The Best Essay Collections Of All-Time
“What are the best Essay Collections of all-time?” We looked at 681 of the top Essay Collections, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
With nearly enough books to read one a day for two years, there is bound to be something here to pique your interest! The top 25 essay collects, all appearing on 3 or more of the lists we aggregated from, appear below with images, links, and descriptions. The remaining 600 plus titles, as well as the articles we used, are alphabetically listed at the bottom of the page.
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Top 25 Essay Collections
25 .) Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
- Flavorwire 2
“In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.
Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.”
24 .) A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
Lists It Appears On:
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
In this exuberantly praised book – a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner
23 .) Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
Lists It Appears On:
- Wikipedia
- Flavorwire 2
- Library Thing
“Here, he supplies fresh perceptions of such figures as varied as Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Rebecca West, George Orwell, J.G. Ballard, and Philip Larkin are matched in brilliance by his pungent discussions and intrepid observations, gathered from a lifetime of traveling and reporting from such destinations as Iran, China, and Pakistan.
Hitchens’s directness, elegance, lightly carried erudition, critical and psychological insight, humor, and sympathy-applied as they are here to a dazzling variety of subjects-all set a standard for the essayist that has rarely been matched in our time. What emerges from this indispensable volume is an intellectual self-portrait of a writer with an exemplary steadiness of purpose and a love affair with the delights and seductions of the English language, a man anchored in a profound and humane vision of the human longing for reason and justice. “
22 .) Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
Lists It Appears On:
- The Daily Beast
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
“Anne Fadiman is–by her own admission–the sort of person who learned about sex from her father’s copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate’s 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice.
This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father’s 22-volume set of Trollope (“”My Ancestral Castles””) and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections (“”Marrying Libraries””), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony–Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.”
21 .) I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
Lists It Appears On:
- Library Thing
- Book Riot
- Goodreads
“With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age. Utterly courageous, uproariously funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a scrumptious, irresistible treat of a book, full of truths, laugh out loud moments that will appeal to readers of all ages.”
20 .) I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
Lists It Appears On:
- Flavorwire 2
- Better World Books
- Vox Magazine
“Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.
Filled with insights and observations that instantly ring true—and could have come only from Nora Ephron—I Remember Nothing is pure joy.”
19 .) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads
A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of “Naked”, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.
18 .) Naked by David Sedaris
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- Goodreads
- Flavorwire 2
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son’s nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris’s unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.
17 .) Notes from No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
Lists It Appears On:
- Better World Books
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads
“Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies. Eula Biss explores race in America and her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these essays — teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting for an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching the aftermath of Katrina from a college town in Iowa, and settling in Chicago’s most diverse neighborhood.
As Biss moves across the country from New York to California to the Midwest, her essays move across time from biblical Babylon to the freedman’s schools of Reconstruction to a Jim Crow mining town to post-war white flight. She brings an eclectic education to the page, drawing variously on the Eagles, Laura Ingalls Wilder, James Baldwin, Alexander Graham Bell, Joan Didion, religious pamphlets, and reality television shows.”
16 .) Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- Book Riot
- Flashlight Worthy
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde’s philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published.
15 .) The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
- Library Thing
14 .) The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
- Wikipedia
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,” written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism.
13 .) The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
Lists It Appears On:
- Tor
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads
“The Geek Feminist Revolution is a collection of essays by double Hugo Award-winning essayist and fantasy novelist Kameron Hurley.
The book collects dozens of Hurley’s essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including “”We Have Always Fought,”” which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution will also feature several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume.”
12 .) The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Lists It Appears On:
- Vox Magazine
- Book Riot
- Goodreads
“Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.
Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of writing that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story “Cold Pastoral” was published on NewYorker.com. Her essay “Even Artichokes Have Doubts” was excerpted in the Financial Times, and her book was the focus of a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York Times. Millions of her contemporaries have responded to her work on social media.
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11 .) A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
Lists It Appears On:
- Book Riot
- Library Thing
- Wikipedia
- Book Riot
One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigor through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooling and the profession of writing to his views on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism. The pieces collected here include the relatively unfamiliar and the more celebrated, making it an ideal compilation for both new and dedicated readers of Orwell’s work.
10 .) Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
Lists It Appears On:
- Flavorwire 2
- Goodreads
- Vox Magazine
- Wikipedia
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, sceince-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.
9 .) Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
Lists It Appears On:
- Better World Books
- Goodreads
- The Daily Beast
- Wikipedia
Split into five sections–Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering–Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays, some published here for the first time, reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing on Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani, or Zora Neale Hurston, she brings deft care to the art of criticism with a style both sympathetic and insightful. Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent, and funny–a gift to readers and writers both.
8 .) Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
- Flavorwire 2
- The Telegraph
“In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us―with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that’s all his own―how we really (no, really) live now.
In his native Kentucky, Sullivan introduces us to Constantine Rafinesque, a nineteenth-century polymath genius who concocted a dense, fantastical prehistory of the New World. Back in modern times, Sullivan takes us to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the alumni and straggling refugees of MTV’s Real World, who’ve generated their own self-perpetuating economy of minor celebrity; and all across the South on the trail of the blues. He takes us to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina―and back again as its residents confront the BP oil spill.”
7 .) The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
Lists It Appears On:
- Five Books
- Book Riot
- Flavorwire 2
- Better World Books
Woolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.”
6 .) I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
Lists It Appears On:
- Vox Magazine
- Wikipedia
- Book Browse
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of intentions — or perhaps because of them. Together, these essays create a startlingly funny and revealing portrait of a complex and utterly recognizable character who aims for the stars but hits the ceiling, and the inimitable city that has helped shape who she is. I Was Told There’d Be Cake introduces a strikingly original voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected beauty of modern urban life.
