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Personal Essay Books
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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 722,463 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 — 2,389 ratings — published 1994
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.35 — 180,120 ratings — published 2021
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,824 ratings — published 1979
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,116 ratings — published 1968
So Sad Today: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,638 ratings — published 2016
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,036 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 — 89,675 ratings — published 2006
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.15 — 142,489 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.49 — 814,689 ratings — published 2016
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.89 — 47,951 ratings — published 2017
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 147,272 ratings — published 2018
The Faraway Nearby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,722 ratings — published 2013
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,442 ratings — published 2013
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,076 ratings — published 2008
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 265,001 ratings — published 1929
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.69 — 183,933 ratings — published 2000
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 289,881 ratings — published 2004
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 273,583 ratings — published 1997
A Life Beyond Boundaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.30 — 707 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 — 1,581 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 — 3,996 ratings — published 2023
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.83 — 88,187 ratings — published 2014
Letter to My Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,148 ratings — published 1987
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.59 — 12,416 ratings — published 2023
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 320,155 ratings — published 2000
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 — 2,689 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 — 38,950 ratings — published 2009
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.55 — 19,162 ratings — published 2017
Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,310 ratings — published 2007
![Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1601998649l/55581591._SY75_.jpg)
Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes] (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,008 ratings — published 2020
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,613 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 4.13 — 54,886 ratings — published 1997
No Name in the Street (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,860 ratings — published 1972
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,829 ratings — published 1991
Gratitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,609 ratings — published 2015
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 6,470 ratings — published 2014
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,778 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 3.72 — 13,735 ratings — published 2017
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,735 ratings — published 2014
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.43 — 22,846 ratings — published 2018
Life Among the Savages (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,631 ratings — published 1953
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,509 ratings — published 2012
How Did You Get This Number: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,159 ratings — published 2010
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 39,797 ratings — published 2013
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,225 ratings — published 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,386 ratings — published 2007
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.80 — 37,227 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 890,439 ratings — published 1946
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.47 — 42,029 ratings — published 2008
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes pertaining to whatever topics of thought intrigues the author. Writing is a twitchy art, which attempts to employ linguist building blocks handed-down from past generations. Writers’ word choices form a structure of conjoined sentences when overlaid with the lingua of modern culture. Writers attempt to emulate in concrete form the synesthesia of our personal pottage steeped in our most vivid feelings. Writing a personal essay calls for us to sort out a jungle of lucid observations and express in a tangible technique our unique interpretation of coherent observations interlaced with that effusive cascade of yearning, the universal spice of unfilled desire, which turmoil of existential angst swamps us.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“Akin to any other human being’s creations composed from inspirational toil, the textual rendering of a person depicted in personal essay writing asserts an existence independent of the author. A personal writing voice speaks to me from a secluded mental closet. Writing makes private mental musings a public act.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
