Essays

An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like Joh ...more

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The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

A Tyranny of Petticoats by Jessica Spotswood

YA Short Stories & Collections

523 books — 264 voters

You Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. Anderson

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2017 Non-male Non-Fiction

247 books — 86 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

2,196 books — 1,633 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus

Best/Favorite Books of Essays

556 books — 249 voters

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger

Early Feminists

189 books — 80 voters

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

2019 Books by Authors of Color

358 books — 390 voters

Essays Books

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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)

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Quotes Tagged “Essays”

“ I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. ...more ”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

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