Essays

Great minds share their sharpest observations and most compelling arguments through the intimate art of the essay, exploring everything from creativity and culture to philosophy and the peculiarities of modern life. Whether wrestling with life's biggest questions or finding profound meaning in everyday moments, these carefully crafted pieces invite readers to see the world through fresh eyes.

Essays Book Summaries

Lost in Thought

by Zena Hitz • 2020

The intellectual life as a secret refuge: why the best thinking happens far from ambition.

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💭 Life Of The Mind 🧘 Contemplative Life 📖 Defenses Of Reading ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Christian Humanism

Lost in Thought

The intellectual life as a secret refuge: why the best thinking happens far from ambition.

by Zena Hitz 2020 240 pages

3.64

1k+ ratings

💭 Life Of The Mind 🧘 Contemplative Life 📖 Defenses Of Reading ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Christian Humanism

Book Lust

by Nancy Pearl • 2003

What to read next, organized not by genre but by how you feel right now.

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🧭 Book Discovery 🎭 Mood-Based Reading 🧠 Bibliotherapy 📚 Book Lists 🔍 Hidden Gems

Book Lust

What to read next, organized not by genre but by how you feel right now.

by Nancy Pearl 2003 287 pages

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3k+ ratings

🧭 Book Discovery 🎭 Mood-Based Reading 🧠 Bibliotherapy 📚 Book Lists 🔍 Hidden Gems

Love That Story

by Jonathan Van Ness • 2022

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

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📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 💊 Hiv Advocacy 🌿 Cannabis Reform

Love That Story

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

by Jonathan Van Ness 2022 256 pages

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7k+ ratings

📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 💊 Hiv Advocacy 🌿 Cannabis Reform

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

by Dan Savage • 2002

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

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🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

by Dan Savage 2002 320 pages

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3k+ ratings

🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

We Do This 'til We Free Us

by Mariame Kaba • 2021

The carceral system works as designed. It is not broken. Abolition is the alternative.

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🔓 Prison Abolition 🌱 Transformative Justice 🫂 Restorative Justice 🤲 Collective Care 🔗 Intersectional Organizing

We Do This 'til We Free Us

The carceral system works as designed. It is not broken. Abolition is the alternative.

by Mariame Kaba 2021 240 pages

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6k+ ratings

🔓 Prison Abolition 🌱 Transformative Justice 🫂 Restorative Justice 🤲 Collective Care 🔗 Intersectional Organizing

La felicidad

by Gabriel Rolón • 2023

The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.

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🎭 Critique Of Happiness 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🏛️ Cultural Critique 🛒 Consumerism Critique

La felicidad

The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.

by Gabriel Rolón 2023 299 pages

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1k+ ratings

🎭 Critique Of Happiness 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🏛️ Cultural Critique 🛒 Consumerism Critique

Musonius Rufus

by Musonius Rufus

Why farmers make better philosophers than professors, and women need philosophy as much as men.

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🏛️ Stoic Philosophy 🧭 Practical Ethics 🧘 Simple Living 🛡️ Inner Resilience 💊 Philosophy As Therapy

Musonius Rufus

Why farmers make better philosophers than professors, and women need philosophy as much as men.

by Musonius Rufus 102 pages

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500+ ratings

🏛️ Stoic Philosophy 🧭 Practical Ethics 🧘 Simple Living 🛡️ Inner Resilience 💊 Philosophy As Therapy

Age of Anger

by Pankaj Mishra • 2017

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

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🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique 🚩 Nationalism 💥 Political Violence

Age of Anger

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

by Pankaj Mishra 2017 416 pages

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique 🚩 Nationalism 💥 Political Violence

Between You & Me

by Mary Norris • 2015

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

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📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

Between You & Me

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

by Mary Norris 2015 240 pages

3.61

6k+ ratings

📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

On Muscle

by Bonnie Tsui • 2025

The tissue that moves you also makes you: muscle's hidden role in joy, identity, and resilience.

