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Essays

26 books

Must-Read 1961

An Experiment in Criticism

C.S. Lewis

Must-Read 1800

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Must-Read 1933

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

Must-Read 1968

Essays

George Orwell

Must-Read 1848

Essays and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Must-Read 1938

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Must-Read 1836

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Must-Read 1961

Nobody Knows My Name

James Baldwin

Must-Read 1955

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

Must-Read 1968

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

Must-Read 2020

The Abolition of Man

C.S. Lewis

Must-Read 1925

The Common Reader

Virginia Woolf

Must-Read 2024

The White Album

Joan Didion

Must-Read 2005

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

Must-Read 1854

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Recommended 2005

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit

Recommended 2011

Arguably

Christopher Hitchens

Recommended 2015

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Recommended

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Recommended

Hell's Angels

Hunter S. Thompson

Recommended 2001

Letters to a Young Contrarian

Christopher Hitchens

Recommended 1900

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

Recommended

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

Recommended

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Recommended 2000

Wanderlust

Rebecca Solnit

Recommended 2002

Why Orwell Matters

Christopher Hitchens