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Beowulf

av Okänd • 1000

A monster emptied a king's hall for twelve years. One warrior crosses the sea to fight it unarmed.

3.50

300 000+

🏛️ Heroic Epic 🗡️ Monster Slayer 💀 Glory And Doom 🌅 Elegiac Tone ❄️ Northern Legend

Beowulf

A monster emptied a king's hall for twelve years. One warrior crosses the sea to fight it unarmed.

av Okänd 1000 259 sidor

3.50

300 000+ betyg

🏛️ Heroic Epic 🗡️ Monster Slayer 💀 Glory And Doom 🌅 Elegiac Tone ❄️ Northern Legend

Mother Tongue

av Demetria Martínez • 1990

An activist shelters a Salvadoran poet from death squads. Their love is a sanctuary under siege.

3.82

500+

🖤 Chicana Literature 🖤 Latin American Diaspora 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🖤 War And Intimacy 🖤 Exile And Longing

Mother Tongue

An activist shelters a Salvadoran poet from death squads. Their love is a sanctuary under siege.

av Demetria Martínez 1990 208 sidor

3.82

500+ betyg

🖤 Chicana Literature 🖤 Latin American Diaspora 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🖤 War And Intimacy 🖤 Exile And Longing

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

av T.S. Eliot • 1922

A man paralyzed by self-doubt walks city streets as a wasteland demands to know what remains.

4.14

12 000+

📜 Modernist Poetry 🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 🏙️ Urban Decay 😰 Existential Angst 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

A man paralyzed by self-doubt walks city streets as a wasteland demands to know what remains.

av T.S. Eliot 1922 88 sidor

4.14

12 000+ betyg

📜 Modernist Poetry 🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 🏙️ Urban Decay 😰 Existential Angst 🧩 Fragmented Narrative

Prayers for a Privileged People

av Walter Brueggemann • 2008

What do you pray when your comfort is the problem? A theologian's language for the privileged.

4.44

295

✝️ Progressive Christianity 🙏 Prayer Collections 🏛️ Empire Critique ⚖️ Social Justice Spirituality 🔥 Prophetic Tradition

Prayers for a Privileged People

What do you pray when your comfort is the problem? A theologian's language for the privileged.

av Walter Brueggemann 2008 202 sidor

4.44

295 betyg

✝️ Progressive Christianity 🙏 Prayer Collections 🏛️ Empire Critique ⚖️ Social Justice Spirituality 🔥 Prophetic Tradition

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

av Edgar Allan Poe • 1843

Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.

4.36

70 000+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👥 Doppelganger 🥀 Doomed Romance

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.

av Edgar Allan Poe 1843 688 sidor

4.36

70 000+ betyg

🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Descent Into Madness 👥 Doppelganger 🥀 Doomed Romance

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

av Hanif Abdurraqib • 2017

A poet traces the pulse beneath Black America's grief and defiance, from punk shows to funerals.

4.55

19 000+

🎵 Music Criticism 📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Black American Life 🥀 Grief And Loss 🎭 Constructed Identity

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

A poet traces the pulse beneath Black America's grief and defiance, from punk shows to funerals.

av Hanif Abdurraqib 2017 291 sidor

4.55

19 000+ betyg

🎵 Music Criticism 📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Black American Life 🥀 Grief And Loss 🎭 Constructed Identity

Walt Whitman

av Justin Kaplan • 1980

A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.

3.94

326

📚 Literary Biography 📜 American Poetry 🎩 19th Century America ⚔️ Civil War America 🌿 Transcendentalism

Walt Whitman

A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.

av Justin Kaplan 1980 464 sidor

3.94

326 betyg

📚 Literary Biography 📜 American Poetry 🎩 19th Century America ⚔️ Civil War America 🌿 Transcendentalism

Beowulf

av J.R.R. Tolkien • 2014

Beowulf sails to Denmark to rid Heorot Hall of a monster, but its mother wants blood.

3.90

11 000+

📜 Epic Poem ⚔️ Heroic Legend 👹 Monster Slayer 🐉 Dragon Slayer 🛡️ Warrior Honor

Beowulf

Beowulf sails to Denmark to rid Heorot Hall of a monster, but its mother wants blood.

av J.R.R. Tolkien 2014 679 sidor

3.90

11 000+ betyg

📜 Epic Poem ⚔️ Heroic Legend 👹 Monster Slayer 🐉 Dragon Slayer 🛡️ Warrior Honor

Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman II

av Pierre Alex Jeanty • 2016

The hidden emotional world of men: loneliness, hunger for love, wounds that turn them cold.

