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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays 4.18 avg rating β€” 52,971 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€” 52,658 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day 4.01 avg rating β€” 714,078 ratings
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Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird 4.24 avg rating β€” 108,474 ratings
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Naked
Naked 4.10 avg rating β€” 271,050 ratings
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto 3.74 avg rating β€” 72,258 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating β€” 78,726 ratings
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life 4.47 avg rating β€” 36,954 ratings
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader 4.10 avg rating β€” 13,932 ratings
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures 3.85 avg rating β€” 103,993 ratings
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present 4.20 avg rating β€” 2,372 ratings
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Eating the Dinosaur
Eating the Dinosaur 3.77 avg rating β€” 16,217 ratings
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 4.11 avg rating β€” 286,478 ratings
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Pulphead
Pulphead really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7,971 ratings
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. 3.85 avg rating β€” 149,424 ratings
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays 3.47 avg rating β€” 41,649 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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Essays of E.B. White
Essays of E.B. White 4.31 avg rating β€” 4,068 ratings
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The Best American Essays of the Century
The Best American Essays of the Century 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,048 ratings
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The White Album
The White Album 4.03 avg rating β€” 47,326 ratings
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
When You Are Engulfed in Flames 4.08 avg rating β€” 215,526 ratings
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose 4.27 avg rating β€” 3,842 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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An Age Like This: 1920-1940 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 1)
An Age Like This: 1920-1940 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 1) 4.31 avg rating β€” 403 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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Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons
Abolition for the People: The Movement For a Future without Policing and Prisons 4.08 avg rating β€” 298 ratings
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C.S. Lewis Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church
C.S. Lewis Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church 4.34 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,307 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 3.86 avg rating β€” 509,668 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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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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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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Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China 3.59 avg rating β€” 197 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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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage 4.01 avg rating β€” 38,353 ratings
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Arguably: Selected Essays
Arguably: Selected Essays 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,834 ratings
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Uprooted: An Anthology on Gender and Illness
Uprooted: An Anthology on Gender and Illness 4.32 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating β€” 357,356 ratings
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The Rebel
The Rebel 4.14 avg rating β€” 18,046 ratings
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Take the Cannoli
Take the Cannoli 3.84 avg rating β€” 15,323 ratings
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Women Will Save the World
Women Will Save the World 3.78 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting
Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting 4.16 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature 3.71 avg rating β€” 361 ratings
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Les Pensees Dangereuses
Les Pensees Dangereuses 4.44 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
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Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation
Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation 3.75 avg rating β€” 781 ratings
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The Empathy Exams
The Empathy Exams 3.67 avg rating β€” 15,588 ratings
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Holy the Firm
Holy the Firm 4.20 avg rating β€” 5,326 ratings
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Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences
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Not with a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
Not with a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline 4.14 avg rating β€” 457 ratings
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Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings 4.32 avg rating β€” 2,538 ratings
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death 3.99 avg rating β€” 49,906 ratings
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Mouseschawitz - My Summer Job of Concentrated Fun 3.13 avg rating β€” 262 ratings
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Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses 4.14 avg rating β€” 1,547 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating β€” 33,274 ratings
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Notes from No Man's Land
Notes from No Man's Land
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4.18 avg rating β€” 3,798 ratings
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At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays 4.12 avg rating β€” 2,211 ratings
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The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters 4.27 avg rating β€” 499,622 ratings
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Miracles
Miracles 4.05 avg rating β€” 19,961 ratings
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Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity (OpenBook)
Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity (OpenBook) 4.42 avg rating β€” 86 ratings
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The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses 4.38 avg rating β€” 25,178 ratings
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In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas
In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas 4.05 avg rating β€” 509 ratings
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You 4.08 avg rating β€” 20,953 ratings
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays 4.16 avg rating β€” 1,427 ratings
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Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain (New York Review Books Classics)
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain (New York Review Books Classics) 3.85 avg rating β€” 342 ratings
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Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living
Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living 3.96 avg rating β€” 5,054 ratings
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Sui Generis
Sui Generis 4.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Geisha Smackdown
Geisha Smackdown 3.17 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Nick's Reads & Reviews
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Legs Get Led Astray
Legs Get Led Astray 3.97 avg rating β€” 733 ratings
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Hawai'i One Summer
Hawai'i One Summer 3.92 avg rating β€” 198 ratings
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Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again
Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again 3.49 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
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Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties
Part of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties 3.99 avg rating β€” 83 ratings
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On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness 3.85 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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I Am Your Doctor: And This Is My Humble Opinion
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Collected Essays
Collected Essays 4.04 avg rating β€” 118 ratings
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Chicago/Amsterdam : A Man of Two Cities : Essays in Memory of August J. Fry
Chicago/Amsterdam : A Man of Two Cities : Essays in Memory of August J. Fry 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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TROPEFEST!: Attack of the Killer Cliches
TROPEFEST!: Attack of the Killer Cliches
by: Bob Green
4.71 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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I See Life Through RosΓ©-Colored Glasses (The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman, #9)
I See Life Through RosΓ©-Colored Glasses (The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman, #9) 3.80 avg rating β€” 1,783 ratings
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions 4.19 avg rating β€” 5,031 ratings
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How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals 4.06 avg rating β€” 12,941 ratings
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South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land
South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land 3.86 avg rating β€” 503 ratings
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An Elemental Thing
An Elemental Thing 4.25 avg rating β€” 1,156 ratings
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If Not Now, When?: Writings in Defense of Europe
If Not Now, When?: Writings in Defense of Europe 3.60 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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New and Selected Essays
New and Selected Essays really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes 4.10 avg rating β€” 2,337 ratings
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You Will Have a Black Labrador
You Will Have a Black Labrador 4.28 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
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Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer: Essays
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True North, Down South: Tales of a Professional Canadian in America
True North, Down South: Tales of a Professional Canadian in America 4.12 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us 4.55 avg rating β€” 17,897 ratings
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The Queer Bible: Essays
The Queer Bible: Essays 3.84 avg rating β€” 485 ratings
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Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s
Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s 3.60 avg rating β€” 1,611 ratings
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Wow, No Thank You.
Wow, No Thank You. 3.81 avg rating β€” 46,928 ratings
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Tolkien's Gown' and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
Tolkien's Gown' and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books 3.78 avg rating β€” 193 ratings
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The White Hindu
The White Hindu
by: Ambaa
3.93 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Be There Now: Travel Stories from Around the World
Be There Now: Travel Stories from Around the World 3.59 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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What Does it Mean to be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives (2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY)
What Does it Mean to be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives (2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY) 3.77 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections 4.29 avg rating β€” 12,262 ratings
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Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy: Peirce, James, Bergson, Whitehead & Hartshorne
Founders of Constructive Postmodern Philosophy: Peirce, James, Bergson, Whitehead & Hartshorne 3.47 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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