Essays
1580★ 9.3
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The Souls of Black Folk
1903★ 8.2
A Room of One's Own
1929★ 8.0
Notes of a Native Son
1955★ 7.9
The Fire Next Time
1963★ 7.8
The Pillow Book
1002★ 7.4
The Myth of Sisyphus
1942★ 7.2
On Photography
1977★ 7.1
Illuminations
1955★ 7.1
Letters from a Stoic
60★ 7.0
Essays in Idleness
1330★ 7.0
The Interpretation of Cultures
1973★ 7.0
Hojoki
1212★ 7.0
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
1968★ 7.0
The Captive Mind
1953★ 7.0
The Living Mountain
1977★ 6.9
Against Interpretation
1966★ 6.8
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
1882★ 6.8
The Subjection of Women
1869★ 6.8
The Vocation Lectures
1919★ 6.7
The Burden of Southern History
1960★ 6.7
The Uses of Literacy
1957★ 6.6
The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr
1971★ 6.6
The Labyrinth of Solitude
1950★ 6.5
The American Political Tradition
1948★ 6.5
Gravity and Grace
1943★ 6.5
The Book of Tea
1906★ 6.5
The Proper Study of Mankind
1997★ 6.4
Selected Non-Fictions
1999★ 6.4
Consider the Lobster
2007★ 6.3
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
1998★ 6.3
A Small Place
1988★ 6.2
But Beautiful
1991★ 6.2
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Writings
1741★ 6.1
A Sand County Almanac
1949★ 6.1
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
1974★ 6.0
The White Album
1979★ 5.9
Up in the Old Hotel
1992★ 5.7
Arguably
2011★ 5.6
The Sweet Science
1956★ 5.6