7 best-selling fiction books like If Men, Then: Poems by Eliza Griswold

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If Men, Then: Poems

By: Eliza Griswold

3.41

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wi…

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1. Ms Ice Sandwich

By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai

3.78

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

By: None

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers … read more

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3. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

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4. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

By: bell hooks

4.18

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more

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6. Woolgathering

By: Patti Smith

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgatheringtells of a youngster finding herself as she lea… read more

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  • poetry
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7. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.10

Format: 264 pages,

In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more

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  • poetry

8. Letter to My Daughter

By: Maya Angelou

4.33

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wi… read more

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9. Diving Into the Wreck

By: Adrienne Rich

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the d… read more

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10. Dog Songs

By: None , Mary Oliver

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more

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11. My Body Is a Book of Rules

By: Elissa Washuta

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself ove… read more

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12. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

By: Amanda Gorman

4.56

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9780593465271 can be found here. On January 20, 2021,… read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
"So while we once asked: How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it, If only we're brave enough to be it."

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be …"

-Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

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13. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise book and Eliza Griswold's If Men, Then: Poems

  • poetry
  • audiobook
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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14. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

Similar categories in Marc Lamont Hill's Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics book and Eliza Griswold's If Men, Then: Poems

  • audiobook
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15. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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16. Ain't Burned All the Bright

By: Jason Reynolds

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Ain't Burned All the Bright book and Eliza Griswold's If Men, Then: Poems

  • poetry
  • fiction
"What is life in a house underwater?"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"

-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright

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17. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Eliza Griswold's If Men, Then: Poems

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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18. Girls That Never Die: Poems

By: Safia Elhillo

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"

-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems

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19. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

By: Angela Garbes

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America… read more

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  • audiobook
"We are caught between how we were raised and how we really want to live."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible,"

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"Doing this requires knowledge of the history of mothering and care work—how they came to be seen as naturally female, which is to say invisible and undervalued."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

"When you become a mother, you engender life, endless possibilities. Mothering is creative in a very literal sense—it is cultivating all that potential, bringing a small person into consciousness."

-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

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20. Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea

By: Rita Chang-Eppig

3.49

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

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  • poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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22. Deluge

By: Leila Chatti

4.55

Format: 74 pages, Paperback

In her early twenties, Leila Chatti started bleeding and did not stop. Physicians referred to this … read more

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  • poetry
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23. Magdalene: Poems

By: Marie Howe

4.10

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”―Michael Cunningham Magdalene… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
"And I understood that if I kept it all up... no one would know me. A dim light far in the distance? No. To love -- I had to be there. I had to be there to be loved."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings, someone shaking out a rug from an open window might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away and thought little or nothing of it."

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"I liked Hell, I liked to go there alone relieved to lie in the wreckage, ruined, physically undone. The worst had happened. What else could hurt me then? I thought it was the worst, thought nothing w…"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

"and he: (and this was almost unbearable) he saw me see him, and I saw him see me. He said something like, You're going to be ok now, or, It's been difficult hasn't it, but what he said mattered only …"

-Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems

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24. The Kissing of Kissing

By: Hannah Emerson

3.77

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse—a literary series written and cur… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Emerson's The Kissing of Kissing book and Eliza Griswold's If Men, Then: Poems

  • poetry
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25. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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26. Build Yourself a Boat

By: Camonghne Felix

4.07

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

2019 National Book Award Longlist A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from awa… read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
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27. How to Date Men When You Hate Men

By: Blythe Roberson

3.21

Format: None pages, Audio CD

From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is… read more

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  • audiobook
"There do exist reasons to internet stalk someone that aren't sad or creepy: maybe you just remembered this person for the first time in fifteen years, maybe you're going on a first date and want to m…"

-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

"Even more than I hate commodifying myself, I hate men judging me as a commodity. For thousands of years, women have been throughout their lives reduced to their worth as sexual objects (slash domesti…"

-Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

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28. Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

By: Britteney Black Rose Kapri

4.44

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual fr… read more

Similar categories in Britteney Black Rose Kapri's Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets) book and Eliza Griswold's If Men, Then: Poems

  • poetry
"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."

-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)

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29. Concrete Kids (Pocket Change Collective)

By: Amyra Leon

4.39

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Concrete Kids, playwright, musician, and educator Amyra León uses free verse to challenge us to… read more

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  • poetry
  • audiobook
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30. Gumbo Ya Ya (Pitt Poetry Series)

By: Aurielle Marie

4.41

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender,… read more

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  • poetry
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31. If Men, Then: Poems

By: Eliza Griswold

3.41

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wi… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Griswold's If Men, Then: Poems book and Eliza Griswold's If Men, Then: Poems

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

Amanda Gorman

4.56

Transform Your Habits

An American Sunrise

Joy Harjo

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

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Eve L. Ewing

4.00

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Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

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