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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We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
The Book of Women's Friendship
Winter: The Story of a Season
My Little Donkey: And Other Essays
Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy
That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Death and the Gardener
Yearbook
The Comfort Book
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Winter: The Story of a Season
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
The Message
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
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Upstream: Selected Essays
1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
100 Modernist Reads
101 books — 52 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
My Favourite Non Fiction Books
1,371 books — 261 voters

The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganThe End of Faith by Sam HarrisLetter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Notable Atheist Books
550 books — 947 voters

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth GaskellThe Subjection of Women by John Stuart MillThe Autobiography of Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger
Early Feminists
187 books — 78 voters
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukFlights by Olga TokarczukHurricane Season by Fernanda MelchorMinor Detail by Adania ShibliStill Born by Guadalupe Nettel
Fitzcarraldo Editions
149 books — 46 voters


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