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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 — 725,916 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 — 2,390 ratings — published 1994
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.35 — 187,033 ratings — published 2021
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 52,189 ratings — published 1979
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,177 ratings — published 1968
So Sad Today: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,810 ratings — published 2016
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,417 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 — 91,576 ratings — published 2006
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.15 — 144,292 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.49 — 828,926 ratings — published 2016
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,273 ratings — published 2017
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 149,052 ratings — published 2018
The Faraway Nearby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,778 ratings — published 2013
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,272 ratings — published 2013
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 219,014 ratings — published 2008
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 272,127 ratings — published 1929
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,430 ratings — published 2000
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 291,176 ratings — published 2004
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 274,520 ratings — published 1997
A Life Beyond Boundaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.30 — 716 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 — 1,593 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 — 4,081 ratings — published 2023
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,348 ratings — published 2014
Letter to My Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,638 ratings — published 1987
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.58 — 12,773 ratings — published 2023
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 323,757 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 — 2,691 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 — 39,722 ratings — published 2009
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.55 — 19,579 ratings — published 2017
Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,460 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 4.08 — 8,032 ratings — published 2020
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,832 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 — 55,657 ratings — published 1997
No Name in the Street (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,010 ratings — published 1972
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,918 ratings — published 1991
Meaty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,231 ratings — published 2013
Gratitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,925 ratings — published 2015
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,539 ratings — published 2014
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,482 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 — 13,893 ratings — published 2017
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,566 ratings — published 2014
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,065 ratings — published 2018
Life Among the Savages (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,039 ratings — published 1953
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 9,670 ratings — published 2012
How Did You Get This Number: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.53 — 13,184 ratings — published 2010
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 40,491 ratings — published 2013
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,244 ratings — published 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,875 ratings — published 2007
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.80 — 37,838 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.37 — 912,522 ratings — published 1946
“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon what a person perceives. Essayistic writing is an osmotic process wherein a person intuitively absorbs information and ideas, allows inchoate thoughts to gestate in the unconscious mind, and then consciously places the emergent strands of language and logic into an orderly and expressive format.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and tragedies, fools and geniuses. What the Greeks started the rest of the world will continue to build upon. The old stories will continue to explicate where we came from, while the new stories will illuminate in what direction humankind trends. The collection of future stories of humanity will add to the cumulative library of stories that past writers told, an anthology of collaborative stories will shed light upon the singleness of the human spirit in its aspirations, powers, vicissitudes, and wisdom.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
