11 best-selling poetry books like Her Read: A Graphic Poem (Con[text]ual) by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

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Her Read: A Graphic Poem (Con[text]ual)

By: Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

4.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Her A Graphic Poem is a hybrid text at once poetry and visual art. In the tradition of reusing can…

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1. North and South

By: Elizabeth Bishop

3.93

Format: 54 pages,

Como decía Elizabeth Bishop, su suave o armado hermetismo no extirpa la discurisivdad confesional, … read more

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  • poetry
"Now, in the evening, a new moon comes. The hills grow softer."

-Elizabeth Bishop, North and South

"freedom at last, a lifelong dream of time and silence, dream of protection and rest"

-Elizabeth Bishop, North and South

"days are journeys round the suburbs, circles surrounding stars, overlapping circles."

-Elizabeth Bishop, North and South

"Every day, in the sun, at breakfast time I sit on my balcony with my feet up, and drink gallons of coffee."

-Elizabeth Bishop, North and South

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2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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3. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

By: Dashka Slater

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives f… read more

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4. Notes of a Native Son

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more

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5. Everything Is Illuminated

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

3.43

Format: 375 pages,

A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching fo… read more

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6. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

7. Native Son

By: Richard Wright

3.46

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or pet… read more

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8. Forest Primeval

By: Vievee Francis

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Another Anti-Pastoral," the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail.… read more

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9. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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10. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By: Stephen King

3.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more

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11. Lost in the Funhouse

By: John Barth

4.27

Format: 197 pages,

Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fict… read more

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12. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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13. If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

By: Brenda Ueland

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules s… read more

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14. Tar

By: C.K. Williams

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

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15. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

By: Margaret Atwood

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more

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"Many things get broken in a war."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

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16. 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
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17. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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  • poetry
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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18. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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19. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

By: Kristen Radtke

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

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20. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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21. Julia

By: Sandra Newman

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more

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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."

-Sandra Newman, Julia

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22. The Trees Witness Everything

By: Victoria Chang

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

*Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the The New Yorker *Named one of the Best Books of the… read more

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  • poetry
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23. The Trayvon Generation

By: Elizabeth Alexander

4.36

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing m… read more

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  • poetry
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24. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

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  • poetry
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25. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

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  • poetry
"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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26. 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
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27. Bright Archive

By: Sarah Minor

4.61

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Sarah Minor’s adventurous and investigatory debut collection of essays, Bright Archive, place an… read more

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28. You Never Get It Back (Iowa Short Fiction Award)

By: Cara Blue Adams

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The linked stories in Cara Blue Adams’s precise and observant collection offer elegantly constructe… read more

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29. Whale Fall: Poems

By: David Baker

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David Baker expands both his environment a… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Her Read: A Graphic Poem (Con[text]ual) by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

30. Her Read: A Graphic Poem (Con[text]ual)

By: Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

4.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Her A Graphic Poem is a hybrid text at once poetry and visual art. In the tradition of reusing can… read more

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  • poetry
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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31. The Math Campers: Poems

By: Dan Chiasson

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A father and husband's meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic cre… read more

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  • poetry

9 best-selling fiction books like Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Transform Your Habits

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Everything Is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

3.43

Transform Your Habits

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Jonathan Franzen

3.78

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