13 Best nonfiction books like Toward Antarctica by Elizabeth Bradfield

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Toward Antarctica

By: Elizabeth Bradfield

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

*Selected as a Top 10 Must-Read Book About Antarctica by the International Association of Antarctic…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Toward Antarctica by Elizabeth Bradfield , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. 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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2. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

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3. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

By: bell hooks

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual be… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Grief is the Thing with Feathers

By: Max Porter

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more

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5. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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6. The Patron Saint of Liars

By: Ann Patchett

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elega… read more

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7. Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

By: Mary Ruefle

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know… read more

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8. The World Doesn't End

By: Charles Simic

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be … read more

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9. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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10. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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11. 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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12. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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13. 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
  • nonfiction
"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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14. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

By: Jane Alison

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Doctors don't imitate Galen. Why should writers follow Aristotle? Jane Alison in her fresh, origin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"So often fictions that experiment formally do so at the expense of feeling. They toy on surfaces or are purely cerebral affairs, don’t explore human complexities. But the mostly unconventional narrat…"

-Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

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15. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.06

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"

-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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16. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

By: Lulu Miller

4.16

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"There is grandeur in this view,"

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"In every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"We are specks, flickering in and out of existence, with no significance to the cosmos."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

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17. Bewilderment

By: Richard Powers

3.92

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. A heartrending new novel from the … read more

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  • nature
"Someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"He wanted drama and showdown and righteous calls for justice from concerned citizens. Instead, he got America."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

"Apparently God had made life on one planet only, and only one country of that planet's dominant species needed to manage it."

-Richard Powers, Bewilderment

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18. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

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"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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19. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

By: Jia Tolentino

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more

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  • nonfiction
"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."

-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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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. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

By: Meg Lowman

4.05

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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22. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

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  • poetry
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23. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

By: Lydia Millet

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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24. Even As We Breathe

By: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Even As We Breathe introduces the reader to twenty-year-old Cowney Sequoyah and the mountains of we… read more

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25. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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26. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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27. Friday Black

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.05

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more

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"We’re in How-It-Was class."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"Buy One Get One stops for no one."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

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28. Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party

By: Chessy Normile

4.59

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Chessy Normile’s debut collection, Great Exodus,… read more

Similar categories in Chessy Normile's Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party book and Elizabeth Bradfield's Toward Antarctica

  • poetry
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29. The Shining

By: Dorothea Lasky

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky’s  The Shining  is an ekphrastic horror lyric that … read more

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  • poetry
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30. Toward Antarctica

By: Elizabeth Bradfield

3.80

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

*Selected as a Top 10 Must-Read Book About Antarctica by the International Association of Antarctic… read more

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  • poetry
  • travel
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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31. Of Cartography: Poems (Volume 81) (Sun Tracks)

By: Esther G. Belin

4.31

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

One of our generation’s most important literary voices, Esther G. Belin was raised in the Los Angel… read more

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  • poetry
"When he cannot sleep, he reads poetry to me. His deep voice covers the top half of my sky—"

-Esther G. Belin, Of Cartography: Poems (Volume 81) (Sun Tracks)

11 must-read poetry books like Toward Antarctica by Elizabeth Bradfield

Transform Your Habits

Beowulf

Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Time Is a Mother

Ocean Vuong

3.94

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.06

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Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Hera Lindsay Bird

Hera Lindsay Bird

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Água Viva

Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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