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🧬 Muscle Biology 🏋️ Exercise Science 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🧠 Embodied Cognition 💪 Gender And Strength

On Muscle

The tissue that moves you also makes you: muscle's hidden role in joy, identity, and resilience.

by Bonnie Tsui 2025 256 pages

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1k+ ratings

🧬 Muscle Biology 🏋️ Exercise Science 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🧠 Embodied Cognition 💪 Gender And Strength

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

by Thomas Sowell • 2005

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

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⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

by Thomas Sowell 2005 372 pages

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9k+ ratings

⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Design Your Work

by Tiago Forte • 2017

Notes are for thinking, not storing. Tools that extend the mind give you the real edge.

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🧠 Digital Tools For Thinking 🎯 Attention Management 📝 Note-Taking Systems 🔄 Habit Formation 🧪 Self-Experimentation

Design Your Work

Notes are for thinking, not storing. Tools that extend the mind give you the real edge.

by Tiago Forte 2017 303 pages

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194 ratings

🧠 Digital Tools For Thinking 🎯 Attention Management 📝 Note-Taking Systems 🔄 Habit Formation 🧪 Self-Experimentation

Ask a Pro

by Phil Gaimon • 2017

What if you trained like an animal and got paid in free bikes and hotel sandwiches?

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🚴 Pro Cycling Life 🎭 Insider Memoirs 🗣️ No-Nonsense Advice 🩺 Doping In Sports 👥 Group Ride Culture

Ask a Pro

What if you trained like an animal and got paid in free bikes and hotel sandwiches?

by Phil Gaimon 2017 216 pages

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500+ ratings

🚴 Pro Cycling Life 🎭 Insider Memoirs 🗣️ No-Nonsense Advice 🩺 Doping In Sports 👥 Group Ride Culture

Penguin Celebrations - The Science of Everyday Life

by Jay Ingram • 1989

What walking, blinking, and bees reveal about physics, evolution, and your own brain.

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Penguin Celebrations - The Science of Everyday Life

What walking, blinking, and bees reveal about physics, evolution, and your own brain.

by Jay Ingram 1989 200 pages

3.76

230 ratings

Unreliable Narrator

by Aparna Nancherla • 2023

Off stage, she was still performing. A comedian on the exhausting act of looking okay.

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🎤 Comedian Memoirs 🎭 Impostor Syndrome 😅 Depression And Humor 🤫 Introversion 🪞 Body Image

Unreliable Narrator

Off stage, she was still performing. A comedian on the exhausting act of looking okay.

by Aparna Nancherla 2023 289 pages

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1k+ ratings

🎤 Comedian Memoirs 🎭 Impostor Syndrome 😅 Depression And Humor 🤫 Introversion 🪞 Body Image

50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

by Daniele Bolelli • 2011

Undead popes, Buddhist warriors, and a spaghetti god: faith's irreverent, hidden history.

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🕌 Religious History ☸️ Comparative Religion ⚡ Institutional Religion 🃏 Religious Satire 🧬 New Atheism

50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

Undead popes, Buddhist warriors, and a spaghetti god: faith's irreverent, hidden history.

by Daniele Bolelli 2011 192 pages

4.00

227 ratings

🕌 Religious History ☸️ Comparative Religion ⚡ Institutional Religion 🃏 Religious Satire 🧬 New Atheism

You are Being Lied To

by Russ Kick • 2001

The institutions you trust most are filtering what you know. Here is how, and why.

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📰 Media Criticism 📜 Hidden Histories 📢 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Media Ecology 🏛️ Institutional Power

You are Being Lied To

The institutions you trust most are filtering what you know. Here is how, and why.

by Russ Kick 2001 350 pages

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📰 Media Criticism 📜 Hidden Histories 📢 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Media Ecology 🏛️ Institutional Power

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety

by Jen Lancaster • 2020

Never safer, never richer, never more anxious. The culprit: how we now eat, post, and parent.

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🪞 Cultural Anxiety 📖 Anxiety Memoirs 📱 Social Media Anxiety 🏆 Status Anxiety 📡 Attention Economy

Welcome to the United States of Anxiety

Never safer, never richer, never more anxious. The culprit: how we now eat, post, and parent.

by Jen Lancaster 2020 288 pages

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6k+ ratings

🪞 Cultural Anxiety 📖 Anxiety Memoirs 📱 Social Media Anxiety 🏆 Status Anxiety 📡 Attention Economy

Rooted

by Lyanda Lynn Haupt • 2021

A field guide to living on a troubled earth, where science, wildness, and spirit converge.

