Books like Essays

12 books to read next

• A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit 3.9 h
• Against Interpretation Susan Sontag, Tavia Gilbert 5.6 h
• The Defendant G. K. Chesterton 2.4 h
• Literary Criticism Charles E. Bressler 5.9 h
• The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent Lionel Trilling 10.7 h
• My Belief Hermann Hesse 7.2 h
• The New Feminist Criticism Elaine Showalter 7.4 h
• The Critical Tradition David H. Richter 30.4 h
• The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth West, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, G. V. Desani, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Kamala Markandaya, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Ved Mehta, Anita Desai, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Satyajit Ray, Padma Perera, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Rohinton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, I. Allan Sealey, Shashi Tharoor, Sara Suleri, Firdaus Kanga, Anjana Appachana, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Githa Hariharan, Gita Mehta, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Ardashir Vakil, Mukul Kesavan, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai 10.1 h
• A Devil's Chaplain Richard Dawkins 5.6 h
• The Holt Guide to English William F. Irmscher 10.0 h
• The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo 6.9 h

How long each takes

A Field Guide to Getting Lost Rebecca Solnit 3.9 h Against Interpretation Susan Sontag, Tavia Gilbert 5.6 h The Defendant G. K. Chesterton 2.4 h Literary Criticism Charles E. Bressler 5.9 h The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent Lionel Trilling 10.7 h My Belief Hermann Hesse 7.2 h The New Feminist Criticism Elaine Showalter 7.4 h The Critical Tradition David H. Richter 30.4 h The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth West, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, G. V. Desani, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Kamala Markandaya, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Ved Mehta, Anita Desai, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Satyajit Ray, Padma Perera, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Rohinton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, I. Allan Sealey, Shashi Tharoor, Sara Suleri, Firdaus Kanga, Anjana Appachana, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Githa Hariharan, Gita Mehta, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Ardashir Vakil, Mukul Kesavan, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai 10.1 h A Devil's Chaplain Richard Dawkins 5.6 h The Holt Guide to English William F. Irmscher 10.0 h The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo 6.9 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.