22 Best nonfiction books like After the Witch Hunt by Megan Falley

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After the Witch Hunt

By: Megan Falley

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In Megan Falleys new poetry collection, The Newlydeads, she writes, "...if you really love a writer…

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1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

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2. Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

By: Andrea Gibson

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Andrea Gibson's dynamic and energetic first book, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, challenges us to no… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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3. The Selected Poetry

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay , Nancy Milford

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

One of America's most celebrated poets--and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923--Edna St. Vincent … read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
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4. Take Me with You

By: Andrea Gibson

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

For readers of Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey) and Atticus (Love Her Wild), a book small enough to carry… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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5. The Madness Vase: By Andrea Gibson

By: Andrea Gibson

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Andrea Gibson's second book of poems, TITLE, offers a breathtaking continuation of the poet's most … read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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6. Good Bones

By: Maggie Smith

4.19

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children t… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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7. Our Numbered Days

By: Neil Hilborn

4.24

Format: 212 pages,

In 2013, Neil Hilborn's performance of his poem "OCD" went viral. To date, it has been watched over… read more

Similar categories in Neil Hilborn's Our Numbered Days book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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8. After the Witch Hunt

By: Megan Falley

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

In Megan Falleys new poetry collection, The Newlydeads, she writes, "...if you really love a writer… read more

Similar categories in Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century

9. 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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10. Pansy

By: Andrea Gibson

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

In PANSY, Gibson balances themes of love, gender, politics, sexuality, illness, family and forgiven… read more

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11. Morning in the Burned House

By: Margaret Atwood

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate - … read more

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12. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

By: Tara Brach

4.16

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more

Similar categories in Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • nonfiction
"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live."

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"

-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

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13. What Kind of Woman: Poems

By: Kate Baer

4.07

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more

Similar categories in Kate Baer's What Kind of Woman: Poems book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"

-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems

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14. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • nonfiction
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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15. The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.12

Format: 28 pages, ebook

Each of the Empire's houses keeps secrets, even from themselves. For the bookish academics of the S… read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5) book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • lgbt
"I get sick thinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was"

-Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

"I get sick thinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was."

-Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

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16. Lights (Sheets, #3)

By: Brenna Thummler

4.27

Format: 366 pages, None

Marjorie, Eliza, and Wendell the ghost are back to uncover the secrets of Wendell’s human life in t… read more

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17. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Hurting Kind: Poems book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • 21st century
  • 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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18. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

By: Jessi Klein

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more

Similar categories in Jessi Klein's I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • nonfiction
"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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19. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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  • lgbt
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20. Alive At The End Of The World

By: Saeed Jones

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"

-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World

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21. 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

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"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

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22. Delicates (Sheets, #2)

By: Brenna Thummler

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following the events of the bestselling graphic novel Sheets, Delicates brings Brenna Thummler’s be… read more

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"Everyone has ghosts. I think we all need to learn that there's no shame in letting them out."

-Brenna Thummler, Delicates (Sheets, #2)

"Humans are delicate too. The teensiest mistake can ruin them, even if you do everything else right. Just because mistakes seem small and insignificant doesn’t mean they are."

-Brenna Thummler, Delicates (Sheets, #2)

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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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's The Carrying book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"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

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24. Helium (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.29

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by … read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's Helium (Button Poetry) book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • 21st century
  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"The word “repurpose"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"I held you the way a boat holds water."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"Loving you was the last thing I felt really good at."

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

"you wouldn't let me love both of us at the same time"

-Rudy Francisco, Helium (Button Poetry)

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25. Goldenrod: Poems

By: Maggie Smith

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's Goldenrod: Poems book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future."

-Maggie Smith, Goldenrod: Poems

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26. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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27. Honeybee

By: Trista Mateer

3.85

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer "expertly exposes the intensity of first love" in… read more

Similar categories in Trista Mateer's Honeybee book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"I still wake up with things to tell you."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"Walking away from you feels like not taking care of myself."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"I Have A Postcard Mouth All it ever says is: wish you were here."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

"I still have a lot of growing to do and I know there is more room for it in your absence."

-Trista Mateer, Honeybee

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28. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

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  • poetry
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

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29. I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

By: Rudy Francisco

4.31

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Fransico has created a col… read more

Similar categories in Rudy Francisco's I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry) book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"Speak because your voice is currency, and their comfort isn't worth your silence."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine. No, I'm not just saying that so you'll leave me alone."

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

"Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more about flight than the sky ever c…"

-Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away (Button Poetry)

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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 Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
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31. Ephemera

By: Sierra DeMulder

4.52

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

If every experience lasted forever and the sands of time never interrupted our most loving moments,… read more

Similar categories in Sierra DeMulder's Ephemera book and Megan Falley's After the Witch Hunt

  • poetry
  • lgbt

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Transform Your Habits

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Andrea Gibson

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Selected Poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay , Nancy Milford

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Take Me with You

Andrea Gibson

3.57

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Transform Your Habits

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

Transform Your Habits

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Becca Rothfeld

3.76

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Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

Emmeline Clein

3.86

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