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
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Bread of Angels: A Memoir
The Comfort Book
The Message
The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays
Death and the Gardener
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
Notes on Grief
Conversations on Love
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
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
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Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud
2,067 books — 2,389 voters
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My Favourite Non Fiction Books
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Books-about-Books
122 books — 74 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

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark TwainThe Prince and the Pauper by Mark TwainLife on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Best of Mark Twain
45 books — 105 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
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