Books like Poems

12 books to read next

• Love Is a Dog from Hell Charles Bukowski 5.6 h
• Life on Mars Tracy K. Smith 1.4 h
• The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur 4.7 h
• The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 8.7 h
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf Ntozake Shange 1.2 h
• The Complete Poems Anne Sexton 11.4 h
• The Princess Saves Herself in This One Amanda Lovelace 3.3 h
• Ariel Sylvia Plath 1.8 h
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2.6 h
• The Rose That Grew From Concrete Tupac Shakur 2.7 h
• Howl, and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 48 min
• Crush Richard Siken 1.5 h

How long each takes

Love Is a Dog from Hell Charles Bukowski 5.6 h Life on Mars Tracy K. Smith 1.4 h The Sun and Her Flowers Rupi Kaur 4.7 h The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa 8.7 h For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf Ntozake Shange 1.2 h The Complete Poems Anne Sexton 11.4 h The Princess Saves Herself in This One Amanda Lovelace 3.3 h Ariel Sylvia Plath 1.8 h Night Sky with Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2.6 h The Rose That Grew From Concrete Tupac Shakur 2.7 h Howl, and Other Poems Allen Ginsberg 48 min Crush Richard Siken 1.5 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.