4.35

220

🖋 Modern Poetry 💔 Male Vulnerability 🔒 Unrequited Love 🌑 Male Loneliness 🩹 Healing From Infidelity

Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman II

The hidden emotional world of men: loneliness, hunger for love, wounds that turn them cold.

av Pierre Alex Jeanty 2016 190 sidor

4.35

220 betyg

🖋 Modern Poetry 💔 Male Vulnerability 🔒 Unrequited Love 🌑 Male Loneliness 🩹 Healing From Infidelity

Glass

av Ellen Hopkins • 2007

To survive motherhood, a teen relapses, and her dangerous alter ego takes the wheel.

4.29

75 000+

💉 Meth Addiction 📜 Verse Novel 👥 Dual Identity 🍼 Teen Motherhood 🔁 Cycle Of Addiction

Glass

To survive motherhood, a teen relapses, and her dangerous alter ego takes the wheel.

av Ellen Hopkins 2007 681 sidor

4.29

75 000+ betyg

💉 Meth Addiction 📜 Verse Novel 👥 Dual Identity 🍼 Teen Motherhood 🔁 Cycle Of Addiction

This Is All

av Aidan Chambers • 2005

Pregnant at nineteen, Cordelia pours her teenage years into a pillow book for her unborn daughter.

4.31

2 000+

📖 Diary Format Novel 📚 Literary YA 💕 First Love 🎵 Artistic Connection ✨ Lyrical Prose

This Is All

Pregnant at nineteen, Cordelia pours her teenage years into a pillow book for her unborn daughter.

av Aidan Chambers 2005 808 sidor

4.31

2 000+ betyg

📖 Diary Format Novel 📚 Literary YA 💕 First Love 🎵 Artistic Connection ✨ Lyrical Prose

اورستیا

av Aeschylus

To avenge his father, a son must kill his mother, and a goddess must invent justice.

4.02

47 000+

🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🏠 House Of Atreus 🩸 Familial Curse ⚔️ Blood Vengeance 🔮 Prophetic Doom

اورستیا

To avenge his father, a son must kill his mother, and a goddess must invent justice.

av Aeschylus 280 sidor

4.02

47 000+ betyg

🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🏠 House Of Atreus 🩸 Familial Curse ⚔️ Blood Vengeance 🔮 Prophetic Doom

Kiss Me Like You Mean It

av J.R. Rogue • 2018

A poet torn between her husband and a younger lover can't stop sabotaging the love she craves.

3.95

500+

🌀 Self-Sabotage In Love 🔁 Toxic Love Cycles 🛋️ Healing Through Therapy 💔 Trauma And Intimacy 🔄 Second Chance Love

Kiss Me Like You Mean It

A poet torn between her husband and a younger lover can't stop sabotaging the love she craves.

av J.R. Rogue 2018 282 sidor

3.95

500+ betyg

🌀 Self-Sabotage In Love 🔁 Toxic Love Cycles 🛋️ Healing Through Therapy 💔 Trauma And Intimacy 🔄 Second Chance Love

Impulse

av Ellen Hopkins • 2007

Three suicide survivors in a wilderness program must confront the pain that drove them to the edge.

4.25

82 000+

🖋️ Verse Novel 🏥 Psychiatric Facility 🖤 Suicide Survival 🤝 Found Family 💕 Friends To Lovers

Impulse

Three suicide survivors in a wilderness program must confront the pain that drove them to the edge.

av Ellen Hopkins 2007 666 sidor

4.25

82 000+ betyg

🖋️ Verse Novel 🏥 Psychiatric Facility 🖤 Suicide Survival 🤝 Found Family 💕 Friends To Lovers

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

av Stuart Ross • 2022

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

3.84

189

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance 📝 Writing As Therapy 🎤 Confessional Poetry

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

av Stuart Ross 2022 141 sidor

3.84

189 betyg

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance 📝 Writing As Therapy 🎤 Confessional Poetry

Cántame al dormir

av Gilraen Eärfalas • 2023

She dreamed of escape through sleep, fairy tales, and a flying boy who never came.

