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