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🌿 Nature Writing 🌱 Ecological Spirituality 🌎 Environmental Philosophy 🌲 Forest Bathing 🐦 Animal Consciousness

Rooted

A field guide to living on a troubled earth, where science, wildness, and spirit converge.

by Lyanda Lynn Haupt 2021 240 pages

4.00

5k+ ratings

🌿 Nature Writing 🌱 Ecological Spirituality 🌎 Environmental Philosophy 🌲 Forest Bathing 🐦 Animal Consciousness

Imagine a City

by Mark Vanhoenacker • 2022

A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.

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🏙️ Urban Travel Writing ✈️ Aviation Memoirs 🧭 Sense Of Place 👁️ Urban Observation ✍️ Lyrical Nonfiction

Imagine a City

A pilot's repeated city layovers trace one hidden route: back to the small hometown he fled.

by Mark Vanhoenacker 2022 416 pages

3.65

422 ratings

🏙️ Urban Travel Writing ✈️ Aviation Memoirs 🧭 Sense Of Place 👁️ Urban Observation ✍️ Lyrical Nonfiction

Cook, Eat, Repeat

by Nigella Lawson • 2020

The case for brown food, anchovies, and leftovers: essays and recipes for pleasure without apology.

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🏠 Home Cooking 📖 Food Memoirs ✍️ Cooking Essays 😋 Food Pleasure 🌱 Seasonal Cooking

Cook, Eat, Repeat

The case for brown food, anchovies, and leftovers: essays and recipes for pleasure without apology.

by Nigella Lawson 2020 352 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏠 Home Cooking 📖 Food Memoirs ✍️ Cooking Essays 😋 Food Pleasure 🌱 Seasonal Cooking

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life

by Georgia Pritchett • 2021

An anxious Succession writer's memoir. Doom-notes. Therapy. A son who lost his words. Darkly funny.

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🧠 Anxiety Memoirs 🎤 Women In Comedy 📝 Vignette Memoir 🖤 Dark Humor 🇬🇧 British Humor

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life

An anxious Succession writer's memoir. Doom-notes. Therapy. A son who lost his words. Darkly funny.

by Georgia Pritchett 2021 293 pages

3.82

6k+ ratings

🧠 Anxiety Memoirs 🎤 Women In Comedy 📝 Vignette Memoir 🖤 Dark Humor 🇬🇧 British Humor

What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

by Erwin Schrödinger • 1944

Genes should fall apart. Quantum mechanics explained their permanence and launched the hunt for DNA.

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🧬 Quantum Biology 🧫 Molecular Biology 🔄 Order And Complexity 🌡️ Thermodynamics Of Life 📜 Classic Science Essays

What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

Genes should fall apart. Quantum mechanics explained their permanence and launched the hunt for DNA.

by Erwin Schrödinger 1944 184 pages

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7k+ ratings

🧬 Quantum Biology 🧫 Molecular Biology 🔄 Order And Complexity 🌡️ Thermodynamics Of Life 📜 Classic Science Essays

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

by Stuart Ross • 2022

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

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🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance 📝 Writing As Therapy 🎤 Confessional Poetry

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

by Stuart Ross 2022 141 pages

3.84

189 ratings

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance 📝 Writing As Therapy 🎤 Confessional Poetry

Hard Questions on Global Educational Change

by Pasi Sahlberg • 2016

School reform keeps failing because America borrows the policies but not the systems behind them.

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📋 Education Policy 🌍 Comparative Education 🔄 School Reform 📝 Standardized Testing 👥 Teacher Collaboration

Hard Questions on Global Educational Change

School reform keeps failing because America borrows the policies but not the systems behind them.

by Pasi Sahlberg 2016 144 pages

4.12

17 ratings

📋 Education Policy 🌍 Comparative Education 🔄 School Reform 📝 Standardized Testing 👥 Teacher Collaboration

Find the Good

by Heather Lende • 2015

An obituary writer finds the secret to a good life hidden in messy, ordinary deaths she chronicles.

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💀 Obituary Writing 🤝 Community Connection ⏳ Mortality 🫴 Embracing Imperfection 🏘️ Ordinary Lives

Find the Good

An obituary writer finds the secret to a good life hidden in messy, ordinary deaths she chronicles.

by Heather Lende 2015 176 pages

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6k+ ratings

💀 Obituary Writing 🤝 Community Connection ⏳ Mortality 🫴 Embracing Imperfection 🏘️ Ordinary Lives

How to Dunk a Doughnut

by Len Fisher • 2002

A physicist unpacks the hidden forces inside a doughnut dunk, a boiled egg, and a boomerang.

