7 must-read poetry books like Bewildered by Jessie Ulmer

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Bewildered

By: Jessie Ulmer

4.15

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

BEWILDERED is Jessie Ulmer’s collection of Hansel & Gretel reimaginings. These prose and poetry pie…

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1. Mapping the Interior

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.79

Format: 131 pages, ebook

Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping t… read more

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"I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior

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2. Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Susan Seddon Boulet

3.91

Format: 79 pages, Hardcover

In this intriguing tale (not for children), storyteller extraordinaire Ursula K. Le Guin explores t… read more

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  • poetry
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3. Borne (Borne, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more

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"People with packs are people with purpose."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

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4. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.64

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more

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"What does the border look like?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"I hope to find Area X in Area X."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"The time for expeditions was over."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"Was this first contact, or last contact?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

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5. The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

By: Stephen King

4.28

Format: 1050 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticip… read more

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"I don’t like people. They fuck me up"

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"Ending is just another word for goodbye."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls..."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

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6. Song of Susannah

By: Stephen King , Darrel Anderson

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannahis at once a boo… read more

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7. Long Way Down

By: Jason Reynolds

4.25

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RU… read more

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"How do you tell water ain't nothing funny about drowing?"

-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

"Best to become invisible in times like these. Everybody knows that."

-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

"just because they were dead. People always love people more when they’re dead."

-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

"Pretended like yellow tape was some kind of neighborhood flag that don't nobody wave but always be flapping in the wind."

-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down

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8. The Lais of Marie de France

By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more

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  • poetry
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9. The End We Start From

By: Megan Hunter

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a wom… read more

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  • poetry
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10. Furyborn (The Empirium Trilogy, #1)

By: Claire Legrand

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, ce… read more

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11. Seed

By: Ania Ahlborn

4.25

Format: 127 pages, ebook

Fans of Stephen King, Jack Kilborn, and Blake Crouch... prepare to meet the Devil. In the vine-twis… read more

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12. The Hazel Wood

By: Melissa Albert

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step … read more

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13. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

14. Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Ursula K. Le Guin generously shares the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime's work. read more

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15. Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2015 Nebula Award. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades… read more

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16. The Ocean at the End of the Lane

By: Neil Gaiman

4.02

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in… read more

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"Words save our lives, sometimes."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"Adults follow paths. Children explore."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"Books were safer than other people anyway."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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17. The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.15

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original tha… read more

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"Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being."

-Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)

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18. Cursed Bunny

By: Bora Chung

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring t… read more

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"Her husband had pursued an “alternative lifestyle"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"One can break the curse, but it is impossible to cure their blindness from greed. They were always ready to wage another war"

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"But there I remained, standing in the bathroom, waiting for someone to miraculously find me, to release me from my ties to this life."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

"Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it."

-Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

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19. The Witch's Heart

By: Genevieve Gornichec

4.05

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the g… read more

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"I can’t believe,"

-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart

"We're odd. She's odd. She fits right in, does she not?"

-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart

"They say a witch used to live in these woods, a long long time ago,"

-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart

"My heart is so much more than it once was, even if it now beats outside my chest."

-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart

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20. The Last Cuentista

By: Donna Barba Higuera

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abu… read more

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"Suma's eyes are still closed, and I can't tell if she's trying to forget, or to remember. Maybe stories are there to help us do both. I know stories can't always have happy endings. But if there are …"

-Donna Barba Higuera, The Last Cuentista

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21. Borders

By: Thomas King

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A stunning graphic-novel adaptation based on the work of one of Canada’s most revered and bestselli… read more

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22. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

By: Nghi Vo

4.18

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more

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"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

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23. 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)

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24. The Wolf and the Woodsman

By: Ava Reid

3.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast cl… read more

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"It’s not about cruelty."

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

"If there is anyone I would damn my soul for,"

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

"I’m tired of this honorable Woodsman pretense,"

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

"A dragon is a beast." "If girls can be wolves, can't men be beasts?"

-Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

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25. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

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26. Juniper & Thorn

By: Ava Reid

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper T… read more

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"It filled me with a terrible pity and guilt, so perfunctory it was as if I'd been made for it, a machine for dispensing grief."

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"If I have you it will be as a man has a woman, a husband his wife. Do you dream of Bogatyr Ivan when you kiss me? Do you wish I entered you while holding a wooden sword? I would not like any story to…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

"The grandfather clock gonged three. Papa spoke a word that sounded like a spell, though I couldn't be sure. It was neither kind nor cruel. It was simply a wheel going into its grooves. All I knew the…"

-Ava Reid, Juniper & Thorn

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27. The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

By: Elizabeth Lim

3.79

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

A journey to the kingdom of dragons, a star-crossed love, and a cursed pearl with the power to mend… read more

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"Even chaos has its place."

-Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

"I’m not leaving you. I promise."

-Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

"Yet you act as though he’s the one who gave you a piece of his heart."

-Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

"Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere."

-Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)

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28. The Diaspora Sonnets

By: Oliver de la Paz

3.94

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chan… read more

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  • poetry
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29. Your Body a Bullet

By: Elizabeth Vignali

4.64

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Mistletoe sinks its tendrils into the oak tree, a cuckoo lays her murderous egg in another mother’s… read more

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30. Bewildered

By: Jessie Ulmer

4.15

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

BEWILDERED is Jessie Ulmer’s collection of Hansel & Gretel reimaginings. These prose and poetry pie… read more

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21 best-selling fiction books like When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2) by Nghi Vo

Transform Your Habits

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

Seanan McGuire

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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