4.21

387

🧩 Trauma Memoir 📝 Verse Memoir 🎤 Confessional Poetry 🧠 Mental Health Poetry 👶 Childhood Abuse

Cántame al dormir

She dreamed of escape through sleep, fairy tales, and a flying boy who never came.

av Gilraen Eärfalas 2023 154 sidor

4.21

387 betyg

🧩 Trauma Memoir 📝 Verse Memoir 🎤 Confessional Poetry 🧠 Mental Health Poetry 👶 Childhood Abuse

Burned

av Ellen Hopkins • 2006

Banished to a ranch, a Mormon teen tastes a freedom her brutal father would kill for.

4.25

71 000+

📝 Verse Novel ⛪ Religious Trauma 💔 Forbidden First Love 👿 Abusive Patriarch 🌅 Questioning Faith

Burned

Banished to a ranch, a Mormon teen tastes a freedom her brutal father would kill for.

av Ellen Hopkins 2006 544 sidor

4.25

71 000+ betyg

📝 Verse Novel ⛪ Religious Trauma 💔 Forbidden First Love 👿 Abusive Patriarch 🌅 Questioning Faith

Decoded

av Jay-Z • 2009

His annotated lyrics reveal how the corner became a boardroom and rhyme became high poetry.

3.86

8 000+

🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs 🎵 Lyricism 💼 Street Entrepreneurship 🎶 Rap Poetics ✊ Conscious Hip Hop

Decoded

His annotated lyrics reveal how the corner became a boardroom and rhyme became high poetry.

av Jay-Z 2009 317 sidor

3.86

8 000+ betyg

🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs 🎵 Lyricism 💼 Street Entrepreneurship 🎶 Rap Poetics ✊ Conscious Hip Hop

Poesía completa

av Alejandra Pizarnik • 2000

Poetry cannot close the wound it names. The truest self only breathes after dark.

4.55

11 000+

📝 Confessional Poetry 🌎 Latin American Poetry 🌀 Surrealism 🤐 Limits Of Language 🕳️ Existential Solitude

Poesía completa

Poetry cannot close the wound it names. The truest self only breathes after dark.

av Alejandra Pizarnik 2000 470 sidor

4.55

11 000+ betyg

📝 Confessional Poetry 🌎 Latin American Poetry 🌀 Surrealism 🤐 Limits Of Language 🕳️ Existential Solitude

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

av Jomny Sun • 2017

A gentle alien lands on Earth to study humans and finds animals who are lonely too.

4.08

35 000+

📖 Illustrated Fable 🛸 Outsider Protagonist 💛 Found Family 🦊 Talking Animals 🌧️ Bittersweet

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

A gentle alien lands on Earth to study humans and finds animals who are lonely too.

av Jomny Sun 2017 256 sidor

4.08

35 000+ betyg

📖 Illustrated Fable 🛸 Outsider Protagonist 💛 Found Family 🦊 Talking Animals 🌧️ Bittersweet

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

av Edgar Allan Poe • 1967

Murder, madness, and the unquiet dead: the collected nightmares that invented modern horror.

4.13

4 000+

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Obsession And Madness 🪞 The Double Self

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings

Murder, madness, and the unquiet dead: the collected nightmares that invented modern horror.

av Edgar Allan Poe 1967 488 sidor

4.13

4 000+ betyg

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🌀 Obsession And Madness 🪞 The Double Self

The Poet's Guide to Life

av Rainer Maria Rilke • 2005

Rilke's letters become a field guide: how to turn solitude and loss into a deeper life.

4.12

368

📜 Wisdom Literature ✉️ Letter Collections 🧘 Solitude 💀 Mortality 🎨 Creative Life

The Poet's Guide to Life

Rilke's letters become a field guide: how to turn solitude and loss into a deeper life.

av Rainer Maria Rilke 2005 215 sidor

4.12

368 betyg

📜 Wisdom Literature ✉️ Letter Collections 🧘 Solitude 💀 Mortality 🎨 Creative Life

Multiple Choice

av Alejandro Zambra • 2014

A multiple-choice test on love, family, and Chile's dictatorship. No correct answers.