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🧪 Everyday Science 🍞 Food Science 🔬 Applied Physics 🤔 Scientific Curiosity 🧠 Critical Thinking

How to Dunk a Doughnut

A physicist unpacks the hidden forces inside a doughnut dunk, a boiled egg, and a boomerang.

by Len Fisher 2002 272 pages

3.34

277 ratings

🧪 Everyday Science 🍞 Food Science 🔬 Applied Physics 🤔 Scientific Curiosity 🧠 Critical Thinking

Wit's End

by James Geary • 2018

Wit is the mind's way of connecting opposites, seeing past habit, and holding life lightly.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Humor 🎲 Verbal Play 🔗 Metaphor And Analogy 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Perceptual Illusion

Wit's End

Wit is the mind's way of connecting opposites, seeing past habit, and holding life lightly.

by James Geary 2018 128 pages

3.35

479 ratings

🧠 Philosophy Of Humor 🎲 Verbal Play 🔗 Metaphor And Analogy 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Perceptual Illusion

The Best Advice I Ever Got

by Katie Couric • 2011

CEOs, Olympians, and Oscar winners share the one piece of advice that changed their lives.

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🧭 Career Advice 📚 Curated Wisdom ⭐ Celebrity Wisdom 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏀 Bouncing Back

The Best Advice I Ever Got

CEOs, Olympians, and Oscar winners share the one piece of advice that changed their lives.

by Katie Couric 2011 320 pages

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3k+ ratings

🧭 Career Advice 📚 Curated Wisdom ⭐ Celebrity Wisdom 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏀 Bouncing Back

You Got Anything Stronger?

by Gabrielle Union • 2021

Perimenopause made Gabrielle Union want to die. Then her daughter taught her how to live.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 👩🏾‍💼 Invisible Labor 🖤 Anti-Blackness 🩺 Women's Health

You Got Anything Stronger?

Perimenopause made Gabrielle Union want to die. Then her daughter taught her how to live.

by Gabrielle Union 2021 242 pages

4.11

11k+ ratings

🎬 Celebrity Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 👩🏾‍💼 Invisible Labor 🖤 Anti-Blackness 🩺 Women's Health

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

by Curtis Smith • 2016

A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.

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📚 Literary Criticism ⚔️ War Literature 🔄 Postmodern Fiction 💔 Trauma And Narrative 🌌 Existentialism

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.

by Curtis Smith 2016 188 pages

4.27

41 ratings

📚 Literary Criticism ⚔️ War Literature 🔄 Postmodern Fiction 💔 Trauma And Narrative 🌌 Existentialism

Plato's Podcasts

by Mark Vernon • 2009

The ancients never podcasted, yet their advice on desire and resilience still outperforms self-help.

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📜 Applied Philosophy 🗣️ Socratic Dialogue 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🌿 Epicurean Simplicity 🤔 Skeptical Wisdom

Plato's Podcasts

The ancients never podcasted, yet their advice on desire and resilience still outperforms self-help.

by Mark Vernon 2009 224 pages

3.52

148 ratings

📜 Applied Philosophy 🗣️ Socratic Dialogue 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🌿 Epicurean Simplicity 🤔 Skeptical Wisdom

Batman, Superman, and Philosophy

by Nicolas Michaud • 2016

Marvel's Civil War as philosophy: the security-versus-liberty debate, and no one wins.

3.43

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🦸 Superhero Analysis 🔓 Civil Liberties 📖 Comic Book Studies

Batman, Superman, and Philosophy

Marvel's Civil War as philosophy: the security-versus-liberty debate, and no one wins.

by Nicolas Michaud 2016 288 pages

3.43

30 ratings

🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🦸 Superhero Analysis 🔓 Civil Liberties 📖 Comic Book Studies

All Things Aside

by Iliza Shlesinger • 2022

Modern womanhood is a series of scams. A comedian presents her receipts.

