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Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods - Otegha Uwagba
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods
Let Me Tell You What I Mean - Joan Didion
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Household Papers and Stories - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Household Papers and Stories
I Hate Men - Pauline Harmange
I Hate Men
We'll Laugh About This Someday: Essays on Taking Life a Smidge Too Seriously - Anna Lind Thomas
We'll Laugh About This Someday: Essays on Taking Life a Smidge Too Seriously
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived - Leslie Jordan
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
Notes on Grief - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Notes on Grief
My Inner Sky: On embracing day, night and all the times in between - Mari Andrew
My Inner Sky: On embracing day, night and all the times in between
Apsara Griha - মামণি ৰয়ছম গোস্বামী
Apsara Griha
How to Bliss - Adam Martin
How to Bliss
In Praise of Retreat - Kirsteen MacLeod
In Praise of Retreat
Adhalekha Dostabez - Mamoni Raisom Goswami
Adhalekha Dostabez
Manasukharayana Manasu - Srinivas Vaidya
Manasukharayana Manasu
Had I Known: Collected Essays - Barbara Ehrenreich
Had I Known: Collected Essays
When You Find Out the World is Against You - Kelly Oxford
When You Find Out the World is Against You
Sunshine State - Sarah Gerard
Sunshine State
A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself - Brigid Lowry
A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself
A Really Big Lunch - Jim Harrison
A Really Big Lunch
Translating Myself and Others - Jhumpa Lahiri
Translating Myself and Others
Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking - Marianne Eloise
Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
Making a Scene - Constance Wu
Making a Scene
The Philosophy of Modern Song - Bob Dylan
The Philosophy of Modern Song
This Will Be My Undoing - Morgan Jerkins
This Will Be My Undoing
So You Want to Talk about Race - Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want to Talk about Race
Don't Call Me Princess - Peggy Orenstein
Don't Call Me Princess
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life - Megan Stielstra
The Wrong Way to Save Your Life
Pain Studies - Lisa Olstein
Pain Studies
My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings - Zosia Mamet
My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings
Dead Girls - Alice Bolin
Dead Girls
Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words - Kimberly Harrington
Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) - Rebecca Solnit
Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
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
Bookends - Michael Chabon
Bookends
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud - Anne Helen Petersen
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
Kitchen Yarns - Ann Hood
Kitchen Yarns
On Being 40(ish) -
On Being 40(ish)
Idiot: Life Stories From the Creator of Help Helen Smash - Laura Clery
Idiot: Life Stories From the Creator of Help Helen Smash
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence -
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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
Wilderness Essays - John Muir
Wilderness Essays
Notes To Self - Emilie Pine
Notes To Self
Constellations: Reflections From Life - Sinéad Gleeson
Constellations: Reflections From Life
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being - Amy Fung
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being
I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays - Michael Arceneaux
I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays
Time Lived, Without Its Flow - Denise Riley
Time Lived, Without Its Flow
House Lessons: Renovating A Life - Erica Bauermeister
House Lessons: Renovating A Life
Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations - Jonny Sun
Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency - Olivia Laing
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency