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Bad Feminist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 120,845 ratings — published 2014
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,824 ratings — published 1968
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 277,324 ratings — published 1929
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 339,803 ratings — published 2012
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 79,684 ratings — published 2019
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 728,554 ratings — published 2000
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 90,076 ratings — published 2014
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 191,606 ratings — published 2021
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 55,548 ratings — published 2005
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
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avg rating 4.55 — 128,784 ratings — published 1963
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 53,190 ratings — published 1979
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 42,432 ratings — published 1984
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 56,286 ratings — published 1997
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 26,972 ratings — published 2016
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 219,374 ratings — published 2008
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 292,174 ratings — published 2004
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 48,482 ratings — published 2017
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 152,869 ratings — published 2013
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 50,134 ratings — published 2021
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 47,968 ratings — published 2020
Intimations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 29,289 ratings — published 2020
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 374,868 ratings — published 2015
Naked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 275,551 ratings — published 1997
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 19,068 ratings — published 2019
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 150,539 ratings — published 2018
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 16,047 ratings — published 2014
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,849 ratings — published 1966
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 20,985 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 21,245 ratings — published 2019
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 25,663 ratings — published 1955
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 19,783 ratings — published 2017
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 42,313 ratings — published 2008
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 92,862 ratings — published 2006
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 132,459 ratings — published 1997
The Complete Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22,632 ratings — published 1580
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 14,693 ratings — published 1998
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 64,542 ratings — published 2016
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 44,855 ratings — published 2020
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 12,819 ratings — published 2018
Feel Free: Essays (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 8,434 ratings — published 2018
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 186,899 ratings — published 2013
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.43 — 23,192 ratings — published 2018
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 53,032 ratings — published 2014
The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 26,837 ratings — published 2019
Bluets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 60,799 ratings — published 2009
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 73,226 ratings — published 2003
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 89,998 ratings — published 2017
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 21,670 ratings — published 2005
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 31,280 ratings — published 2017
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 66,702 ratings — published 1942
“Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.”
― Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature
― Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature
“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