3.90

6 000+

🧪 Experimental Fiction 🧩 Fragmentary Narrative 📏 Oulipian Constraints 👯 Twin Dynamics 👶 Parental Ambivalence

Multiple Choice

A multiple-choice test on love, family, and Chile's dictatorship. No correct answers.

av Alejandro Zambra 2014 128 sidor

3.90

6 000+ betyg

🧪 Experimental Fiction 🧩 Fragmentary Narrative 📏 Oulipian Constraints 👯 Twin Dynamics 👶 Parental Ambivalence

Poesía completa

av Idea Vilariño • 2008

No consolations: a complete poetry that strips life to sorrow, solitude, and the certainty of death.

4.57

2 000+

🌎 Latin American Poetry 📜 Spanish-Language Verse 💭 Existential Poetry 🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🚺 Feminist Poetry

Poesía completa

No consolations: a complete poetry that strips life to sorrow, solitude, and the certainty of death.

av Idea Vilariño 2008 328 sidor

4.57

2 000+ betyg

🌎 Latin American Poetry 📜 Spanish-Language Verse 💭 Existential Poetry 🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🚺 Feminist Poetry

Rumi

av Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi • 1950

All religions seek one light; the real path is dying to self to live in it.

3.88

🌀 Sufism 📜 Persian Poetry ✨ Mystical Poetry ❤️ Divine Love 🕯️ Spiritual Longing

Rumi

All religions seek one light; the real path is dying to self to live in it.

av Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 1950 192 sidor

3.88

80 betyg

🌀 Sufism 📜 Persian Poetry ✨ Mystical Poetry ❤️ Divine Love 🕯️ Spiritual Longing

We Are All So Good at Smiling

av Amber McBride • 2023

After a psych ward, two magical teens discover their sorrow has become a haunted forest.

3.83

5 000+

📖 Verse Novel 🧚 Dark Fairy Tale 🕯️ Hoodoo Magic 🖤 Teen Depression 🏥 Psychiatric Hospital

We Are All So Good at Smiling

After a psych ward, two magical teens discover their sorrow has become a haunted forest.

av Amber McBride 2023 291 sidor

3.83

5 000+ betyg

📖 Verse Novel 🧚 Dark Fairy Tale 🕯️ Hoodoo Magic 🖤 Teen Depression 🏥 Psychiatric Hospital

Thoughts Are Things & The God In You

av Prentice Mulford • 2007

A voice forged in heartbreak and ancestral sacrifice learns to love its own reflection.

4.18

📱 Instapoetry 🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🩹 Trauma Healing 💖 Self Love Journey 🌏 Immigrant Experience

Thoughts Are Things & The God In You

A voice forged in heartbreak and ancestral sacrifice learns to love its own reflection.

av Prentice Mulford 2007 254 sidor

4.18

39 betyg

📱 Instapoetry 🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🩹 Trauma Healing 💖 Self Love Journey 🌏 Immigrant Experience

Faust

av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 1808

A dissatisfied scholar bets his soul the devil cannot give him a moment worth keeping.

3.89

51 000+

😈 Deal With The Devil 🥀 Innocence Corrupted 💫 Redemptive Love 🖤 Gothic Tragedy 🏛️ Classical Mythology

Faust

A dissatisfied scholar bets his soul the devil cannot give him a moment worth keeping.

av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 503 sidor

3.89

51 000+ betyg

😈 Deal With The Devil 🥀 Innocence Corrupted 💫 Redemptive Love 🖤 Gothic Tragedy 🏛️ Classical Mythology

Tutte le poesie

av Eugenio Montale • 1984

A Nobel poet's map of the world: lemon trees, cuttlefish bones, and a single flawed link.

4.63

500+

🎭 Italian Poetry 🎭 Modernist Poetry 🎭 Existential Despair 🎭 Memory And Loss 🎭 Nature Symbolism

Tutte le poesie

A Nobel poet's map of the world: lemon trees, cuttlefish bones, and a single flawed link.

av Eugenio Montale 1984 1192 sidor

4.63

500+ betyg

🎭 Italian Poetry 🎭 Modernist Poetry 🎭 Existential Despair 🎭 Memory And Loss 🎭 Nature Symbolism

Ramayana

av Vālmīki

Exiled prince's forest home becomes a desperate quest when a demon king abducts his wife.

