Washes, Prays
By: Noor Naga
4.03
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award winner Noor Naga's bracing debut, a novel-in-verse about a young woman's …
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1. Woman at Point Zero
By: Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata
4.19
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells o… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"Who said to kill does not require gentleness?"-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Sastra yang baik selalu merupakan cermin sebuah masyarakat."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
2. No Matter the Wreckage
By: Sarah Kay , Sophia Janowitz
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry … read more
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- poetry
3. Small Ghost
By: Trista Mateer , Lauren Zaknoun
4.15
Format: None pages,
Small Ghost is a brief narrative collection of poetry about depression and anxiety with a central f… read more
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- poetry
4. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri
By: Tezer Özlü
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
5. Our Numbered Days
By: Neil Hilborn
4.24
Format: 212 pages,
In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more
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- poetry
6. Mouthful of Forevers
By: Clementine von Radics
3.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Titled after the poem that burned up on Tumblr and has inspired wedding vows, paintings, songs, You… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
7. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
By: غسان كنفاني , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. 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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9. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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- fiction
10. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
11. The Incendiaries
By: R.O. Kwon
3.22
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elit… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
12. 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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- poetry
- fiction
13. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- poetry
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
14. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
15. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
By: Camonghne Felix
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more
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- poetry
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
16. Honeybee
By: Trista Mateer
3.85
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer "expertly exposes the intensity of first love" in… read more
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- poetry
"I still wake up with things to tell you."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
"Walking away from you feels like not taking care of myself."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
"I Have A Postcard Mouth All it ever says is: wish you were here."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
"I still have a lot of growing to do and I know there is more room for it in your absence."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
17. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
18. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
19. O (Penguin Poets)
By: Zeina Hashem Beck
4.01
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
From a brilliant, absolutely essential voice whose poems feel like whole worlds (Naomi Shihab Nye),… read more
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- poetry
20. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
21. Washes, Prays
By: Noor Naga
4.03
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award winner Noor Naga's bracing debut, a novel-in-verse about a young woman's … read more
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- poetry
- literary fiction
- fiction