5 .) Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
Lists It Appears On:
- Buzzfeed
- Book Riot
- Flavorwire 2
- Library Thing
- Better World Books
“In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin’s life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatriates of the time, from his home in “The Harlem Ghetto” to a sobering “Journey to Atlanta.” “
4 .) The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
Lists It Appears On:
- Wikipedia
- Buzzfeed
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
- Flavorwire 2
George Saunders’s first foray into nonfiction is comprised of essays on literature, travel, and politics. At the core of this unique collection are Saunders’s travel essays based on his trips to seek out the mysteries of the “Buddha Boy” of Nepal; to attempt to indulge in the extravagant pleasures of Dubai; and to join the exploits of the minutemen at the Mexican border. Saunders expertly navigates the works of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Esther Forbes, and leads the reader across the rocky political landscape of modern America. Emblazoned with his trademark wit and singular vision, Saunders’s endeavor into the art of the essay is testament to his exceptional range and ability as a writer and thinker.
3 .) The White Album by Joan Didion
Lists It Appears On:
- Publishers Weekly
- Buzzfeed
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
- Flavorwire 2
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era―including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall―through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
2 .) Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Lists It Appears On:
- Wikipedia
- Book Riot
- Flavorwire
- Flavorwire 2
- Tin House
- Goodreads
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike’s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World’s Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.
1 .) Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Lists It Appears On:
- Flavorwire
- The Daily Beast
- Goodreads
- Book Riot
- Flavorwire 2
- Better World Books
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America―particularly California―in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
The Additional Best Essay Collection Books
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
| (Book Appears On 2 Lists Each) | |||
| 26 | A Field Guide to Getting Lost | Rebecca Solnit | Goodreads |
| Book Riot | |||
| 27 | Art and Ardor | Cynthia Ozick | Book Riot |
| Flavorwire 2 | |||
| 28 | Bossypants | Tina Fey | Goodreads |
| Better World Books | |||
| 29 | Both Flesh and Not | David Foster Wallace | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 30 | Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts | Clive James | Wikipedia |
| Flavorwire 2 | |||
| 31 | Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places | Ursula K. Le Guin | Wikipedia |
| Library Thing | |||
| 32 | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | David Sedaris | The Daily Beast |
| Goodreads | |||
| 33 | Forty-One False Starts | Janet Malcolm | Salon |
| Book Riot | |||
| 34 | Housekeeping vs. the Dirt | Nick Hornby | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 35 | How to Be Alone | Jonathan Franzen | Goodreads |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 36 | Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? | Mindy Kaling | Goodreads |
| Book Riot | |||
| 37 | Labyrinths | Jorge Luis Borges | Wikipedia |
| Book Riot | |||
| 38 | Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls | David Sedaris | Goodreads |
| Salon | |||
| 39 | Madness, Rack, and Honey | Mary Ruefle | Book Riot |
| Goodreads | |||
| 40 | Meditations From A Movable Chair | Andre Dubus | Book Browse |
| Book Riot | |||
| 41 | My Misspent Youth | Meghan Daum | Flavorwire 2 |
| Goodreads | |||
| 42 | Not That Kind of Girl | Lena Dunham | Book Riot |
| Goodreads | |||
| 43 | On Lies, Secrets, and Silence | Adrienne Rich | Book Riot |
| Flashlight Worthy | |||
| 44 | Otherwise Known as the Human Condition | Geoff Dyer | Book Riot |
| Flavorwire 2 | |||
| 45 | Paris to the Moon | Adam Gopnik | Wikipedia |
| Book Riot | |||
| 46 | Self-Reliance | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Buzzfeed |
| Book Riot | |||
| 47 | Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto | Chuck Klosterman | Wikipedia |
| Goodreads | |||
| 48 | Shadow and Act | Ralph Ellison | Wikipedia |
| Book Riot | |||
| 49 | Small Wonder | Barbara Kingsolver | Book Browse |
| Library Thing | |||
| 50 | State by State | Sean Wilsey, Matt Weiland | Book Browse |
| Wikipedia | |||
| 51 | The Boys of My Youth | Jo Ann Beard | Book Riot |
| Flavorwire 2 | |||
| 52 | The Crack-up | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Wikipedia |
| Book Riot | |||
| 53 | The Death of the Moth | Virginia Woolf | Buzzfeed |
| Verso | |||
| 54 | The Empathy Exams | Leslie Jameson | Book Riot |
| Goodreads | |||
| 55 | The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | Wikipedia |
| Library Thing | |||
| 56 | The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays | Albert Camus | Goodreads |
| Library Thing | |||
| 57 | The Souls of Black Folk | W. E. B. Du Bois | Wikipedia |
| Book Riot | |||
| 58 | The Unspeakable | Meghan Daum | Book Riot |
| Goodreads | |||
| 59 | The Wave in the Mind | Ursula K. Le Guin | Book Riot |
| Tor | |||
| 60 | Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man | Henry Louis Gates | Book Riot |
| Flavorwire 2 | |||
| 61 | This Angel on My Chest | Leslie Pietrzyk | Book Browse |
| Book Browse | |||
| 62 | This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage | Ann Pratchett | The Missouri Review |
| Book Riot | |||
