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101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

A Confession
Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1880

A Defence of Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1840

Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1966

A Hanging
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1931

Ain't I A Woman
Sojourner Truth

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1851

Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1981

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Allegory Of The Cave
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
Robert Fulghum

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1986

America and I
Anzia Yezierska

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1922

American Like Me
America Ferrera

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

A Message to Garcia
Elbert Hubbard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1899

A Model of Christian Charity
John Winthrop

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1838

A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1729

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
John Dryden

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1668

An Image of Africa
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859

Apology
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

A Quilt of a Country
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2001

Areopagitica
John Milton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1644

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1929

Ars Poetica
Horace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1991

A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 269

A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1988

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1997

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

A Talk to Teachers
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1963

Atlanta Exposition Speech
Booker T. Washington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1895

Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education
Matthew L. Sanders

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2012

Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1920

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

Borderlands La Frontera
Gloria E. Anzaldua

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1932

Checkers
Richard Nixon

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1952

China in Ten Words
Yu Hua

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

Cicero: On Duties (De Officiis)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | BCE

Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1849

Common Sense
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1776

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1850

Conjectures and Refutations
Karl Popper

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1963

Consider The Lobster
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2004

Constitution of United States of America
Constitutional Convention

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1787

Crito
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Cross of Gold
William Jennings Bryan, Robert W. Cherny

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1896

David Walker's Appeal
David Harry Walker

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1995

Day of Infamy Speech
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2017

Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1848

De Profundis
Oscar Wilde

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1905

Dispatches
Michael Herr

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Divinity School Address
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1838

Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1863

Enemies from Within Speech
Joseph McCarthy

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1950

Euthyphro
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Executive Order 9066
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942

Exile and Pride
Eli Clare

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

Existentialism is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1972

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

For the Equal Rights Amendment
Shirley Chisholm

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1970

Four Freedoms Speech
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

George Washington's Farewell Address
George Washington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1796

Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1863

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1775

Go Carolina
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2000

Good Energy
Casey Means

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2024

Here Is New York
E. B. White

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1948

High Tide in Tucson
Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1995

Hōjōki: Visions of a Torn World
Kamo no Chōmei

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1212

Hope, Despair and Memory
Elie Wiesel

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1986

Hope In The Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Hope Speech
Harvey Milk

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1978

House Divided Speech
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1858

How It Feels To Be Colored Me
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1928

How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1926

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
Kiese Laymon

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2013

How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Gloria Anzaldua

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1987

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
Slavenka Drakulić

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1992

I Am Prepared to Die
Nelson Mandela

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1964

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1979

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'Brien

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1973

I Have A Dream Speech
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1973

In Praise of Shadows
Transl. Edward G. Seidensticker, Jun’Ichirō Tanizaki, Transl. Thomas J. Harper

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1933

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Alice Walker

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1983

Ion
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read
Leonard E. Read

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1958

Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Nicholas Carr

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2008

I've Been to the Mountaintop
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1968

I Will Fight No More Forever
Chief Joseph

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1877

J'Accuse
Émile Zola

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1898

John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1961

Letter From Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1963

Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Galileo Galilei

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1615