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Let Me Tell You What I Mean - Joan Didion
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being - Amy Fung
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being
My Life as a Villainess: Essays - Laura Lippman
My Life as a Villainess: Essays
So You Want to Talk about Race - Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want to Talk about Race
Lives of Houses - Hermione Lee, Kate Kennedy
Lives of Houses
Weird but Normal: Essays - Mia Mercado
Weird but Normal: Essays
Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them - Edan Lepucki
Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud - Anne Helen Petersen
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
More Than Pretty: Do the Soul Work that Uncovers Your True Beauty - Erica Campbell
More Than Pretty: Do the Soul Work that Uncovers Your True Beauty
A Perfect 10: The Truth About Things I'm Not and Never Will Be - Heather Land
A Perfect 10: The Truth About Things I'm Not and Never Will Be
Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) - Rebecca Solnit
Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
Kitchen Yarns - Ann Hood
Kitchen Yarns
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
Bad Feminist
House Lessons: Renovating A Life - Erica Bauermeister
House Lessons: Renovating A Life
A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World - John Rember
A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency - Olivia Laing
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
This Will Be My Undoing - Morgan Jerkins
This Will Be My Undoing
The Red Parts - Maggie Nelson
The Red Parts
Pain Studies - Lisa Olstein
Pain Studies
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life - Megan Stielstra
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life
Mantel Pieces - Hilary Mantel
Mantel Pieces
Constellations: Reflections From Life - Sinéad Gleeson
Constellations: Reflections From Life
I Don't Want to Die Poor - Michael Arceneaux
I Don't Want to Die Poor
Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words - Kimberly Harrington
Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
Wilderness Essays - John Muir
Wilderness Essays
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
I Hate Men - Pauline Harmange
I Hate Men
Women on Food: Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters - Charlotte Druckman
Women on Food: Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters
A Really Big Lunch - Jim Harrison
A Really Big Lunch
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence - Michele Filgate
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents - Various Authors
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
Don't Call Me Princess - Peggy Orenstein
Don't Call Me Princess
Sunshine State - Sarah Gerard
Sunshine State
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
When You Find Out the World is Against You - Kelly Oxford
When You Find Out the World is Against You
Incidental Inventions - Elena Ferrante
Incidental Inventions
Dead Girls - Alice Bolin
Dead Girls
On Being 40(ish) - Lindsey Mead
On Being 40(ish)
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays - Damon Young
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Of Color - Jaswinder Bolina
Of Color
Notes To Self - Emilie Pine
Notes To Self
Idiot: Life Stories From the Creator of Help Helen Smash - Laura Clery
Idiot: Life Stories From the Creator of Help Helen Smash