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Explore 24 books like Bluets by Maggie Nelson — a handpicked selection united by Women Authors, Essays, Literary Criticism, and Literary Collections.

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Weightless Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul — Evette Dionne

Weightless Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Festival Days — Jo Ann Beard

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman The American West and Beyond — Michael George Ryan

Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman The American West and Beyond

Michael George Ryan

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Dream Me Home Safely — Susan Richards Shreve

Dream Me Home Safely

Susan Richards Shreve

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Double Stitch Black Women Write about Mothers & Daughters — Patricia Bell-Scott

Double Stitch Black Women Write about Mothers & Daughters

Patricia Bell-Scott

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

The Writer’s Library The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives — Nancy Pearl

The Writer’s Library The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Pioneer Girl Perspectives Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder — Nancy Tystad Koupal

Pioneer Girl Perspectives Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nancy Tystad Koupal

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

A Writer’s Eye Collected Book Reviews — Eudora Welty

A Writer’s Eye Collected Book Reviews

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

After Kathy Acker A Biography — Chris Kraus

After Kathy Acker A Biography

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Woman of Rome A Life of Elsa Morante — Lily Tuck

Woman of Rome A Life of Elsa Morante

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

DMZ Colony — Don Mee Choi

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

No Time to Spare Thinking about what Matters — Ursula K. Le Guin

No Time to Spare Thinking about what Matters

Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982 — Joyce Carol Oates

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982

Joyce Carol Oates

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Twenty-first-century Popular Fiction — Bernice M. Murphy

Twenty-first-century Popular Fiction

Bernice M. Murphy

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her — Melanie Rehak

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Soul Says On Recent Poetry — Helen Vendler

Soul Says On Recent Poetry

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

The Collected Dorothy Parker — Dorothy Parker

The Collected Dorothy Parker

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays — Zora Neale Hurston

You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays

Zora Neale Hurston

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

In the Land of Men A Memoir — Adrienne Miller

In the Land of Men A Memoir

Adrienne Miller

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Socialist Realism — Trisha Low

Socialist Realism

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Arts of the Possible Essays and Conversations — Adrienne Rich

Arts of the Possible Essays and Conversations

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

100 Poems to Break Your Heart — Edward Hirsch

100 Poems to Break Your Heart

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

The Blue Jay’s Dance A Birth Year — Louise Erdrich

The Blue Jay’s Dance A Birth Year

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s — Tiffany Midge

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Literary Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Women Authors, Essays, Literary Criticism — the same threads that run through Bluets by Maggie Nelson. Among the authors featured: Evette Dionne, Jo Ann Beard, Michael George Ryan, Susan Richards Shreve, and others.

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