10 best-selling essays books like Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth

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Ain't I a Woman?

By: Sojourner Truth

4.17

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man …

If you liked the essays plot in Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

By: Toni Morrison

4.32

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more

Similar categories in Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination book and Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman?

  • feminism
  • african american
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"

-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."

-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"

-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

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2. Dream Work

By: Mary Oliver

4.35

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more

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  • womens
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

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3. Confessions of an English Opium Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey , Barry Milligan

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Cla… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

5. The Art of Happiness

By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach

4.19

Format: 294 pages, ebook

New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more

Similar categories in Epicurus's The Art of Happiness book and Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman?

  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • essays

6. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • classics
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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7. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays

8. On Natural Selection

By: Charles Darwin

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history

9. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

By: Henry David Thoreau

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in New England woods remains an inspirat… read more

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  • classics
  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens

11. Quicksand

By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more

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12. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself

By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more

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13. Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

3.80

Format: None pages,

Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Go… read more

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14. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

By: August Wilson

3.00

Format: 282 pages,

The time is 1927. The place is a rundown recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blue… read more

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15. Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Hawthorne's classic tale of a young Puritan's meeting with the Devil. read more

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16. Black No More

By: George S. Schuyler

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people … read more

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17. Up from Slavery

By: Booker T. Washington , Ishmael Reed

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slaver… read more

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18. Belonging: A Culture of Place

By: bell hooks

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

>What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can… read more

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19. Girl

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more

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20. Segu (Ségou, #1)

By: Maryse Condé

3.75

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the… read more

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21. Rappaccini's Daughter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

4.01

Format: 532 pages,

Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, "Rappaccini's Daughter" is an inspired tale of creation … read more

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22. Letter to a Child Never Born

By: Oriana Fallaci

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Published by Rizzoli in 1975, Letter to a Child Never Born was quickly translated and sold in twent… read more

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23. Rainbow History Class: Your Guide Through Queer and Trans History

By: Hannah McElhinney

4.54

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

As seen on Tiktok,  Rainbow History Class  is your entry into LGBTQ+ history, covering queer and tr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. Anarchist Communism (Penguin Great Ideas)

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

3.85

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

The humane yet devastating critique of how modern society is organized with the brutal few clinging… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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25. Die Freiheit, frei zu sein

By: Hannah Arendt

3.76

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

»Mein Thema heute, so fürchte ich, ist fast schon beschämend aktuell.« Was ist Freiheit, und was b… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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26. What Is Existentialism?

By: Simone de Beauvoir

3.91

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and … read more

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  • classics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
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27. The Garden of Time

By: J.G. Ballard

4.05

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • classics
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28. Ain't I a Woman?

By: Sojourner Truth

4.17

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man … read more

Similar categories in Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman? book and Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman?

  • classics
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • african american
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29. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

By: Clara Parkes

4.19

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

An account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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30. When I Dare to Be Powerful

By: Audre Lorde

4.40

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet,… read more

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  • classics
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
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31. From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine

By: Sai Englert

4.54

Format: 366 pages, ebook

In the final months of 2023, as this ebook is published, Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. I… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • essays

6 best-selling womens books like Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth

Transform Your Habits

Dream Work

Mary Oliver

4.35

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Transform Your Habits

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández

3.50

Transform Your Habits

What Is Existentialism?

Simone de Beauvoir

3.91

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8 must-read history books like The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

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Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

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The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

3.54

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