Luke's votes on the list Book Riot's 50 Must-Read Contemporary Essay Collections

Listopia > Luke's votes on the list Book Riot's 50 Must-Read Contemporary Essay Collections (50 Books)

1	They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays by Hanif Abdurraqib 4.55 avg rating — 19,573 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas by Jenny Allen 3.27 avg rating — 447 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds by Yemisi Aribisala 3.99 avg rating — 140 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Beyond Measure: Essays by Rachel Z. Arndt (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 52 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation by Tom Bissell 3.76 avg rating — 788 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin (Goodreads Author) 3.03 avg rating — 4,135 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life by Jenny Boully 3.98 avg rating — 242 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 3,925 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 12,693 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose 4.02 avg rating — 5,728 ratings Luke rated it 1 star See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.38 avg rating — 31,190 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 7,907 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 4,241 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Idiophone by Amy Fusselman 3.90 avg rating — 270 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 23,062 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Sunshine State: Essays by Sarah Gerard 3.39 avg rating — 1,711 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl 3.36 avg rating — 1,165 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life by Jim Harrison 4.02 avg rating — 1,004 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 8,184 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 1,781 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 3,264 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 48,265 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 6,748 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays by Fenton Johnson 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul 3.73 avg rating — 13,891 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli 4.38 avg rating — 17,661 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 2,114 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays by Tom McCarthy 3.77 avg rating — 202 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 2,060 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy Orenstein 3.78 avg rating — 880 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments by Kelly Oxford 3.65 avg rating — 2,723 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen 3.74 avg rating — 10,395 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 2,601 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls by Elizabeth Renzetti really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 814 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson 3.84 avg rating — 1,017 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Double Bind: Women on Ambition by Robin Romm (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 481 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life by Richard Russo (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 1,122 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race by Naben Ruthnum 3.74 avg rating — 480 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks 3.94 avg rating — 7,401 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom (Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God) by Deborah Santana (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 284 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	We Wear the Mask: 15 Stories of Passing in America by Brando Skyhorse (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 219 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith 3.82 avg rating — 8,391 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Mother Of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit 4.19 avg rating — 9,134 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays – Intellectually Fierce and Achingly Human Stories on Art, Courage, and Justice by Megan Stielstra 4.22 avg rating — 1,593 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea 4.13 avg rating — 961 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause by Shawn Wen 3.95 avg rating — 230 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Acid West: Essays by Joshua Wheeler (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 289 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Sexographies by Gabriela Wiener 3.87 avg rating — 1,560 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams 3.97 avg rating — 15,083 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 800 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars