The Book of Jane (Iowa Poetry Prize)
By: Jennifer Habel
3.60
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
The Book of Jane is a perceptive, tenacious investigation of gender, authority, and art. Jennifer H…
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1. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
2. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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3. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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4. Dog Songs
By: None , Mary Oliver
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more
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5. The Hatred of Poetry
By: Ben Lerner
3.71
Format: 435 pages,
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wr… read more
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6. Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
By: Frank Bidart
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The collected works of one of contemporary poetry's most original voices Gathered together, the poe… read more
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7. This Thing Between Us
By: Gus Moreno
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more
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"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us
8. 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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- poetry
"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
9. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- poetry
10. Nothing But Blackened Teeth
By: Cassandra Khaw
2.66
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more
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"Every religion is a one-way relationship."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth
11. Several People Are Typing
By: Calvin Kasulke
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more
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"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing
"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing
12. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
15. 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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"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
16. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
17. I Do Everything I'm Told
By: Megan Fernandes
4.17
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more
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18. 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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"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
19. The Book of Love
By: Kelly Link
3.50
Format: 628 pages, Hardcover
The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more
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20. Constellation Route
By: Matthew Olzmann
4.31
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Constellation Route uses the form of the letter to explore issues related to contemporary American … read more
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21. Guillotine: Poems
By: Eduardo C. Corral
4.34
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets… read more
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22. Oculus: Poems
By: Sally Wen Mao
4.18
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle—starring the film l… read more
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"The sun doesn't set in Lost in Translation, but I will make sure it does here."-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems
"Where do you wander, where do you search for this petal that grows from the stone in your chest?"-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems
"Every day I try to fight my own brokenness. But once you are forgotten, it's not so bad: a heart broken joins another chorus."-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems
"Forgive me if the wind stole the howl from my mouth and whipped it against your windowpanes. When I lived, I wanted to be seen."-Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems
23. Women: A Novella
By: Chloé Caldwell
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The cult-classic novella that intimately explores one young writer’s whirlwind and whiplash affair … read more
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"I feel drawn to the word "unmoored" during this time. I look it up a few times a week. I stare at the definition on my computer screen. I love the example sentence Wikipedia uses, which says, Left un…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
"I become familiar with cold hard grounds. On a Friday night, I drink three too many glasses of wine and I call Finn. She makes no black humor jokes. It is not an erotic mess anymore, like Sabine once…"-Chloé Caldwell, Women: A Novella
24. Out of Order (Donald Justice Poetry Prize)
By: Alexis Sears
4.78
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A debut collection featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental he… read more
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25. Wrath of the Triple Goddess (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #7)
By: Rick Riordan
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in … read more
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26. Bianca (Stahlecker Selections)
By: Eugenia Leigh
4.65
Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition
“I thought I forgave you,” Eugenia Leigh tells the specter of her father in Bianca. “Then I took ro… read more
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27. Useful Junk
By: Erika Meitner
4.27
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
In her previous five collections of poems, Erika Meitner has established herself as one of America’… read more
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28. Refusenik
By: Lynn Melnick
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In this searing new volume, Lynn Melnick dives head-first through concentric waves of personal and … read more
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29. Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either: Poems
By: Marisa Tirado
4.44
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either is a debut poetry collection which seeks Tejano pop star Selena Q… read more
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30. The Book of Jane (Iowa Poetry Prize)
By: Jennifer Habel
3.60
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
The Book of Jane is a perceptive, tenacious investigation of gender, authority, and art. Jennifer H… read more
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31. One God at a Time
By: Meghan Privitello
4.74
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Meghan Privitello’s stunning new book One God at a Time is a gorgeously profane collection of ecsta… read more
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