14 must-read nonfiction books like When No One Is Watching by Linathi Makanda

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When No One Is Watching

By: Linathi Makanda

3.45

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

When No One Is Watching is a compilation of poems about love and the loss thereof, trauma and the d…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in When No One Is Watching by Linathi Makanda , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

By: Courtney Peppernell , Rosy Bullot , None

3.82

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love and raw emotions. It… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Peppernell's Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1) book and Linathi Makanda's When No One Is Watching

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"My heart is not in my body; it's lying under the castle you burned down."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"I had a dream that I was under my skin, lost and wandering around my body."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"Does art make sense to you? You are so brave an quiet; I think you would understand."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

"Of all the tragedies on this earth, there is none more tragic than a person who cannot see their worth."

-Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

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2. The Arrangements

By: None

4.32

Format: 285 pages, ebook

In an election season widely seen as stranger than fiction, we decided to turn to fiction to see ho… read more

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3. Love Her Wild: Poems

By: Atticus Poetry

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation Atticus. Love Her Wildis a collection of new … read more

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4. Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language

By: Roxane Gay

3.99

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Healing the Heart (Pillow Thoughts, #2)

By: Courtney Peppernell

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Following the smash success of her best-selling book, Pillow Thoughts , Courtney Peppernell returns… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"You shouldn't lose sleep over somebody any more than they should lose sleep over you. But you do, we all do. And we call this love."

-Courtney Peppernell, Healing the Heart (Pillow Thoughts, #2)

"I know life isn't always about bright colors and fireworks. Sometimes the colors aren't always clear, and our days get so hard they hurt. But settle down with me, hold my hand, let me kiss you. All I…"

-Courtney Peppernell, Healing the Heart (Pillow Thoughts, #2)

"You can't skip chapters, that's not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character. You won't enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things…"

-Courtney Peppernell, Healing the Heart (Pillow Thoughts, #2)

"There is great freedom in only having yourself. Not having to worry about supporting anyone else, not having to think or make choices with anyone else in mind. But there is still an ache, some days d…"

-Courtney Peppernell, Healing the Heart (Pillow Thoughts, #2)

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6. Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.82

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

in her new standalone poetry collection, flower crowns & fearsome things , bestselling & award-winn… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"but she was wearing a short skirt."

-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

"everyone loves a strong woman until that woman no longer tolerates their bullshit. —the age-old proverb."

-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

"some days i wake up & think, i would still do anything for the person you made me think you were. —it’s too bad he doesn’t exist."

-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

"i refuse to be ashamed of taking up my rightful. i refuse to apologize for daring to have an opinion. —it’s a pleasure to disappoint you."

-Amanda Lovelace, Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

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7. The Dark Between Stars

By: Atticus Poetry

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"I love you most in that place between coffee and sleep."

-Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

"She was powerful, not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear."

-Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

"The plane shook and it scared her not because she was scared to fall but because she cared so little if she did."

-Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

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8. Tomorrow I Become a Woman

By: Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more

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9. All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.22

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"It takes courage to live through heartbreak. Breathing is n o small feat"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"I will stretch my hands up to the sky, to say, “I am afraid but I will try,"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"While we are trying to make sense of things, may we learn to make peace with things."

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

"She no longer had the desire to bend herself into the frame of photographs where she was unwelcome"

-Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

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10. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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11. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

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"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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12. The Strength In Our Scars

By: Bianca Sparacino

4.06

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

“The Strength In Our Scars” is Bianca Sparacino’s reminder to you: No matter what you’re going thro… read more

Similar categories in Bianca Sparacino's The Strength In Our Scars book and Linathi Makanda's When No One Is Watching

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Love will not save you. But it will hold your hand while you save yourself."

-Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

"How do you find the right one in a world of 7 billion people? First—you become the right one. The rest will follow."

-Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

"From time to time, trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point you fought for something. You believed."

-Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

"What a shame it truly is— that some of us have lived our entire lives under the impression that the love we have been searching for was to be found, first and foremost, in anyone but ourselves."

