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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 267,445 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 389 times as essay)
avg rating 4.39 — 334,449 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as essay)
avg rating 3.82 — 88,601 ratings — published 2014
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as essay)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,599 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 160 times as essay)
avg rating 4.55 — 124,550 ratings — published 1963
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,727 ratings — published 1968
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,668 ratings — published 2005
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,211 ratings — published 1933
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as essay)
avg rating 4.17 — 98,617 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as essay)
avg rating 4.35 — 182,284 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as essay)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,258 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 723,523 ratings — published 2000
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as essay)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,006 ratings — published 2017
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as essay)
avg rating 4.13 — 55,114 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as essay)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,282,961 ratings — published 2011
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,843 ratings — published 2019
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,223 ratings — published 1979
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as essay)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,305 ratings — published 1580
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,151 ratings — published 2003
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as essay)
avg rating 3.77 — 205,642 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as essay)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,546 ratings — published 1984
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,625 ratings — published 1729
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,938 ratings — published 1942
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,347 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,998 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,412 ratings — published 1956
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as essay)
avg rating 3.84 — 387,591 ratings — published 1532
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 141,937 ratings — published 1999
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,556 ratings — published 1966
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as essay)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,485 ratings — published 1973
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 290,258 ratings — published 2004
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 39,189 ratings — published 2009
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,653 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,082 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,137 ratings — published 2005
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 897,283 ratings — published 1946
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as essay)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,972 ratings — published 1848
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,987 ratings — published 1849
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.97 — 28,990 ratings — published 2020
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 441,165 ratings — published 1972
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,397 ratings — published 2021
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as essay)
avg rating 3.87 — 208,072 ratings — published 2007
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 112,031 ratings — published 2017
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,690 ratings — published 2017
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,140 ratings — published 1941
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,365 ratings — published 2009
Why I Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,651 ratings — published 1946
El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as essay)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,377 ratings — published 2019
“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.”
― World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues [Paperback]
― World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues [Paperback]














