Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Writing Essays Books
Showing 1-50 of 791
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,570 ratings — published 2012
The Fire Next Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.55 — 131,698 ratings — published 1963
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.18 — 89,764 ratings — published 1968
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.34 — 329,744 ratings — published 2000
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.82 — 90,954 ratings — published 2014
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 732,090 ratings — published 2000
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,692 ratings — published 2017
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.91 — 121,477 ratings — published 2014
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.81 — 48,154 ratings — published 2020
Calypso (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.10 — 152,629 ratings — published 2018
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.42 — 19,200 ratings — published 2019
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,222 ratings — published 2017
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.43 — 23,397 ratings — published 2018
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.93 — 326,122 ratings — published 2005
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,394 ratings — published 2017
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,626 ratings — published 2017
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,830 ratings — published 2016
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,038 ratings — published 2017
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,671 ratings — published 2016
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.02 — 62,237 ratings — published 2009
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,753 ratings — published 2015
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.22 — 285,612 ratings — published 1929
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.36 — 26,037 ratings — published 1955
Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.06 — 105 ratings — published 1966
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.97 — 127,973 ratings — published 2002
Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,906 ratings — published 2019
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,272 ratings — published 2021
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.34 — 197,312 ratings — published 2021
The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,936 ratings — published 1989
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,063 ratings — published 1973
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,220 ratings — published 2021
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.24 — 115,894 ratings — published 1994
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.65 — 57,994 ratings — published 2019
Conversations on Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,110 ratings — published 2021
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.25 — 91,993 ratings — published 2018
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.99 — 156,389 ratings — published 1999
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.49 — 192,802 ratings — published 2013
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,180 ratings — published 2021
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 54,483 ratings — published 1979
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.54 — 13,678 ratings — published 2020
Blue Nights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.95 — 52,569 ratings — published 2011
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,663 ratings — published 2017
The Undocumented Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.36 — 28,978 ratings — published 2020
How to Date Men When You Hate Men (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.14 — 9,648 ratings — published 2019
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,696 ratings — published 2011
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 80,219 ratings — published 2019
Salvation: Black People and Love ― bell hooks' Incisive Cultural History on the Transformative Power of Love in African American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,439 ratings — published 2001
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 3.93 — 67,018 ratings — published 2015
The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.09 — 26,976 ratings — published 2019
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as writing-essays)
avg rating 4.37 — 102,460 ratings — published 2017
“As a prose mode of expository writing, the narrative approach, more than any other, offers writers a chance to think and write about their personal history and cultural identity. A personal narrative process that constructs memories in thematic sequences represents the fundamental nature of the self.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“The text of a person’s writing reveals flaws in their thinking patterns, imperfections in personal character, and lack of acumen and academic skills.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
