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Genre Collection

Essays & Reflections

76 works by Atharva Inamdar in this genre. 2.4 million words.

Collection guide

How to read the Essays & Reflections collection

This page gathers every catalogued Essays & Reflections work currently listed on atharvainamdar.com. It is designed as a stable genre landing page, not a tag archive, so each title links to its canonical catalog record for cleaner discovery and citation.

The collection spans 2015 to 2025 and totals 2.4 million words. Use the cards below to compare publication year, word count, ISBN metadata where available, and the overall shape of this genre inside the larger 1,500+ book archive.

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76
Books
2.4M
Words
31,802
Avg Words
11

Dead Boy

2020 42,999 words
978-93-7184-328-7
40

The Loneliness of Being Understood

2018 31,971 words
978-93-7184-613-4
73

What I Talk About When I Talk About Failure

2024 35,050 words
978-93-7184-018-7
78

Unsolicited Advice from a Twenty-Something

2020 19,278 words
978-93-7184-342-3
111

What Happens When You Stop Pretending

2018 34,154 words
978-93-7184-845-9
121

The Problem with Being Fine

2022 38,237 words
978-93-7184-007-1
156

Letters I'll Never Send

2021 27,226 words
978-93-7184-833-6
176

The Privilege of an Ordinary Day

2017 27,106 words
978-93-7184-033-0
188

On the Other Side of Fear

2023 16,256 words
978-93-7184-647-9
195

What We Owe Each Other

2018 40,350 words
978-93-7184-132-0
196

Things I Wish I Knew at Eighteen

2020 33,967 words
978-93-7184-803-9
237

On Ambition and Exhaustion

2020 31,554 words
978-93-7184-215-0
252

The Case for Walking Away

2015 30,489 words
978-93-7184-262-4
268

On Growing Up Late

2017 17,717 words
978-93-7184-765-0
279

On Being Invisible

2020 41,349 words
978-93-7184-874-9
293

On Kindness as Rebellion

2020 40,026 words
978-93-7184-236-5
301

The Last Honest Conversation

2018 35,561 words
978-93-7184-736-0
319

The Art of Losing Gracefully

2022 32,841 words
978-93-7184-565-6
325

What I Found in the Wreckage

2022 38,693 words
978-93-7184-304-1
331

When Home Stops Feeling Like Home

2016 34,577 words
978-93-7184-239-6
368

The Cost of Keeping Secrets

2015 36,144 words
978-93-7184-127-6
418

What Nobody Tells the Youngest Child

2015 31,075 words
978-93-7184-254-9
430

What I Learned from Fifteen Rejection Letters

2021 33,496 words
978-93-7184-108-5
461

KAVAR

2016 42,619 words
978-93-7184-298-3
466

What the Mirror Doesn't Show

2017 39,406 words
978-93-7184-285-3
499

How to Sit with Discomfort

2021 26,316 words
978-93-7184-653-0
508

The Longest Conversation I Ever Had with Myself

2019 31,691 words
978-93-7184-862-6
519

The Education of a Dreamer

2016 42,963 words
978-93-7184-937-1
522

How to Breathe When the World Is on Fire

2020 41,459 words
978-93-7184-549-6
523

3:47 AM: A Collection

2021 33,315 words
978-93-7184-828-2
532

Effortless Joy

2018 22,679 words
978-93-7184-066-8
553

I Keep Your Photographs in a Folder Called Misc

2025 32,638 words
978-93-7184-042-2
564

The Collected Thoughts of a Restless Mind

2019 28,197 words
978-93-7184-986-9
591

My Life in Footnotes

2022 42,709 words
978-93-7184-300-3
614

How to Build a Life You Don't Need a Vacation From

2022 33,939 words
978-93-7184-456-7
621

Conversations with My Younger Self

2019 27,554 words
978-93-7184-336-2
662

On Quitting and Starting Over

2019 28,074 words
978-93-7184-610-3
687

The Year I Said No to Everything

2020 33,350 words
978-93-7184-751-3
702

Things Nobody Tells You About Turning Twenty-Five

2017 28,033 words
978-93-7184-109-2
723

What Happens After You Finish Crying

2022 39,686 words
978-93-7184-009-5
729

What I Lost and What I Found

2018 36,858 words
978-93-7184-960-9
743

When Everything Falls Apart (And You Don't)

2020 23,065 words
978-93-7184-107-8
753

The Weight of Expectations

2021 35,564 words
978-93-7184-177-1
756

When Grief Becomes Wallpaper

2021 18,365 words
978-93-7184-045-3
780

My Stare: A Collection

2024 19,809 words
978-93-7184-514-4
796

When You're Tired of Being Strong

2023 28,494 words
978-93-7184-756-8
813

I Was Wrong About Everything

2017 25,629 words
978-93-7184-747-6
815

How to Forgive Without Forgetting

2017 27,178 words
978-93-7184-500-7
823

Why I Stopped Apologizing

2020 23,670 words
978-93-7184-713-1
835

The Diary of an Overthinker

2024 21,062 words
978-93-7184-293-8
838

The Morning After the Worst Day

2023 34,702 words
978-93-7184-094-1
849

What Happens in the Space Between

2022 34,273 words
978-93-7184-436-9
864

How to Be Present in a World That Won't Shut Up

2023 42,089 words
978-93-7184-805-3
876

What Silence Sounds Like

2022 32,704 words
978-93-7184-996-8
885

How to Live with a Broken Thing

2020 20,124 words
978-93-7184-978-4
895

The Untold Story of My Twenties

2016 42,051 words
978-93-7184-851-0
898

The Simple Act of Showing Up

2019 38,683 words
978-93-7184-169-6
908

The Embarrassment of Being Earnest

2020 20,563 words
978-93-7184-893-0
952

What I Owe to the Darkness

2024 31,710 words
978-93-7184-195-5
971

How to Carry What You Can't Put Down

2016 19,767 words
978-93-7184-296-9
982

What We Talk About When We Avoid Talking

2022 34,042 words
978-93-7184-223-5
1005

Notes on Becoming

2020 40,038 words
978-93-48691-35-4
1006

The Confession

2019 38,558 words
978-93-48691-81-1
1008

On Wanting Too Much

2021 26,331 words
978-93-48691-20-0
1015

Notes from a Recovering Perfectionist

2019 39,405 words
978-93-48691-05-7
1027

The Noise Inside My Head

2020 38,365 words
978-93-48691-79-8
1049

On Being Wrong and Being Brave

2021 33,629 words
978-93-48691-22-4
1052

The Art of the Unfinished

2018 23,239 words
978-93-48691-24-8
1066

The Sunday Morning Letters

2023 37,293 words
978-93-48691-03-3
1098

How to Tell Your Parents You're Not Okay

2020 26,557 words
978-93-48218-08-7
1100

The Beautiful Mess of Being Human

2022 27,703 words
978-93-48218-96-4
1122

How to Move On When You Don't Want To

2024 40,024 words
978-93-48218-82-7
1137

How to Love a City That Doesn't Love You Back

2021 26,319 words
978-93-48218-19-3
1154

How to Disappear and Why

2018 42,975 words
978-93-48218-22-3
1158

What I Learned from Watching People Leave

2018 26,120 words
978-93-48218-47-6
1172

What Nobody Warned Me About Adulthood

2016 15,268 words
978-93-48218-81-0