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🎤 Observational Comedy ♀️ Feminist Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 💄 Body Image Pressure 🤰 Modern Motherhood

All Things Aside

Modern womanhood is a series of scams. A comedian presents her receipts.

by Iliza Shlesinger 2022 256 pages

3.90

5k+ ratings

🎤 Observational Comedy ♀️ Feminist Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 💄 Body Image Pressure 🤰 Modern Motherhood

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault

by Cathy Guisewite • 2019

Aging parents, adult kids, and a swimsuit dressing room: 50 dispatches from midlife.

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🧾 Personal Essays 📗 Midlife Memoir 🪞 Body Image 👵 Aging Parents 💼 Modern Womanhood

Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault

Aging parents, adult kids, and a swimsuit dressing room: 50 dispatches from midlife.

by Cathy Guisewite 2019 336 pages

3.56

2k+ ratings

🧾 Personal Essays 📗 Midlife Memoir 🪞 Body Image 👵 Aging Parents 💼 Modern Womanhood

Susan Sontag

by Jonathan Cott • 1978

Intelligence as a pulse, illness as biology, art as a body: the complete Sontag interview.

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📝 Cultural Criticism 🏥 Illness Narratives 📷 Photography Criticism ✍️ Writer's Vocation ⚧️ Gender Stereotypes

Susan Sontag

Intelligence as a pulse, illness as biology, art as a body: the complete Sontag interview.

by Jonathan Cott 1978 168 pages

4.22

2k+ ratings

📝 Cultural Criticism 🏥 Illness Narratives 📷 Photography Criticism ✍️ Writer's Vocation ⚧️ Gender Stereotypes

Migrations to Solitude

by Sue Halpern • 1992

Hospitals, homes, monasteries: privacy is vanishing everywhere, and the cost is measured in dignity.

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108

🔐 Privacy Erosion ⚕️ Medical Ethics 🧘 Contemplative Solitude 🏚️ Homelessness 🕯️ End Of Life Care

Migrations to Solitude

Hospitals, homes, monasteries: privacy is vanishing everywhere, and the cost is measured in dignity.

by Sue Halpern 1992 224 pages

3.34

108 ratings

🔐 Privacy Erosion ⚕️ Medical Ethics 🧘 Contemplative Solitude 🏚️ Homelessness 🕯️ End Of Life Care

Scam Goddess

by Laci Mosley • 2024

A comedian's education in self-protection, from the scams hiding in church, work, beauty, and love.

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🎭 Con Artist Stories 🔍 Scam Awareness 🫀 Trusting Your Gut 🚧 Personal Boundaries 💄 Beauty Industry Critique

Scam Goddess

A comedian's education in self-protection, from the scams hiding in church, work, beauty, and love.

by Laci Mosley 2024 256 pages

3.99

1k+ ratings

🎭 Con Artist Stories 🔍 Scam Awareness 🫀 Trusting Your Gut 🚧 Personal Boundaries 💄 Beauty Industry Critique

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

by Gina Kolata • 2013

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

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159

🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

by Gina Kolata 2013 498 pages

3.62

159 ratings

🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

The Language of the Night

by Ursula K. Le Guin • 1979

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

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✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense 🎭 Art And Ethics 🧠 Jungian Psychology

The Language of the Night

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

by Ursula K. Le Guin 1979 304 pages

4.28

2k+ ratings

✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense 🎭 Art And Ethics 🧠 Jungian Psychology

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship

by The Oprah Magazine O • 2016

Love, friendship, and family remade: intimate stories about the connections that shape a life.

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🫂 Female Friendship 🏠 Chosen Family 💔 Love And Loss 📝 Essay Collections ✨ Inspirational Reflections

O's Little Book of Love & Friendship

Love, friendship, and family remade: intimate stories about the connections that shape a life.

by The Oprah Magazine O 2016 193 pages

3.63

242 ratings

🫂 Female Friendship 🏠 Chosen Family 💔 Love And Loss 📝 Essay Collections ✨ Inspirational Reflections

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse

by Alida Nugent • 2013

A degree, a childhood bedroom, a strip poker party: the twenties are mostly improvising.

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🌀 Quarterlife Crisis 🎓 Post-College Life 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 🪞 Body Image

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse

A degree, a childhood bedroom, a strip poker party: the twenties are mostly improvising.

by Alida Nugent 2013 208 pages

3.38

3k+ ratings

🌀 Quarterlife Crisis 🎓 Post-College Life 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor 📱 Millennial Experience 🪞 Body Image

The Stone Reader

by Peter Catapano • 2015

From the New York Times: 133 philosophers debate mind, morals, God, and the good life.

