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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 270,370 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 336,206 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as essay)
avg rating 3.82 — 89,096 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 125,815 ratings — published 1963
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 120,082 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 85,574 ratings — published 1968
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 54,964 ratings — published 2005
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 31,620 ratings — published 1933
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 100,803 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 185,334 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 371,723 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 724,960 ratings — published 2000
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 89,278 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,293,404 ratings — published 2011
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as essay)
avg rating 4.13 — 55,441 ratings — published 1997
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 79,098 ratings — published 2019
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 51,832 ratings — published 1979
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,397 ratings — published 1580
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 23,517 ratings — published 2003
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 206,342 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 41,830 ratings — published 1984
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 49,799 ratings — published 1729
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 66,187 ratings — published 1942
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 218,747 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,292 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,793 ratings — published 1956
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as essay)
avg rating 3.84 — 390,083 ratings — published 1532
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 144,513 ratings — published 1999
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,654 ratings — published 1966
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 58,080 ratings — published 1973
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 290,805 ratings — published 2004
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 39,503 ratings — published 2009
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 152,019 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,499 ratings — published 2006
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 20,169 ratings — published 1849
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,316 ratings — published 2005
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 906,955 ratings — published 1946
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 203,713 ratings — published 1848
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 444,445 ratings — published 1972
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 29,085 ratings — published 2020
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 41,728 ratings — published 2021
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 42,103 ratings — published 2009
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 210,737 ratings — published 2007
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 113,791 ratings — published 2017
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,173 ratings — published 1941
Why I Write (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 15,810 ratings — published 1946
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 39,875 ratings — published 2017
El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as essay)
avg rating 4.24 — 26,849 ratings — published 2019
“Ever since the robot was first invented, there have been people who swear up and down that this marks the first step towards the fall of man … To be fair, their arguments are backed with scientific fact taken from documentary films such as The Terminator, The Matrix, and RoboCop.”
― Musings on Minutiae
― Musings on Minutiae
“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let’s buy it what a bargain!”
― Short Talks
― Short Talks
