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Books like The Aran Islands

Loved The Aran Islands by J. M. Synge? 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

    Collected papers

    Sigmund Freud · 1906 · Essays

    Presents a selection of the important writings of the nineteenth-century psychiatrist, including "Psychopathology of Everyday Life," "The Interpretation of Dreams," and "Totem and Taboo."

  4. 4

    Adventures in Contentment

    David Grayson · 1907 · Essays

    This, I am firmly convinced, is a strange world, as strange a one as I

  5. 5

    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.

  6. 6

    SPIRITS REBELLIOUS

    Kahlil Gibran · 1908 · Essays

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

  7. 7

    Unpopular Essays

    Bertrand Russell · 1901 · Essays

    A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written

  8. 8

    Philosophical essays

    Bertrand Russell · 1910 · Essays

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

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    Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1895 · Essays

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was a prominent English painter and poet who helped found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, known for their non-arcade-mic approach to religious, moral, and medieval s

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    Little rivers

    Henry van Dyke · 1895 · Essays

    Early printing. Includes tinted black and white frontispiece and 7 additional tinted illustrations after drawings by F. V. DuMond. Top edge gilt, deckle edges. A signed Margaret Armstrong Art Nouveau

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