5 Top poetry books like The Remedies by Katharine Towers

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The Remedies

By: Katharine Towers

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Katherine Tower's second collection is a book of small wonders. From a house drowning in roses to c…

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1. The Man in the Brown Suit

By: Agatha Christie

3.95

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her—a… read more

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"A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"You know I want you. You know that I’d give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"I wonder if husbands know as much about their wives as they think they do. If I had a husband, I should hate him to bring home orphans without consulting me first."

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

"But his face should really inspire you with confidence, my dear lady. No self-respecting murderer would ever consent to look like one. Crippen now, I believe was one of the pleasantest fellows imagin…"

-Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

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2. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr. Shaitana wa… read more

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"I have always disapproved of murder."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?"

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

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3. The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

By: Philip Pullman

4.10

Format: 465 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Will is the bearer of the knife. Now, accompanied by angels, his task is to deliver that powerful, … read more

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"because he's Will"

-Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

"Tell them stories."

-Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

"Well," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too."

-Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

"Each kiss was nearer to the last one of all."

-Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)

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4. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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5. Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

By: Agatha Christie

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Who wouldn't be pleased to attend a small dinner party being held by Sir Charles Cartwright, once t… read more

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"There is only one thing to do - think."

-Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

"Charles doesn’t go out of a room—he ‘makes an exit’—"

-Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

"One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late."

-Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

"It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters."

-Agatha Christie, Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

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6. Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.98

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Older cover edition of 9780349116655. In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency… read more

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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no."

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

"Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo , crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Pro…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)

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7. Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger plane... F… read more

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8. The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when… read more

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9. Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

Nurse Amy Leatheran had a most unusual patient. Louise, according to her husband, celebrated archae… read more

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10. The North Ship

By: Philip Larkin

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The North Ship, Philip Larkin's earliest volume of verse, was first published in August 1945 and re… read more

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  • poetry
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11. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

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"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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12. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • poetry
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13. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more

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14. The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.80

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic d… read more

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"It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]"

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."

-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)

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15. The Leopard

By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more

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"While there’s death there’s hope"

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."

-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

16. Hold Your Own

By: Kae Tempest

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's… read more

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17. The Miniaturist

By: Jessie Burton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a … read more

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18. Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commission… read more

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19. The Book of Form and Emptiness

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.03

Format: 548 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more

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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"

-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

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20. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.65

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more

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"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

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21. The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

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"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

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22. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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23. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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24. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

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"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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25. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more

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"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Cover of The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2) by Amanda Lovelace

26. The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now—indestructible. These moving, … read more

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  • poetry
" -call us alexandria "

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"Confiança não é egocentrismo"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"Fuck the idea of staying calm."

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

"i am the girl with the arsonist heart"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)

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27. The Pull of the Stars

By: Emma Donoghue

3.96

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more

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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

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28. The Four Leaf

By: Lee Jacquot

3.69

Format: None pages, None

Two best friends grow up together, fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after. But what… read more

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"i like that she thinks she can outrun me. That I won't scour the fucking earth to find her."

-Lee Jacquot, The Four Leaf

"Something about being so close, yet not, is intoxicating. Perhaps it's the anticipation of the possibility that's so exciting."

-Lee Jacquot, The Four Leaf

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29. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

By: Paterson Joseph

3.70

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

It’s finally time for Charles Ignatius Sancho to tell his story, one that begins on a slave ship in… read more

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30. A Portable Paradise

By: Roger Robinson

4.40

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

Roger Robinson’s range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racis… read more

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  • poetry
"in the car park a young father whispers weed smoke about how his life feels, like that burnt-out car that never moves, the one with the shattered windows leaving diamond tears in the asphalt."

-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise

"How is it I'm begging you for housing, when you burnt my building down? You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls, all straight jargon, and noth…"

-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise

"You fooled us. Render your work, not your lives. This seems like the newest answer to an old question. Cheap muscle and blood to build you an Empire- that we can't stay in. Gran's gone missing from S…"

-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise

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31. The Remedies

By: Katharine Towers

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Katherine Tower's second collection is a book of small wonders. From a house drowning in roses to c… read more

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  • poetry

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