Best/Favorite Books of Essays

1.
A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating β€” 246,477 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating β€” 200,848 ratings
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A Collection of Essays
A Collection of Essays 4.30 avg rating β€” 7,963 ratings
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays 4.22 avg rating β€” 63,605 ratings
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Arguably: Selected Essays
Arguably: Selected Essays 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,834 ratings
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays 4.18 avg rating β€” 52,977 ratings
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments 4.14 avg rating β€” 52,663 ratings
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The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating β€” 21,556 ratings
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Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating β€” 320,746 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day 4.01 avg rating β€” 714,094 ratings
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Essays and Lectures
Essays and Lectures 4.31 avg rating β€” 2,872 ratings
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader 4.10 avg rating β€” 13,934 ratings
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects 4.01 avg rating β€” 21,974 ratings
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits 4.19 avg rating β€” 12,863 ratings
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Why I Write
Why I Write 4.01 avg rating β€” 14,216 ratings
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The Common Reader
The Common Reader 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,927 ratings
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The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays 3.96 avg rating β€” 4,007 ratings
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I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections 3.80 avg rating β€” 35,597 ratings
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PensΓ©es
PensΓ©es 3.94 avg rating β€” 14,064 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating β€” 78,753 ratings
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank 4.06 avg rating β€” 11,853 ratings
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The Essays
The Essays 3.81 avg rating β€” 4,475 ratings
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose 4.27 avg rating β€” 3,843 ratings
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory 4.20 avg rating β€” 22,702 ratings
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How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays
How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays 3.83 avg rating β€” 6,319 ratings
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Naked
Naked 4.10 avg rating β€” 271,050 ratings
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Paris to the Moon
Paris to the Moon 3.75 avg rating β€” 15,348 ratings
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Selected Essays: 1917-1932
Selected Essays: 1917-1932 4.12 avg rating β€” 453 ratings
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Brave New World Revisited
Brave New World Revisited 3.94 avg rating β€” 21,796 ratings
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Against Interpretation and Other Essays 4.14 avg rating β€” 9,998 ratings
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Culture and Imperialism
Culture and Imperialism 4.18 avg rating β€” 5,662 ratings
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs 4.26 avg rating β€” 19,808 ratings
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On Liberty and Other Essays
On Liberty and Other Essays 4.06 avg rating β€” 6,635 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
When You Are Engulfed in Flames 4.08 avg rating β€” 215,530 ratings
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The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man 4.05 avg rating β€” 9,212 ratings
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Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society 4.46 avg rating β€” 1,865 ratings
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The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind 4.27 avg rating β€” 4,725 ratings
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The Decay of Lying and Other Essays
The Decay of Lying and Other Essays 4.02 avg rating β€” 325 ratings
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The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The Blue Octavo Notebooks 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,206 ratings
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Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1)
Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1) 4.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays 4.66 avg rating β€” 2,293 ratings
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Regarding the Pain of Others 4.10 avg rating β€” 20,924 ratings
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Small Wonder
Small Wonder 4.02 avg rating β€” 11,173 ratings
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Letter from the Birmingham Jail 4.72 avg rating β€” 8,438 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 3.92 avg rating β€” 26,300 ratings
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High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never 4.07 avg rating β€” 12,747 ratings
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
by: Jean Kerr
3.91 avg rating β€” 4,318 ratings
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Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons 3.81 avg rating β€” 8,742 ratings
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 4.11 avg rating β€” 286,486 ratings
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Songbook
Songbook 3.56 avg rating β€” 14,166 ratings
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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays 4.04 avg rating β€” 7,324 ratings
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Of Bees & Boys: Lines from a Southern Lawyer
Of Bees & Boys: Lines from a Southern Lawyer 4.60 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker 3.61 avg rating β€” 7,317 ratings
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 24,360 ratings
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Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist
Twilight of the Idols/The Antichrist 4.15 avg rating β€” 9,533 ratings
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,132 ratings
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Last Chance to See
Last Chance to See 4.32 avg rating β€” 25,704 ratings
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Mythologies
Mythologies 4.08 avg rating β€” 16,795 ratings
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The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination 4.34 avg rating β€” 2,738 ratings
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The Shadow of the Sun
The Shadow of the Sun 4.39 avg rating β€” 16,545 ratings
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The White Album
The White Album 4.03 avg rating β€” 47,342 ratings
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The Control of Nature
The Control of Nature 4.26 avg rating β€” 4,838 ratings
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History 4.13 avg rating β€” 3,561 ratings
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Such, Such Were the Joys
Such, Such Were the Joys 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,022 ratings
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Essays and Aphorisms
Essays and Aphorisms 4.17 avg rating β€” 8,828 ratings
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My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 2)
My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 2) 4.28 avg rating β€” 634 ratings
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Essays on Art and Literature (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 3)
Essays on Art and Literature (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 3) 3.82 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere 4.02 avg rating β€” 279 ratings
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Men Explain Things to Me
Men Explain Things to Me 3.83 avg rating β€” 85,148 ratings
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands 3.69 avg rating β€” 4,269 ratings
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All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned In Loehmann's Dressing Room
All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned In Loehmann's Dressing Room really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,532 ratings
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The Undiscovered Self
The Undiscovered Self
by: C.G. Jung
4.14 avg rating β€” 12,360 ratings
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Beyond Theology: The Art of Godsmanship
Beyond Theology: The Art of Godsmanship 4.15 avg rating β€” 238 ratings
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I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,215 ratings
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The Second Common Reader
The Second Common Reader 4.27 avg rating β€” 415 ratings
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
by: C.G. Jung
4.20 avg rating β€” 13,641 ratings
77.
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo 4.17 avg rating β€” 15,842 ratings
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays 3.70 avg rating β€” 1,510 ratings
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith 4.14 avg rating β€” 48,282 ratings
80.
Pulphead
Pulphead really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7,973 ratings
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman 3.74 avg rating β€” 84,677 ratings
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It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It 4.10 avg rating β€” 6,072 ratings
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 3.84 avg rating β€” 3,193 ratings
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education 3.93 avg rating β€” 8,990 ratings
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7,368 ratings
86.
The Practice of the Wild
The Practice of the Wild 4.19 avg rating β€” 2,688 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
Notes from a Small Island 3.92 avg rating β€” 117,842 ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists 4.40 avg rating β€” 320,743 ratings
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In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 4)
In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 4) 4.42 avg rating β€” 348 ratings
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As I Please: 1943-1945 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 3)
As I Please: 1943-1945 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 3) 4.42 avg rating β€” 383 ratings
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The Art of Travel
The Art of Travel 3.82 avg rating β€” 25,535 ratings
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Penny Candy
Penny Candy
by: Jean Kerr
3.86 avg rating β€” 176 ratings
93.
Studies in Words
Studies in Words 4.20 avg rating β€” 490 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science 4.05 avg rating β€” 10,816 ratings
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The Consolations of Philosophy
The Consolations of Philosophy 4.01 avg rating β€” 33,136 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries 4.10 avg rating β€” 31,877 ratings
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Holidays on Ice
Holidays on Ice 3.89 avg rating β€” 129,591 ratings
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Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage 3.92 avg rating β€” 14,260 ratings
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The Polysyllabic Spree
The Polysyllabic Spree 3.73 avg rating β€” 7,024 ratings
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Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays
Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays 3.80 avg rating β€” 738 ratings
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