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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 271,895 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 387 times as essay)
avg rating 4.39 — 337,074 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as essay)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,323 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 165 times as essay)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,491 ratings — published 1963
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as essay)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,311 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,091 ratings — published 1968
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,811 ratings — published 1933
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,104 ratings — published 2005
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 101,991 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as essay)
avg rating 4.35 — 186,806 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 372,535 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 725,788 ratings — published 2000
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as essay)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,434 ratings — published 2017
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 55,633 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,298,564 ratings — published 2011
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,272 ratings — published 2019
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 52,146 ratings — published 1979
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,454 ratings — published 1580
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 23,707 ratings — published 2003
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as essay)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,698 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 41,977 ratings — published 1984
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,875 ratings — published 1729
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,326 ratings — published 1942
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,978 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,462 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,986 ratings — published 1956
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as essay)
avg rating 3.84 — 391,312 ratings — published 1532
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,336 ratings — published 1973
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,698 ratings — published 1966
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 145,808 ratings — published 1999
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 291,135 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 — 39,699 ratings — published 2009
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,240 ratings — published 2013
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,243 ratings — published 1849
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,714 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,401 ratings — published 2005
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 911,781 ratings — published 1946
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as essay)
avg rating 3.69 — 204,651 ratings — published 1848
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 446,091 ratings — published 1972
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,163 ratings — published 2020
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 114,594 ratings — published 2017
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,927 ratings — published 2021
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,464 ratings — published 2009
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 211,990 ratings — published 2007
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,190 ratings — published 1941
Why I Write (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 15,915 ratings — published 1946
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,001 ratings — published 1936
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 39,985 ratings — published 2017
“States vote to take away my marriage rights, and even though I don't want to get married, it tends to hurt my feelings. I guess what bugs me is that it was put to a vote in the first place. If you don't want to marry a homosexual, then don't. But what gives you the right to weigh in on your neighbor's options? It's like voting whether or not redheads should be allowed to celebrate Christmas.”
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
― Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
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