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Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 731,920 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 4.21 — 2,398 ratings — published 1994
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 197,020 ratings — published 2021
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.89 — 21,927 ratings — published 2005
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,442 ratings — published 1979
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 89,685 ratings — published 1968
So Sad Today: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.80 — 18,041 ratings — published 2016
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 — 94,376 ratings — published 2006
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.22 — 285,234 ratings — published 1929
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.14 — 146,687 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.48 — 854,948 ratings — published 2016
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,684 ratings — published 2017
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 152,542 ratings — published 2018
The Faraway Nearby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,888 ratings — published 2013
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.86 — 153,736 ratings — published 2013
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.36 — 947,760 ratings — published 1946
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 220,305 ratings — published 2008
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.69 — 185,282 ratings — published 2000
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.12 — 293,363 ratings — published 2004
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 276,746 ratings — published 1997
A Life Beyond Boundaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.30 — 729 ratings — published 2009
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,294 ratings — published 1941
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 4.21 — 1,600 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 — 4,182 ratings — published 2023
Like Love: Essays and Conversations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.72 — 669 ratings — published 2024
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,624 ratings — published 2015
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,910 ratings — published 2014
Letter to My Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.09 — 36,308 ratings — published 1987
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.58 — 13,124 ratings — published 2023
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,562 ratings — published 2000
People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.62 — 13,840 ratings — published 2014
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 — 2,701 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 4.46 — 40,912 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 — 20,047 ratings — published 2017
Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.18 — 14,675 ratings — published 2007
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.02 — 62,084 ratings — published 2009
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Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes] (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,057 ratings — published 2020
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.81 — 48,149 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 — 57,099 ratings — published 1997
No Name in the Street (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.47 — 5,229 ratings — published 1972
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,038 ratings — published 1991
Meaty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,390 ratings — published 2013
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.93 — 325,785 ratings — published 2005
Gratitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,448 ratings — published 2015
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,659 ratings — published 2014
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,655 ratings — published 2016
The Argonauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.01 — 58,757 ratings — published 2015
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 — 14,037 ratings — published 2017
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,081 ratings — published 2014
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,386 ratings — published 2018
“Writing my fleshy story consisted of examining the butchered offal of my carnivorous character. Flayed like the catch of the day, I scrutinized the ramified offscourings of my worm-ridden soul, a parasitic host to tumors of self-doubt and lesions of personal insecurities.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take with us into the Ring of Time the people whom we crossed paths with in our earthly sojourn.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
