7 Top nonfiction books like A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

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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,…

"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"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

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of We Should All Be Feminists by None, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1. We Should All Be Feminists

By: None , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.40

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a… read more

Similar categories in None's We Should All Be Feminists book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"I am just as human as the man."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"Both men and women will say: “I did it for peace in my marriage."

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

"It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally"

-None, We Should All Be Feminists

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2. Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Alternate editions can be found here and here. A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and … read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • classics
"Never,"

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"You are human and fallible."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Conventionality is not morality."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."

-Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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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

Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 20th century
  • writing
  • womens
"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

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4. Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE. At the centre of this novel is the passi… read more

Similar categories in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • classics
"Terror made me cruel . . ."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"He’s more myself than I am"

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

"She burned too bright for this world."

-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

5. The Stranger

By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more

Similar categories in Albert Camus's The Stranger book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • philosophy
  • classics
  • 20th century
"It is better to burn than to disappear."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

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6. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

Similar categories in Virginie Despentes's King Kong théorie book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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7. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • feminism
  • classics
"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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8. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Plath's Ariel book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • classics
  • literature
  • feminism
  • 20th century
  • womens
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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9. White Nights

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more

Similar categories in Fyodor Dostoevsky's White Nights book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • philosophy
  • classics
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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10. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

Similar categories in Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • classics
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • writing
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

11. 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

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • classics
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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12. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • feminism
  • womens
  • classics
  • philosophy
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13. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's Giovanni’s Room book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • classics
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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14. The Bell Jar

By: Sylvia Plath

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • feminism
"I woke to the sound of rain."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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15. The Metamorphosis

By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold

3.88

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more

Similar categories in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • philosophy
  • classics
"Oh, God"

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"I only fear danger where I want to fear it."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

16. Emma

By: Jane Austen , Fiona Stafford

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.' Beaut… read more

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17. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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18. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Happening book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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19. Just Kids

By: Patti Smith

4.21

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more

Similar categories in Patti Smith's Just Kids book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • nonfiction
"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

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20. The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth… read more

Similar categories in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • classics
"To define is to limit."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"All art is quite useless."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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21. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

Similar categories in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein: The 1818 Text book and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own

  • literature
  • classics
"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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4.40

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4.21

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Virginie Despentes

4.01

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4.19

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Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Elif Batuman

3.66

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