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Task 24 #ReadHarder 2019
Task #24: A collection of poetry published since 2014 #ReadHarder 2019
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The Poet X
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Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 139,486 ratings
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Milk and honey
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Rupi Kaur (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 784,116 ratings
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 92,150 ratings
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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Warsan Shire (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 21,215 ratings
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Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast
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4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Anxiety
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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
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The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 157,122 ratings
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If They Come for Us
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Don't Call Us Dead
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Citizen: An American Lyric
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In the House of My Father
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Calling a Wolf a Wolf
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4.33 avg rating — 5,437 ratings
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Not Here
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Hieu Minh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
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The Sun and Her Flowers
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Rupi Kaur (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 366,718 ratings
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
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The Rise of Genderqueer
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Electric Arches
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Eve L. Ewing (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 3,565 ratings
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To Make Monsters Out of Girls (Things that Haunt, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 12,131 ratings
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Long Way Down
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blud
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4.23 avg rating — 1,458 ratings
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Depression & Other Magic Tricks
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Sabrina Benaim (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 16,867 ratings
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Like: Poems
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4.07 avg rating — 379 ratings
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2015 Battle of the Bards Poetry Contest: Winning Entries (Battle of the Bards, #3)
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Poudre River Public Library District (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 171,
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2 people voted
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American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time
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Tracy K. Smith (Editor)
4.13 avg rating — 658 ratings
score: 166,
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Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
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Christine Heppermann (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 6,017 ratings
score: 165,
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Look: Poems
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4.31 avg rating — 2,668 ratings
score: 158,
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Even This Page Is White
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Vivek Shraya (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 2,062 ratings
score: 157,
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Whereas
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The Carrying
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Ada Limon (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 9,032 ratings
score: 153,
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Blood Water Paint
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Joy McCullough (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 9,787 ratings
score: 152,
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
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4.27 avg rating — 4,377 ratings
score: 146,
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Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
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4.29 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
score: 139,
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Mad Honey Symposium
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Sally Wen Mao (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 268 ratings
score: 137,
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2 people voted
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel II
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R.H. Sin (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 10,577 ratings
score: 135,
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Brown: Poems
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4.07 avg rating — 682 ratings
score: 130,
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Cape Verdean Blues (Pitt Poetry Series)
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3.81 avg rating — 270 ratings
score: 127,
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2 people voted
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How to Dress a Fish
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4.34 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
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Anthony Holden (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 726 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Dear Mother: Poems on the hot mess of motherhood
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4.36 avg rating — 740 ratings
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Wild Hundreds (Pitt Poetry Series)
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4.40 avg rating — 462 ratings
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I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems
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4.16 avg rating — 860 ratings
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Dear Diary: Political, Poetic, Pleasure & Pain
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Summer of Dead Birds
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4.27 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Poūkahangatus
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4.06 avg rating — 1,728 ratings
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Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel I
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R.H. Sin (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 15,704 ratings
score: 99,
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The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
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3.73 avg rating — 48,676 ratings
score: 99,
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The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems
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4.58 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
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R.H. Sin (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 6,208 ratings
score: 98,
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The End of The World Again
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A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems
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Marilyn Chin (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 97,
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Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths
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Elizabeth Acevedo (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 452 ratings
score: 97,
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The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems
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4.38 avg rating — 787 ratings
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Magical Negro
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4.31 avg rating — 2,775 ratings
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how to survive a hotel fire
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4.26 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Kumukanda
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3.97 avg rating — 555 ratings
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What We Carry
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Dorianne Laux (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
score: 92,
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New Poets of Native Nations
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4.40 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Her Blue Body
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Warsan Shire (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Racing Hummingbirds
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Jeanann Verlee (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 709 ratings
score: 85,
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Black Movie
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This Way to the Sugar
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Hieu Minh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 810 ratings
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Any Man
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Amber Tamblyn (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 14,833 ratings
score: 83,
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Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
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Cleo Wade (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 10,152 ratings
score: 81,
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Unveiled
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Rumki Chowdhury (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
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Wade in the Water: Poems
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Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
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Patricia Lockwood (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,769 ratings
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Sea of Strangers
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Lang Leav (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 14,364 ratings
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The New Nudity
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Brooklyn Antediluvian
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There Should Be Flowers
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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 396 ratings
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A Place Called No Homeland
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Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
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Passage
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Calling Down the Sky
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Trailer Park Elegy
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Composition of a Woman
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Christine E. Ray (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Felicity
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Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems
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Dorianne Laux (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 494 ratings
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Helium
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Jabberwalking
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Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
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Liz Howard (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Loop of Jade
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Prelude to Bruise
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Saeed Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 2,688 ratings
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The Shark Cage
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Rapture: Poems
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3.65 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Liffey Swim
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Beautiful Nerve
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Sheila Squillante (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Verging Cities (Mountain West Poetry Series)
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Natalie Scenters-Zapico (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Vivid: Poems & Notes About Color
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3.88 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Sincerity
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Marys of the Sea
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Joanna C. Valente (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Sexting Ghosts
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Joanna C. Valente (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Like a Beggar
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Good Bones
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Maggie Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 2,760 ratings
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Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
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Nikita Gill (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 11,910 ratings
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
