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Books like Between man and man

Loved Between man and man by Martin Buber? 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.

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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.

  3. 3

    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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    The Human Condition

    Hannah Arendt · 1958 · Essays

    A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern hum

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    Selected literary criticism

    D. H. Lawrence · 1935 · Essays

    Contains the best of D.H. Lawrence's literary criticism.

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    A Grief Observed

    C. S. Lewis · 1961 · Essays

    Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the mid

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    Historias de cronopios y de famas

    Julio Cortázar · 1962 · Essays

    "The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions a

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    De Proust a Camus

    André Maurois · 1963 · Essays

    This book is the ideal introduction to modern French literature.

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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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    Conformity and conflict

    James P. Spradley · 1971 · Essays

    ""Seeks to teach students the importance of culture and its influence on human life. By including examples of Western, North American cultures, the text makes cultural understanding and comparison mor

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