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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Poetry & Novels in Verse

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Total Books Recommended: 22

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  • Our Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel
    ‍ Ondjaki, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in ...
  • Margarita Engle
    Paperback: 04/23/2024
     
    This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the ...
  • J Drew Lanham
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and...
  • Hala Alyan
    Paperback: 03/12/2024
     
    From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the ...
  • Franny Choi
    Paperback: 11/07/2023
     
    From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and ...
  • Ocean Vuong
    Paperback: 06/06/2023
     
    The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong.
  • Yusef Salaam, Ibi Zoboi
    Paperback: 12/07/2021
     
    From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated ...
  • Laurie Halse Anderson
    Paperback: 03/10/2020
     
    A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie ...
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