| 63 | Tiny Beautiful Things | Cheryl Strayed | Book Riot |
| Goodreads | |||
| 64 | Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays | Susan Sontag | Wikipedia |
| Verso | |||
| 65 | We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Goodreads |
| Book Riot | |||
| 66 | When I Was a Child I Read Books | Marilynne Robinson | The Missouri Review |
| Book Riot | |||
| (Books Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
| 67 | (Not That You Asked) Rants, Exploits and Obsessions | Wikipedia | |
| 68 | 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write | Sarah Ruhl | Book Riot |
| 69 | A Better Angel : Stories | Chris Adrian | Book Browse |
| 70 | A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity | Stanley Hauerwas | Library Thing |
| 71 | A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories | Amy Bloom | Book Browse |
| 72 | A Book of Prefaces | Wikipedia | |
| 73 | A Brief History of The Flood | Jean Harfenist | Book Browse |
| 74 | A Causa das Coisas | Wikipedia | |
| 75 | A Certain World | Wikipedia | |
| 76 | A Devil’s Chaplain | Wikipedia | |
| 77 | A Few Words About Breasts | Nora Ephron | Buzzfeed |
| 78 | A Man Without a Country | Wikipedia | |
| 79 | A Massive Swelling | Wikipedia | |
| 80 | A Modern Proposal and Other Writings | Jonathan Swift | Better World Books |
| 81 | A Moving Target | Wikipedia | |
| 82 | A New Literary History of America | Wikipedia | |
| 83 | A Night Without Armor | Jewel Kilcher | Book Browse |
| 84 | A Perfect Stranger : And other stories | Roxana Robinson | Book Browse |
| 85 | A Place in the Country | Wikipedia | |
| 86 | A Place to Live | Natalia Ginzburg | Book Riot |
| 87 | A Place to Read: Life and Books | Michael Cohen | The Missouri Review |
| 88 | A Power Governments Cannot Suppress | Howard Zinn | Library Thing |
| 89 | A Restricted Country | Joan Nestle | Flashlight Worthy |
| 90 | A Reverie for Mister Ray | Wikipedia | |
| 91 | A Room of One’s Own | Virginia Woolf | Goodreads |
| 92 | A Sad Heart At The Supermarket | Randall Jarrell | Five Books |
| 93 | A User’s Guide to the Millennium | Wikipedia | |
| 94 | A Voice from the Attic | Wikipedia | |
| 95 | A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers | Wikipedia | |
| 96 | A Year from Monday | Wikipedia | |
| 97 | A’ Cleachdadh na Gàidhlig | Wikipedia | |
| 98 | Acquainted with the Night (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 99 | Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture | Ytasha L. Womack | Tor |
| 100 | Against Joie de Vivre | Phillip Lopate | Flavorwire 2 |
| 101 | Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas | Wikipedia | |
| 102 | Agamemnon’s Daughter : A Novella and Stories | Ismail Kadare | Book Browse |
| 103 | Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction | David G. Hartwell | Tor |
| 104 | Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere | André Aciman | Book Riot |
| 105 | All Aunt Hagar’s Children : Stories | Edward P. Jones | Book Browse |
| 106 | All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten | Wikipedia | |
| 107 | Alone With You : Stories | Marisa Silver | Book Browse |
| 108 | Alpha and Omega (Harrison) | Wikipedia | |
| 109 | Alphabet of the Imagination | Wikipedia | |
| 110 | Always Happy Hour : Stories | Mary Miller | Book Browse |
| 111 | America and Americans | Wikipedia | |
| 112 | American Romances | Rebecca Brown | Book Riot |
| 113 | An Anthropologist on Mars | Wikipedia | |
| 114 | An Unfinished Journey | Wikipedia | |
| 115 | An Unrestored Woman | Shobha Rao | Book Browse |
| 116 | An Urchin in the Storm | Wikipedia | |
| 117 | Ancestor Stones : A Novel | Aminatta Forna | Book Browse |
| 118 | And Even Now | Max Beerbohm | Five Books |
| 119 | And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life | Charles J. Shields | Tor |
| 120 | Anglo-English Attitudes | Geoff Dyer | The Telegraph |
| 121 | Annie Dillard, | Total Eclipse | Publishers Weekly |
| 122 | Any Small Thing Can Save You : A Bestiary | Christina Adam | Book Browse |
| 123 | Apparition & Late Fictions : A Novella and Stories | Thomas Lynch | Book Browse |
| 124 | Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea | Wikipedia | |
| 125 | Aspects of Scientific Explanation and other Essays in the Philosophy of Science | Wikipedia | |
| 126 | Bagombo Snuff Box : Uncollected Short Fiction | Kurt Vonnegut | Book Browse |
| 127 | Barbara the Slut and Other People | Lauren Holmes | Book Browse |
| 128 | Bark : Stories | Lorrie Moore | Book Browse |
| 129 | Barrel Fever | Wikipedia | |
| 130 | Battleborn : Stories | Claire Vaye Watkins | Book Browse |
| 131 | Before the Mortgage: Real Stories of Brazen Loves, Broken Leases, and the Perplexing Pursuit of Adulthood | Christina Amini | Library Thing |
| 132 | Beirut 39 : New Writing from the Arab World | Samuel Shimon | Book Browse |
| 133 | Beowulf : A New Verse Translation | Seamus Heaney | Book Browse |
| 134 | Best Essays Northwest | Wikipedia | |
| 135 | Best European Fiction 2010 | Aleksandar Hemon | Book Browse |
| 136 | Betrayal of the Left | Wikipedia | |
| 137 | Better Than Sex (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 138 | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Goodreads |
| 139 | Betwixt and Between | Wikipedia | |
| 140 | Beyond life : dizain des démiurges | James Branch Cabell | Library Thing |
| 141 | Beyond the Dragon’s Mouth | Wikipedia | |
| 142 | Beyond The Great Snow Mountains | Louis L’Amour | Book Browse |
| 143 | Beyond the Wall of Sleep (collection) | Wikipedia | |
| 144 | Birds of a Lesser Paradise : Stories | Megan Mayhew Bergman | Book Browse |
| 145 | Birds of America | Lorrie Moore | Book Browse |
| 146 | Blackbird House | Alice Hoffman | Book Browse |
