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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 451 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 282,735 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 395 times as essay)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,201 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as essay)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,628 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as essay)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,584 ratings — published 1963
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as essay)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,253 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 89,113 ratings — published 1968
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as essay)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,433 ratings — published 1933
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,917 ratings — published 2005
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 109,627 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 195,171 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as essay)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,748 ratings — published 2015
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as essay)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,369 ratings — published 2017
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 730,971 ratings — published 2000
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 54,080 ratings — published 1979
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 56,874 ratings — published 1997
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 80,012 ratings — published 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as essay)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,332,176 ratings — published 2011
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,646 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,761 ratings — published 1580
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 208,788 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 42,778 ratings — published 1984
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,299 ratings — published 1729
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,128 ratings — published 1942
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 220,039 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,412 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 78,041 ratings — published 1956
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as essay)
avg rating 3.99 — 154,346 ratings — published 1999
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as essay)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,063 ratings — published 1973
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,011 ratings — published 1966
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 401,574 ratings — published 1513
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as essay)
avg rating 4.46 — 40,676 ratings — published 2009
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 292,998 ratings — published 2004
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as essay)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,299 ratings — published 1848
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,683 ratings — published 1849
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 153,437 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 40,110 ratings — published 2006
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 941,427 ratings — published 1946
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 3.95 — 457,890 ratings — published 1972
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 21,855 ratings — published 2005
Why I Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,437 ratings — published 1946
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 44,495 ratings — published 2009
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,401 ratings — published 2020
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 218,760 ratings — published 2007
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,277 ratings — published 1941
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as essay)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,921 ratings — published 1955
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,941 ratings — published 2021
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 3.93 — 323,478 ratings — published 2005
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 — 28,326 ratings — published 2019
“Great losses are great lessons.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays
