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Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 118,486 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 81,262 ratings — published 1968
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 254,504 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 325,919 ratings — published 2012
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 77,750 ratings — published 2019
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 717,702 ratings — published 2000
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 86,477 ratings — published 2014
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 169,502 ratings — published 2021
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 53,660 ratings — published 2005
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 118,394 ratings — published 1963
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 49,020 ratings — published 1979
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 53,705 ratings — published 1997
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 40,466 ratings — published 1984
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 216,660 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 24,898 ratings — published 2016
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 287,985 ratings — published 2004
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 47,577 ratings — published 2017
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 150,345 ratings — published 2013
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 47,282 ratings — published 2020
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,591 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 362,255 ratings — published 2015
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 45,793 ratings — published 2021
Naked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 272,221 ratings — published 1997
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 18,396 ratings — published 2019
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 145,131 ratings — published 2018
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 15,684 ratings — published 2014
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 20,106 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 19,949 ratings — published 2019
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,222 ratings — published 1966
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 23,873 ratings — published 1955
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 41,820 ratings — published 2008
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 86,995 ratings — published 2006
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 18,529 ratings — published 2017
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 63,224 ratings — published 2016
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 130,084 ratings — published 1997
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 43,590 ratings — published 2020
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 14,083 ratings — published 1998
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 21,852 ratings — published 1580
Feel Free: Essays (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 8,244 ratings — published 2018
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 12,372 ratings — published 2018
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 51,520 ratings — published 2014
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.43 — 22,593 ratings — published 2018
The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 26,264 ratings — published 2019
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 72,465 ratings — published 2003
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 166,872 ratings — published 2013
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 87,690 ratings — published 2017
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 20,600 ratings — published 2005
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 30,787 ratings — published 2017
Bluets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 56,475 ratings — published 2009
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 64,664 ratings — published 1942
“Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.”
― Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature
― Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature
“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