4.19

5 000+

👑 Exiled Prince ❤️ Devoted Wife 🤝 Brotherly Loyalty 🔒 Woman In Captivity 🙏 Devoted Servant

Ramayana

Exiled prince's forest home becomes a desperate quest when a demon king abducts his wife.

av Vālmīki 461 sidor

4.19

5 000+ betyg

👑 Exiled Prince ❤️ Devoted Wife 🤝 Brotherly Loyalty 🔒 Woman In Captivity 🙏 Devoted Servant

King Henry IV, Part 1

av William Shakespeare • 2002

A prince drinks with a corrupt rogue while his father's stolen kingdom tumbles toward rebellion.

3.8

34 000+

📜 History Play 🎭 Elizabethan Drama 👑 Wayward Prince 💔 Father-Son Reckoning ⚔️ Doomed Rebellion

King Henry IV, Part 1

A prince drinks with a corrupt rogue while his father's stolen kingdom tumbles toward rebellion.

av William Shakespeare 2002 398 sidor

3.8

34 000+ betyg

📜 History Play 🎭 Elizabethan Drama 👑 Wayward Prince 💔 Father-Son Reckoning ⚔️ Doomed Rebellion

Love's Labour's Lost

av William Shakespeare • 1598

Four lords renounce women for learning, then a princess arrives and every oath begins to crumble.

3.51

16 000+

🎭 Elizabethan Comedy 📚 Academic Satire 💬 Witty Banter 🔄 Mistaken Identity ⏳ Love Deferred

Love's Labour's Lost

Four lords renounce women for learning, then a princess arrives and every oath begins to crumble.

av William Shakespeare 1598 392 sidor

3.51

16 000+ betyg

🎭 Elizabethan Comedy 📚 Academic Satire 💬 Witty Banter 🔄 Mistaken Identity ⏳ Love Deferred

Mycket väsen för ingenting

av William Shakespeare • 2004

Two proud verbal duelists are tricked into love as a slanderous plot unravels a wedding.

4.06

200 000+

🥀 Enemies To Lovers 🗡️ Witty Banter 🎭 Mistaken Identity 💘 Matchmaking Friends 🦻 Secret Eavesdropping

Mycket väsen för ingenting

Two proud verbal duelists are tricked into love as a slanderous plot unravels a wedding.

av William Shakespeare 2004 249 sidor

4.06

200 000+ betyg

🥀 Enemies To Lovers 🗡️ Witty Banter 🎭 Mistaken Identity 💘 Matchmaking Friends 🦻 Secret Eavesdropping

Miles Morales Suspended

av Jason Reynolds • 2023

Suspended for defying a racist teacher, Miles discovers his school is devouring its own stories.

3.81

1 000+

📜 Verse Novel ✊ Student Resistance 📚 Book Censorship 🕷️ Black Superhero ⛓️ School-To-Prison Pipeline

Miles Morales Suspended

Suspended for defying a racist teacher, Miles discovers his school is devouring its own stories.

av Jason Reynolds 2023 320 sidor

3.81

1 000+ betyg

📜 Verse Novel ✊ Student Resistance 📚 Book Censorship 🕷️ Black Superhero ⛓️ School-To-Prison Pipeline

The Savage Detectives

av Roberto Bolaño • 1998

Mexico City, 1970s. Young poets abandon their lives to hunt a vanished writer across the desert.

4.18

53 000+

📚 Literary Underground ✒️ Failed Poets 🗣️ Oral History 🏙️ Mexico City 🔍 Literary Obsession

The Savage Detectives

Mexico City, 1970s. Young poets abandon their lives to hunt a vanished writer across the desert.

av Roberto Bolaño 1998 577 sidor

4.18

53 000+ betyg

📚 Literary Underground ✒️ Failed Poets 🗣️ Oral History 🏙️ Mexico City 🔍 Literary Obsession

The Book of Job

av Anonymous

A righteous man loses everything and demands to know why his friends call it justice.

4.22

4 000+

🏛️ Wisdom Literature 📜 Biblical Poetry ⚖️ Problem Of Evil 🌫️ Divine Silence 🔥 Tested Faith

The Book of Job

A righteous man loses everything and demands to know why his friends call it justice.

av Anonymous 176 sidor

4.22

4 000+ betyg

🏛️ Wisdom Literature 📜 Biblical Poetry ⚖️ Problem Of Evil 🌫️ Divine Silence 🔥 Tested Faith

The Penguin Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March

av Jennifer R. March • 2008

Your single-volume guide to every Greek myth that shaped Western imagination, from Chaos to Rome.

