Essays

An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like Joh ...more

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I'm a Lot: Surviving Myself and All the People I've Been
You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays
Freedom: Essays
The Land and Its People
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Trash! A Garbageman's Story
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Make Believe
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
My Body
Bad Feminist
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
A Room of One’s Own
We Should All Be Feminists
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Men Explain Things to Me
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The White Album
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments
Upstream: Selected Essays
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakBeyond the Last Time by Noah TuyaWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigThe Library Book by Susan Orlean
Books-about-Books
129 books — 72 voters
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. RowlingGeektastic by Holly BlackLet It Snow by John  GreenA Tyranny of Petticoats by Jessica SpotswoodZombies Vs. Unicorns by Holly Black
YA Short Stories & Collections
523 books — 264 voters

Every 9 Minutes by Christina VitaglianoThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Modern Science Nonfiction
479 books — 387 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
100 Modernist Reads
102 books — 53 voters



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