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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 408 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 257,452 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 381 times as essay)
avg rating 4.39 — 328,169 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as essay)
avg rating 3.83 — 87,017 ratings — published 2014
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as essay)
avg rating 3.92 — 118,750 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as essay)
avg rating 4.55 — 119,773 ratings — published 1963
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 82,130 ratings — published 1968
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,911 ratings — published 2005
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,010 ratings — published 1933
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as essay)
avg rating 4.17 — 91,832 ratings — published 1942
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 364,533 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 719,054 ratings — published 2000
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as essay)
avg rating 4.35 — 172,624 ratings — published 2021
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as essay)
avg rating 4.51 — 87,977 ratings — published 2017
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as essay)
avg rating 4.13 — 54,010 ratings — published 1997
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,067 ratings — published 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,246,780 ratings — published 2011
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,541 ratings — published 1979
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 21,973 ratings — published 1580
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as essay)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,590 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as essay)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,736 ratings — published 1984
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 65,072 ratings — published 1942
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,089 ratings — published 1729
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,112 ratings — published 2003
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,126 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,202 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as essay)
avg rating 3.91 — 75,209 ratings — published 1956
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 133,281 ratings — published 1999
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as essay)
avg rating 3.84 — 380,641 ratings — published 1532
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as essay)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,341 ratings — published 1973
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 288,581 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 — 38,182 ratings — published 2009
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,323 ratings — published 1966
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 150,685 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,708 ratings — published 2006
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 866,284 ratings — published 1946
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as essay)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,093 ratings — published 1848
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,696 ratings — published 2020
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,553 ratings — published 1849
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 20,740 ratings — published 2005
A Collection Of Essays: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic
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avg rating 4.30 — 8,068 ratings — published 1941
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 433,477 ratings — published 1972
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as essay)
avg rating 3.87 — 201,344 ratings — published 2007
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,106 ratings — published 2021
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,141 ratings — published 2017
Why I Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,070 ratings — published 1946
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 39,494 ratings — published 2009
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 297,021 ratings — published 2005
Meditations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 340,322 ratings — published 180
“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
“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let’s buy it what a bargain!”
― Short Talks
― Short Talks
