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Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 356 times as verse)
avg rating 4.24 — 143,298 ratings — published 2017
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 313 times as verse)
avg rating 4.36 — 145,719 ratings — published 2018
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as verse)
avg rating 4.15 — 94,894 ratings — published 2014
Clap When You Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as verse)
avg rating 4.22 — 112,008 ratings — published 2020
The Crossover (ebook)
by (shelved 222 times as verse)
avg rating 4.20 — 69,824 ratings — published 2014
Inside Out & Back Again (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as verse)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,756 ratings — published 2011
Other Words for Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 138 times as verse)
avg rating 4.40 — 35,559 ratings — published 2019
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as verse)
avg rating 4.38 — 24,464 ratings — published 2020
Starfish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as verse)
avg rating 4.42 — 38,022 ratings — published 2021
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
by (shelved 128 times as verse)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,266 ratings — published 2016
Crank (Crank, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as verse)
avg rating 4.16 — 157,699 ratings — published 2004
Red, White, and Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as verse)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,269 ratings — published 2021
The Black Flamingo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as verse)
avg rating 4.32 — 34,251 ratings — published 2019
Solo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as verse)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,905 ratings — published 2017
Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as verse)
avg rating 4.05 — 49,150 ratings — published 2001
Before the Ever After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as verse)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,461 ratings — published 2020
House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as verse)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,127 ratings — published 2015
Impulse (Impulse, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as verse)
avg rating 4.25 — 83,367 ratings — published 2007
Blood Water Paint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as verse)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,282 ratings — published 2018
Identical (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as verse)
avg rating 4.29 — 67,864 ratings — published 2008
Burned (Burned, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as verse)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,912 ratings — published 2006
Out of the Dust (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as verse)
avg rating 3.78 — 80,782 ratings — published 1997
Me: Moth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as verse)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,856 ratings — published 2021
The Canyon's Edge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as verse)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,460 ratings — published 2020
Rebound (The Crossover, #0.5)
by (shelved 67 times as verse)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,408 ratings — published 2018
Garvey's Choice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as verse)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,951 ratings — published 2016
The Red Pencil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as verse)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,483 ratings — published 2014
Ain't Burned All the Bright (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as verse)
avg rating 4.40 — 18,209 ratings — published 2022
Full Cicada Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as verse)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,284 ratings — published 2015
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as verse)
avg rating 3.50 — 356,089 ratings — published 950
Forget Me Not (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as verse)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,078 ratings — published 2017
I Heart You, You Haunt Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as verse)
avg rating 3.84 — 13,885 ratings — published 2008
What My Mother Doesn't Know (What My Mother Doesn't Know #1)
by (shelved 56 times as verse)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,707 ratings — published 2001
The Door of No Return (The Door of No Return, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as verse)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,970 ratings — published 2022
White Rose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as verse)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,637 ratings — published 2019
Tricks (Tricks, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as verse)
avg rating 4.27 — 42,079 ratings — published 2009
Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as verse)
avg rating 3.95 — 838,357 ratings — published 2014
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as verse)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,280,342 ratings — published -800
Chasing Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as verse)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,438 ratings — published 2009
Louder Than Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as verse)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,869 ratings — published 2024
All the Broken Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as verse)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,594 ratings — published 2009
Chlorine Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as verse)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,312 ratings — published 2021
“Nighthawks
I wanted to run away with you tonight
but you are a difficult woman
the rules of you -
Past and future circle round us
now we know more now less
in the institute of shadows.
On a street black as widows
with nothing to confess
our distances found us
the rules of you -
so difficult a woman
I wanted to run away with you tonight.”
― Men in the Off Hours
I wanted to run away with you tonight
but you are a difficult woman
the rules of you -
Past and future circle round us
now we know more now less
in the institute of shadows.
On a street black as widows
with nothing to confess
our distances found us
the rules of you -
so difficult a woman
I wanted to run away with you tonight.”
― Men in the Off Hours
“I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.”
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