Donika Kelly Books in Order
Explore Donika Kelly’s books and series in order, with short summaries and reading lists to help you find your next book and decide where to begin reading.
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Donika Kelly books in publication order
3 books
Bestiary
by Donika Kelly
2016
Animals and mythical creatures populate poems that examine what it means to be human. Moving between the familiar and the strange, Kelly explores identity, desire, and the uneasy boundaries separating people from other living beings.
The Renunciations
by Donika Kelly
2021
Kelly confronts childhood abuse and the dissolution of a marriage through poems about memory, survival, and the body. Revisiting painful relationships becomes part of imagining a self and a future beyond inherited harm.
The Natural Order of Things
by Donika Kelly
2025
These poems consider what follows survival, turning toward intimacy, friendship, art, and the natural world. Kelly explores how connections with people, animals, and landscapes can expand a life shaped by earlier pain.
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