayne Betts
4.34
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide r… read more
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- poetry
- african american
"A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
"& Nicky says it's a wonder how something that can have you hold another so gently could be the ruin of all you might touch."-Reginald Dwayne Betts, Felon: Poems
17. 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
18. Sea of Strangers
By: Lang Leav
3.68
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Sea of Strangers by Lang Leav picks up from her previous international bestselling books including… read more
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"The distance from you is measured in how far I've come."-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers
"I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you."-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers
"love is a dormant volcano, lying in wait, biding its time."-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers
"I am already nostalgic for what we have, even with you still here."-Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers
19. 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
20. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more
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"if it's real, the distance won't change it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
21. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
22. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
By: Julissa Arce
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more
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"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
23. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky
By: Rudy Francisco
4.64
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With … read more
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24. Milk Blood Heat
By: Dantiel W. Moniz
4.04
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary… read more
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"She vomited casually into the toilet…"-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Sometimes you must consume the damaged body, digest it cell by cell, to taste the new beginning."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Three days ago the doctor had put her at six weeks and no one knew except Liam and her best friend Pia. Maybe the dog."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Love requires a bareness, a certain pliability, and I didn't thrill at the possibility of being transformed or wiped away."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
25. Dearly
By: Margaret Atwood
3.74
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more
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"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
26. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a da… read more
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"Remembering is the death of mercy."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
27. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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28. Promises of Gold
By: José Olivarez
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more
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- poetry
29. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
By: Mona Eltahawy
4.21
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and d… read more
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"Racism and bigotry are not polite, and I refuse to be polite in my fight against them."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
"Patriarchy wants to control vaginas, but it also wants to control who has the right to even say the word “vagina."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
"Patriarchy keeps us terrified, demanding from us an endless supply of patience, passivity, and obedience, as it pathologiezes and snuffs out our justifiable rage."-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
"Men cannot sit back and say, 'Well, I'm not rich and powerful; that's not me.' It is you - if you are not actively dismantling the patriarchy, you are factually benefiting from it. Are you uncomforta…"-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
30. Corazón
By: Yesika Salgado
4.38
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger … read more
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"and if he loves you, what is next?"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"I am good at this / turning heart ache into a party"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"tonight I'll dance I'll be alive and ain't that worth the party?"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
"I come from women who fend for themselves the blade is our friend and you? you are a weed I know how to slice you out of me"-Yesika Salgado, Corazón
31. How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars
By: Alysia Nicole Harris
4.19
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2015 New Women's Voices Series How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars by… read more
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- african american
