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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 444 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 277,921 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 340,078 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 90,145 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 128,977 ratings — published 1963
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 120,892 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,996 ratings — published 1968
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 32,544 ratings — published 1933
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 55,583 ratings — published 2005
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 106,505 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 192,032 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 375,053 ratings — published 2015
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 728,806 ratings — published 2000
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as essay)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,048 ratings — published 2017
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 53,291 ratings — published 1979
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 56,345 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,318,564 ratings — published 2011
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 79,719 ratings — published 2019
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,645 ratings — published 1580
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 24,279 ratings — published 2003
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 207,908 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 42,474 ratings — published 1984
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 66,738 ratings — published 1942
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 50,150 ratings — published 1729
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 219,442 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 27,032 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 77,603 ratings — published 1956
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 150,783 ratings — published 1999
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 59,096 ratings — published 1973
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,866 ratings — published 1966
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 398,220 ratings — published 1513
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 292,259 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 — 40,253 ratings — published 2009
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 20,501 ratings — published 1849
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 152,929 ratings — published 2013
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 208,043 ratings — published 1848
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 39,542 ratings — published 2006
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 929,447 ratings — published 1946
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,691 ratings — published 2005
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 452,524 ratings — published 1972
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 117,428 ratings — published 2017
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 29,301 ratings — published 2020
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 216,042 ratings — published 2007
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,689 ratings — published 2009
Why I Write (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 16,227 ratings — published 1946
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,235 ratings — published 1941
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 25,695 ratings — published 1955
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 42,556 ratings — published 2021
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 — 27,754 ratings — published 2019
“[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
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).”
― On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
― On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
