All I Feel Is Rivers: Dervish Essays
By: Robert Vivian
4.41
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
3. A Room of One’s Own
By: Virginia Woolf
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more
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"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
4. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
By: Brianna Wiest
3.76
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writi… read more
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"Hold yourself to your standard."-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
"Anything other than ideal is not failure. It’s life."-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
"We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger, too"-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
"There are two mindsets people tend to have: explorer or settler. Our society has a “settler"-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
5. The Days of Abandonment
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.87
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its… read more
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"I'm dead, but I'm fine."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
"Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision."-Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment
6. Things I Don't Want to Know
By: Deborah Levy
4.09
Format: 109 pages, Hardcover
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more
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"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know
7. Gift from the Sea
By: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this inimitable, beloved classic--graceful, lucid and lyrical--Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her … read more
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8. Meditations of John Muir
By: John Muir , Chris Highland
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Editor Chris Highland pairs 60 insightful Muir quotes with selections from other celebrated thinker… read more
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9. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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10. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
11. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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12. Outline
By: Rachel Cusk
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more
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13. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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14. Journal of a Solitude
By: May Sarton
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Paperback
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' l… read more
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15. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more
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16. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.79
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more
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"Never be daunted"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"I am always in love."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
17. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Joanna Biggs
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more
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"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
18. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
19. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
By: Joan Didion
3.84
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more
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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean
20. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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21. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
By: Deborah Levy
4.29
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more
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"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)
22. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
By: Deborah Levy
4.18
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more
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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
23. My Body
By: Emily Ratajkowski
4.01
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity. Emily Ratajkowski… read more
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"I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find it. (Buying Myself Back)"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. (Me…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"I was also ashamed. I hated myself for trying to impress you. It didn’t feel as if I’d hustled you to get on in life. Instead, it felt as if I’d betrayed and fetishized myself to be appealing to you.…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were th…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
24. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
25. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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26. All I Feel Is Rivers: Dervish Essays
By: Robert Vivian
4.41
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
All I Feel is Rivers is a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose… read more
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