# Books like Night Sky with Exit Wounds

**10** books similar to *Night Sky with Exit Wounds* by Ocean Vuong (Poetry · grades 11–12), matched on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level. Every pick is grade-appropriate (a reading-level match, not just a topical one) and links to where it is assigned in US schools.

**Themes:** poetry, lgbtq poetry, poems, collection:thom_gunn_award=winner
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## Similar books

- [Collected Poems](https://readinglist.school/book/collected-poems) by Gabriel Okara _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of poetry, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and same genre (Poetry).
- [Ariel](https://readinglist.school/book/ariel) by Sylvia Plath _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of poetry, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and same genre (Poetry).
- [England's Green](https://readinglist.school/book/englands-green) by Zaffar Kunial _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of poetry, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and same genre (Poetry).
- [Selected Poems](https://readinglist.school/book/selected-poems) by Christina Rossetti _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of poetry, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and same genre (Poetry).
- [Poems](https://readinglist.school/book/poems) by Elizabeth Bishop _(Grades 11–12)_ — Both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, same genre (Poetry), and overlapping grades (11–12).
- [Barber Shop Chronicles](https://readinglist.school/book/barber-shop-chronicles) by Inua Ellams _(Grades 11–12)_ — Both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, overlapping grades (11–12), and the same era (2010s).
- [Sweat](https://readinglist.school/book/sweat) by Lynn Nottage _(Grades 11–12)_ — Both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, overlapping grades (11–12), and the same era (2010s).
- [The Overstory](https://readinglist.school/book/the-overstory) by Richard Powers _(Grades 11–12)_ — Both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, overlapping grades (11–12), and the same era (2010s).
- [The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale](https://readinglist.school/book/the-wife-of-baths-prologue-and-tale) by Geoffrey Chaucer _(Grades 11–12)_ — Both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, overlapping grades (11–12), and the same era (2010s).
- [1919 The Year That Changed America](https://readinglist.school/book/1919-the-year-that-changed-america) by Martin W. Sandler _(Grades 7–12)_ — Overlapping grades (7–12) and the same era (2010s).

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