-Bianca Sparacino, The Strength In Our Scars

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13. To Be Honest

By: Nelle Starling

4.16

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

To Be Honest is a collection of poetry that celebrates all of the different feelings and emotions w… read more

Similar categories in Nelle Starling's To Be Honest book and Linathi Makanda's When No One Is Watching

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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14. My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage

By: Rose Brik

4.26

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

"My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage" is the raw and emotionally charged debut poetry collection by … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"when your mother is your first love, you can search to the ends of the earth and never find any love comparable. when your mother is your first heartbreak, no love will ever fill the void of feeling …"

-Rose Brik, My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage

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15. You'll Come Back to Yourself

By: Michaela Angemeer

3.85

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

You'll Come Back to Yourself explores themes of lost love, infidelity, depression, body image, and … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Your roots will always show you the importance of holding on to what grounds you but don't ignore the lessons the leaves are trying to teach you -Michaela Angemeer"

-Michaela Angemeer, You'll Come Back to Yourself

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16. Stories To Make You Smile: The Reading Agency

By: Fanny Blake

3.17

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

A seriously entertaining collection of feelgood stories guaranteed to put the smile back on your fa… read more

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17. Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 7

By: Inio Asano

4.52

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A dark coming-of-age tale where slice-of-life slices back. This is Punpun Onodera s coming-of-ag… read more

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"Solo vivo mi vida porque morir me da mucho miedo..."

-Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 7

"El amor es una cosa extraña...te vuelves mas sensible a la amabilidad de los demás, y te vuelves un poco mas amable también."

-Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 7

"Pero el mundo no es tan simple como para poder vivir solo. Y aun mas importante, tampoco eres lo suficientemente fuerte para hacerlo."

-Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 7

"Deberías intentar confiar en los demás un poco mas, después de todo, una vez que te vuelves viejo no vas a tener nada mas que tus recuerdos."

-Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 7

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18. Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.97

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Make them rue the day they underestimated you.”This is a story about not letting society dictate t… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Lovelace's Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2) book and Linathi Makanda's When No One Is Watching

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"don’t you dare become smaller to make room for others. don’t you dare shrink back into the shadows. don’t you dare wither while everyone else blooms. here’s an indisputable fact: you matter."

-Amanda Lovelace, Shine your Icy Crown (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #2)

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19. How to Cook and Eat the Rich

By: Sunyi Dean

3.78

Format: 9 pages, ebook

A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more

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20. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

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21. The Things We Don't Talk About

By: Anthony G. Martinez

3.23

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

26 poems: Tunnel, Dark Corners, Parallel, Press Play, Mundane, Walls, Sunbathing, Broken, Space Tra… read more

Similar categories in Anthony G. Martinez's The Things We Don't Talk About book and Linathi Makanda's When No One Is Watching

  • poetry
Cover of Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba

22. Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods

By: Otegha Uwagba

4.58

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, w… read more

Similar categories in Otegha Uwagba's Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods book and Linathi Makanda's When No One Is Watching

  • nonfiction
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23. After You've Gone

By: Margot Hunt

3.35

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

2 hours, 59 minutes A gripping story of friendship and murder from acclaimed author Margot Hunt… read more

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24. Vulnerable AF

By: Tarriona Ball

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook! The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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25. the moon and her stars

By: rupi b. Kaur

3.73

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur the moon and her stars is a journey of love, fal… read more

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  • poetry
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26. Things I Wish You Knew: Poems, Letters and Text to Honor All the Broken Hearts

By: Evelyne Mikulicz

3.20

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

Everytime, he looked at me, it broke my heart a little bit more. Everytime he went away, I wrote. W… read more

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  • poetry
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27. Broken and Breathing

By: Amanda C.

2.58

Format: 97 pages, ebook

The journey through a year can be painful and difficult. We fall and we keep falling. We seem to… read more

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28. Rest Stop

By: Nat Cassidy

4.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by a… read more

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29. When No One Is Watching

By: Linathi Makanda

3.45

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

When No One Is Watching is a compilation of poems about love and the loss thereof, trauma and the d… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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30. 10 Rules for the Perfect Murder

By: James Patterson

3.68

Format: 3 pages, Audiobook

From James Patterson, the world’s bestselling author, comes a new Audible Original thriller that wi… read more

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31. Overcoming Trauma: Flowers in Winter

By: A.R. Dent

2.70

Format: None pages, ebook

In the year 2000 the life of A.R. Dent changed. From rooster to feather duster and life became hell… read more

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  • poetry

16 Best poetry books like When No One Is Watching by Linathi Makanda

Transform Your Habits

Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)

Courtney Peppernell , Rosy Bullot , None

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Healing the Heart (Pillow Thoughts, #2)

Courtney Peppernell

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

Amanda Lovelace

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Between Stars

Atticus Poetry

3.96

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21 must-read fiction books like How to Cook and Eat the Rich by Sunyi Dean

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The River and the World Remade

E. Lily Yu

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

Kathleen Jennings

3.00

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