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Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 120,802 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,662 ratings — published 1968
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 276,785 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 339,506 ratings — published 2012
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 79,634 ratings — published 2019
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 728,297 ratings — published 2000
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 89,990 ratings — published 2014
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 191,146 ratings — published 2021
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 55,509 ratings — published 2005
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 128,556 ratings — published 1963
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 53,089 ratings — published 1979
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 42,381 ratings — published 1984
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 56,219 ratings — published 1997
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 26,930 ratings — published 2016
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 219,299 ratings — published 2008
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 292,073 ratings — published 2004
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 48,454 ratings — published 2017
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 152,812 ratings — published 2013
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 50,027 ratings — published 2021
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 47,960 ratings — published 2020
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 29,270 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 374,641 ratings — published 2015
Naked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 275,451 ratings — published 1997
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 19,053 ratings — published 2019
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 150,377 ratings — published 2018
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 16,034 ratings — published 2014
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,831 ratings — published 1966
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 20,964 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 21,220 ratings — published 2019
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 25,626 ratings — published 1955
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 19,761 ratings — published 2017
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 42,296 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 — 92,731 ratings — published 2006
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 132,418 ratings — published 1997
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,613 ratings — published 1580
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 14,686 ratings — published 1998
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 64,521 ratings — published 2016
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 44,832 ratings — published 2020
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 12,804 ratings — published 2018
Feel Free: Essays (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 8,429 ratings — published 2018
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 186,489 ratings — published 2013
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.43 — 23,181 ratings — published 2018
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 53,018 ratings — published 2014
The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 26,832 ratings — published 2019
Bluets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 60,694 ratings — published 2009
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 73,215 ratings — published 2003
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 89,957 ratings — published 2017
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,648 ratings — published 2005
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 31,277 ratings — published 2017
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 66,666 ratings — published 1942
Black Women: Biography, Autobiography, Personal Essays, and Memoir (nonfiction)
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“It wasn’t enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with possibility that one of my teammates could be dragged off the field by the inhabitants of the mental hospital.”
― Musings on Minutiae
― Musings on Minutiae
“I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.”
― Selected Non-Fictions
― Selected Non-Fictions












