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Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 118,944 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 82,964 ratings — published 1968
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 260,660 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 330,552 ratings — published 2012
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 78,289 ratings — published 2019
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 720,792 ratings — published 2000
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 87,587 ratings — published 2014
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 175,896 ratings — published 2021
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 54,152 ratings — published 2005
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 121,093 ratings — published 1963
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 50,095 ratings — published 1979
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 54,358 ratings — published 1997
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 40,923 ratings — published 1984
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 217,586 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25,461 ratings — published 2016
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 289,293 ratings — published 2004
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 47,790 ratings — published 2017
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 151,050 ratings — published 2013
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 47,493 ratings — published 2020
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,775 ratings — published 2020
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 46,771 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 366,456 ratings — published 2015
Naked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 273,153 ratings — published 1997
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 18,615 ratings — published 2019
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 146,454 ratings — published 2018
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 15,782 ratings — published 2014
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 20,308 ratings — published 2019
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,389 ratings — published 1966
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 20,356 ratings — published 2019
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 24,268 ratings — published 1955
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 41,932 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 — 88,637 ratings — published 2006
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 18,898 ratings — published 2017
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 131,515 ratings — published 1997
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 63,440 ratings — published 2016
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,088 ratings — published 1580
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 43,983 ratings — published 2020
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 14,298 ratings — published 1998
Feel Free: Essays (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 8,283 ratings — published 2018
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 12,473 ratings — published 2018
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 52,108 ratings — published 2014
The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 26,373 ratings — published 2019
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.43 — 22,733 ratings — published 2018
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 172,853 ratings — published 2013
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 72,648 ratings — published 2003
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 88,281 ratings — published 2017
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 20,855 ratings — published 2005
Bluets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 57,684 ratings — published 2009
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 30,884 ratings — published 2017
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 65,402 ratings — published 1942
“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
“Standing on the edge of another creek at fifty-five is like years haven’t happened at all. It’s a journey this life, a crossing of creeks on stepping stones where so much comes to depend on maintaining balance on every careful placing of the foot.”
― Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes From Spirit
― Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes From Spirit











