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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 17 times as essay)
avg rating 3.96 — 142,976 ratings — published 2000
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A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Virginia Woolf (shelved 16 times as essay)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,147 ratings — published 1929
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by David Sedaris (shelved 14 times as essay)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,417 ratings — published 2008
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Naked (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 13 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 60,049 ratings — published 1997
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 12 times as essay)
avg rating 3.96 — 37,560 ratings — published 2004
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by Albert Camus (shelved 12 times as essay)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,962 ratings — published 1983
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Walden, or Life in the Woods (paper)
by Henry David Thoreau (shelved 10 times as essay)
avg rating 3.72 — 12,348 ratings — published 1854
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 9 times as essay)
avg rating 3.71 — 17,425 ratings — published 2003
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Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 9 times as essay)
avg rating 3.93 — 21,976 ratings — published 1997
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A Man Without a Country (Paperback)
by Kurt Vonnegut (shelved 9 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,776 ratings — published 1387
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (Paperback)
by Joan Didion (shelved 8 times as essay)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,070 ratings — published 1968
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Essays of E. B. White (Perennial Classics)
by E.B. White (shelved 7 times as essay)
avg rating 4.48 — 611 ratings — published 1977
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by Annie Dillard (shelved 7 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,183 ratings — published 1974
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Paperback)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 7 times as essay)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,890 ratings — published 2002
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Take the Cannoli (Paperback)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 6 times as essay)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,440 ratings — published 2000
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by David Foster Wallace (shelved 6 times as essay)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,735 ratings — published 2005
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by David Foster Wallace (shelved 6 times as essay)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,278 ratings — published 1998
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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 6 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,196 ratings — published 1995
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Other Colors: Essays and a Story (Hardcover)
by Orhan Pamuk (shelved 5 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 340 ratings — published 1999
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The Omnivore's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by Michael Pollan (shelved 5 times as essay)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,803 ratings — published 2006
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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 5 times as essay)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,905 ratings — published 1994
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Assassination Vacation (Paperback)
by Sarah Vowell (shelved 5 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,985 ratings — published 2005
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Orientalism (Paperback)
by Edward W. Said (shelved 5 times as essay)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,469 ratings — published 1978
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Small Wonder: Essays (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver (shelved 5 times as essay)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,549 ratings — published 2002
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Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,036 ratings — published 2009
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (Hardcover)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,884 ratings — published 2006
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,414 ratings — published 1998
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 3.58 — 48,783 ratings — published 2001
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
by Anne Fadiman (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,480 ratings — published 1998
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Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
by Lewis Thomas (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 4.26 — 658 ratings — published 1974
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A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Thrift Editions)
by Jonathan Swift (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,553 ratings — published 1729
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,183 ratings — published 1990
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Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by Rainer Maria Rilke (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,672 ratings — published 1924
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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by Karl Marx (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 3.41 — 6,880 ratings — published 1848
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver W. Sacks (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,764 ratings — published 1985
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Paperback)
by Sloane Crosley (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 3.35 — 10,560 ratings — published 2008
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A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
by George Orwell (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 4.30 — 996 ratings — published 1954
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Tuhan & Hal-Hal yang Tak Selesai (Paperback)
by Goenawan Mohamad (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 3.77 — 141 ratings — published 2007
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In the Beginning...was the Command Line (Paperback)
by Neal Stephenson (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,608 ratings — published 1999
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Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (Paperback)
by Annie Dillard (shelved 4 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,067 ratings — published 1983
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The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
by Michel de Montaigne (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 4.30 — 745 ratings — published 1580
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Comme un Roman (Paperback)
by Daniel Pennac (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 150 ratings — published 1992
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Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,013 ratings — published 1975
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Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (Paperback)
by Chuck Palahniuk (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 3.47 — 6,765 ratings — published 2004
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (Paperback)
by Lewis Thomas (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 225 ratings — published 1979
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Santaland Diaries (Paperback)
by David Sedaris (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 5,299 ratings — published 2001
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by Noam Chomsky (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,316 ratings — published 2003
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (Paperback)
by Jeanette Winterson (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 3.91 — 786 ratings — published 1995
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Paperback)
by Anne Lamott (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,139 ratings — published 1999
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Man and His Symbols (Mass Market Paperback)
by Carl Gustav Jung (shelved 3 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,706 ratings — published 1964
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"The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized, so long have we acceded to that marginalization--not to sound either defensive or naive. The humanities, done right, are the crucible within which our evolving notions of what it means to be fully human are put to the test; they teach us, incrementally, endlessly, not what to do but how to be. Their method is confrontational, their domain unlimited, their "product" not truth but the reasoned search for truth, their "success" something very much like Frost's momentary stay against confusion.""
— Mark Slouka
— Mark Slouka
"Never say more than is necessary."
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— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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