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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 Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973
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Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
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More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
Untamed
Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
When We Cease to Understand the World
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
The Comfort of Crows  A Backyard Year
My Body
Dear Dolly
The Comfort Book
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Conversations on Love
Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World
A Very Punchable Face
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
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YA Short Stories & Collections
480 books — 268 voters
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Best Europeans in North America
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383 books — 176 voters

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100 Modernist Reads
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Bad Feminist
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
We Should All Be Feminists
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
A Room of One’s Own
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Men Explain Things to Me
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
The Fire Next Time
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The White Album
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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