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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 445 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 276,778 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 389 times as essay)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,505 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as essay)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,990 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 167 times as essay)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,554 ratings — published 1963
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as essay)
avg rating 3.91 — 120,803 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,660 ratings — published 1968
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,396 ratings — published 1933
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,509 ratings — published 2005
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 105,575 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,143 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as essay)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,638 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 728,296 ratings — published 2000
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as essay)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,957 ratings — published 2017
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 56,217 ratings — published 1997
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,087 ratings — published 1979
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as essay)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,314,902 ratings — published 2011
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,634 ratings — published 2019
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as essay)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,613 ratings — published 1580
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,173 ratings — published 2003
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as essay)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,704 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as essay)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,381 ratings — published 1984
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,666 ratings — published 1942
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,099 ratings — published 1729
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 219,299 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,930 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 77,488 ratings — published 1956
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as essay)
avg rating 3.99 — 149,822 ratings — published 1999
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,936 ratings — published 1973
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,830 ratings — published 1966
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as essay)
avg rating 3.84 — 397,351 ratings — published 1513
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 292,074 ratings — published 2004
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 40,135 ratings — published 2009
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,464 ratings — published 1849
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,811 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 39,377 ratings — published 2006
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as essay)
avg rating 3.69 — 207,372 ratings — published 1848
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 926,261 ratings — published 1946
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,648 ratings — published 2005
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 451,412 ratings — published 1972
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,008 ratings — published 2017
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,270 ratings — published 2020
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 215,299 ratings — published 2007
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,464 ratings — published 2009
Why I Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,160 ratings — published 1946
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,453 ratings — published 2021
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,232 ratings — published 1941
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,625 ratings — published 1955
El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as essay)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,615 ratings — published 2019
“Never say more than is necessary.”
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“Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened.
"Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second.
"Whoa!" Dan said.
Amy gripped his arm. "You found it?"
"No, but look! This whole essay - 'To the Royal Academy.' He wrote a whole essay on farts!" Dan grinned with delight. "He's proposing a scientific study on different fart smells. You're right, Amy. This guy was a genius!”
― The Maze of Bones
"Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second.
"Whoa!" Dan said.
Amy gripped his arm. "You found it?"
"No, but look! This whole essay - 'To the Royal Academy.' He wrote a whole essay on farts!" Dan grinned with delight. "He's proposing a scientific study on different fart smells. You're right, Amy. This guy was a genius!”
― The Maze of Bones
