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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 266,713 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 389 times as essay)
avg rating 4.39 — 333,999 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as essay)
avg rating 3.82 — 88,485 ratings — published 2014
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as essay)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,501 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 124,245 ratings — published 1963
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,534 ratings — published 1968
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 54,618 ratings — published 2005
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 31,119 ratings — published 1933
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 98,168 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 181,648 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 369,931 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 723,212 ratings — published 2000
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as essay)
avg rating 4.50 — 88,917 ratings — published 2017
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as essay)
avg rating 4.13 — 55,043 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,280,794 ratings — published 2011
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 78,798 ratings — published 2019
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 51,116 ratings — published 1979
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,291 ratings — published 1580
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 205,468 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 41,472 ratings — published 1984
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 23,057 ratings — published 2003
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 49,583 ratings — published 1729
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 65,869 ratings — published 1942
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 218,272 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25,927 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,336 ratings — published 1956
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 387,064 ratings — published 1532
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 141,343 ratings — published 1999
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 57,407 ratings — published 1973
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 290,153 ratings — published 2004
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,543 ratings — published 1966
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 39,126 ratings — published 2009
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,585 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 37,986 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,102 ratings — published 2005
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 895,257 ratings — published 1946
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 19,947 ratings — published 1849
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 201,493 ratings — published 1848
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 28,962 ratings — published 2020
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 440,543 ratings — published 1972
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 207,480 ratings — published 2007
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 111,606 ratings — published 2017
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 41,314 ratings — published 2021
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,136 ratings — published 1941
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 39,654 ratings — published 2017
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 41,236 ratings — published 2009
Why I Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,609 ratings — published 1946
El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as essay)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,279 ratings — published 2019
“All worries are less with wine.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.”
― Selected Non-Fictions
― Selected Non-Fictions
