9 best-selling poetry books like Museum of Small Bones by Miho Nonaka

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Museum of Small Bones

By: Miho Nonaka

4.87

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Poetry. I longed to become / a jellyfish, Miho Nonaka writes, so transparent no one / could tell my…

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1. Song of Solomon

By: Toni Morrison

4.14

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more

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"Her passions were narrow but deep."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"He can't value you more than you value yourself."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"

-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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2. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

By: Art Spiegelman

4.38

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more

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"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

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3. After the Quake

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.77

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじ… read more

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"Are you prepared to die?"

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"This life is nothing but a short, painful dream."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

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4. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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5. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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6. Thirst

By: Mary Oliver

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Thirst,a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces… read more

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  • poetry
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7. Upstream: Selected Essays

By: Mary Oliver

2.43

Format: None pages,

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more

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8. My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more

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9. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • poetry
"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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10. The Pillow Book

By: Sei Shōnagon , Ivan Morris

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the … read more

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  • poetry
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11. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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  • poetry
"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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12. 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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13. Bright Dead Things

By: Ada Limon

3.57

Format: None pages,

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more

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14. Hiroshima

By: John Hersey

3.50

Format: 36 pages,

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more

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15. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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16. Deep River

By: Shūsaku Endō , Van C. Gessel

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

In this moving novel, a group of Japanese tourists, each of whom is wrestling with his or her own d… read more

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17. Middletown

By: Will Eno

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

"Will Eno is an original, a maverick wordsmith whose weird, wry dramas gurgle with the grim humor a… read more

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18. The Cows

By: Lydia Davis

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual huma… read more

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19. The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.99

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and … read more

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"Carry the fire."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"If only my heart were stone."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. You always did."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"There is no God and we are his prophets."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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20. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

21. Blue Horses

By: Mary Oliver

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more

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22. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

23. Trench Town Rock

By: Edward Kamau Brathwaite

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poetry. African American Studies. Caribbean Studies. "Typeset in Brathwaite's trademark Sycorax vid… read more

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24. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

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"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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25. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

By: Haruki Murakami

3.87

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegi… read more

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"Don’t let the bad elves get you."

-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"Every person has their own colour."

-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily."

-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

"Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience."

-Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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26. Love and Other Poems

By: Alex Dimitrov

4.10

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Takin… read more

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27. Saigyo

By: Saigyō

4.36

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are alm… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Holy Laughter

By: Catherine Trieschmann

3.91

Format: None pages, None

All communities have their eccentricities, but none more hilarious than St. Michael’s Episcopal Chu… read more

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29. Museum of Small Bones

By: Miho Nonaka

4.87

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Poetry. I longed to become / a jellyfish, Miho Nonaka writes, so transparent no one / could tell my… read more

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5 Top classics books like The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, Ivan Morris

Transform Your Habits

The Tale of Genji

Royall Tyler , Murasaki Shikibu

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

Murasaki Shikibu , Richard Bowring

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Pillow Book

Sei Shōnagon , Ivan Morris

3.91

Transform Your Habits

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

Lady Sarashina , Ivan Morris

4.00

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