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So Sad Today: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,772 ratings — published 2016
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,173 ratings — published 2019
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.18 — 85,767 ratings — published 1968
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 725,243 ratings — published 2000
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,178 ratings — published 2014
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,812 ratings — published 2008
Little Weirds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.86 — 41,220 ratings — published 2019
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,217 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,563 ratings — published 2012
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.12 — 290,926 ratings — published 2004
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.10 — 274,332 ratings — published 1997
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.22 — 270,940 ratings — published 1929
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.88 — 132,105 ratings — published 1997
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.42 — 48,583 ratings — published 2021
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,122 ratings — published 2020
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,256 ratings — published 2018
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,364 ratings — published 2016
Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.21 — 813 ratings — published 2014
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,150 ratings — published 2016
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,188 ratings — published 2014
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,956 ratings — published 2014
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,880 ratings — published 1984
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,956 ratings — published 1979
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.47 — 42,188 ratings — published 2008
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.35 — 185,919 ratings — published 2021
My Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.98 — 85,724 ratings — published 2021
Girlhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.20 — 13,660 ratings — published 2021
Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.84 — 20,656 ratings — published 2021
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,095 ratings — published 1963
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,718 ratings — published 2020
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.55 — 19,516 ratings — published 2017
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,973 ratings — published 2018
Meaty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,212 ratings — published 2013
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,090 ratings — published 2013
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,050 ratings — published 2015
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.89 — 177,407 ratings — published 2015
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.85 — 560,836 ratings — published 2014
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 40,355 ratings — published 2013
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.74 — 91,286 ratings — published 2006
The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.87 — 28,879 ratings — published 2002
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,411 ratings — published 2014
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,552,478 ratings — published 2022
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,668 ratings — published 1966
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.23 — 624,453 ratings — published 2021
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.93 — 526,061 ratings — published 2018
Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,417 ratings — published 2021
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,351 ratings — published 2005
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,908 ratings — published 2019
The Best of Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,280 ratings — published 2020
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,897 ratings — published 2019
“Life is transient and death is unfathomable, but questions nonetheless abound. What is the driving purpose behind the prosodic life of an ordinary person such as me? What emotional rhythms, pitches, pauses, stresses, and intonations drive the meter of person’s life? When the church bells toll my parting day, what tone will it strike in the hearts of other people, if any? Is there a person whoever traversed this crusty rock that we call planet Earth who did not wish for other people to remember them after their death? I confess sharing the vain longing of all men, however humble, to be remembered, not for the crimes that I committed but for fully expressing the poetic gift of life. When I ask what other people will think when I die, I must also ask why I lived, what did I live for, and what joy did I bring other people, if any. What acts, thoughts, and deeds make people beloved? What resounding chime resonates with all loving people? What magical filament binds us? What serves as the ethereal umbilical cord that causes all conscience stricken humans to crave the same universal sense of being?”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“Narrative essay writing affords sufficient opportunity for the writer to collect data, organize information, rationally process a matrix of collected material, reduce the essence of experience to assigned territories, and by doing so logically quantify their personal existence. Essay writing is an apt form to catalogue discordant incidences and as such writing prose oftentimes calls for the essayist to draw hard and fast classifications and conclusions.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