| 147 | Blasphemy : New and Selected Stories | Sherman Alexie | Book Browse |
| 148 | Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | Haruki Murakami | Book Browse |
| 149 | Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages | Wikipedia | |
| 150 | Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures : Stories | Vincent Lam | Book Browse |
| 151 | Book of Days | Emily Fox Gordon | Book Riot |
| 152 | Book of Saint Albans | Wikipedia | |
| 153 | Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It : Stories | Maile Meloy | Book Browse |
| 154 | Brainstorms | Wikipedia | |
| 155 | Broken Republic: Three Essays | Arundhati Roy | Book Riot |
| 156 | Bully for Brontosaurus | Wikipedia | |
| 157 | Burning Bright : Stories | Ron Rash | Book Browse |
| 158 | C.M. Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary | Mark Rich | Tor |
| 159 | Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal | Wikipedia | |
| 160 | Carbon Shift | Wikipedia | |
| 161 | Carl Wilson | Let’s Talk About Love | Flavorwire |
| 162 | Cato’s Letters | Wikipedia | |
| 163 | Celebrating the Third Place | Wikipedia | |
| 164 | Cheating at Canasta: Stories : Stories | William Trevor | Book Browse |
| 165 | Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang | Wikipedia | |
| 166 | Chinese Destinies | Wikipedia | |
| 167 | Christian Science (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 168 | Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas | Wikipedia | |
| 169 | Citizenship Papers: Essays | Wendell Berry | Library Thing |
| 170 | Claire of the Sea Light | Edwidge Danticat | Book Browse |
| 171 | Colour Me English | Wikipedia | |
| 172 | Come Up and See Me Sometime | Erika Krouse | Book Browse |
| 173 | Coming Attractions (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 174 | Controlled Burn : Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men | Scott Wolven | Book Browse |
| 175 | Conversations with Octavia Butler | Conseula Francis | Tor |
| 176 | Corydon (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 177 | Critical and Historical Essays (Macaulay) | Wikipedia | |
| 178 | Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (Carlyle) | Wikipedia | |
| 179 | Critical Essays (Orwell) | Wikipedia | |
| 180 | Critical Mass | James Wolcott | Salon |
| 181 | Critics’ Opinion: | Wolves : Stories | Book Browse |
| 182 | Crossing Borders: Personal Essays | Wikipedia | |
| 183 | Crumbling Idols | Wikipedia | |
| 184 | Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma | Wikipedia | |
| 185 | Dark Icons | Gary Indiana | Flavorwire |
| 186 | Dark Roots | Cate Kennedy | Book Browse |
| 187 | Darwiniana | Wikipedia | |
| 188 | David Foster Wallace, | Consider the Lobster | Publishers Weekly |
| 189 | De l’un au multiple: Traductions du chinois vers les langues européennes | Wikipedia | |
| 190 | De långhåriga merovingerna : Sällskap för en eremit : essayer | Frans G. Bengtsson | Library Thing |
| 191 | Dear Life : Stories | Alice Munro | Book Browse |
| 192 | Death of Adam | Marilynne Robinson | Tin House |
| 193 | Declaration (anthology) | Wikipedia | |
| 194 | Deliberate Prose | Wikipedia | |
| 195 | Den utbrände kronofogden som fann lyckan | Fredrik Sjöberg | Library Thing |
| 196 | Dharmarajyam | Wikipedia | |
| 197 | Dialogs (Lem) | Wikipedia | |
| 198 | Dinosaur in a Haystack | Wikipedia | |
| 199 | Dirty Love | Andre Dubus III | Book Browse |
| 200 | Discontent and its Civilizations | Mohsin Hamid | Book Riot |
| 201 | Discourse on Voluntary Servitude | Wikipedia | |
| 202 | Disjecta (Beckett) | Wikipedia | |
| 203 | Distrust That Particular Flavor | Wikipedia | |
| 204 | Divagations | Wikipedia | |
| 205 | Divisions on a Ground | Wikipedia | |
| 206 | Dog Run Moon : Stories | Callan Wink | Book Browse |
| 207 | Dogwalker | Arthur Bradford | Book Browse |
| 208 | Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | Book Riot |
| 209 | Down the River | Wikipedia | |
| 210 | Down To A Soundless Sea | Thomas Steinbeck | Book Browse |
| 211 | Dream Days | Wikipedia | |
| 212 | Dreaming of Hitler | Daphne Merkin | Book Riot |
| 213 | Dreamtigers | Wikipedia | |
| 214 | Drifting House | Krys Lee | Book Browse |
| 215 | Eating the Dinosaur | Wikipedia | |
| 216 | Edward Hoagland, | Heaven and Nature | Publishers Weekly |
| 217 | Eight Little Piggies | Wikipedia | |
| 218 | Elizabeth Costello | J M Coetzee | Book Browse |
| 219 | Empty Words | Wikipedia | |
| 220 | Epistles of Wisdom | Wikipedia | |
| 221 | Escape to Hell | Wikipedia | |
| 222 | Essays | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Library Thing |
| 223 | Essays (Francis Bacon) | Wikipedia | |
| 224 | Essays (Montaigne) | Wikipedia | |
| 225 | Essays After Eighty | Donald Hall | Book Riot |
| 226 | Essays in Idleness | Yoshida Kenko | Book Riot |
| 227 | Essays in London and Elsewhere | Wikipedia | |
| 228 | Essays in Positive Economics | Wikipedia | |
| 229 | Essays in Radical Empiricism | Wikipedia | |
| 230 | Essays of EB White | EB White | Five Books |
| 231 | Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary | Wikipedia | |
| 232 | Ever Since Darwin | Wikipedia | |
| 233 | Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned : Stories | Wells Tower | Book Browse |
| 234 | Excursions (anthology) | Wikipedia | |
| 235 | Farther Away (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 236 | Fascinating Fascism | Susan Sontag | Flavorwire |
| 237 | Fates Worse Than Death | Wikipedia | |
| 238 | File Under Popular | Wikipedia | |
| 239 | Findings | Kathleen Jamie | Book Riot |
| 240 | Flights of Love : Stories | Bernhard Schlink | Book Browse |
| 241 | Footprints on Sand | Wikipedia | |
| 242 | For The Relief of Unbearable Urges | Nathan Englander | Book Browse |
