Speeches / Essays / Poetry

18 Nonfiction Reading Prompts - hosted by seaglass

Read a collection of speeches or essays or poetry on any topic.

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Color
Countee Cullen

108 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging reflective medium-paced

Color

Countee Cullen

108 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging reflective medium-paced

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay with Roxane Gay (Narrator), xTx (Narrator), Brandon Taylor (Narrator), Emma Smith-Stevens (Narrator), AJ McKenna (Narrator), Lisa Mecham (Narrator), Vanessa Mártir (Narrator), Aubrey Hirsch (Narrator), Jill Christman (Narrator), Claire Schwartz (Narrator), Lynn Melnick (Narrator), Ally Sheedy (Narrator), Nora Salem (Narrator), Lyz Lenz (Narrator), Amy Jo Burns (Narrator), V.L. Seek (Narrator), Michelle Chen (Narrator), Gabrielle Union (Narrator), Liz Rosema (Narrator), Anthony Frame (Narrator), Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Narrator), Miriam Zoila Pérez (Narrator), Zoë Medeiros (Narrator), Sharisse Tracey (Narrator), Stacey May Fowles (Narrator), Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes (Narrator), Meredith Talusan (Narrator), Nicole Boyce (Narrator), Elissa Bassist (Narrator)

8 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay with Roxane Gay (Narrator), xTx (Narrator), Brandon Taylor (Narrator), Emma Smith-Stevens (Narrator), AJ McKenna (Narrator), Lisa Mecham (Narrator), Vanessa Mártir (Narrator), Aubrey Hirsch (Narrator), Jill Christman (Narrator), Claire Schwartz (Narrator), Lynn Melnick (Narrator), Ally Sheedy (Narrator), Nora Salem (Narrator), Lyz Lenz (Narrator), Amy Jo Burns (Narrator), V.L. Seek (Narrator), Michelle Chen (Narrator), Gabrielle Union (Narrator), Liz Rosema (Narrator), Anthony Frame (Narrator), Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Narrator), Miriam Zoila Pérez (Narrator), Zoë Medeiros (Narrator), Sharisse Tracey (Narrator), Stacey May Fowles (Narrator), Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes (Narrator), Meredith Talusan (Narrator), Nicole Boyce (Narrator), Elissa Bassist (Narrator)

8 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino

302 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging reflective medium-paced

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Jia Tolentino

302 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging reflective medium-paced

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Brené Brown

4 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction psychology inspiring medium-paced

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Brené Brown

4 hours, 12 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction psychology inspiring medium-paced

What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon

What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat
Aubrey Gordon

197 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced

What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat

Aubrey Gordon

197 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced

Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson

Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
Chelsea Hodson

224 pages • first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays memoir short stories reflective slow-paced

Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays

Chelsea Hodson

224 pages • first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

nonfiction essays memoir short stories reflective slow-paced

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis with Cornel West (Contributor), Frank Barat (Contributor)

180 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis with Cornel West (Contributor), Frank Barat (Contributor)

180 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Fifteen Poems
Leonard Cohen

54 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction music poetry informative reflective slow-paced

Fifteen Poems

Leonard Cohen

54 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction music poetry informative reflective slow-paced

The Philippines Is Not a Small Country by Gideon Lasco

The Philippines Is Not a Small Country
Gideon Lasco

228 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative reflective medium-paced

The Philippines Is Not a Small Country

Gideon Lasco

228 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative reflective medium-paced

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Toni Morrison

368 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Toni Morrison

368 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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