10 must-read poetry books like Imago by Veera Antsalo

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Imago

By: Veera Antsalo

3.70

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

"Tyttö" elää lintujen valtaamassa sukutalossa, filmitähti puutarhan ympäröimässä villassa ja kuning…

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1. Histoire de la violence

By: Édouard Louis

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre… read more

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"I’m sorry, monsieur, but now this is a criminal proceeding. It’s out of your hands."

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I’ve been trying to construct a memory that would let me undo the past, that would amplify it and destroy it, so that the more I remember and the more I lose myself in the images that remain, the les…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I know from experience that the isolation of those who try to forget the past is as terrible as the isolation of those for whom the past is an obsession; I’ve learned that the question is never wheth…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

"I was sure that if I kept acting like a trauma victim, that’s what I’d become the effects would be even worse and would last longer. Meanwhile my body knew exactly what was going on. I told Clara: th…"

-Édouard Louis, Histoire de la violence

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2. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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3. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.64

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more

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"What does the border look like?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"I hope to find Area X in Area X."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"The time for expeditions was over."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"Was this first contact, or last contact?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

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4. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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5. Rakasta minut vahvaksi

By: Aino Suhola

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Satoa ei koskaan tehda, se saadaan. Tarkein on aina lahjaa. Aino Suhola on puhutellut jo tuhansien … read more

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  • poetry
  • finnish literature
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6. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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7. سینوهه

By: Mika Waltari , ذبیح‌الله منصوری

2.50

Format: 52 pages, Hardcover

First published in the United States in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptianoutsold e… read more

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8. Grief is the Thing with Feathers

By: Max Porter

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more

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9. Memory of Water

By: Emmi Itäranta

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and C… read more

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10. Strange Weather in Tokyo

By: Hiromi Kawakami

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school… read more

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11. The Vegetarian

By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith

4.00

Format: 204 pages,

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood… 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. La Malnata

By: Beatrice Salvioni

3.91

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

Due ragazzine molto diverse tra loro. La storia di un'amicizia indimenticabile nell'Italia del fasc… read more

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14. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

By: Amanda Gorman

4.56

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9780593465271 can be found here. On January 20, 2021,… read more

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  • poetry
"So while we once asked: How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it."

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be …"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

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15. Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

By: Édouard Louis

4.13

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Pendant une grande partie de sa vie ma mère a vécu dans la pauvreté et la nécessité, à l'écart de t… read more

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"Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I'd gotten so used to seeing her unhappy at home that the joy on her face seemed scandalous to me, a deceit, a lie that had to be exposed as soon as possible."

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"I started this book wanting to tell the story of a woman, but I've realized that yours is the story of a human being who fought for the right to exist as a woman, as opposed to the nonexistence impos…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

"A final memory. A few months ago, in the garden of a teahouse where I’d suggested we meet, she told me how she had once been called to the school by my teacher when I was six years old. The teacher w…"

-Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

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16. Elolliset

By: Iida Turpeinen

4.38

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Vuonna 1741 luonnontieteilijä ja teologi Georg Wilhelm Steller seilaa kapteeni Vitus Beringin retki… read more

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  • finnish literature
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17. Hävitys : tapauskertomus

By: Iida Rauma

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Öisellä juoksulenkillä A näkee joutomaan laidalla tutun hahmon ja tajuaa, ettei mikään lopu, mikään… read more

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  • finnish literature
"[E]ikä kukaan myöskään haluu myöntää että ahdistus ja masennus on niinku kolera, molemmista päästään ku ihmiset ei joudu elään keskel paskaa."

-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus

" Mä oon kuuden lapsen yksinhuoltaja , Anna-Maija toisti, ikään kuin he olisivat jotenkin osavastuussa Anna-Maijan panoksesta liikakansoitukseen, ja A:n vatsaa väänsi."

-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus

"Ihan tosissaan, A sanoi, ne eivät kyenneet pitämään heille asiallista seksivalistusta mutta kertoivat kyllä, millä menetelmällä Anna-Maijan ex-mies oli surmannut itsensä, sellaista se oli 1990-luvull…"

-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus

"Mä oon lukenu jotai satatuhat selfhelp-opasta ja jokases niist sanotaan et jos ihminen haluu päästä elämäs eteenpäin pitää kuunnella sydämen ääntä, pitää tehä niinku se sydän halajaa mut missään ei k…"

-Iida Rauma, Hävitys : tapauskertomus

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18. Forbidden Notebook

By: Alba de Céspedes

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more

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19. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.86

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together… read more

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"Have faith in yourself to know what's right for you. Whatever answer you need, it's inside you somewhere."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Of course, I know there are LGBTQIA activists out there who fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this"

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you. It’s true that giving can be a part of love, but contrary to popular belief, your love should never take from you."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

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20. First Person Singular: Stories

By: Haruki Murakami

3.54

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Mura… read more

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"Hätte ich auf dem Jupiter umsteigen sollen?"

