Essays

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101 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	The Complete Essays of Montaigne Michel de Montaigne	3.8	23 reads
#3	The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose John Donne	1	4 reads
#4	The Art of the Personal Essay The Art of the Personal Essay	3.5	4 reads
#5	The Fire Next Time James Baldwin	4.56	217 reads
#6	Pensées Blaise Pascal	3.67	13 reads
#7	The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould	5	5 reads
#8	Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History Stephen Jay Gould	3	5 reads
#9	Eight Little Piggies Stephen Jay Gould	3.5	6 reads
#10	Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes Stephen Jay Gould	4	9 reads
#11	The flamingo's smile Stephen Jay Gould	4.25	10 reads
#12	Dinosaur in a Haystack Stephen Jay Gould	3.8	6 reads
#13	Bully for Brontosaurus Stephen Jay Gould	4.33	14 reads
#14	Ever Since Darwin Stephen Jay Gould	4.29	12 reads
#15	The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould	4.29	14 reads
#16	I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History Stephen Jay Gould	3	2 reads
#17	God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics C. S. Lewis	0	1 read
#18	Essays: Moral, Political and Literary David Hume	0	0 reads
#19	The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry Wendell Berry	0	1 read
#20	What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell	3.78	113 reads
#21	In Our Own Words In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century	0	0 reads
#22	Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military Jim Mattis Kori Schake	0	0 reads
#23	Assault from the Sea Assault from the Sea: Essays on the History of Amphibious Warfare Merrill L. Bartlett	0	0 reads
#24	A call to conscience Martin Luther King Jr.	5	1 read
#25	Daughters of Thunder Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979 Bettye Collier-Thomas	0	0 reads
#26	Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society Dorothy L. Sayers	5	5 reads
#27	Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum Letzten: Tagebücher 1933-1945 Victor Klemperer Hadwig Klemperer Walter Nowojski	0	0 reads
#28	Preaching with Sacred Fire Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1750 to the Present Gardner C. Taylor	0	0 reads
#29	The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry Wendell Berry	4.13	4 reads
#30	Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays Michael Oakeshott	0	1 read
#31	My Ears Are Bent Joseph Mitchell	0	1 read
#32	The Culture Industry Theodor W. Adorno Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno	4	7 reads
#33	Advertisements for Myself Advertisements for Myself Norman Mailer	0	0 reads
#34	The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 James Baldwin	4	1 read
#35	Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell David Remnick	5	6 reads
#36	The shores of light Edmund Wilson	0	0 reads
#37	Illuminations: Essays and Reflections Walter Benjamin Harry Zohn (Translator)	4.5	15 reads
#38	Fables of Identity Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology Northrop Frye	0	0 reads
#39	Future in the Present Future in the Present: Selected Writings C.L.R. James	0	0 reads
#40	The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings Octavio Paz Lysander Kemp (Translator) Yara Milos (Translator)	3	6 reads
#41	The King of Time Velimir Khlebnikov	4	1 read
#42	Collected Essays of George Orwell Collected Essays of George Orwell George Orwell	5	1 read
#43	The Dyer's Hand W.H. Auden	0	0 reads
#44	Collected Essays Aldous Huxley	0	0 reads
#45	Major Critical Essays Major Critical Essays: The Quintessence of Ibsenism/The Perfect Wagnerite/The Sanity of Art George Bernard Shaw	0	0 reads
#46	For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction Alain Robbe-Grillet Richard Howard (Translator)	3	3 reads
#47	Antonin Artaud, selected writings Antonin Artaud Helen Weaver (Translator)	5	2 reads
#48	The Rebel Albert Camus Anthony Bower (Translator)	4	19 reads
#49	Manifestoes of Surrealism André Breton	4.25	5 reads
#50	Walden and Other Writings Henry David Thoreau	4	9 reads
#51	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard	4.52	44 reads
#52	An American Childhood Annie Dillard	4.13	9 reads
#53	The Idea of a University John Henry Newman	0	0 reads
#54	CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY Joe Odiboh	0	0 reads
#55	What Are People For?: Essays Wendell Berry	4.5	4 reads
#56	The Deep Structure of Biology: Is Convergence Sufficiently Ubiquitous to Give a Directional Signal?	0	0 reads
#57	Maneuver Warfare Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology	0	0 reads
#58	Bitch Elizabeth Wurtzel	4	4 reads
#59	A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays Mary McCarthy	0	0 reads
#60	May It Please the Court May It Please the Court: The Most Significant Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 Peter Irons	0	0 reads
#61	The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand Learned Hand	0	0 reads
#63	If Venice Dies If Venice Dies Salvatore Settis	0	0 reads
#64	How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)	4	11 reads
#65	Bad Feminist Roxane Gay	3.89	204 reads
#66	The Norton Anthology of American Literature	0	1 read
#67	The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009 Irving Kristol	0	1 read
#68	The Fire This Time Clint Smith	4.27	17 reads
#69	The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison Richard Steele	0	0 reads
#70	Essays Michel de Montaigne J.M. Cohen (Translator)	4	6 reads
#71	Products of the Perfected Civilization: Selected Writings W.S. Merwin	0	0 reads
#72	Naive and Sentimental Poetry and On the Sublime: Two Essays Friedrich Schiller	0	0 reads
#73	Laocoon Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Edward Allen McCormick‏ (Translator)	0	0 reads
#74	Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson	3.67	5 reads
#75	Nature / Walking Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau	3.83	8 reads
#76	Representative Men: Seven Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson	3	1 read
#77	Civil Disobedience and Other Essays Henry David Thoreau	3.81	45 reads
#78	Collected Essays and Poems Collected Essays and Poems Henry David Thoreau	0	0 reads
#79	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	0	0 reads
#80	Works by Charles W. Chestnutt Works by Charles W. Chestnutt Charles W. Chesnutt	0	0 reads
#81	The Devil's Race-Track The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings Mark Twain	0	0 reads
#82	Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences Mark Twain	0	1 read
#83	Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues Giacomo Leopardi Giovanni Cecchetti (Translator)	0	0 reads
#84	Meditations Meditations Alphonse de Lamartine	0	0 reads
#85	Coleridge's Poetry and Prose Coleridge's Poetry and Prose Samuel Taylor Coleridge	0	1 read
#86	Selected Writings Selected Writings William Hazlitt	0	2 reads
#87	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings Thomas De Quincey	3.64	13 reads
#88	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey	3	5 reads
#89	The essays of Elia Charles Lamb	0	0 reads
#90	Selected Writings Selected Writings Thomas Carlyle	0	0 reads
#91	The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll	4.2	5 reads
#92	Essays in the art of writing Robert Louis Stevenson	3	1 read
#93	The Necessary Angel The Necessary Angel Wallace Stevens	0	0 reads
#94	Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose Wallace Stevens	0	0 reads
#95	Literary Essays of Ezra Pound Literary Essays of Ezra Pound Ezra Pound	0	1 read
#96	Selected Essays Selected Essays T.S. Eliot	0	0 reads
#97	The Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose of Hart Crane Hart Crane	0	0 reads
#98	The Second Life Of Art The Second Life Of Art: selected essays of Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale	0	0 reads
#99	Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3 Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote Miguel de Unamuno Anthony Kerrigan (Translator)	0	0 reads
#100	Space in Motion Juan Goytisolo	0	0 reads
#101	Chronicles Of A Liquid Society Umberto Eco	4	3 reads
#102	All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays George Orwell	4	5 reads