Awake
10 best books like Awake (Dorianne Laux): Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Bastard Out of Carolina, When My Brother Was an Aztec, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, Don't Call Us Dead, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, Dog Songs, If They Come for Us, The Simple Truth, The Body's Question
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0393339912 |
I needed to have tissues handy while reading Mary Roach’s latest. No, it is not because it made me sad, but because I was laughing so hard my eyes were gushing. Mary Roach has had that effect on me before. I have read two of her books. Stiff and...
Bastard Out of Carolina
| Author | Dorothy Allison |
| ISBN | 0452287057 |
| Author | Natalie Díaz |
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
| Author | John McWhorter |
| ISBN | 1592403956 |
Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics...
Don't Call Us Dead
| Author | Danez Smith |
| ISBN | 1555977855 |
Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life
| Author | Darcey Steinke |
| ISBN | 0374156115 |
Dog Songs
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 1594204780 |
If They Come for Us
| Author | Fatimah Asghar |
In this powerful and imaginative debut poetry collection, Fatimah Asghar nakedly captures...
| Author | Philip Levine |
| ISBN | 0679765840 |
Ask for Nothing
Instead walk alone in the evening
heading out of town toward the fields
asleep under a darkening sky;
the dust risen from your steps transforms
itself into a golden rain fallen
earthward...
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
| ISBN | 1555973914 |
Appetite. You are a phantom
In that far-off city where daylight
Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.
--from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y"
Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold...
| Author | Li-Young Lee |
| ISBN | 1886913285 |
The Winged Seed was about a boy named Li Young Lee who moved from China to Chicago with his family....
On a Sunbeam
| Author | Tillie Walden |
Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting the past together. As Mia, the newest...
Iron: Or, the War After
| Author | S.M. Vidaurri |
When an intelligence spy from the Resistance--the rabbit, Hardin--steals secret information from a military base of the Regime, his actions set off a chain of events that reverberates through the ranks of both sides, touching everyone from the highest-ranking...
Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems
| Author | Tony Hoagland |
I Got Somebody in Staunton: Stories
| Author | William Henry Lewis |
| ISBN | 0060536667 |
Feel It Real!: A Guided Approach to Bringing the Law of Attraction into Your Life
| Author | Denise Coates |
| ISBN | 1416567429 |
Build your wealth Find your soul mate Create your ideal body Improve your health Achieve success
The Law of Attraction has been embraced by millions as a powerful, life-changing tool. Yet while many are familiar with the theory that thinking positive...
Tropic of Squalor: Poems
| Author | Mary Karr |
| ISBN | 0062699849 |
Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and...
The Palace of Contemplating Departure
| Author | Brynn Saito |
| ISBN | 1597097160 |