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Personal Essay Books
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 2,386 ratings — published 1994
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 720,692 ratings — published 2000
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.35 — 175,670 ratings — published 2021
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 82,913 ratings — published 1968
So Sad Today: Personal Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 17,515 ratings — published 2016
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 20,847 ratings — published 2005
The White Album (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 50,047 ratings — published 1979
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 141,394 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 806,518 ratings — published 2016
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 47,783 ratings — published 2017
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.10 — 146,406 ratings — published 2018
The Faraway Nearby (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 7,688 ratings — published 2013
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 151,025 ratings — published 2013
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 88,584 ratings — published 2006
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 217,559 ratings — published 2008
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 260,409 ratings — published 1929
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.69 — 183,683 ratings — published 2000
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 289,248 ratings — published 2004
Naked (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 273,120 ratings — published 1997
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 — 1,571 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 — 3,943 ratings — published 2023
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 87,552 ratings — published 2014
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 12,116 ratings — published 2023
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 — 2,686 ratings — published 2012
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 38,488 ratings — published 2009
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.55 — 18,886 ratings — published 2017
Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 14,195 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 — 7,993 ratings — published 2020
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 47,481 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 — 54,315 ratings — published 1997
No Name in the Street (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 4,740 ratings — published 1972
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 10,773 ratings — published 1991
Gratitude (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 24,412 ratings — published 2015
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 6,423 ratings — published 2014
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25,445 ratings — published 2016
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 13,685 ratings — published 2017
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 20,221 ratings — published 2014
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
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avg rating 4.43 — 22,730 ratings — published 2018
Life Among the Savages (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 9,453 ratings — published 1953
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 9,431 ratings — published 2012
How Did You Get This Number: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 13,124 ratings — published 2010
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 39,478 ratings — published 2013
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,221 ratings — published 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,125 ratings — published 2007
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as personal-essay)
avg rating 3.80 — 36,884 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 876,907 ratings — published 1946
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 41,926 ratings — published 2008
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 160,764 ratings — published 2005
How to Be Alone (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 12,584 ratings — published 2002
The Best American Essays 2011 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 827 ratings — published 2011
“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
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our storyline into the annuals of time. To endure a mortal life is merely a transitory experience whereas writing about how one lived is an internalized exposition of what it means to be human. Writing is an external exhibition injecting the author into the world’s consciousness.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
