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Loved Selected literary criticism by D. H. Lawrence? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from essays, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    The Fire Next Time

    James Baldwin · 1963 · Essays

    Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.

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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Joan Didion · 1968 · Essays

    Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.

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    Edvard Munch

    Edvard Munch · 1927 · Essays

    Während eines achtmonatigen Aufenthalts in dem Sanatorium von Dr. Daniel Jacobsen in Kopenhagen verwandelt Munch sein Krankenzimmer in ein Atelier und entwickelt einen neuen extrovertierteren und expr

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    The Road to Serfdom

    Friedrich A. von Hayek · 1944 · Essays

    A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century.

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    Between man and man

    Martin Buber · 1947 · Essays

    Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one b

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    Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein

    György Lukács · 1923 · Essays

    History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (German: Geschichte und Klassenbewußtsein – Studien über marxistische Dialektik) is a 1923 book by the Hungarian philosopher György Lukác

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    Painting as a pastime

    Winston S. Churchill · 1921 · Essays

    "'Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely' The perfect antidote to the depression that blighted his working life, Sir Winston Churchill took to painting with gusto following his ejection

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    Prejudices

    H. L. Mencken · 1919 · Essays

    Mencken, with his acerbic wit and tongue planted permanently near if not in cheek, laments a world where some feel that all original criticism has been done. New ideas are old ideas with new vocabular

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    Roads to Freedom

    Bertrand Russell · 1918 · Essays

    THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plat

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    Makura no sōshi

    Sei Shōnagon · 1917 · Essays

    A fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observa

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