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Books like Prejudices

Loved Prejudices by H. L. Mencken? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from essays, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Fire Next Time

    James Baldwin · 1963 · Essays

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

  2. 2

    Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Joan Didion · 1968 · Essays

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

  3. 3

    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

  4. 4

    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

  5. 5

    Philosophical essays

    Bertrand Russell · 1910 · Essays

    "This collection was first published in 1917 in Great Britain."

  6. 6

    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

  7. 7

    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

  8. 8

    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

  9. 9

    Pluralistic Universe

    William James · 1908 · Essays

    Lectures on the advantages of using radical empiricism (pluralism) when trying to relate entities in the absolute to the absolute.

  10. 10

    SPIRITS REBELLIOUS

    Kahlil Gibran · 1908 · Essays

    "'Illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author.'"

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