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So Sad Today: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,544 ratings — published 2016
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.02 — 78,389 ratings — published 2019
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 721,204 ratings — published 2000
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,225 ratings — published 1968
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,707 ratings — published 2008
Little Weirds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.86 — 40,643 ratings — published 2019
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,006 ratings — published 2014
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.89 — 47,818 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.39 — 331,077 ratings — published 2012
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.12 — 289,424 ratings — published 2004
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.10 — 273,267 ratings — published 1997
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.22 — 261,663 ratings — published 1929
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.88 — 131,566 ratings — published 1997
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.42 — 46,928 ratings — published 2021
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.98 — 28,798 ratings — published 2020
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,235 ratings — published 2018
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.16 — 25,547 ratings — published 2016
Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.20 — 804 ratings — published 2014
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,469 ratings — published 2016
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.83 — 87,738 ratings — published 2014
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,796 ratings — published 2014
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,983 ratings — published 1984
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,250 ratings — published 1979
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.47 — 41,956 ratings — published 2008
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.35 — 176,812 ratings — published 2021
My Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.98 — 84,200 ratings — published 2021
Girlhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.21 — 13,292 ratings — published 2021
Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.84 — 20,133 ratings — published 2021
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.55 — 121,510 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 — 24,181 ratings — published 2020
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.55 — 18,960 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 — 20,849 ratings — published 2018
Meaty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,078 ratings — published 2013
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.85 — 151,142 ratings — published 2013
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.40 — 366,949 ratings — published 2015
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.89 — 175,589 ratings — published 2015
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.85 — 556,535 ratings — published 2014
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 39,570 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 — 88,868 ratings — published 2006
The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.87 — 28,766 ratings — published 2002
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,356 ratings — published 2014
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,415 ratings — published 1966
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.23 — 600,685 ratings — published 2021
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.94 — 504,252 ratings — published 2018
Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,300 ratings — published 2021
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.90 — 20,896 ratings — published 2005
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,631 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,398 ratings — published 2019
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,903 ratings — published 2017
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.81 — 47,526 ratings — published 2020
“Creating a self-portrait sounds easy, but to describe oneself with bandages and all, a person must place their inspirational, mundane, vulgar, and dross experiences into a fitting perspective, which entails describing how encounters with other humanoids influenced him or her.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“A reader can tell if a transcribed story is true because it must contains elements of joy, pain, goodness, and malevolent thoughts. In a true story, not everything fits precisely together; a fortuitous conspiracy of events does resolve all loose ends.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