4.10

500+

🏛️ Greek Mythology 📚 Myth Compendiums 📜 Classical Sources ⚔️ Hero Myths ⚡ Greek Gods

The Penguin Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March

Your single-volume guide to every Greek myth that shaped Western imagination, from Chaos to Rome.

av Jennifer R. March 2008

4.10

500+ betyg

🏛️ Greek Mythology 📚 Myth Compendiums 📜 Classical Sources ⚔️ Hero Myths ⚡ Greek Gods

The Bacchae

av Euripides

King Pentheus forbids the worship of Dionysus. The god arrives in disguise to destroy his house.

3.94

25 000+

🏛️ Greek Tragedy ⚡ Divine Punishment 💀 Hubris And Downfall 🍇 Ecstatic Violence 💔 Mother-Son Tragedy

The Bacchae

King Pentheus forbids the worship of Dionysus. The god arrives in disguise to destroy his house.

av Euripides 96 sidor

3.94

25 000+ betyg

🏛️ Greek Tragedy ⚡ Divine Punishment 💀 Hubris And Downfall 🍇 Ecstatic Violence 💔 Mother-Son Tragedy

Awake!

av Mark Vernon • 2025

What if imagination isn't fantasy but reality itself? Blake's vision makes the case.

4.35

🕯️ Mystical Philosophy 👤 Spiritual Biography 👁️ Imagination As Knowing 🔗 Enlightenment Critique ✨ Sacred Imagination

Awake!

What if imagination isn't fantasy but reality itself? Blake's vision makes the case.

av Mark Vernon 2025 312 sidor

4.35

60 betyg

🕯️ Mystical Philosophy 👤 Spiritual Biography 👁️ Imagination As Knowing 🔗 Enlightenment Critique ✨ Sacred Imagination

Electra

av Euripides

A princess in a peasant's hut awaits her brother's return to avenge their murdered father.

3.95

8 000+

🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🩸 Revenge Cycle 💔 Mother Daughter Conflict 😱 Psychological Torment 🏺 Classical Antiquity

Electra

A princess in a peasant's hut awaits her brother's return to avenge their murdered father.

av Euripides 112 sidor

3.95

8 000+ betyg

🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🩸 Revenge Cycle 💔 Mother Daughter Conflict 😱 Psychological Torment 🏺 Classical Antiquity

Why Poetry

av Matthew Zapruder • 2017

The case for reading poems exactly as they are: literally, without hunting for hidden meanings.

4.16

1 000+

🎭 Poetry Appreciation 🔨 Poetic Craft 📚 Literary Theory 👁️ Art And Perception 📖 Slow Reading

Why Poetry

The case for reading poems exactly as they are: literally, without hunting for hidden meanings.

av Matthew Zapruder 2017 256 sidor

4.16

1 000+ betyg

🎭 Poetry Appreciation 🔨 Poetic Craft 📚 Literary Theory 👁️ Art And Perception 📖 Slow Reading

Split Tooth

av Tanya Tagaq • 2018

A young Inuk girl hides from violence and discovers the Arctic's spirits live in her blood.

3.88

14 000+

🪶 Indigenous Magical Realism ❄️ Arctic Wilderness 🕯️ Ancestral Spirits 🩸 Visceral Horror 💔 Maternal Sacrifice

Split Tooth

A young Inuk girl hides from violence and discovers the Arctic's spirits live in her blood.

av Tanya Tagaq 2018 202 sidor

3.88

14 000+ betyg

🪶 Indigenous Magical Realism ❄️ Arctic Wilderness 🕯️ Ancestral Spirits 🩸 Visceral Horror 💔 Maternal Sacrifice

Aniana del Mar Jumps In

av Jasminne Mendez • 2023

A Dominican American girl hides her swim-team dreams and her pain, until neither can stay hidden.

