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The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1891

The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1903

The Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1869

The Talented Tenth
W. E. B. Du Bois

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1903

The Tragedy of the Commons
Garrett James Hardin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1968

The Uncanny
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1919

The Way To Wealth
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1758

The White Album
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1979

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1935

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie Mcmillan Cottom

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

This is Water
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009

Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1938

Total Eclipse
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1982

To the Public
William Lloyd Garrison

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1831

Tradition and the Individual Talent
T. S. Eliot

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1919

Tragedy and the Common Man
Arthur Miller

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1949

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Truman Doctrine
Harry Truman

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1947

Undoing Gender
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1861

Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Laura Mulvey

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

We Shall Fight on the Beaches
Winston Churchill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1940

We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2014

What Is Enlightenment?
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1784

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Thomas Nagel

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1974

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1852

Where We Stand: Class Matters
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2000

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1989

Why I Am Not a Christian
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1927

Why We Crave Horror Movies
Stephen King

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1981

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of Spirit
Leslie Marmon Silko

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993