6 Best poetry books like Let Me Tell You This by Nadine Aisha Jassat

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Let Me Tell You This

By: Nadine Aisha Jassat

4.47

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The electrifying debut collection from a powerful new voice in UK poetry. Shortlisted for the Edwin…

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1. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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2. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë , Stevie Davies

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual … read more

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  • feminism

4. The Princess Saves Herself in this One

By: Amanda Lovelace

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Ah, life- the thing that happens to us while we're off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wish… read more

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5. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By: Susanna Clarke

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more

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6. Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey

By: Jackie Kay

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that … read more

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7. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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8. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

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9. 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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10. If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

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11. Salt Slow

By: Julia Armfield

3.99

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more

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  • feminism
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."

-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

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12. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.93

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by… read more

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13. The Killings at Kingfisher Hill (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #4)

By: Sophie Hannah

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill … read more

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14. Inheritance: A Visual Poem

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.49

Format: 46 pages, Hardcover

They tell me to "fix" my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • race
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15. 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
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
" -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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16. After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more

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17. Sea Prayer

By: Khaled Hosseini

4.10

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee c… read more

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  • poetry
"I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"I wish you remembered Homs as I do, Marwan."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"All of us inpatient for the sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. You have learned dark blood is better news than bright."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

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18. Bloom

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.90

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more

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19. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

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20. Intimations

By: Zadie Smith

3.99

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of loc… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"Strange inversions proliferate."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"When in the presence of a child, get on the floor."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"The enviable style of the young is little protection against catastrophe."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

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21. Concerning My Daughter

By: Hye-Jin Kim

3.71

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more

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"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"

-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter

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22. Lemon

By: Kwon Yeo-Sun

3.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H… read more

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23. A Far Wilder Magic

By: Allison Saft

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Margaret Welty spots the legendary hala, the last living mythical creature, she knows the Half… read more

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"How could Margaret ever think he'd lose himself to alchemy when he has already hopelessly lost himself to her?"

-Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

"Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive. Most days, that’s enough. Today, she doesn’t think it is."

-Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

"How many times will she watch someone leave this place and never look back, while she is left here like a ghost to haunt it?"

-Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

"If he can’t grieve his father or his impossible dreams without hurting his family or himself, what other choice does he have but to keep things light? To dazzle people so they can’t look for the crac…"

-Allison Saft, A Far Wilder Magic

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24. Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth

By: Rebecca Humphries

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend.… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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25. Where the Heart Should Be

By: Sarah Crossan

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of… read more

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  • poetry
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26. Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

By: Josie Long

3.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories. Three teenagers believe they… read more

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27. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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28. Let Me Tell You This

By: Nadine Aisha Jassat

4.47

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The electrifying debut collection from a powerful new voice in UK poetry. Shortlisted for the Edwin… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
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29. Finding My Voice (Frankie's World, #2)

By: Aoife Dooley

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

How do you find your voice when everyone around you is telling you to be quiet? Frankie is diffe… read more

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"Sometimes it's hard to be yourself, but if you try you might be surprised."

-Aoife Dooley, Finding My Voice (Frankie's World, #2)

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30. Into the Witchwood

By: Méabh McDonnell

4.60

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Never, ever, set foot inside the Witchwood Surrounding Rowan's home is the dark, dangerous Witchwo… read more

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31. The Party: The perfect Christmas gift from the Sunday Times bestselling author

By: Tessa Hadley

3.43

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

An irresistible novella about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chro… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Poverty Safari

Darren McGarvey

3.87

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None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

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Fatimah Asghar

4.24

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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

3.97

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Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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Jericho Brown

4.24

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4.24

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