6 Best poetry books like Ache by Scarlett Ward

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Ache

By: Scarlett Ward

4.53

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

“ache is a breathtaking collection of healing and rebirth. Scarlett writes in away that makes me wa…

If you liked the poetry plot in Ache by Scarlett Ward , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Ariel by Sylvia Plath

1. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • poetry
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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2. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Cover of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

3. Lincoln in the Bardo

By: George Saunders

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transc… read more

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4. The World's Wife

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more

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  • poetry

5. Bad Feminist

By: Roxane Gay

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more

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6. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more

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7. Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

By: Anne Rice

4.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal li… read more

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8. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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  • poetry
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

Cover of In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

9. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

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"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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10. The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

By: Margaret Atwood

4.19

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way … read more

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"We can’t always do what we want,"

-Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

"Nobody is any authority of the fucks other people give."

-Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

"I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices."

-Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

"You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you."

-Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

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11. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

By: C.A. Conrad

4.40

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Following their book AMANDA Resurrect Extinct Vibration (winner of the PEN and the Ruth Lilly Priz… read more

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12. Adam

By: Gboyega Odubanjo

4.72

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
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13. Ache

By: Scarlett Ward

4.53

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

“ache is a breathtaking collection of healing and rebirth. Scarlett writes in away that makes me wa… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Ward's Ache book and Scarlett Ward's Ache

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Philip Larkin

3.92

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3.98

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