3.83

453

🌍 Public Philosophy 🔬 Philosophy Of Science ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics

The Stone Reader

From the New York Times: 133 philosophers debate mind, morals, God, and the good life.

by Peter Catapano 2015 816 pages

3.83

453 ratings

🌍 Public Philosophy 🔬 Philosophy Of Science ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics

More Baths, Less Talking

by Nick Hornby • 2012

A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.

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1k+

📚 Reading Memoirs 🐢 Slow Reading ✍️ Life And Letters 🗞️ Cultural Commentary 🤔 Everyday Philosophy

More Baths, Less Talking

A book column about what a middle-aged man actually read, not what he pretended to.

by Nick Hornby 2012 135 pages

3.88

1k+ ratings

📚 Reading Memoirs 🐢 Slow Reading ✍️ Life And Letters 🗞️ Cultural Commentary 🤔 Everyday Philosophy

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected

by Marcelo Gleiser • 2016

In a trout stream, a physicist discovers that the unknown is meaning's source, not its enemy.

4.06

176

🧪 Natural Philosophy 🕊️ Science And Spirituality 🎣 Fly-Fishing ❓ Limits Of Knowledge 🌿 Mindfulness In Nature

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected

In a trout stream, a physicist discovers that the unknown is meaning's source, not its enemy.

by Marcelo Gleiser 2016 192 pages

4.06

176 ratings

🧪 Natural Philosophy 🕊️ Science And Spirituality 🎣 Fly-Fishing ❓ Limits Of Knowledge 🌿 Mindfulness In Nature

We Need New Stories

by Nesrine Malik • 2021

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

4.02

500+

🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

We Need New Stories

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

by Nesrine Malik 2021 304 pages

4.02

500+ ratings

🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

Sound Within Sound

by Kate Molleson • 2022

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

4.34

181

🧪 Experimental Music 🗓️ 20th Century Music 👩 Women Composers 📜 Forgotten Composers 🔌 Electronic Music

Sound Within Sound

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

by Kate Molleson 2022 312 pages

4.34

181 ratings

🧪 Experimental Music 🗓️ 20th Century Music 👩 Women Composers 📜 Forgotten Composers 🔌 Electronic Music

And Never Stop Dancing

by Gordon Livingston • 2006

Thirty blunt truths: why anger hides sadness, forgiveness heals the giver, and passivity is a trap.

3.75

500+

🏛️ Stoic Resilience 🎭 Self-Deception 🕊️ Forgiveness 😶 Emotional Avoidance 🏠 Blended Families

And Never Stop Dancing

Thirty blunt truths: why anger hides sadness, forgiveness heals the giver, and passivity is a trap.

by Gordon Livingston 2006 208 pages

3.75

500+ ratings

🏛️ Stoic Resilience 🎭 Self-Deception 🕊️ Forgiveness 😶 Emotional Avoidance 🏠 Blended Families

Letters from Burma

by Aung San Suu Kyi • 1995

Compassion beats brutality in politics: a Nobel laureate's letters from house arrest in Burma.

3.90

1k+

🇲🇲 Burmese Politics ☸️ Engaged Buddhism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🔒 Political Prisoners ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

Letters from Burma

Compassion beats brutality in politics: a Nobel laureate's letters from house arrest in Burma.

by Aung San Suu Kyi 1995 209 pages

3.90

1k+ ratings

🇲🇲 Burmese Politics ☸️ Engaged Buddhism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🔒 Political Prisoners ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

Becoming Dangerous

by Katie West • 2018

When lipstick is armor and ritual is rebellion, simply existing destabilizes power.

4.01

1k+

🕯️ Feminist Spirituality 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Witchcraft ✨ Magical Resistance 🧠 Trauma Recovery 💪 Body Autonomy

Becoming Dangerous

When lipstick is armor and ritual is rebellion, simply existing destabilizes power.

by Katie West 2018 294 pages

4.01

1k+ ratings

🕯️ Feminist Spirituality 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Witchcraft ✨ Magical Resistance 🧠 Trauma Recovery 💪 Body Autonomy

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