Cicada
By: Phoebe Giannisi
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natu…
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1. The Ice Palace
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more
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"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
2. The Bell
By: Iris Murdoch , A.S. Byatt
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed … read more
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3. The End of History and the Last Man
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more
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4. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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5. Twelve Moons
By: Mary Oliver
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her fourth volume of poetry, Twelve Moons, Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver continues to explo… read more
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6. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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7. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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8. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
9. 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
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"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
10. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
11. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
12. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
By: Nghi Vo
3.95
Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more
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"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)
13. Pink Slime
By: Fernanda Trías
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A taut, harrowing novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them tee… read more
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14. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism
By: Jen Gunter
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Just as she did in her groundbreaking bestseller The Vagina Bible, Dr. Jen Gunter, the internet’s m… read more
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15. The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)
By: Kwame Alexander
4.32
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award win… read more
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"A family tie is like the river. It can bend, but it cannot break."-Kwame Alexander, The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)
16. I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
By: Halsey
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Grammy Award–nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling … read more
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"I'm whatever I've seen, on a movie screen"-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
"cause I won't love a man Unless he is angry Because of my father"-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
"But artists love what is forbidden to them, a fact I learned too young; too early."-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
"I can't remember what it's like to face a mirror And not hate the person staring back at me"-Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
17. The Outrun: A Memoir
By: Amy Liptrot
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more
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"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir
18. Music for the Dead and Resurrected: Poems
By: Valzhyna Mort
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2020 BY The New Yor… read more
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19. The Lights: Poems
By: Ben Lerner
3.84
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more
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20. Content Warning: Everything
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.94
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The D… read more
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21. The Night Parade
By: Jami Nakamura Lin
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more
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22. Eye Level: Poems
By: Jenny Xie
4.14
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New… read more
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"Clarity is just questioning having eaten its fill."-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"Like a mule I understand one suffers by the load one chooses"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
"[13] (from "Visual Orders") Look at how I perform for you Look at how you perform for me An eye for an eye is how you and I take on forms in the mind"-Jenny Xie, Eye Level: Poems
23. To 2040
By: Jorie Graham
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
It is rare to find in one collection an entire skyline burning and the quiet to follow a single wor… read more
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24. Garden Physic
By: Sylvia Legris
4.04
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A musical celebration of the garden, from chaff to grass, and all of its lowly weeds, herbs, and cr… read more
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25. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.68
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more
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26. Cicada
By: Phoebe Giannisi
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natu… read more
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27. Summer
By: Johannes Göransson
4.76
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
... inside language treacherous lilac / language syrener made for girls / like me for me the lilacs… read more
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28. Pitch & Glint
By: Lutz Seiler
3.81
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry… read more
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29. Permafrost
By: Eva Baltasar
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
El permafrost es esa capa de la tierra permanentemente congelada y es también la membrana que cubre… read more
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"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost
"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost
"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"-Eva Baltasar, Permafrost
30. The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures
By: Sarah Clegg
3.77
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Enter the dark side of discover the monsters, witches, and nightmarish traditions behind one of th… read more
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31. Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry
By: Ryan Ruby
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay fill… read more
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