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10 bestAmerican Essays Centuriesof December 2024

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

9.9

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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric

Graywolf Press

9.8

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The White Album: Essays
The White Album: Essays

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

9.8

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Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain
Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain

Frances Lincoln

9.6

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My Back Pages: Reviews and Essays
My Back Pages: Reviews and Essays

9.5

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James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work
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9.3

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Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

Oxford University Press, USA

9.1

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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
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8.9

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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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8.7

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection: Collected Essays and Lectures: Nature, The American Scholar, Essays: First and Second Series, Representative Men, The Conduct of Life, English Traits
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