If you liked the fiction plot in Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times by Neil Astley , here is a list of 12 books like this:
1. My Year of Meats
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.02
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industri… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed."-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Shōnagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If w…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
2. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet
3.83
Format: 518 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"One thing he certainly was— sincere."-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
3. The Famished Road
By: Ben Okri
3.73
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A modern classic that reveals the tension between the land of the living, wit… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"He danced there like an overturned centipede."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squ…"-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
4. Birthday Letters
By: Ted Hughes
3.90
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of… read more
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- literature
- poetry
"What happened casually remains -"-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"What happens in the heart simply happens."-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"How could Fate stage a scenario so symbolic without having secreted the tragedy ending and the ironic death?"-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
"Like a newer or much older religion In me alone, to be carried Everywhere with me -- deeper catacombs, And with a stronger God."-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
5. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
By: Mary Oliver
4.21
Format: 82 pages, Hardcover
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work,… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- contemporary
"they won't be false and they won't be true, but hey'll be real."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When a man says he hears angels singing, he hears angels singing."-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"When death is about to happen does the body grow heavier, or lighter?"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
"From the poem: The First Time Percy Came Back Yes, it’s all different,"-Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
Similar categories in Louise Glück's The House on Marshland book and Neil Astley's Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
- poetry
- poetry plays
7. Release
By: Patrick Ness
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Inspired by Mrs Dallowayand Judy Blume's Forever, Release is one day in the life of Adam Thorn, 17.… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
8. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
By: Simon Singh
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demon… read more
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9. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- fiction
10. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
11. Under Milk Wood
By: Dylan Thomas
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- fiction
12. Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
By: Neil Astley
3.00
Format: None pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Neil Astley's Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times book and Neil Astley's Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
- poetry
- unfinished
- literature
- poetry plays
- anthologies
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them
By: Anthony Holden , Ben Holden
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Grown men don't cry. But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literatu… read more
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14. Union Street
By: Pat Barker
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found . Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's … read more
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15. Refugee Boy
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Junior Library Guild Selection A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age A Children's Book … read more
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16. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
By: Roald Dahl
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Seven stories of fantasy and fun by the fantastic Roald Dahl. The Boy Who Talked With Animals- in w… read more
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17. The End of the Day
By: Claire North
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Charlie has a new job. He gets to travel, and he meets interesting people, some of whom are actuall… read more
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18. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- unfinished
- contemporary
19. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
- contemporary
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
20. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
21. Medea
By: Rosie Hewlett
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned … read more
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- fiction
"I hate him for infecting me with this love I have carried for so long – I wish I could remove it, sever it from me like an infected limb."-Rosie Hewlett, Medea
