Personal essays

  1. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
    Let Me Tell You What I Mean Joan Didion
    3.8
  2. Household Papers and Stories
    Household Papers and Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe
  3. I Hate Men
    I Hate Men Pauline Harmange
    4.1
  4. We'll Laugh About This Someday: Essays on Taking Life a Smidge Too Seriously
    We'll Laugh About This Someday: Essays on Taking Life a Smidge Too Seriously Anna Lind Thomas
    3.7
  5. How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
    How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Leslie Jordan
    4.4
  6. Notes on Grief
    Notes on Grief Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    4.3
  7. My Inner Sky: On embracing day, night and all the times in between
    My Inner Sky: On embracing day, night and all the times in between Mari Andrew
    4.1
  8. Apsara Griha
    Apsara Griha মামণি ৰয়ছম গোস্বামী
  9. How to Bliss
    How to Bliss Adam Martin
    5
  10. In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World
    In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World Kirsteen MacLeod
    3
  11. Adhalekha Dostabez
    Adhalekha Dostabez Mamoni Raisom Goswami
    5
  12. Manasukharayana Manasu
    Manasukharayana Manasu Srinivas Vaidya
    4.9
  13. Had I Known: Collected Essays
    Had I Known: Collected Essays Barbara Ehrenreich
    4.7
  14. When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments
    When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments Kelly Oxford
    4.4
  15. Sunshine State: Essays
    Sunshine State: Essays Sarah Gerard
    5
  16. A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself: & Other Essays
    A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself: & Other Essays Brigid Lowry
    4.6
  17. A Really Big Lunch
    A Really Big Lunch Jim Harrison
    3.5
  18. Translating Myself and Others
    Translating Myself and Others Jhumpa Lahiri
    4
  19. Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
    Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking Marianne Eloise
    3.7
  20. Making a Scene
    Making a Scene Constance Wu
    3.5
  21. The Philosophy of Modern Song
    The Philosophy of Modern Song Bob Dylan
    4
  22. This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
    This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America Morgan Jerkins
    3.3
  23. So You Want to Talk about Race
    So You Want to Talk about Race Ijeoma Oluo
    4.4
  24. Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life
    Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life Peggy Orenstein
    3.9
  25. The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays
    The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays Megan Stielstra
    3.8
  26. ‘What’s Wrong With Me?’: 101 Things Midlife Women Need to Know
    ‘What’s Wrong With Me?’: 101 Things Midlife Women Need to Know Lorraine Candy
    4.5
  27. Pain Studies
    Pain Studies Lisa Olstein
    5
  28. My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings
    My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings Zosia Mamet
  29. The God Desire
    The God Desire David Baddiel
    4.1
  30. Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
    Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession Alice Bolin
    3.5
  31. Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
    Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words Kimberly Harrington
    3
  32. I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
    I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays Bassey Ikpi
    3.9
  33. Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
    Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) Rebecca Solnit
    4.2
  34. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
    What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Damon Young
    3.1
  35. Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros
    Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros Michael Chabon
    5
  36. Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food
    Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food Ann Hood
    3.3
  37. On Being 40(ish)
    On Being 40(ish)
    3.9
  38. Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash
    Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash Laura Clery
    4.6
  39. 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
    3.9
  40. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
    Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Jia Tolentino
    4.1
  41. More Than Pretty: Do the Soul Work that Uncovers Your True Beauty
    More Than Pretty: Do the Soul Work that Uncovers Your True Beauty Erica Campbell
    3
  42. Wilderness Essays
    Wilderness Essays John Muir
    4.3
  43. Notes To Self
    Notes To Self Emilie Pine
    4.5
  44. Constellations: Reflections From Life
    Constellations: Reflections From Life Sinéad Gleeson
    4.5
  45. I Don't Want to Die Poor
    I Don't Want to Die Poor Michael Arceneaux
    3.4
  46. Time Lived, Without Its Flow
    Time Lived, Without Its Flow Denise Riley
    4
  47. House Lessons: Renovating A Life
    House Lessons: Renovating A Life Erica Bauermeister
    4.5
  48. Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
    Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations Jonny Sun
    4
  49. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
    Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Olivia Laing
    4.2
  50. Survival of the Thickest: Essays
    Survival of the Thickest: Essays Michelle Buteau
    3