| 243 | Foreign Soil : And Other Stories | Maxine Beneba Clarke | Book Browse |
| 244 | Forewords and Afterwords | Wikipedia | |
| 245 | Fortune Smiles : Stories | Adam Johnson | Book Browse |
| 246 | Forty-Three Septembers: Essays | Jewelle Gomez | Flashlight Worthy |
| 247 | Four Dissertations | Wikipedia | |
| 248 | Frank Sinatra Has A Cold | Gay Talese | Flavorwire |
| 249 | French Lessons | Peter Mayle | Better World Books |
| 250 | From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up | Wikipedia | |
| 251 | Frost & Fire | Wikipedia | |
| 252 | Garner on Language and Writing | Wikipedia | |
| 253 | Generation of Swine | Wikipedia | |
| 254 | Getting In | Malcolm Gladwell | Flavorwire |
| 255 | Ghostwritten : A Novel | David Mitchell | Book Browse |
| 256 | Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 257 | Giving Good Weight | John McPhee | Library Thing |
| 258 | Glass and Amber | Wikipedia | |
| 259 | Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh | Wikipedia | |
| 260 | God Lives In St. Petersburg : and Other Stories | Tom Bissell | Book Browse |
| 261 | Gold Boy, Emerald Girl : Stories | Yiyun Li | Book Browse |
| 262 | Goodbye To All That | Joan Didion | Buzzfeed |
| 263 | Ground Zero (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 264 | Growing Up Asian in Australia | Wikipedia | |
| 265 | Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology | Bennett L. Singer | Library Thing |
| 266 | Guys Write for Guys Read | Wikipedia | |
| 267 | Hackers & Painters | Wikipedia | |
| 268 | Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age | Paul Graham | Library Thing |
| 269 | Handbook of Automated Reasoning | Wikipedia | |
| 270 | Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain : Stories | Lucia Perillo | Book Browse |
| 271 | Harlan Ellison’s Watching | Wikipedia | |
| 272 | Hearts In Atlantis | Stephen King | Book Browse |
| 273 | Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes | Wikipedia | |
| 274 | Here Is a Lesson in Creative Writing | Kurt Vonnegut | Buzzfeed |
| 275 | High Tide in Tucson | Barbara Kingsolver | Library Thing |
| 276 | Holidays on Ice | David Sedaris | Goodreads |
| 277 | Homage to Qwert Yuiop | Wikipedia | |
| 278 | Home Country (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 279 | Homesick | Roshi Fernando | Book Browse |
| 280 | Homesick for Another World : Stories | Ottessa Moshfegh | Book Browse |
| 281 | Honeydew : Stories | Edith Pearlman | Book Browse |
| 282 | Hooking Up | Wikipedia | |
| 283 | How Did You Get This Number | Sloane Crosley | Goodreads |
| 284 | How To Kill Yourself and Others in America | Vox Magazine | |
| 285 | How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America | Kiese Laymon | Book Riot |
| 286 | How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read | Pierre Bayard | Book Browse |
| 287 | How to Tell a Story and Other Essays | Wikipedia | |
| 288 | I Can’t Get it for You Wholesale | David Rakoff | Flavorwire |
| 289 | I Hate Myselfie | Wikipedia | |
| 290 | I Have Landed | Wikipedia | |
| 291 | I Just Lately Started Buying Wings | Kim Dana Kupperman | Book Riot |
| 292 | I See You Made an Effort : Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50 | Annabelle Gurwitch | Book Browse |
| 293 | I Wear the Black Hat | Wikipedia | |
| 294 | I’ll Mature When I’m Dead | Wikipedia | |
| 295 | Illuminations | Walter Benjamin | Library Thing |
| 296 | Imaginary Homelands | Wikipedia | |
| 297 | In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction | anthology, edited by Lee Gutkind | Book Riot |
| 298 | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders | Daniyal Mueenuddin | Book Browse |
| 299 | In Persuasion Nation | George Saunders | Book Browse |
| 300 | In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays | Wikipedia | |
| 301 | In Praise of Shadows | Junichiro Tanizaki | Book Riot |
| 302 | In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens | Alice Walker | Book Riot |
| 303 | Infinite in All Directions | Wikipedia | |
| 304 | Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000–2005 | Wikipedia | |
| 305 | Inside the Whale and Other Essays | Wikipedia | |
| 306 | Intelligent Thought | Wikipedia | |
| 307 | Internal Medicine : A Doctor’s Stories | Terrence Holt | Book Browse |
| 308 | Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs | Wikipedia | |
| 309 | It Gets Worse: A Collection of Essays | Wikipedia | |
| 310 | James Baldwin, | Notes of a Native Son | Publishers Weekly |
| 311 | James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon | Julie Phillips | Tor |
| 312 | Jo Ann Beard, | The Fourth State of Matter | Publishers Weekly |
| 313 | John McPhee, | The Search for Marvin Gardens | Publishers Weekly |
| 314 | Journeys with the Black Dog | Wikipedia | |
| 315 | Karaoke Culture | Dubravka Ugresic | Book Riot |
| 316 | Kesey’s Garage Sale | Wikipedia | |
| 317 | Known and Strange Things: Essays | Teju Cole | Goodreads |
| 318 | Kritik | Klara Johanson | Library Thing |
| 319 | Larkin at Sixty | Wikipedia | |
| 320 | Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man | William Shatner, with David Fisher | Tor |
| 321 | Les Illuminés | Wikipedia | |
| 322 | Let’s Talk About Love” | Flavorwire | |
| 323 | Letter to My Daughter | Maya Angelou | Better World Books |
| 324 | Letters on the English | Wikipedia | |
| 325 | Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me | Wikipedia | |
| 326 | Life at the Bottom | Wikipedia | |
| 327 | Listening to Grasshoppers | Wikipedia | |
| 328 | Living, Thinking, Looking | Siri Hustvedt | Book Riot |
| 329 | Local Girls | Alice Hoffman | Book Browse |
| 330 | Loitering | Charles D’Ambrosio | Book Riot |
| 331 | Lost Japan | Alex Kerr | Better World Books |
