Poetry and Novels-in-Verse

Playing Books & Bites Bingo? Try these books of poetry or novels-in-verse.

Updated March 19, 2025
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The poet X
Acevedo, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award. "A story that will slam the power of poetry and love back into your heart." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Chains The Poet X is the astonishing New...
What kind of woman : poems
Baer, Kate
Paper Book
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick "If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a ...
You are here : poetry in the natural world
Limón, Ada
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection A 2024 NPR "Books We Love" Selection "Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection." -Margaret Renkl, New York Times ...
Ultima thule
McCombs, Davis
Paper Book
2000 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Poetry   This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Davis McCombs's Ultima Thule, which was acclaimed as "a book of exploration, of searching regard . . . a grave, attentive...
Swan : poems and prose poems
Oliver, Mary
Paper Book
"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides...
Long way down
Reynolds, Jason
Paper Book
A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National...
Load in nine times : poems
Walker, Frank X.
Paper Book
For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers-including his own ancestors-who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation. ...

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