11 must-read poetry books like Everyone Is Everyone Except You by Jordan Hamel

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Everyone Is Everyone Except You

By: Jordan Hamel

4.72

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Jordan Hamel is falling in and out of love with his own mediocrity. Caught between the instinct to …

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1. Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking new collection from one of today's boldest and most adventurous poets Colloquial and… read more

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  • poetry
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2. Priestdaddy: A Memoir

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"… read more

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3. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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4. The First Bad Man

By: Miranda July

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You,a… read more

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5. 10:04

By: Ben Lerner

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In the last year, the narrator of 10:04has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed wi… read more

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6. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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7. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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8. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

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  • poetry
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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9. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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10. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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11. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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12. Poor People With Money

By: Dominic Hoey

4.03

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Monday Woolridge is a fighter with a face covered in scars and life full of debt. Her Avondale f… read more

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13. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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14. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

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15. Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more

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16. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • poetry
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17. Head Girl

By: Freya Daly Sadgrove

4.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

'The first time I read Freya’s work I thought . . . uh oh. And then I thought, you have got to be k… read more

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  • poetry
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18. Bug Week

By: Airini Beautrais

3.90

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A grou… read more

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19. When I Open the Shop

By: romesh dissanayake

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothin… read more

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20. People Person

By: Joanna Cho

4.38

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

I tackled you to the floor, locked you between my thighs, used my free arm to grab my phone. Put on… read more

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  • poetry
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21. Big Fat Brown Bitch

By: Tusiata Avia

4.71

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Admire my big fat brown body, bitches! Admire it! The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laug… read more

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  • poetry
"Hear ye, "It is the minorities who need the protection of free speech" except when it is a poem twisted into a headline in an election year"

-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch

"How do we trace the whakapapa of our symbols <> when our grandmother is dead <> and our father is dead <> and our great uncles and aunties are dead <>"

-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch

"Her look is all passion No agony There is enough of that on the ground, with the mourners- Mary, all the Marys The slutty one The motherly one The contrary one The queen The queer The virgin All the …"

-Tusiata Avia, Big Fat Brown Bitch

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22. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

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23. Kitten

By: Olive Nuttall

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Rosemary, a trans girl, has many conflicting qualities. She’s super smart but flawed, polyamorous b… read more

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24. The Pink Jumpsuit

By: Emma Neale

3.82

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

In Emma Neale's first collection of short fiction, the tales range from the surreal to the real; fr… read more

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25. Dream Girl

By: Joy Holley

4.44

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Alice wants a heart-shaped bed. Mary, Genevieve and Angelica want to know the future. June says she… read more

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26. Ash

By: Louise Wallace

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more

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27. The Savage Coloniser Book

By: Tusiata Avia

4.29

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Kneel like a prayer full of lynching This is my God-given white The voices of Tusiata Avia ar… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Past Lives

By: Leah Dodd

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Grounded in the urgency of the moment – motherhood, housing precarity, politics – Past Lives also s… read more

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  • poetry
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29. Everyone Is Everyone Except You

By: Jordan Hamel

4.72

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Jordan Hamel is falling in and out of love with his own mediocrity. Caught between the instinct to … read more

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  • poetry
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30. Whai

By: Nicole Titihuia Hawkins

4.57

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Nicole Titihuia Hawkins’ first collection, Whai, introduces the voice of a strong and assertive poe… read more

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  • poetry
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31. AUP New Poets 10

By: Sadie Lawrence

4.63

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Distinctive, fresh and compellingly present, AUP New Poets 10 features three exciting new voices.Lo… read more

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  • poetry

17 Top fiction books like The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

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Coco Solid

4.23

Transform Your Habits

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Michael Bennett

3.94

Transform Your Habits

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Emily Perkins

3.43

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