Novels by Poets

A selections of novels by writers known primarily for their poetry.
Updated October 2, 2022
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
Paper Book
A new edition of the classic novel, featuring a foreword by the original Harper & Row editor who reveals the untold story of the book's first publication. Originally published under a pseudonym in England in 1963, shortly after Plath committed suicide, the book was published for the first time...
Hot Milk
Deborah Levy
Paper Book
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Man Booker Prize finalist, Hot Milk moves "gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor" (The New York Times), now a major motion picture starring Fiona Shaw, Emma Mackey, and Vicky Krieps. I have been...
Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner
Ebook
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller * Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction * Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century ...
Augustown
Kei Miller
Paper Book
11 April 1982: a smell is coming down John Golding Road right alongside the boy-child, something attached to him, like a spirit but not quite. Ma Taffy is growing worried. She knows that something is going to happen. Something terrible is going to pour out into the world. But if she can hold it off...
Deliverance
James Dickey
Paper Book
National Book Award-winning author James Dickey's New York Times bestseller Deliverance is an unforgettable tale of violent action and profound inner discovery--the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film starring Burt Reynolds and John Voight ONE OF MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS OF...

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