| 332 | Love Begins in Winter : Five Stories | Simon Van Booy | Book Browse |
| 333 | Love Is Power, or Something Like That: Stories | A. Igoni Barrett | Book Browse |
| 334 | Love Stories in This Town | Amanda Eyre Ward | Book Browse |
| 335 | Love, Poverty, and War | Wikipedia | |
| 336 | Luke Skywalker Can’t Read: And Other Geeky Truths | Ryan Britt | Tor |
| 337 | Lunch With a Bigot | Amitava Kumar | Book Riot |
| 338 | M (John Cage book) | Wikipedia | |
| 339 | Magic Hours | Tom Bissell | Book Riot |
| 340 | Mainly on the Air | Wikipedia | |
| 341 | Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II | Martin Filler | Salon |
| 342 | Manhood for Amateurs | Wikipedia | |
| 343 | Marginalia (collection) | Wikipedia | |
| 344 | Meatless Days | Sara Suleri | Book Riot |
| 345 | Meaty | Samantha Irby | Book Riot |
| 346 | Memories and Portraits | Wikipedia | |
| 347 | Memories and Vagaries | Wikipedia | |
| 348 | Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | Mary McCarthy | Book Riot |
| 349 | Men Explain Things to Me | Rebecca Solnit | Goodreads |
| 350 | Merrie England (Robert Blatchford book) | Wikipedia | |
| 351 | Metropolitan Life (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 352 | Mexico : Stories | Josh Barkan | Book Browse |
| 353 | Middle East Illusions | Wikipedia | |
| 354 | Middle Men : Stories | Jim Gavin | Book Browse |
| 355 | Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State | Tom Paulin | The Telegraph |
| 356 | Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions | Wikipedia | |
| 357 | Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon | Wikipedia | |
| 358 | Miscellaneous Writings (Lovecraft) | Wikipedia | |
| 359 | Monday Morning Blues | Wikipedia | |
| 360 | Monstress : Stories | Lysley Tenorio | Book Browse |
| 361 | Mornings in Mexico | Wikipedia | |
| 362 | Mortality (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 363 | Mr. Lytle, an Essay | John Jeremiah Sullivan | Buzzfeed |
| 364 | Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal | Wendy S. Walters | Book Riot |
| 365 | My 1980s and Other Essays | Wayne Koestenbaum | Book Riot |
| 366 | My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years | Sarah Schulman | Flashlight Worthy |
| 367 | My Father, the Pornographer | Chris Offutt | Tor |
| 368 | My Father’s Tears | John Updike | Book Browse |
| 369 | My Horizontal Life | Wikipedia | |
| 370 | My Lesbian Husband | Barrie Jean Borich | Flashlight Worthy |
| 371 | My Mama’s Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Culture | Mab Segrest | Flashlight Worthy |
| 372 | My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead : Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro | Jeffrey Eugenides | Book Browse |
| 373 | Mythologies | Roland Barthes | The Telegraph |
| 374 | Naree | Wikipedia | |
| 375 | Nature and Selected Essays | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Verso |
| 376 | Nietzsche and Asian Thought | Wikipedia | |
| 377 | Ninety-Nine Stories of God | Joy Williams | Book Browse |
| 378 | Nirbachito Column | Wikipedia | |
| 379 | No More Nice Girls | Ellen Willis | Flavorwire 2 |
| 380 | Noblesse Oblige (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 381 | Nobody Knows My Name | Wikipedia | |
| 382 | Nocturnes : Five Stories of Music and Nightfall | Kazuo Ishiguro | Book Browse |
| 383 | Norman Mailer, | The White Negro | Publishers Weekly |
| 384 | Nosaltres, els valencians | Wikipedia | |
| 385 | Notes from a Big Country | Wikipedia | |
| 386 | November Storm : Iowa Short Fiction Award | Robert Oldshue | Book Browse |
| 387 | Nowa Huta. Okruchy życia i meandry historii | Wikipedia | |
| 388 | Of Worlds Beyond | Wikipedia | |
| 389 | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | Book Browse |
| 390 | On Beauty and Being Just | Elaine Scarry | Book Riot |
| 391 | On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored | Adam Phillips | Book Riot |
| 392 | On Love and Death | Wikipedia | |
| 393 | On the Fringe : and Other Uncommon Tales of Golf | Gregory G. Barton | Book Browse |
| 394 | On the Natural History of Destruction | Wikipedia | |
| 395 | Once I Was Cool | Megan Stielstra | Book Riot |
| 396 | Once More to the Lake | E.B. White | Buzzfeed |
| 397 | One China, Many Paths | Wikipedia | |
| 398 | Orden och evigheten : [tankar om språk, religion och humaniora] | Ola Wikander | Library Thing |
| 399 | Ordinary Life : Stories | Elizabeth Berg | Book Browse |
| 400 | Orientation : And Other Stories | Daniel Orozco | Book Browse |
| 401 | Orphans | Charles D’Ambrosio. | Tin House |
| 402 | Our Culture, What’s Left of It | Wikipedia | |
| 403 | Our Kind : A Novel in Stories | Kate Walbert | Book Browse |
| 404 | Palm Sunday (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 405 | Parerga and Paralipomena | Wikipedia | |
| 406 | Partial Recall | Krishna Mahrotra | The Telegraph |
| 407 | Passions of the Mind | A.S. Byatt | Book Riot |
| 408 | Pastoralia | George Saunders | Book Browse |
| 409 | Perfect Recall | Ann Beattie | Book Browse |
| 410 | Phillip Lopate, | Against Joie de Vivre | Publishers Weekly |
| 411 | Philosophy: Who Needs It | Wikipedia | |
| 412 | Pieces and Pontifications | Norman Mailer | The Daily Beast |
| 413 | Pieces of the Frame | John McPhee | Library Thing |
| 414 | Plausible Prejudices | Wikipedia | |
| 415 | Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination | Toni Morrison | Book Riot |
| 416 | Please Don’t Eat the Daisies | Wikipedia | |
| 417 | Prose Works Other than Science and Health | Wikipedia | |
| 418 | Pulse : Stories | Julian Barnes | Book Browse |
| 419 | Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing : Stories | Lydia Peelle | Book Browse |
