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Title Year Ratings Rating
No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Writing , Biography , Philosophy , Audiobook
Ursula K. Le Guin
2017 8.3K 4.01
The Consolations of Philosophy
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Self Help , Psychology , Essays , History , Audiobook
Alain de Botton
2000 32.6K 4.01
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Philosophy , Religion , Nonfiction , Atheism , Essays , Classics , Science
Bertrand Russell
21.6K 4.01
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Short Stories , Comedy , Humor , Audiobook
David Sedaris
2000 710.6K 4.01
All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Nonfiction , Humor , Self Help , Philosophy , Essays , Inspirational , Short Stories
Robert Fulghum
1986 24.2K 4.00
Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death
Nonfiction , Feminism , Humor , Essays , Memoir , Audiobook , Comedy
Erin Gibson
2018 4.6K 4.00
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
Nonfiction , Feminism , Essays , Womens , Short Stories , Politics , Audiobook
Scarlett Curtis
2018 16.4K 4.00
Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Classics , Essays , Self Help , School , Audiobook
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1841 9.6K 4.00
S/Z: An Essay
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Theory , Literary Criticism , Essays , France , Criticism
Roland Barthes
1970 3.8K 4.00
The Pleasure of the Text
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Theory , Literary Criticism , Essays , France , Writing
Roland Barthes
1973 5.7K 4.00
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Nonfiction , Essays , Philosophy , Medicine , Disability , Theory , Health
Susan Sontag
1989 7.1K 4.00
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
Nonfiction , Memoir , Humor , Audiobook , Essays , Biography , Comedy
W. Kamau Bell
2017 6.6K 4.00
The Face
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Philosophy , Biography , Short Stories , Buddhism
Ruth Ozeki
2015 3.0K 4.00
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
Nonfiction , Pop Culture , Tv , Film , Essays , History , Audiobook
Alan Sepinwall
2012 4.7K 4.00
Pulphead
Essays , Nonfiction , Short Stories , Journalism , Memoir , Music , Pop Culture , Book Club
John Jeremiah Sullivan
2011 7.9K 4.00
World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music
Music , Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Biography Memoir , Essays
Jeff Tweedy
2023 2.9K 4.00
I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
Nonfiction , Memoir , Self Help , Audiobook , Christian , Essays , Faith
Shauna Niequist
2022 13.1K 4.00
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Nonfiction , Humor , Self Help , Philosophy , Essays , Inspirational , Short Stories
Robert Fulghum
1986 24.2K 4.00
The Library at Night
Nonfiction , Books About Books , History , Essays , Philosophy , Literature , Memoir
Alberto Manguel
2006 3.9K 3.99
The Library at Night
Nonfiction , Books About Books , History , Essays , Philosophy , Literature , Memoir
Alberto Manguel
2006 3.9K 3.99
A History of Reading
Nonfiction , History , Books About Books , Essays , Literature , Philosophy , Writing
Alberto Manguel
1996 5.4K 3.99
My Body
Nonfiction , Memoir , Feminism , Audiobook , Essays , Biography , Womens
Emily Ratajkowski
2021 78.6K 3.99
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Classics , Nonfiction , Humor , Essays , Philosophy , Literature , Short Stories
Mark Twain
1882 5.4K 3.99
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Science , Nonfiction , Physics , Audiobook , Philosophy , Essays , Popular Science
Carlo Rovelli
2014 63.0K 3.99
Possible Side Effects
Memoir , Nonfiction , Humor , Essays , Short Stories , Biography , Biography Memoir
Augusten Burroughs
2006 48.0K 3.99
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
Writing , Nonfiction , Crafts , Reference , Literary Criticism , Literature , Essays
John Gardner
1984 6.2K 3.99
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Photography , Art , Nonfiction , Philosophy , Theory , Essays , France
Roland Barthes
1980 74.9K 3.99
How Fiction Works
Nonfiction , Writing , Literary Criticism , Books About Books , Essays , Criticism , Literature
James Wood
2008 7.8K 3.99
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Biography , Essays , Biography Memoir , Short Stories , Book Club
Maggie O'Farrell
2017 48.4K 3.99
Love's Work
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Biography , Love , Autobiography
Gillian Rose
1995 1.4K 3.98
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Nonfiction , Essays , Politics , Philosophy , Self Help , Psychology , Contemporary
Elif Shafak
2020 7.5K 3.98
Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Spirituality , Self Help , Religion , Audiobook
Anne Lamott
2021 10.5K 3.98
Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation
Feminism , Nonfiction , Essays , Womens Studies , Gender Studies , Gender , Politics
Barbara Findlen
1995 1.5K 3.98
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
History , American History , Nonfiction , American Revolution , Politics , American , Essays
Gordon S. Wood
2011 1.0K 3.98
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
Nonfiction , Essays , Audiobook , Journalism , Humor , Psychology , Short Stories
Jon Ronson
2012 15.1K 3.98
The Art of the Novel
Nonfiction , Writing , Essays , Literary Criticism , Literature , Czech Literature , Books About Books
Milan Kundera
1986 6.9K 3.98
It Chooses You
Nonfiction , Memoir , Art , Short Stories , Essays , Biography , Biography Memoir
Miranda July
2011 29.6K 3.98
The Writing Life
Writing , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Crafts , Biography , Art
Annie Dillard
1989 17.8K 3.98
Almost No Memory
Short Stories , Fiction , Literary Fiction , American , Contemporary , Literature , Essays
Lydia Davis
1997 1.3K 3.98
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Science , Nonfiction , Philosophy , Religion , Essays , Biology , Atheism
Richard Dawkins
2003 7.9K 3.98
Intimations
Nonfiction , Essays , Memoir , Short Stories , Audiobook , Contemporary , Biography
Zadie Smith
2020 28.1K 3.98
Existentialism is a Humanism
Philosophy , Nonfiction , Classics , France , Essays , Theory , French Literature
Jean-Paul Sartre
1946 42.6K 3.98
Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
Humor , Nonfiction , Memoir , Essays , Biography , Comedy , Audiobook , Book Club
Laurie Notaro
2022 13.7K 3.97
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
Queer , Nonfiction , LGBT , Essays , Transgender , Gender , Memoir
S. Bear Bergman
2009 1.0K 3.97
Swimming Studies
Nonfiction , Memoir , Sports , Essays , Art , Biography , Biography Memoir
Leanne Shapton
2012 2.3K 3.97
Listen, Little Man!
Philosophy , Psychology , Nonfiction , Politics , Classics , Psychoanalysis , Essays
Wilhelm Reich
1946 8.7K 3.97
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Nonfiction , Essays , Audiobook , Pop Culture , Tv , Criticism , Feminism
Emily Nussbaum
2019 6.5K 3.97
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
Humor , Music , Nonfiction , Essays , Comedy , Audiobook , Rock N Roll , Adult
Dave Barry
1997 2.6K 3.97
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
Nonfiction , Memoir , Audiobook , Humor , Essays , Biography , Mental Health
Rachel Bloom
2020 15.2K 3.97
Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
Nonfiction , Politics , History , Audiobook , Essays , Cultural , Memoir
Nellie Bowles
2024 2.3K 3.97