23 Best poetry books like Runaway: New Poems by Jorie Graham

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Runaway: New Poems

By: Jorie Graham

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

An NPR Best Book of the Year A new collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporar…

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1. We Slept Here

By: Sierra DeMulder

4.34

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

We Slept Here is a case study in vulnerability and honesty. In this sequence of memoir-esque poems,… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction

2. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. 300 Arguments: Essays

By: Sarah Manguso

3.62

Format: 192 pages,

A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists There will co… read more

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4. Housekeeping

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.94

Format: 450 pages,

A modern classic, Housekeepingis the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up hap… read more

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5. Generations: A Memoir

By: Lucille Clifton

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Unknown Binding

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6. 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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7. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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  • poetry
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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8. 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
  • nonfiction
"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

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9. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

By: Claire Vaye Watkins

3.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse--one woman's furious revisiting … read more

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10. Sleepwalk

By: Dan Chaon

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,… read more

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"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

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11. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

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12. Beijing Payback

By: Daniel Nieh

3.39

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers sho… read more

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13. This Is the Honey

By: Kwame Alexander

4.47

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. Besaydoo: Poems (Jake Adam York Prize)

By: Yalie Kamara

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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15. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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16. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

By: Katie Holten

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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18. Dream Drawings: Configurations of a Timeless Kind

By: N. Scott Momaday

3.93

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday, a beautiful and enchant… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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19. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

By: Hala Alyan

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"My favorite house is my mother."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."

-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems

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20. The Surrender Theory

By: Caitlin Conlon

4.01

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"In retrospect I can see that you gave me very little and I tried to build an entire future with it. You must understand, I had never been remembered like that, before. With purpose. Without begging f…"

-Caitlin Conlon, The Surrender Theory

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21. Summer Snow: New Poems

By: Robert Hass

3.69

Format: 192 pages, ebook

A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning au… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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22. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

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  • poetry
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23. Black Imagination

By: Natasha Marin

4.34

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"Close your eyes—make the white gaze disappear." What is it like to be black and joyful, without su… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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24. Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry

By: Terrance Hayes

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

“Dazzling . . . a verbal and visual feast that defies genres.” — The Washington Post From the Nati… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 170) by Tawanda Mulalu

25. Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 170)

By: Tawanda Mulalu

3.94

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die… read more

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  • poetry
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26. Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022

By: Major Jackson

4.38

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

An exuberant collection of two decades of Major Jackson’s passionately intelligent poetry. A preem… read more

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  • poetry
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27. A Sand Book

By: Ariana Reines

4.13

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hu… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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28. New and Selected Poems

By: Marie Howe

4.49

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An indispensable collection of more than three decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed … read more

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  • poetry
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29. Runaway: New Poems

By: Jorie Graham

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

An NPR Best Book of the Year A new collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporar… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry by Maria Popova

30. The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry

By: Maria Popova

4.43

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The Universe in Verse is an ode to wonder and an exploration of the human search for truth and mean… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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31. Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater

By: Irma Pineda

4.57

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

A story of separation and displacement in two fictionalized a person who has migrated, without pap… read more

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  • poetry

18 Best nonfiction books like Runaway: New Poems by Jorie Graham

Transform Your Habits

We Slept Here

Sierra DeMulder

4.34

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

4.34

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20 must-read nonfiction books like The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten

Transform Your Habits

Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Anne Carson

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Les Diners de Gala

Salvador Dalí , J. Peter Moore

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

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