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So Sad Today: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.80 — 18,009 ratings — published 2016
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,977 ratings — published 2019
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.18 — 89,031 ratings — published 1968
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 730,772 ratings — published 2000
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,237 ratings — published 2014
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.08 — 219,995 ratings — published 2008
Little Weirds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,790 ratings — published 2019
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,615 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,061 ratings — published 2012
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.12 — 292,936 ratings — published 2004
Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.21 — 820 ratings — published 2014
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,600 ratings — published 2014
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.10 — 276,392 ratings — published 1997
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.22 — 282,367 ratings — published 1929
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.88 — 132,725 ratings — published 1997
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,943 ratings — published 2021
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.42 — 51,330 ratings — published 2021
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,396 ratings — published 2020
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,295 ratings — published 2018
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,383 ratings — published 2016
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,714 ratings — published 2016
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,102 ratings — published 2014
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.53 — 42,758 ratings — published 1984
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,021 ratings — published 1979
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.47 — 42,412 ratings — published 2008
My Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.97 — 87,251 ratings — published 2021
Girlhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,018 ratings — published 2021
Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.83 — 21,237 ratings — published 2021
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.55 — 130,469 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 — 25,319 ratings — published 2020
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.54 — 19,950 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 — 21,130 ratings — published 2018
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays – Intellectually Fierce and Achingly Human Stories on Art, Courage, and Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,600 ratings — published 2017
Meaty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,366 ratings — published 2013
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.86 — 153,399 ratings — published 2013
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,617 ratings — published 2015
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.89 — 179,385 ratings — published 2015
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.85 — 565,303 ratings — published 2014
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 41,498 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 — 93,829 ratings — published 2006
The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.87 — 28,975 ratings — published 2002
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,157 ratings — published 2023
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.06 — 22,770 ratings — published 2014
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,627,107 ratings — published 2022
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,997 ratings — published 1966
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.22 — 648,544 ratings — published 2021
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.92 — 550,843 ratings — published 2018
Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,528 ratings — published 2021
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,835 ratings — published 2005
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.43 — 19,159 ratings — published 2019
“Acceptance is a deceptive word. It suggests compliance, a consenting to my condition and to who I have become. This form of acceptance is often seen as weakness, submission. We say I accept my punishment. Or I accept your decision. But such assent, while passive in essence, does provide the stable, rocklike foundation for coping with a condition that will not go away. It is a powerful passivity, the Zen of Illness, that allows for endurance.”
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“Personal essayists attempt to create stories out of their true-life events in order to interpret reality, that is, they attempt to use writing to escape a vapid reality where they remain fixated upon their private deprivations and personal deformities.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
