18 Top nonfiction books like Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer

Garments Against Women

By: Anne Boyer

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Garments Against Women is a book of mostly lyric prose about the conditions that make literature al…

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1. Crossing the Water

By: Sylvia Plath

4.11

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative per… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • womens
"ama asıl son kez yattığımda bilinecek değerim: ağaçlar dokunabilir o zaman, bana ayıracak zamanları olur çiçeklerin."

-Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water

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2. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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3. 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
  • nonfiction
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4. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

By: Anne Carson

4.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more

Similar categories in Anne Carson's The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • poetry
  • essays
"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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5. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays

6. Garments Against Women

By: Anne Boyer

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Garments Against Women is a book of mostly lyric prose about the conditions that make literature al… read more

Similar categories in Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
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7. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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8. Lunch Poems

By: Frank O'Hara

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more

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  • poetry

9. The Hatred of Poetry

By: Ben Lerner

3.71

Format: 435 pages,

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wr… read more

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10. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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11. Djinn

By: Elias Sadaq

4.03

Format: 82 pages, Hæftet

DJINN er en digtsamling om besættelse og begær. Elias Sadaq skriver om erfaringen af at være queer … read more

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  • poetry
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12. Fiskesonetterne

By: Bjørn Rasmussen

3.66

Format: 34 pages, ebook

Når han er ensom, klemmer han dens øre, og når han er angst, slikker den hans hud. Hans hjortehund … read more

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  • poetry
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13. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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14. 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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  • poetry
"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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15. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

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16. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's The Orange and Other Poems book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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17. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Exteriors book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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18. The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void

By: Jackie Wang

3.83

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflower’s many dream guises―its evolving symbolism in literatu… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Wang's The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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19. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.94

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting novel of three sisters navigatin… read more

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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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20. Motherhood

By: Sheila Heti

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Heti's Motherhood book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • feminism
  • womens
"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

Cover of The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin

21. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: 5 pages, ebook

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more

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  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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22. Citronbjerget

By: Eva Tind

3.58

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Sui forlader sin mand uden helt at kunne forklare hvorfor. Da hun modtager et brev om, at hendes uk… read more

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23. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

24. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
Cover of Vanliga människor: Autistens guide till galaxen by Clara Törnvall

26. Vanliga människor: Autistens guide till galaxen

By: Clara Törnvall

3.90

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

A playful guide to understanding the ways of ‘normal’, The Autist’s Guide to the Galaxy flips our u… read more

Similar categories in Clara Törnvall's Vanliga människor: Autistens guide till galaxen book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • nonfiction
Cover of My Work by Olga Ravn

27. My Work

By: Olga Ravn

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • womens
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28. The Death of Francis Bacon

By: Max Porter

3.14

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing a… read more

Similar categories in Max Porter's The Death of Francis Bacon book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • poetry
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29. Reverse Cowgirl

By: McKenzie Wark

4.12

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were … read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson

30. Like Love: Essays and Conversations

By: Maggie Nelson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists Like Love is a… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Like Love: Essays and Conversations book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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31. Engle

By: Sebastian Nathan

3.74

Format: 80 pages, Softcover

Engle er en lysende smuk digtsamling om at få en psykiatrisk diagnose, at gå i behandling og at pr… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Nathan's Engle book and Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women

  • poetry

6 must-read womens books like Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer

Transform Your Habits

Crossing the Water

Sylvia Plath

4.11

Garments Against Women

Anne Boyer

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Motherhood

Sheila Heti

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Carrying

Ada Limon

4.40

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7 Best nonfiction books like The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Transform Your Habits

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing

4.01

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