| 420 | Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 | Minnie Bruce Pratt | Flashlight Worthy |
| 421 | Redeployment | Phil Klay | Book Browse |
| 422 | Resistance, Rebellion, and Death | Wikipedia | |
| 423 | Reveries of a Bachelor | Wikipedia | |
| 424 | Revolutionary Voices | Amy Sonnie | Library Thing |
| 425 | Revolutions in Mathematics | Wikipedia | |
| 426 | Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think | Wikipedia | |
| 427 | Risk and Blame | Wikipedia | |
| 428 | Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants | Wikipedia | |
| 429 | Runaway : Stories | Alice Munro | Book Browse |
| 430 | S,M,L,XL | Wikipedia | |
| 431 | Sacagawea’s Nickname | Wikipedia | |
| 432 | Say You’re One of Them | Uwem Akpan | Book Browse |
| 433 | Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises | Wikipedia | |
| 434 | Scenes from Village Life | Amos Oz | Book Browse |
| 435 | Scribblings | Wikipedia | |
| 436 | Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond | Wikipedia | |
| 437 | Selected Essays | Michel de Montaigne | Book Riot |
| 438 | Selected Non-Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges | Library Thing |
| 439 | Sex and the River Styx | Edward Hoagland | Flavorwire 2 |
| 440 | Shakespeare Wrote for Money | Wikipedia | |
| 441 | Shipping Out | David Foster Wallace | Buzzfeed |
| 442 | Shooting an Elephant | George Orwell | Buzzfeed |
| 443 | Shorter Views | Wikipedia | |
| 444 | Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman | Lindy West | Goodreads |
| 445 | Sidewalks | Valeria Luiselli | Book Riot |
| 446 | Siege 13 : Stories | Tamas Dobozy | Book Browse |
| 447 | Sightseeing : Short Stories | Rattawut Lapcharoensap | Book Browse |
| 448 | Silence: Lectures and Writings | Wikipedia | |
| 449 | Silent Interviews | Wikipedia | |
| 450 | Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue | Wikipedia | |
| 451 | Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature | Dorothy Allison | Flashlight Worthy |
| 452 | Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home | Wikipedia | |
| 453 | Sliver of Sky | Barry Lopez | Buzzfeed |
| 454 | Small Victories: Spotting Improbably Moments of Grace | Vox Magazine | |
| 455 | Smashed Potatoes | Wikipedia | |
| 456 | Social Studies (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 457 | Socratic Puzzles | Wikipedia | |
| 458 | Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing | Wikipedia | |
| 459 | Something About Cats and Other Pieces | Wikipedia | |
| 460 | Song of the Birds (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 461 | Speaking With The Angel | Nick Hornby | Book Browse |
| 462 | St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised | Karen Russell | Book Browse |
| 463 | Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! | Wikipedia | |
| 464 | Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy | Mark Doty | Goodreads |
| 465 | Stone Mattress : Nine Tales | Margaret Atwood | Book Browse |
| 466 | Stories We Tell Ourselves | Michelle Herman | Salon |
| 467 | Stranger Than Fiction | Chuck Palahniuk | Better World Books |
| 468 | Styles of Radical Will | Wikipedia | |
| 469 | Subversia | Wikipedia | |
| 470 | Suddenly Sixty : And Other Shocks of Later Life | Judith Viorst | Book Browse |
| 471 | Summa Technologiae | Wikipedia | |
| 472 | Susan Sontag, | Notes on ‘Camp’ | Publishers Weekly |
| 473 | Table Talk | William Hazlitt | The Daily Beast |
| 474 | Tales from the Expat Harem | Wikipedia | |
| 475 | Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial | Nicole Hollander | Library Thing |
| 476 | Teaching a Stone to Talk | Annie Dillard | Flavorwire 2 |
| 477 | Ten Years in the Tub | Nick Hornby | Book Riot |
| 478 | Tenth of December : Stories | George Saunders | Book Browse |
| 479 | The Algebra of Infinite Justice | Wikipedia | |
| 480 | The American Lover | Rose Tremain | Book Browse |
| 481 | The Anti-Chomsky Reader | Wikipedia | |
| 482 | The Art of the Personal Essay | anthology, edited by Phillip Lopate | Book Riot |
| 483 | The Atlantic Sound | Wikipedia | |
| 484 | The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table | Wikipedia | |
| 485 | The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom | Daniel Jones | Library Thing |
| 486 | The Bell Curve Debate | Wikipedia | |
| 487 | The Best American Essays of the Century | anthology, edited by Joyce Carol Oates | Book Riot |
| 488 | The Best American Essays series | published every year, series edited by Robert Atwan | Book Riot |
| 489 | The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage | Cathi Hanauer | Library Thing |
| 490 | The Blade of Conan | Wikipedia | |
| 491 | The Blind Masseuse | Alden Jones | Salon |
| 492 | The Book of Fritz Leiber | Wikipedia | |
| 493 | The Book of Heaven | Patricia Storace | Book Browse |
| 494 | The Book of My Lives | Aleksandar Hemon | Flavorwire 2 |
| 495 | The Bridegroom : Stories | Ha Jin | Book Browse |
| 496 | The Cambridge Companion to Marx | Wikipedia | |
| 497 | The Castle of the Otter | Wikipedia | |
| 498 | The Cherryh Odyssey | Wikipedia | |
| 499 | The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century | Wikipedia | |
| 500 | The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter | Wikipedia | |
| 501 | The Complete Anti-Federalist | Wikipedia | |
| 502 | The Complete Essays | Michel de Montaigne | Goodreads |
| 503 | The Conan Grimoire | Wikipedia | |
| 504 | The Conan Reader | Wikipedia | |
| 505 | The Conan Swordbook | Wikipedia | |
| 506 | The Consciousness Industry | Wikipedia | |
| 507 | The Covenant with Black America | Wikipedia | |
| 508 | The Curtain (essay) | Wikipedia | |
| 509 | The Cute Manifesto | Wikipedia | |
| 510 | The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces | Wikipedia | |
