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Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 121,297 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 89,214 ratings — published 1968
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 283,186 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 342,385 ratings — published 2012
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 80,032 ratings — published 2019
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 731,153 ratings — published 2000
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 195,499 ratings — published 2021
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 90,684 ratings — published 2014
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 55,943 ratings — published 2005
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 130,756 ratings — published 1963
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 54,150 ratings — published 1979
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 42,808 ratings — published 1984
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 56,920 ratings — published 1997
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 27,468 ratings — published 2016
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 220,099 ratings — published 2008
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 293,082 ratings — published 2004
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 48,642 ratings — published 2017
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 153,503 ratings — published 2013
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 51,486 ratings — published 2021
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 29,408 ratings — published 2020
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 48,107 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 376,919 ratings — published 2015
Naked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 276,522 ratings — published 1997
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 19,176 ratings — published 2019
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 152,066 ratings — published 2018
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 16,117 ratings — published 2014
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 11,025 ratings — published 1966
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 21,129 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 21,501 ratings — published 2019
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 25,937 ratings — published 1955
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 19,984 ratings — published 2017
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 93,981 ratings — published 2006
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 42,424 ratings — published 2008
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,775 ratings — published 1580
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 132,773 ratings — published 1997
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 14,770 ratings — published 1998
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 64,730 ratings — published 2016
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 45,035 ratings — published 2020
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 190,851 ratings — published 2013
Feel Free: Essays (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 8,468 ratings — published 2018
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 12,917 ratings — published 2018
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.43 — 23,304 ratings — published 2018
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 53,136 ratings — published 2014
The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 26,941 ratings — published 2019
Bluets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 61,736 ratings — published 2009
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 73,389 ratings — published 2003
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 21,874 ratings — published 2005
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 90,389 ratings — published 2017
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 154,636 ratings — published 1999
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 41,572 ratings — published 2013
“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?”
― Essays on Manners, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship
― Essays on Manners, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship
“I’ve come to understand that the pain of a wound or a loss is over as soon as it happens.
What follows is the pain of getting well.”
― Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes From Spirit
What follows is the pain of getting well.”
― Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes From Spirit
