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A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 451 times as essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 282,554 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 395 times as essay)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,119 ratings — published 2012
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as essay)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,613 ratings — published 2014
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as essay)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,519 ratings — published 1963
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as essay)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,247 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 89,081 ratings — published 1968
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as essay)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,359 ratings — published 1933
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,902 ratings — published 2005
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 109,514 ratings — published 1942
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 195,053 ratings — published 2021
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as essay)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,682 ratings — published 2015
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as essay)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,363 ratings — published 2017
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 730,867 ratings — published 2000
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 54,042 ratings — published 1979
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 56,856 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as essay)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,682 ratings — published 2011
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,991 ratings — published 2019
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,625 ratings — published 2003
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,762 ratings — published 1580
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as essay)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,755 ratings — published 1854
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as essay)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,765 ratings — published 1984
A Modest Proposal (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,292 ratings — published 1729
The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 67,117 ratings — published 1942
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 220,015 ratings — published 2008
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,399 ratings — published 2016
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 78,021 ratings — published 1956
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as essay)
avg rating 3.99 — 154,197 ratings — published 1999
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as essay)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,001 ratings — published 1973
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,003 ratings — published 1966
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as essay)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,444 ratings — published 1513
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 292,969 ratings — published 2004
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as essay)
avg rating 4.46 — 40,665 ratings — published 2009
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as essay)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,210 ratings — published 1848
Civil Disobedience (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,670 ratings — published 1849
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 153,423 ratings — published 2013
King Kong théorie (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 40,088 ratings — published 2006
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 940,954 ratings — published 1946
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as essay)
avg rating 3.95 — 457,701 ratings — published 1972
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,843 ratings — published 2005
Why I Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as essay)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,425 ratings — published 1946
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,459 ratings — published 2009
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,394 ratings — published 2020
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 218,657 ratings — published 2007
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,277 ratings — published 1941
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as essay)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,919 ratings — published 1955
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,916 ratings — published 2021
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as essay)
avg rating 3.93 — 323,312 ratings — published 2005
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 — 28,296 ratings — published 2019
“Never say more than is necessary.”
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“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
