5 Top poetry books like Half Caste and Other Poems by John Agard

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Half Caste and Other Poems

By: John Agard

4.17

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Half-Caste is a mixture of old and new poems that address core issues and experiences for young peo…

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1. The Waves

By: Virginia Woolf

4.15

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more

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"Death is woven in with the violets,"

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."

-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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2. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Cover of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English, Jacob Needleman, Toinette Lippe

3. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • poetry
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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4. Uzumaki

By: Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the… read more

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5. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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6. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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7. An Inspector Calls

By: None

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more

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8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

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9. Small Island

By: Andrea Levy

4.00

Format: None pages,

Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart bro… read more

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10. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

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"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

11. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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12. The Lonely Londoners

By: Sam Selvon

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more

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13. A Study in Scarlet

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.57

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is t… read more

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14. The Devil and the Dark Water

By: Stuart Turton

3.84

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and Samu… read more

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"Anger makes good men stubborn and stubborn men petty."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"You’re as dense as the mountains you were carved out of."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"Marriage is an inconvenient convenience. It’s the shackle we accept for our safety."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

"Courage isn't an absence of fear, it's the light we find when fear is all there is."

-Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

Cover of Half Caste and Other Poems by John Agard

15. Half Caste and Other Poems

By: John Agard

4.17

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Half-Caste is a mixture of old and new poems that address core issues and experiences for young peo… read more

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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