4.02

500+

📝 Middle Grade Verse 🩺 Chronic Illness 💔 Mother Daughter Rift 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora 🌀 Generational Trauma

Aniana del Mar Jumps In

A Dominican American girl hides her swim-team dreams and her pain, until neither can stay hidden.

av Jasminne Mendez 2023 384 sidor

4.02

500+ betyg

📝 Middle Grade Verse 🩺 Chronic Illness 💔 Mother Daughter Rift 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora 🌀 Generational Trauma

A Ghost in the Throat

av Doireann Ní Ghríofa • 2020

A poet-mother's obsession with an Irish widow's lament rewrites her life in echoes.

4.00

10 000+

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🔥 Female Obsession 📚 Archival Research 🍼 Motherhood And Milk 🌊 Lyrical Meditation

A Ghost in the Throat

A poet-mother's obsession with an Irish widow's lament rewrites her life in echoes.

av Doireann Ní Ghríofa 2020 326 sidor

4.00

10 000+ betyg

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🔥 Female Obsession 📚 Archival Research 🍼 Motherhood And Milk 🌊 Lyrical Meditation

Tristan and Isolde

av Gottfried von Strassburg • 1988

A knight wins his uncle a bride, then loses his heart on the voyage home.

3.63

1 000+

🏰 Courtly Romance 📜 Medieval Verse 💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Secret Identity

Tristan and Isolde

A knight wins his uncle a bride, then loses his heart on the voyage home.

av Gottfried von Strassburg 1988 320 sidor

3.63

1 000+ betyg

🏰 Courtly Romance 📜 Medieval Verse 💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Secret Identity

A Poetry Handbook

av Mary Oliver • 1994

The teachable half of poetry: a master poet's craft rules for turning feeling into durable art.

4.23

9 000+

🖋️ Writing Poetry 🏛️ Poetic Form 🌄 The Writing Life 📖 Reading As A Writer 🔨 Writing Craft

A Poetry Handbook

The teachable half of poetry: a master poet's craft rules for turning feeling into durable art.

av Mary Oliver 1994 130 sidor

4.23

9 000+ betyg

🖋️ Writing Poetry 🏛️ Poetic Form 🌄 The Writing Life 📖 Reading As A Writer 🔨 Writing Craft

Toda la felicidad del universo

av César Brandon Ndjocu • 2018

A son pieces together a childhood of violence, searching poetry for the words his family buried.

3.82

411

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🔀 Fragmentary Narrative 💔 Family Trauma 🫂 Chosen Family 🩹 Healing Journey

Toda la felicidad del universo

A son pieces together a childhood of violence, searching poetry for the words his family buried.

av César Brandon Ndjocu 2018 190 sidor

3.82

411 betyg

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🔀 Fragmentary Narrative 💔 Family Trauma 🫂 Chosen Family 🩹 Healing Journey

A Boy Named Shel

av Lisa Rogak • 2007

He drew for Playboy, wrote for Johnny Cash, and authored The Giving Tree. Then he vanished.

3.42

500+

📚 Children's Authors 🎵 Songwriters ✏️ Creative Process 🎭 Countercultural Figures 🕶️ Privacy And Fame

A Boy Named Shel

He drew for Playboy, wrote for Johnny Cash, and authored The Giving Tree. Then he vanished.

av Lisa Rogak 2007 256 sidor

3.42

500+ betyg

📚 Children's Authors 🎵 Songwriters ✏️ Creative Process 🎭 Countercultural Figures 🕶️ Privacy And Fame

Game Face

av Shari Green • 2023

A goalie's anxiety spirals after his best friend collapses, and silence is no longer an option.

4.26

226

📖 Verse Novel 🏒 Hockey Fiction 😰 Anxious Protagonist 👬 Male Friendship 💔 Grief And Loss

Game Face

A goalie's anxiety spirals after his best friend collapses, and silence is no longer an option.

av Shari Green 2023 376 sidor

4.26

226 betyg

📖 Verse Novel 🏒 Hockey Fiction 😰 Anxious Protagonist 👬 Male Friendship 💔 Grief And Loss

Zoli

av Colum McCann • 2006

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

3.70

4 000+

🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe 🚶 Life In Exile 📜 Cultural Erasure

Zoli

Symbol to the state, outcast to her people, a Roma poet walks into exile.

av Colum McCann 2006 333 sidor

3.70

4 000+ betyg

🏕️ Roma Culture ✍️ Poet Protagonist 🔴 Communist Era Europe 🚶 Life In Exile 📜 Cultural Erasure

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