Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
By: Yusef Komunyakaa
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Prize–winning poet These songs run along dirt roa…
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1. The Night Ocean
By: Paul La Farge
3.31
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scanda… read more
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"The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see it for what it was."-Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean
"The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your preju…"-Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean
"The American id could not be educated, Spinks thought. It needed horror in order to stay awake and to justify its most pleasureful pursuit, the destruction of helpless people who had never done anyth…"-Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean
"Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas what you're talking about is mere low-class smut, which every…"-Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean
2. Dream Work
By: Mary Oliver
4.35
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more
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"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
3. Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
By: Matt Ruff
4.02
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and i… read more
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"Then he heard it. Out in the Wood, straight ahead and much closer than before: The beast."-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
"I’m sick of belonging to an Order that wants to change the world but can’t even change itself. I’m tired of the bullshit."-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
"Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around."-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
"The tea and the cookie were remarkably bland - flavourless, to be honest - but when swallowed, they produced a mild intoxication, a torpor of reason that allowed him to embrace a parley with a dead m…"-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
4. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
5. The Strange Library
By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more
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6. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
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"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
7. 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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8. Lost Children Archive
By: Valeria Luiselli
3.81
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a fa… read more
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"Mouths open to the sun, they sleep."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Ağızlarını güneşe doğru açmış, uyuyorlar."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Our mother teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
9. The Liminal Zone (Junji Ito)
By: Junji Ito
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
What destiny awaits them after the screaming? After abruptly departing from a train in a small t… read more
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10. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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11. Weasels in the Attic
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more
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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic
12. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
13. I Must Be Dreaming
By: Roz Chast
3.65
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more
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14. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
15. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
16. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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17. The Premonition
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more
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"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
18. Down the River Unto the Sea (King Oliver, #1)
By: Walter Mosley
3.73
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not … read more
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19. The Crying Book
By: Heather Christle
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her… read more
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"Tears are a sign of powerlessness, a "woman's weapon." It has been a long war."-Heather Christle, The Crying Book
"Almost all my understanding is from books...Sometimes it seems there are more pages in me than breaths."-Heather Christle, The Crying Book
"Some people think of reading poems and stories as a way to practice responding to imagined circumstances, without having to risk dangers of real life."-Heather Christle, The Crying Book
"They say perhaps we cry when language fails, when words can no longer adequately convey our hurt. When my crying is not wordless enough I beat my head with my fists."-Heather Christle, The Crying Book
20. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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21. Constellation Route
By: Matthew Olzmann
4.31
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American … read more
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22. A Very Nice Girl
By: Imogen Crimp
3.37
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about ambition, sex, power, and love, Imogen Crimp's A Very N… read more
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23. The Lights: Poems
By: Ben Lerner
3.84
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more
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24. Homesickness
By: Colin Barrett
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, … read more
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25. Rupture Tense
By: Jenny Xie
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The astounding second collection by Jenny Xie, “a magician of perspective and scale” (The New Yorke… read more
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26. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
27. Saudade
By: Traci Brimhall
4.48
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
“Saudade” is a Portuguese word referring to a quality of longing that has no direct translation int… read more
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28. Friday Black
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.05
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more
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"We’re in How-It-Was class."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"Buy One Get One stops for no one."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
29. This Is Salvaged
By: Vauhini Vara
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more
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30. Feel Free: Essays
By: Zadie Smith
3.82
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Si… read more
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"A mortifying sense of porousness."-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
"Faith involves an acceptance of absurdity."-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
"Back then, we were all still willing to take the “risk,"-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
"I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it."-Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
31. Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
By: Yusef Komunyakaa
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Prize–winning poet These songs run along dirt roa… read more
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