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Bad Feminist Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 120,043 ratings — published 2014
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 85,479 ratings — published 1968
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A Room of One’s Own A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 270,053 ratings — published 1929
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We Should All Be Feminists We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 336,021 ratings — published 2012
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 79,067 ratings — published 2019
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Me Talk Pretty One Day Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 724,778 ratings — published 2000
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Men Explain Things to Me Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 89,057 ratings — published 2014
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 185,004 ratings — published 2021
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 54,923 ratings — published 2005
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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 125,655 ratings — published 1963
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The White Album The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 51,764 ratings — published 1979
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 55,396 ratings — published 1997
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 41,799 ratings — published 1984
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Upstream: Selected Essays Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 26,252 ratings — published 2016
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 218,700 ratings — published 2008
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 290,734 ratings — published 2004
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 48,167 ratings — published 2017
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 151,985 ratings — published 2013
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These Precious Days: Essays These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 48,403 ratings — published 2021
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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 47,779 ratings — published 2020
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Intimations Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 29,070 ratings — published 2020
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Between the World and Me Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 371,522 ratings — published 2015
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Naked Naked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 274,196 ratings — published 1997
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Thick: And Other Essays Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 18,864 ratings — published 2019
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Calypso Calypso (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 148,431 ratings — published 2018
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The Empathy Exams The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 15,918 ratings — published 2014
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,639 ratings — published 1966
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 20,636 ratings — published 2019
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The Book of Delights: Essays The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 20,823 ratings — published 2019
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Notes of a Native Son Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 25,085 ratings — published 1955
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 42,156 ratings — published 2008
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 91,048 ratings — published 2006
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 19,465 ratings — published 2017
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Holidays on Ice Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 132,054 ratings — published 1997
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The Complete Essays The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,389 ratings — published 1580
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 14,520 ratings — published 1998
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 64,069 ratings — published 2016
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 44,468 ratings — published 2020
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 12,647 ratings — published 2018
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Feel Free: Essays Feel Free: Essays (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 8,373 ratings — published 2018
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 52,772 ratings — published 2014
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.43 — 22,999 ratings — published 2018
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 180,642 ratings — published 2013
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The Witches Are Coming The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 26,649 ratings — published 2019
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 73,016 ratings — published 2003
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 89,256 ratings — published 2017
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Bluets Bluets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 59,397 ratings — published 2009
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,289 ratings — published 2005
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 603 times as essays)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,128 ratings — published 2017
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 66,152 ratings — published 1942
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1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
100 Modernist Reads
101 books — 52 voters
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster WallaceMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisBird by Bird by Anne LamottNaked by David Sedaris
Best Book of Essays
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Junot Díaz
“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.”
Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“The house-cat is a four-legged quadruped, the legs as usual being at the corners. It is what is sometimes called a tame animal, though it feeds on mice and birds of prey. Its colours are striped, it does not bark, but breathes through its nose instead of its mouth. Cats also mow, which you all have heard. Cats have nine liveses, but which is seldom wanted in this country, coz' of Christianity. Cats eat meat and most anythink speshuelly where you can't afford. That is all about cats."

(From a schoolboy's essay, 1903.)
Helen Exley, Cat Quotations: A Collection of Lovable Cat Pictures and the Best Cat Quotes

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