Essays

An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like Joh ...more

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The Answer Is in the Wound
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
No Sense in Wishing
Sloppy: Or, Doing It All Wrong
Untamed
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
When We Cease to Understand the World
The Message
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
The Comfort Book
A Very Punchable Face
Dear Dolly
My Body
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Bad Feminist
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
A Room of One’s Own
We Should All Be Feminists
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Men Explain Things to Me
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
The Fire Next Time
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments
The White Album
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Upstream: Selected Essays
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauA Collection of Essays by George OrwellThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusArguably by Christopher Hitchens
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65 books — 17 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBad Feminist by Roxane GayThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtSpeak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Let's Dismantle the Patriarchy
286 books — 56 voters
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2019 Books by Authors of Color
342 books — 373 voters


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