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Books like Painting as a pastime

Loved Painting as a pastime by Winston S. Churchill? 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

    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

  4. 4

    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

  5. 5

    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

  6. 6

    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

  7. 7

    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

  8. 8

    Philosophical essays

    Bertrand Russell · 1910 · Essays

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

  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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