7 Top nonfiction books like An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays by Lucy Ives

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An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

By: Lucy Ives

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From a “brilliant, one-of-a-kind maestro” (Booklist), a vibrant tapestry of memoir, research, and c…

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1. Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag

By: Sigrid Nunez

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure kno… read more

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2. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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3. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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4. Bitter Water Opera

By: Nicolette Polek

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more

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5. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

By: Danielle Dutton

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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6. Like Love: Essays and Conversations

By: Maggie Nelson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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7. Season of the Swamp

By: Yuri Herrera

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of… read more

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8. Bluff: Poems

By: Danez Smith

4.53

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more

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9. Still Life

By: Katherine Packert Burke

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A profound and piercing tribute to messy webs of queer friendship and to what is left behind in tra… read more

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10. An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

By: Lucy Ives

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From a “brilliant, one-of-a-kind maestro” (Booklist), a vibrant tapestry of memoir, research, and c… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Ives's An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays book and Lucy Ives's An Image of My Name Enters America: Essays

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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11. My Lesbian Novel

By: Renee Gladman

4.27

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In both her writing and her visual art, Renee Gladman is a brilliant investigator of life, always p… read more

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12. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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13. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

By: Isabella Hammad

4.74

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning novelist of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the P… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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14. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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15. We're Alone: Essays

By: Edwidge Danticat

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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16. Hold Everything: Poems

By: Dobby Gibson

4.11

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

A beloved poet captures the beauty that attention to the public and private offers In his latest… read more

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17. The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist

By: Tilsa Otta

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A bilingual selection of tender, transgressive poems by a Peruvian poet and multimedia artist In… read more

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18. Masquerade

By: Mike Fu

3.42

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Set between New York and Shanghai, Masquerade is a queer coming-of-age mystery about a lovelorn bar… read more

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19. Versailles

By: Kathryn Davis

3.23

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This brilliantly acclaimed novel tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and… read more

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"In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined."

-Kathryn Davis, Versailles

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20. At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems

By: Steven Duong

3.79

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut volume infused with apocalyptic overload, beginnings and endings, and all the ways… read more

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21. Paradise Logic

By: Sophie Kemp

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious, surreal, and devastating journey into the mind of Reality Kahn, a young woman on a que… read more

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Danielle Dutton

4.05

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Maggie Nelson

3.76

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3.78

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Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

Isabella Hammad

4.74

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Mamut

Eva Baltasar

3.58

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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Rachel Cusk

3.70

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Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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