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Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 121,499 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 89,869 ratings — published 1968
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 286,107 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 343,850 ratings — published 2012
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 80,245 ratings — published 2019
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 732,285 ratings — published 2000
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 197,715 ratings — published 2021
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 91,018 ratings — published 2014
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 56,142 ratings — published 2005
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 131,904 ratings — published 1963
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 54,568 ratings — published 1979
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 42,975 ratings — published 1984
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 57,190 ratings — published 1997
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 27,715 ratings — published 2016
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 220,407 ratings — published 2008
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 293,491 ratings — published 2004
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 48,699 ratings — published 2017
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 153,838 ratings — published 2013
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 52,116 ratings — published 2021
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 29,468 ratings — published 2020
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 48,167 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 377,949 ratings — published 2015
Naked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 276,847 ratings — published 1997
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 19,206 ratings — published 2019
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 152,736 ratings — published 2018
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 11,104 ratings — published 1966
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 16,133 ratings — published 2014
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 21,213 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 21,632 ratings — published 2019
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 26,066 ratings — published 1955
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 20,073 ratings — published 2017
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 94,566 ratings — published 2006
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 714 times as essays)
avg rating 3.47 — 42,453 ratings — published 2008
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,872 ratings — published 1580
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 132,906 ratings — published 1997
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 14,816 ratings — published 1998
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 64,838 ratings — published 2016
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 45,139 ratings — published 2020
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 193,207 ratings — published 2013
Feel Free: Essays (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 8,484 ratings — published 2018
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 12,944 ratings — published 2018
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.43 — 23,413 ratings — published 2018
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 53,166 ratings — published 2014
The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 26,973 ratings — published 2019
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 21,954 ratings — published 2005
Bluets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 62,349 ratings — published 2009
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 73,422 ratings — published 2003
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 90,689 ratings — published 2017
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 156,765 ratings — published 1999
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 41,857 ratings — published 2013
“Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel.
This is how you lose her.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
This is how you lose her.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
“Some women have been faking orgasms for so long that they sometimes fake one when they are masturbating.”
― On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
― On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay












