If God Is a Virus (Break Beat Poets)
By: Seema Yasmin
4.33
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States,and the poet’s experiences as a …
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1. Freshwater
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.02
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more
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"It wasn’t me,"-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
2. My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
By: Aja Monet
4.14
Format: None pages,
I am 27 and have never killed a man but I know the face of death as if heirloom my country memorize… read more
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- poetry
- politics
- nonfiction
3. Here
By: Richard McGuire
4.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more
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4. Are You My Mother?
By: Alison Bechdel
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation
By: Danny Katch
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Opinion polls show that many people in the U.S. prefer socialism to capitalism. But after being dec… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
By: Tom Stoppard , None
3.48
Format: None pages,
Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more
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7. Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book
By: Jomny Sun
4.00
Format: 212 pages, ebook
The illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, where he meets all sorts of creature… read more
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8. Lighthead
By: Terrance Hayes
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investig… read more
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9. Woman on the Edge of Time
By: Marge Piercy
3.29
Format: None pages,
Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly s… read more
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11. 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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12. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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- poetry
- politics
- nonfiction
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
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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- 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
14. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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- nonfiction
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
15. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
16. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
17. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
18. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
19. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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20. Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
By: Jarod K. Anderson
4.36
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
This poetry collection celebrates the impossible truths of the natural world and the magic that hid… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- science
"There's an endless autumn in me, scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke."-Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
"SIT WITH ME I’m not trying to write a tailored suit. I’m trying to write boot socks, warm from the dryer. There’s an endless autumn in me, scenting my thoughts like campfire smoke. I write for the we…"-Jarod K. Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
21. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)
By: Moses Ose Utomi
4.21
Format: 87 pages, Hardcover
Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more
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- africa
22. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- poetry
23. Sight Lines
By: Arthur Sze
3.85
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning tenth collection Sight Lines, Arthur Sze lends the reader his pr… read more
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- nonfiction
"the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gi…"-Arthur Sze, Sight Lines
24. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
25. Dearly
By: Margaret Atwood
3.74
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more
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- nonfiction
"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."-Margaret Atwood, Dearly
26. Customs: Poems
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
27. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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28. The Palace of Forty Pillars
By: Armen Davoudian
4.02
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
“Brilliant and deft and heartfelt."―Richie Hofmann Wry, tender, and formally innovative, Armen Davo… read more
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- poetry
29. The Blue Is Where God Lives
By: Sharon Sochil Washington
3.65
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sharon Sochil Washington’s The Blue Is Where God Lives is a mesmerizing, powerful work of Afro-magi… read more
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30. If God Is a Virus (Break Beat Poets)
By: Seema Yasmin
4.33
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States,and the poet’s experiences as a … read more
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- poetry
- africa
- health
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
31. Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems
By: Tarfia Faizullah
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Registers of Illuminated Villages is Tarfia Faizullah’s highly anticipated second collection, follo… read more
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- poetry
"Somewhere in this insomniac night / my life is beginning / without me."-Tarfia Faizullah, Registers of Illuminated Villages: Poems
