Best essays/essayists
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Yom Kippur as Manifest in an Approaching Dorsal Fin
by:
Adam Byrn Tritt
4.11 avg rating β 19 ratings 
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A Predicament of Innocents: Might the Schools Help?
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George Stranahan
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 
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I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
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Dave Barry
3.73 avg rating β 3,963 ratings 14. 
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments 4.14 avg rating β 52,658 ratings
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
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Michael Chabon
3.69 avg rating β 4,269 ratings 20. 
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
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Lionel Trilling
4.15 avg rating β 179 ratings 22. 
The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
by:
Erma Bombeck
4.06 avg rating β 11,853 ratings 
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Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
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Edmund Wilson
4.09 avg rating β 455 ratings 
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Not with a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline 4.14 avg rating β 457 ratings
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Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy 3.76 avg rating β 246 ratings
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Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living
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Bailey White
3.96 avg rating β 5,054 ratings 35. 
Don't Put Headphones on the Cat and Other Life Lessons
by:
Rose Godfrey
4.07 avg rating β 15 ratings 35. 
The Collection: Class Warfare (Essays for the 99%, #4)
by:
John David
3.60 avg rating β 10 ratings 
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I Am Your Doctor: And This Is My Humble Opinion
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Jordan Grumet
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation
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Mahadevi Verma
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 5 ratings 
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In the Face of Presumptions: Essays, Speeches, & Incidental Writings
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Barry Moser
4.47 avg rating β 15 ratings 50. 
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home
by:
Bailey White
3.91 avg rating β 1,749 ratings 50. 
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
by:
Phillip Lopate
4.20 avg rating β 2,372 ratings 
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Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost: Zur Literatur und Politik der Schweiz
by:
Peter von Matt
4.11 avg rating β 19 ratings 
60. 
At Adair's House: More Columns from America's Favorite Former Single Mom
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Adair Lara
3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings 
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The Quiet Center: Women Reflecting on Life's Passages from the Pages of Victoria Magazine 4.06 avg rating β 49 ratings
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
by:
Richard Carlson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 96,007 ratings 67. 
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
by:
Cheryl Strayed
4.15 avg rating β 137,866 ratings 
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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by:
Paul Graham
4.05 avg rating β 9,489 ratings 
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
by:
Dipo Faloyin
4.40 avg rating β 8,833 ratings 
86. 
As I Please: 1943-1945 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 3)
by:
George Orwell
4.42 avg rating β 383 ratings 
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My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 2)
by:
George Orwell
4.28 avg rating β 634 ratings 
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Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society 4.46 avg rating β 1,864 ratings
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Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
by:
Tony Judt
4.15 avg rating β 1,189 ratings 94. 
An Age Like This: 1920-1940 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 1)
by:
George Orwell
4.31 avg rating β 403 ratings 94. 
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
by:
John Brockman
3.51 avg rating β 1,332 ratings 94. 
Forty Years of Diversity: Essays on Colonial Georgia (PUBLICATIONS liked it 3.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 4)
by:
George Orwell
4.42 avg rating β 348 ratings 