7 must-read poetry books like Sophomore Slump by Leigh Chadwick

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Sophomore Slump

By: Leigh Chadwick

4.31

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

"Leigh Chadwick's prose poems are shockingly blunt and compulsively tender. They are dangerous conf…

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1. Ice

By: Anna Kavan

3.67

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more

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"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

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2. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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3. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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  • poetry
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4. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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5. Wolf in White Van

By: John Darnielle

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolat… read more

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6. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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7. The Complete Collected Poems

By: Maya Angelou

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pul… read more

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8. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

By: John Buchan

3.60

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more

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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

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9. Disorientation

By: Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more

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"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

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10. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

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  • poetry
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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11. Glory

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

3.70

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more

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"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

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12. Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

3.91

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

How do the living come back to life?  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more

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"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."

-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez

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13. Duplex

By: Mike Nagel

4.60

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

Mike Nagel is spending too much time in his duplex. Mostly he's hungover. There's a squirrel in the… read more

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14. Thumbsucker

By: Kat Giordano

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Thumbsucker, the third poetry collection by Kat Giordano, is a celebration of the juvenile, attenti… read more

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  • poetry
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15. White People on Vacation

By: Alex Miller

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

White People on Vacation is a story about the struggle to live a meaningful life in the era of late… read more

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16. Too Much Tongue

By: Adrienne Marie Barrios

4.64

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Adrienne Barrios and Leigh Chadwick became friends on the internet. They live 939 miles apart. They… read more

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17. Sophomore Slump

By: Leigh Chadwick

4.31

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

"Leigh Chadwick's prose poems are shockingly blunt and compulsively tender. They are dangerous conf… read more

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  • poetry
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18. Still Alive

By: LJ Pemberton

4.30

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A hero's journey through a dying empire. On the Road for a beaten generation. After V meets Lex, a … read more

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"We were together and not."

-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

"We clung to New York like it could give us purpose, make our lives bigger and more significant by proxy. Or maybe we just wanted an otherwhere with fewer ghosts and more chances to rise and fail."

-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

"She wore her hustle the same as Marilyn wore her femme drag. Breathy attention, exclamations of interest—false, false—and still so captivating. The rich want to believe in the hologram. They always w…"

-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

"Breakups and divorces, disappointments and failures, all summoned the old hurt, and I began to wonder if every heartache wasn’t just practice for the eternal separation between the living and the dea…"

-LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

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19. Kill Radio

By: Lauren Bolger

4.14

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Rachelle unearths her ex’s handmade crystal radio, violence and terror reign in the form of he… read more

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20. Pontoon (Volume #1, Spring 2022)

By: Alan Good

4.71

Format: 149 pages, ebook

ISBN-13 9781088024645 is being used on a newer print book Presenting volume 1 of Pontoon, a lite… read more

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21. Faith

By: Itoro Bassey

4.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Faith is a coming-of-age tale about Arit Essien, a first-generation Nigerian-American woman born an… read more

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22. The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You're the Last One Around

By: Adrian Sobol

5.00

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Equal parts funny and devastating, Adrian Sobol's debut dares us to have a good time through our ow… read more

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  • poetry
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23. The Muu-Antiques

By: Shome Dasgupta

4.75

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Percy Winks needed a job and a place to stay. Macy Thorpewaite gave him an adventure. The Muu-An… read more

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24. Guess What's Different

By: Susan Triemert

5.00

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Guess What’s Different is a collection of essays about the moments no one wants to talk about. Fami… read more

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25. Gloria Patri

By: Austin Ross

4.47

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

"A profound meditation on isolation and loneliness . . . A great writer—get his novel!" —SENATOR T… read more

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26. Backmask

By: O.F. Cieri

4.52

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

Inspired by pop music history and written in the style of 60s horror pulp, BACKMASK is the fake his… read more

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27. Un-ruined

By: Roger Vaillancourt

4.75

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Neil died too soon—too soon for his son Calvert to even develop memories of him. To spare her son, … read more

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28. Fearless

By: Benjamin Warner

4.83

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Christine Harmon is not afraid of anything. Dr. Blau wants to know why. He subjects her to a seemin… read more

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29. Man in a Cage

By: Patrick Nevins

4.62

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Gabon, 1892: American primatologist Richard Garner constructs a cage deep in Central Africa's rainf… read more

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30. It Came from the Swamp

By: Joey R. Poole

4.74

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Edited by Joey R. Poole, It Came From the Swamp is an anthology of short stories about the creature… read more

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31. Mere Malarkey

By: Alan Good

4.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In 2019, Alan Good was given a blogging account at Neutral Spaces, an ad-free website for independe… read more

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9 must-read contemporary books like frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Sharks in the Rivers

Ada Limon

3.95

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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