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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 257,445 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 328,156 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as essay)
avg rating 3.83 — 87,014 ratings — published 2014
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 118,748 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 119,767 ratings — published 1963
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 82,125 ratings — published 1968
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 53,909 ratings — published 2005
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 30,010 ratings — published 1933
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 91,821 ratings — published 1942
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 364,523 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 719,049 ratings — published 2000
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 172,606 ratings — published 2021
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 87,974 ratings — published 2017
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 54,009 ratings — published 1997
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 78,065 ratings — published 2019
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,246,727 ratings — published 2011
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 49,540 ratings — published 1979
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 21,973 ratings — published 1580
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 203,585 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 40,734 ratings — published 1984
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 65,072 ratings — published 1942
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 49,088 ratings — published 1729
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 22,111 ratings — published 2003
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 217,124 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25,200 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 75,206 ratings — published 1956
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 133,269 ratings — published 1999
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 380,630 ratings — published 1532
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 56,339 ratings — published 1973
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 288,573 ratings — published 2004
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 38,181 ratings — published 2009
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,323 ratings — published 1966
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 150,681 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 36,707 ratings — published 2006
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 866,240 ratings — published 1946
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 196,086 ratings — published 1848
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,695 ratings — published 2020
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 19,553 ratings — published 1849
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 20,742 ratings — published 2005
A Collection Of Essays: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic
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avg rating 4.30 — 8,067 ratings — published 1941
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 433,459 ratings — published 1972
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 201,334 ratings — published 2007
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 40,108 ratings — published 2021
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 39,140 ratings — published 2017
Why I Write (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 15,070 ratings — published 1946
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 39,491 ratings — published 2009
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 297,007 ratings — published 2005
Meditations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 340,295 ratings — published 180
“Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating your concept of reality. But it can at least be brought to mind; acknowledged comprehended, even atoned for through transformative action. By comparing your privilege with that of others you may be able to modify both your world and the worlds outside your world - if the will is there to do it. Suffering is not like that. Suffering has an absolution relation to the suffering individual - it cannot be easily mediated by a third term like ‘privilege’.”
― Intimations
― Intimations
“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
