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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 439 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 273,787 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 387 times as essay)
avg rating 4.39 — 338,067 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as essay)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,563 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 167 times as essay)
avg rating 4.55 — 127,357 ratings — published 1963
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as essay)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,503 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,729 ratings — published 1968
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,044 ratings — published 1933
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,259 ratings — published 2005
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 103,443 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 188,597 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as essay)
avg rating 4.40 — 373,392 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 726,792 ratings — published 2000
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as essay)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,627 ratings — published 2017
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 55,799 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as essay)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,304,957 ratings — published 2011
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,420 ratings — published 2019
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 52,505 ratings — published 1979
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as essay)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,509 ratings — published 1580
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,908 ratings — published 2003
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as essay)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,117 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as essay)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,142 ratings — published 1984
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,969 ratings — published 1729
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 66,467 ratings — published 1942
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 219,273 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,647 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 77,197 ratings — published 1956
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,591 ratings — published 1973
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,755 ratings — published 1966
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as essay)
avg rating 3.84 — 395,035 ratings — published 1513
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 147,394 ratings — published 1999
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 291,516 ratings — published 2004
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 39,892 ratings — published 2009
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,323 ratings — published 1849
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,488 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,980 ratings — published 2006
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as essay)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,742 ratings — published 1848
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 917,708 ratings — published 1946
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,496 ratings — published 2005
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 448,359 ratings — published 1972
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,220 ratings — published 2020
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 213,377 ratings — published 2007
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 115,516 ratings — published 2017
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,887 ratings — published 2009
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,128 ratings — published 2021
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,209 ratings — published 1941
Why I Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,999 ratings — published 1946
El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as essay)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,254 ratings — published 2019
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 40,149 ratings — published 2017
“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Wealth of Words
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