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

"It’s important in life to get used to losing."

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

"A circle that has many centers but no circumference"

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

"Nichts, was leicht zu haben ist, besitzt einen Wert."

-Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

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21. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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22. Youth

By: Tove Ditlevsen

4.22

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

The second volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love… read more

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"Being young is itself temporary, fragile, and ephemeral. You have to get through it - it has no other meaning."

-Tove Ditlevsen, Youth

Cover of Huolenpitoja by Eeva Åkerblad

23. Huolenpitoja

By: Eeva Åkerblad

3.42

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Valmistaudun rentoutumaan aivan lähiaikoina. Valmistaudun hellittämään aivan näinä päivinä. Olen su… read more

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  • poetry
  • finnish literature
"Lepääminen on radikaali teko, hellittäminen hellyyttä. Koskaan ei riitä aikaa sille, että eläisi pidempään kuin itse."

-Eeva Åkerblad, Huolenpitoja

Cover of Outoja kaloja by Amanda Palo

24. Outoja kaloja

By: Amanda Palo

3.55

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Tarkkanäköinen esikoisteos on häviävien kohtausten kollaasi Outoja kaloja on oivaltava proosateo… read more

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  • finnish literature
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25. Sota vai rauha - kirjoituksia Venäjästä ja lännestä

By: Mikhail Shishkin

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Mikä Venäjällä on vialla ja miksi? Palkitun kirjailijan esseekokoelma Venäjästä ja venäläisyydes… read more

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26. Kirnu

By: Milka Luhtaniemi

3.22

Format: 71 pages, Hardcover

Taidokas runodebyytti kuvaa epäröinnin aikaa Voi mennä kauas, voi mennä niin kauas ettei osaa en… read more

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  • poetry
  • finnish literature
"Millainen olit ennen kuin synnyit. Katositko kahden muun asian väliin kuin tuoksu tai huimaus."

-Milka Luhtaniemi, Kirnu

Cover of Omantunnon asioita by Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen

27. Omantunnon asioita

By: Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen

3.63

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Omantunnon asioissa saavat runonsa niin vauvat, ystävät, sukulaiset kuin parisuhteetkin. Muuttuvan … read more

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  • poetry
  • finnish literature
Cover of Iltapäivä isolla kirjaimella by Silja Järventausta

28. Iltapäivä isolla kirjaimella

By: Silja Järventausta

3.08

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

On kysymys vuodenajasta. Ensin valitaan kevät ja tehdään tilaa, aletaan irtaantua. Muutos vaatii ai… read more

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  • poetry
  • finnish literature
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29. Pakopiste

By: Kaisa Ijäs

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Kaisa Ijäksen toisessa runokokoelmassa upotaan lähtöihin, katoamisiin ja tulemisiin. Viettelys ja v… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Imago

By: Veera Antsalo

3.70

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

"Tyttö" elää lintujen valtaamassa sukutalossa, filmitähti puutarhan ympäröimässä villassa ja kuning… read more

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  • poetry
  • finnish literature
Cover of Suru ei kuulu leikkipuistoon by Liina Länsiluoto

31. Suru ei kuulu leikkipuistoon

By: Liina Länsiluoto

3.46

Format: 102 pages, None

”Suru ei kuulu leikkipuistoon” maalaa kuvan ajasta, jolloin pienten lasten nauru sekoittuu läheisen… read more

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  • poetry

9 Top finnish literature books like Imago by Veera Antsalo

Transform Your Habits

Rakasta minut vahvaksi

Aino Suhola

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Elolliset

Iida Turpeinen

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Hävitys : tapauskertomus

Iida Rauma

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Huolenpitoja

Eeva Åkerblad

3.42

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14 must-read poetry books like Iltapäivä isolla kirjaimella by Silja Järventausta

Transform Your Habits

Olen nyt täällä metsässä

Anja Erämaja

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Silmittömyys

Atte Koskinen

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Borealia

Mikko Räty

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Supersalanen tyttöpäiväkirja

Veera Milja

3.58

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