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Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 119,157 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 83,993 ratings — published 1968
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 264,463 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 332,659 ratings — published 2012
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 78,611 ratings — published 2019
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 722,269 ratings — published 2000
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 88,116 ratings — published 2014
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 179,625 ratings — published 2021
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 54,449 ratings — published 2005
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 123,168 ratings — published 1963
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 50,738 ratings — published 1979
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 54,808 ratings — published 1997
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 41,217 ratings — published 1984
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25,737 ratings — published 2016
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 217,992 ratings — published 2008
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 1086 times as essays)
avg rating 4.12 — 289,816 ratings — published 2004
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 47,938 ratings — published 2017
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 151,398 ratings — published 2013
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 47,597 ratings — published 2020
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 47,357 ratings — published 2021
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,880 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 368,789 ratings — published 2015
Naked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 273,519 ratings — published 1997
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 891 times as essays)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,702 ratings — published 2019
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 857 times as essays)
avg rating 4.10 — 147,179 ratings — published 2018
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
by (shelved 839 times as essays)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,826 ratings — published 2014
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 20,426 ratings — published 2019
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,484 ratings — published 1966
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 20,537 ratings — published 2019
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 24,628 ratings — published 1955
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 42,018 ratings — published 2008
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 19,131 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 — 89,556 ratings — published 2006
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 131,739 ratings — published 1997
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 63,566 ratings — published 2016
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,222 ratings — published 1580
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 44,167 ratings — published 2020
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 14,366 ratings — published 1998
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 12,537 ratings — published 2018
Feel Free: Essays (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 8,312 ratings — published 2018
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 52,437 ratings — published 2014
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.43 — 22,826 ratings — published 2018
The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 26,460 ratings — published 2019
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 175,885 ratings — published 2013
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 72,821 ratings — published 2003
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 88,633 ratings — published 2017
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,011 ratings — published 2005
Bluets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 58,299 ratings — published 2009
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 30,980 ratings — published 2017
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 39,759 ratings — published 2013
“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?”
― Essays on Manners, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship
― Essays on Manners, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship
“You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
― Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook












