How to Live
By: Helen Rickerby
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Row…
Want to Read $ 15.99"I am a believer in silence. The value of silence. The power of silence. The space that isn’t an absence but a presence. A pause that is bigger than the noise that surrounds it. A gap that is a mirror. A gulf that is a bridge. The emptiness that is rejuvenating. The space that is full of more than it could ever contain."-Helen Rickerby, How to Live
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1. The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
By: Stephen Kessler , Pablo Neruda , Alastair Reid , Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Stephen Mitchell , Forrest Gander , Robert Hass , Mark Eisner , Jack Hirschman , John Felstiner
4.42
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of po… read more
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- poetry
"Ours is a lank country and on the naked edge of her knife our frail flag burns."-Stephen Kessler, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
"tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía, tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño."-Stephen Kessler, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
"In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones."-Stephen Kessler, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
"el verbo es origen y vierte vida: es sangre, es la sangre que expresa su substancia y está dispuesto así su desarrollo"-Stephen Kessler, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
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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- poetry
- feminism
"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
3. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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- feminism
"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
4. The Children of Jocasta
By: Natalie Haynes
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents... Jocasta is just… read more
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5. The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have tim… read more
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"Velocity!" Sunny shrieked. I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried."-Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
" Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee, Hope you get well soon. Ho ho ho, hee hee hee, Have a heart-shaped balloon. "-Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
"But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the photograph was taken."-Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
"Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done than said."-Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- poetry
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
8. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
By: Holly Ringland
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story … read more
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9. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
By: Julie Powell
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how s… read more
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10. I, Clodia and Other Portraits
By: Anna Jackson
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
"I, Clodia" is the story of Clodia Metelli--poet and lover--and her relations with her far-away par… read more
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11. Middlemarch
By: Michel Faber , George Eliot
4.02
Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more
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"After all, the true seeing is within."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I protest against any absolute conclusion."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"-Michel Faber, Middlemarch
12. Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
By: John Marsden
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hide… read more
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13. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
By: Tamsyn Muir
4.35
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more
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"Love and freedom don't coexist."-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)
14. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
By: P. Djèlí Clark
4.03
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more
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"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
15. 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
16. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
17. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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- feminism
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
18. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
By: Tamsyn Muir
4.29
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer stru… read more
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"Bones are mediocre."-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
"I remember being eighteen."-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
"Your only settings were power-vomit and murder"-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
"I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge."-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
19. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.57
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more
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"We all have a animal double, Englishman."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
20. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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- feminism
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
21. The Absolute Book
By: Elizabeth Knox
3.22
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge… read more
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"Suddenly Taryn was furious. 'Why the hell are you always so careful?' 'What else should I be? Most of the good in the world is remedial. It's fixing things and caring for people. Taking care."-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
"No matter how out of the ordinary demonic possession was, it was still somehow a smoker's lung cancer, a drunk's pancreatitis, a philanderer's STI - a thing she had brought upon herself by not behavi…"-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
"Something terrible had happened in his life to send him back to her looking for revenge. He believed she had been unlucky for him and was to be blamed for some calamity, some failure or loss. But he …"-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
"She felt the Muleskinner was less interested in enjoying her attention than figuring out what he could do for her. There were people who stole near to you, and you could sense their shadows touching …"-Elizabeth Knox, The Absolute Book
22. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
23. Magnolia, 木蘭
By: Nina Mingya Powles
4.08
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
"This is a book of the body and the senses, whether the million tiny nerve endings of young love; t… read more
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- poetry
"Drift,"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"I want to know the names of the trees in all other languages too so that I find out what they taste like to other people. But my mouth can only hold so much."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"When reading her stories in translation it’s like trying to see her from a great distance. Or through a thick pane of glass. I am standing outside, peering into rooms where her ghost has been."-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
"My phone is vibrating, telling me: You have a new memory. Here is a stream of pictures collected into an album, all taken somewhere far away. Home is not a place but a string of colours threaded toge…"-Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia, 木蘭
24. Poukahangatus: Poems
By: Tayi Tibble
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
25. Rangikura
By: Tayi Tibble
4.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
26. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.98
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more
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"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
27. How to Live
By: Helen Rickerby
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Row… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
"I am a believer in silence. The value of silence. The power of silence. The space that isn’t an absence but a presence. A pause that is bigger than the noise that surrounds it. A gap that is a mirror…"-Helen Rickerby, How to Live
28. Past Lives
By: Leah Dodd
4.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Grounded in the urgency of the moment – motherhood, housing precarity, politics – Past Lives also s… read more
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- poetry
29. Transposium
By: Dani Yourukova
4.54
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Part philosophy thesis and part psychosexual Ancient Greek fever dream, Dani Yourukova’ s Transposi… read more
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- poetry
30. Tree Sense: Ways of Thinking About Trees
By: Susette Goldsmith
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
At a moment when the planet is so clearly in peril, the trees stand as both guardians and messenger… read more
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31. Saga
By: Hannah Mettner
4.38
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In Saga, the permafrost is melting and the secrets frozen within are emerging. Nothing is spared, f… read more
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- poetry
