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Personal Essay Books
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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 728,089 ratings — published 2000
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,395 ratings — published 1994
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,753 ratings — published 2021
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 52,982 ratings — published 1979
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,512 ratings — published 1968
So Sad Today: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,895 ratings — published 2016
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,616 ratings — published 2005
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.74 — 92,618 ratings — published 2006
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 145,235 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.49 — 837,772 ratings — published 2016
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,448 ratings — published 2017
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 150,251 ratings — published 2018
The Faraway Nearby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,815 ratings — published 2013
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,765 ratings — published 2013
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 219,254 ratings — published 2008
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 276,288 ratings — published 1929
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,743 ratings — published 2000
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 292,021 ratings — published 2004
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 275,361 ratings — published 1997
A Life Beyond Boundaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.30 — 720 ratings — published 2009
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays – Intellectually Fierce and Achingly Human Stories on Art, Courage, and Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,594 ratings — published 2017
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,109 ratings — published 2023
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,935 ratings — published 2014
Letter to My Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,871 ratings — published 1987
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.58 — 12,906 ratings — published 2023
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 325,727 ratings — published 2002
Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Yuletide Yahoos, Ho-Ho-Humblebraggers, and Other Seasonal Scourges (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,695 ratings — published 2012
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 40,101 ratings — published 2009
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.54 — 19,747 ratings — published 2017
Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 14,550 ratings — published 2007
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Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes] (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,037 ratings — published 2020
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,953 ratings — published 2020
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 56,147 ratings — published 1997
No Name in the Street (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,087 ratings — published 1972
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,980 ratings — published 1991
Meaty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,310 ratings — published 2013
Gratitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,112 ratings — published 2015
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,589 ratings — published 2014
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,874 ratings — published 2016
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,958 ratings — published 2017
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,072 ratings — published 2014
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,180 ratings — published 2018
Life Among the Savages (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,254 ratings — published 1953
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,771 ratings — published 2012
How Did You Get This Number: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,197 ratings — published 2010
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 40,913 ratings — published 2013
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,252 ratings — published 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,156 ratings — published 2007
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,279 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 924,883 ratings — published 1946
“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the intrepid spirits whom share the present as well as with those souls whom are not yet born.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
