10 best-selling nonfiction books like Village by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

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Village

By: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

3.77

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore th…

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1. The Journalist and the Murderer

By: Janet Malcolm , Ian Jack

3.84

Format: 135 pages,

In The Journalist And The Murderer, Janet Malcolm examines the psychopathology of journalism. She d… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Look

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Format: 84 pages,

*Finalist for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award* *Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award* Solmaz Shar… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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3. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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4. King Me

By: Roger Reeves

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced fami… read more

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  • poetry
  • african american

5. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

By: John Ashbery

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle… read more

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6. Dictee

By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more

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7. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk

8. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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9. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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10. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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11. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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12. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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13. The Renunciations: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

4.29

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more

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  • poetry
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14. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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  • poetry
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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15. Frankissstein: A Love Story

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.54

Format: 344 pages, ebook

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more

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"Yet I wish I had a cat."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"Stars in the sky like uncounted chances."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."

-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

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16. The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

By: Sally Wen Mao

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, “a consistently inspiring and exciting voice”… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • poetry
Cover of The Border Simulator: Poems by Gabriel Dozal

18. The Border Simulator: Poems

By: Gabriel Dozal

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A world-bending, lyrically rich poetry collection that reimagines the U.S.-Mexico border as both a … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of The Diaspora Sonnets by Oliver de la Paz

19. The Diaspora Sonnets

By: Oliver de la Paz

3.94

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chan… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Borealis by Aisha Sabatini Sloan

20. Borealis

By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan

4.03

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An intimate essay on the art of Alaskan glaciers, memory, loneliness, and blackness in wild spaces.… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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21. stemmy things

By: imogen xtian Smith

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy This flirty … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Palm-Lined with Potience by Basie Allen

22. Palm-Lined with Potience

By: Basie Allen

4.44

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

PALM-LINED WITH POTIENCE is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allen's debut collection of … read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Black and Female: Essays by Tsitsi Dangarembga

23. Black and Female: Essays

By: Tsitsi Dangarembga

4.16

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

The first wound for all of us who are classified as “black” is empire.In Black and Female, Tsitsi D… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Brother Sleep by Aldo Amparán

24. Brother Sleep

By: Aldo Amparán

4.38

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Alice James Award A Semifinalist for the 2023 Housatonic Book Award in Poetry … read more

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  • poetry
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25. Removal Acts

By: Erin Marie Lynch

4.42

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Drawing its title from the 1863 Federal Act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, t… read more

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  • poetry
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26. I Am the Most Dangerous Thing

By: Candace Williams

4.38

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Song of My Softening by Omotara James

27. Song of My Softening

By: Omotara James

4.48

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot A profound and intersectional te… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Village

By: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

3.77

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore th… read more

Similar categories in LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs's Village book and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs's Village

  • poetry
  • african american
  • nonfiction
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29. Fablesque

By: Anna Maria Hong

4.67

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

Poetry. A hybrid-genre carnivalesque of trauma and rebirth, Fablesque harnesses the power of old ta… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Black Ballad

By: Afua Ansong

4.22

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Editors' Selection from the 2020 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. For a young Ghanaian girl who tr… read more

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  • poetry
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31. The Fat Sonnets

By: Samantha Zighelboim

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Samantha Zighelboim’s debut collection conducts a radical re-examination of what we mean by body. I… read more

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  • poetry

20 best-selling poetry books like Village by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

Transform Your Habits

Look

Solmaz Sharif

4.16

Transform Your Habits

King Me

Roger Reeves

3.93

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Renunciations: Poems

Donika Kelly

4.29

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18 Best poetry books like Palm-Lined with Potience by Basie Allen

Transform Your Habits

As We Know: Poems

John Ashbery

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Plot

Claudia Rankine

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

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