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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 270,312 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 336,170 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as essay)
avg rating 3.82 — 89,084 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 125,781 ratings — published 1963
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 120,073 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 85,561 ratings — published 1968
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 54,957 ratings — published 2005
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 31,610 ratings — published 1933
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 100,761 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 185,267 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 371,693 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 724,927 ratings — published 2000
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as essay)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,275 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,293,188 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 — 55,434 ratings — published 1997
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 79,095 ratings — published 2019
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 51,823 ratings — published 1979
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,398 ratings — published 1580
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 23,506 ratings — published 2003
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 206,328 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 41,831 ratings — published 1984
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 49,798 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 — 218,739 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 26,284 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,786 ratings — published 1956
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 390,028 ratings — published 1532
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 144,468 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 — 58,075 ratings — published 1973
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 290,787 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 — 39,492 ratings — published 2009
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 152,015 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,495 ratings — published 2006
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 20,168 ratings — published 1849
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,310 ratings — published 2005
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 906,790 ratings — published 1946
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 203,680 ratings — published 1848
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 444,392 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 — 41,720 ratings — published 2021
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 42,091 ratings — published 2009
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 210,677 ratings — published 2007
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 113,761 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 — 15,805 ratings — published 1946
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 39,868 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 — 26,837 ratings — published 2019
“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
“[The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I’m carrying piping hot coffee.”
― Musings on Minutiae
― Musings on Minutiae
