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Books like Thoughts and Prayers

Across Abortion & Birth Control, Commentary & Opinion, Women Authors, and American — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Thoughts and Prayers by Alissa Quart.

Abortion & Birth Control Commentary & Opinion Women Authors American Poetry Political Science Social Science

Top related books to Thoughts and Prayers

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Thoughts and Prayers.

The Billboard A Play about Abortion

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Themes: Abortion & Birth Control • Women Authors • American

Cruel Fiction

Wendy Trevino

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

Garments Against Women

Anne Boyer

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

A Nail the Evening Hangs on

Monica Sok

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

Next New Poems

Lucille Clifton

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

Opinions A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

Roxane Gay

Themes: Commentary & Opinion • Women Authors • Political Science

Pansy A Collection of Poetry

Andrea Gibson (Poet)

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

Aria Da Capo A Play in One Act

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary

Philip C. Kolin

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#10

Being Brought from Africa to America – The Best of Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#11

The Carrying Poems

Ada Limón

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

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suddenly we

Evie Shockley

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#13

Alt-Nature

Saretta Morgan

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#14

Debths

Susan Howe

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

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Bluest Nude Poems

Ama Codjoe

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#16

No Time to Spare Thinking about what Matters

Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#17

The New World

Kelly Schirmann

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

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Saint Worm

Hailey Leithauser

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#19

Confessions of a Barefaced Woman Poems

Allison Joseph

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#20

Hijas de América Latina una antología global

Sandra Guzman

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#21

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

DaMaris B. Hill

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

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Mother/land

Ananda Lima

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

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The Book of Goodbyes Poems

Jillian Marie Weise

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

#24

The Witch Doesn’t Burn in this One

Amanda Lovelace

Themes: Women Authors • American • Poetry

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Thoughts and Prayers by Alissa Quart. Connected by Abortion & Birth Control, Commentary & Opinion, Women Authors. Authors featured include Natalie Y. Moore, Wendy Trevino, Anne Boyer, Monica Sok, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.