5 Top poetry books like Anchor by Rebecca Aronson

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Anchor

By: Rebecca Aronson

4.22

Format: None pages, None

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1. The House on Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros

3.31

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more

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2. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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3. The Irrationalist

By: Suzanne Buffam

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Poetry. In acclaimed poet Suzanne Buffam's second collection, her unusual range, formal rigor, and … read more

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4. Beloved

By: Toni Morrison

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more

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5. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

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"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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6. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

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"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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7. A Certain Hunger

By: Chelsea G. Summers

3.77

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Doro… read more

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"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I enjoy a man who’s kissed with a yeasty beastliness."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"Junk food was rebellion, rebellion was femininity, femininity was junk."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

"I knew from a young age that motherhood was a cage I never wanted to inhabit."

-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

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8. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

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"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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9. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection

By: Junji Ito

4.23

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more

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10. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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11. Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

3.63

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more

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"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

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12. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more

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"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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13. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

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"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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14. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

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"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

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15. Nightbitch

By: Rachel Yoder

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... A… read more

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"In such moments, she could almost touch her loneliness, as if it were her second child."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Her secrets were the only things these days that were purely hers, things apart from mother and wife and middle-aged woman."

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"Yes, certainly, her emerging rage was in part a by-product of physiological processes, but how could you not be pissed after having a baby?"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

"It had been so long since she had remembered all this, so long since she'd even thought of it, for there had been a great forgetting when she left home--a purposeful forgetting, because to forget her…"

-Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

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16. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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17. Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.96

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinét… read more

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"You know people who love you don't hurt you like that," he says, eyes steady on me. "Love's not supposed to try to kill you."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

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18. Closer Baby Closer

By: Savannah Brown

4.18

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy … read more

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19. Sweetdark

By: Savannah Brown

4.16

Format: None pages, None

Savannah Brown’s long-awaited second collection of poetry is at once philosophical and accessible, … read more

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20. Anchor

By: Rebecca Aronson

4.22

Format: None pages, None

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