While I Yet Live
By: Gboyega Odubanjo
4.60
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Gboyega Odubanjo’s debut marks the start of an exciting career. His is a voice that draws you in, i…
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
3. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
4. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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- poetry
5. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
6. The Embassy of Cambodia
By: Zadie Smith
4.38
Format: None pages,
'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world - in its dramatic as … read more
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7. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
By: Ted Chiang
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
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8. Of Mutability
By: Jo Shapcott
2.88
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, reveale… read more
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9. Home Fire
By: Kamila Shamsie
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's de… read more
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10. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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11. Stag's Leap: Poems
By: Sharon Olds
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more
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12. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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13. 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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14. How to Be Both
By: Ali Smith
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more
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15. All the Lovers in the Night
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more
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"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
16. 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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17. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
18. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
19. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
20. God Complex
By: Rachael Allen
3.94
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
God Complex, Rachael Allen's second collection, is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem … read more
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21. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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22. C+nto and Othered Poems
By: Joelle Taylor
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more
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23. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
24. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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"Trauma makes you considerate."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You are more than the sum of your traumas"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You do not want to die before you can live"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"...love was not always synonymous with care."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
25. Intimations
By: Zadie Smith
3.99
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of loc… read more
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"Strange inversions proliferate."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"When in the presence of a child, get on the floor."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
"The enviable style of the young is little protection against catastrophe."-Zadie Smith, Intimations
26. England's Green
By: Zaffar Kunial
4.08
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single wor… read more
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"There is something locked-in about grief, but there is something horribly unlocked about grieving. - Ings "-Zaffar Kunial, England's Green
27. Poor
By: Caleb Femi
4.46
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman … read more
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"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will rememb…"-Caleb Femi, Poor
28. The Republic of Motherhood
By: Liz Berry
4.45
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
*'The Republic of Motherhood' Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem*‘I crossed the borde… read more
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29. The Actual
By: Inua Ellams
4.33
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury - sometimes probing delicately, sometimes b… read more
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"Fuck / Our Future When our scorching planet ignites the last evacuating airship to cook its soft cargo of human flesh in an expanding fireball and fragments of its propeller blades thunk inches deep …"-Inua Ellams, The Actual
"The poem "Fuck / Our Future" (p. 49): When our scorching planet ignites the last evacuating airship to cook its soft cargo of human flesh in an expanding fireball and fragments of its propeller blade…"-Inua Ellams, The Actual
30. While I Yet Live
By: Gboyega Odubanjo
4.60
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Gboyega Odubanjo’s debut marks the start of an exciting career. His is a voice that draws you in, i… read more
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31. Little Boxes
By: Cecilia Knapp
3.93
Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition
A story of sacrifice, violence and growing up different – told against the heat and claustrophobia … read more
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