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A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
Best/Favorite Books of Essays
554 books — 248 voters
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanLongitude by Dava Sobel
History of Science
485 books — 289 voters

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooThe Merchant of Stories by Dipa SanataniThe Quiet American by Graham GreeneThe Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan EngThe Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
Enjoyable and Good Books of South East Asia
304 books — 160 voters
The Door by Magda SzabóVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana AlexievichDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukThe Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie by Ágota KristófThe Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
Women Writers from Central & Eastern Europe in English Translation
236 books — 176 voters

Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de AssisDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraDemian / Siddhartha by Hermann HesseMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertTender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
Recommended by Susan Sontag
93 books — 14 voters
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend WarnerThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Door by Magda SzabóThe Slynx by Tatyana TolstayaDown Below by Leonora Carrington
NYRB Classics: Books by Women
143 books — 49 voters

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoA Lover's Discourse by Roland BarthesAriel by Sylvia PlathLincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Lorde's Favourite Books
36 books — 13 voters