| 511 | The Dark Haired Girl | Wikipedia | |
| 512 | The Devil and Sherlock Holmes | Wikipedia | |
| 513 | The Dew Breaker | Edwidge Danticat | Book Browse |
| 514 | The Discomfort Zone | Wikipedia | |
| 515 | The Dolphin Reader | Douglas Hunt | Library Thing |
| 516 | The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of | Thomas Disch | Tor |
| 517 | The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies | Wikipedia | |
| 518 | The Elephanta Suite : Three Novellas | Paul Theroux | Book Browse |
| 519 | The Empire of Business | Wikipedia | |
| 520 | The Empty Family : Stories | Colm Toibin | Book Browse |
| 521 | The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse | Herbert Marcuse | Verso |
| 522 | The European Tribe | Wikipedia | |
| 523 | The Evening Colonnade | Wikipedia | |
| 524 | The Examined Life (Stephen Grosz book) | Wikipedia | |
| 525 | The Faraway Nearby | Rebecca Solnit | Salon |
| 526 | The Farmer’s Daughter : Novellas | Jim Harrison | Book Browse |
| 527 | The Federalist Papers | Wikipedia | |
| 528 | The Female Thing | Laura Kipnis | Verso |
| 529 | The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race | Jesmyn Ward | Goodreads |
| 530 | The Flight of the Wild Gander | Wikipedia | |
| 531 | The Folded Clock | Heidi Julavits | Book Riot |
| 532 | The Fran Lebowitz Reader | Wikipedia | |
| 533 | The Frangipani Hotel : Stories | Violet Kupersmith | Book Browse |
| 534 | The Friend Who Got Away | Wikipedia | |
| 535 | The Fringe of the Unknown | Wikipedia | |
| 536 | The Game in Time of War | Wikipedia | |
| 537 | The Garden of The Prophet | Wikipedia | |
| 538 | The Gernsback Days: The Evolution Of Modern Science Fiction From 1911 1936 | Mike Ashley, Robert A.W. Lowndes | Tor |
| 539 | The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms | Wikipedia | |
| 540 | The Glass Teat | Wikipedia | |
| 541 | The Global Soul | Wikipedia | |
| 542 | The God that Failed | Wikipedia | |
| 543 | The Golden Age (Grahame) | Wikipedia | |
| 544 | The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Wikipedia | |
| 545 | The Great Lakes Book Project | Wikipedia | |
| 546 | The Harlan Ellison Hornbook | Wikipedia | |
| 547 | The Idler (1758–60) | Wikipedia | |
| 548 | The Imam and the Indian | Wikipedia | |
| 549 | The Importance of Being Idle (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 550 | The Inevitable : Contemporary Writers Confront Death | David Shields, Bradford Morrow | Book Browse |
| 551 | The Invisible Made Visible | David Rakoff | Buzzfeed |
| 552 | The Kraus Project | Jonathan Franzen | Salon |
| 553 | The Labyrinth of Solitude | Wikipedia | |
| 554 | The Last Innocent White Man in America | Wikipedia | |
| 555 | The Little Black Book of Stories | A.S. Byatt | Book Browse |
| 556 | The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher | Wikipedia | |
| 557 | The Lives of Rocks : Stories | Rick Bass | Book Browse |
| 558 | The London Scene | Wikipedia | |
| 559 | The Long-Winded Lady | Maeve Brennan | Flavorwire |
| 560 | The Lost World of British Communism | Wikipedia | |
| 561 | The Love Object : Selected Stories | Edna O’Brien | Book Browse |
| 562 | The Merril Theory of Lit’ry Criticism | Judith Merril | Tor |
| 563 | The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do With the Other | Walker Percy | Library Thing |
| 564 | The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent | Wikipedia | |
| 565 | The Motion of Light in Water | Samuel Delany | Tor |
| 566 | The Narrow Waters | Wikipedia | |
| 567 | The Negro Problem (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 568 | The Neil Gaiman Reader | Wikipedia | |
| 569 | The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution | Wikipedia | |
| 570 | The Next American Essay, The Lost Origins of the Essay, and The Making of the American Essay | John D’Agata | Book Riot |
| 571 | The Nightingales of Troy | Alice Fulton | Book Browse |
| 572 | The Norton Book of Personal Essays | Joseph Epstein | Book Riot |
| 573 | The Occupy Handbook | Wikipedia | |
| 574 | The Outlaw Album : Stories | Daniel Woodrell | Book Browse |
| 575 | The Painter, the Creature and the Father of Lies | Wikipedia | |
| 576 | The Panda’s Thumb (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 577 | The Personal Heresy | Wikipedia | |
| 578 | The Pillow Book | Sei Shonagon | Book Riot |
| 579 | The Plague of Doves : A Novel | Louise Erdrich | Book Browse |
| 580 | The Politics of Reality | Wikipedia | |
| 581 | The Possessed : Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them | Elif Batuman | Book Browse |
| 582 | The Presidential Papers | Wikipedia | |
| 583 | The Prophet (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 584 | The Ragged Edge of Science | Wikipedia | |
| 585 | The Refugees | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Book Browse |
| 586 | The Robert E. Howard Reader | Wikipedia | |
| 587 | The Romantic Manifesto | Wikipedia | |
| 588 | The Rush for Second Place | Wikipedia | |
| 589 | The Satanic Scriptures | Wikipedia | |
| 590 | The Second Book of Fritz Leiber | Wikipedia | |
| 591 | The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | Better World Books |
| 592 | The Size of Thoughts | Nicholson Baker | Book Riot |
| 593 | The Solace of Open Spaces | Gretel Ehrlich | Flavorwire 2 |
| 594 | The Spell of Conan | Wikipedia | |
| 595 | The Steampunk Bible | Jeff VanderMeer | Tor |
| 596 | The Story About the Story | anthology, edited by J.C. Hallman | Book Riot |
| 597 | The Straight Mind and Other Essays | Wikipedia | |
| 598 | The Sunny Side | Wikipedia | |
| 599 | The Thing Around Your Neck | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Book Browse |
| 600 | The Thomas Ligotti Reader: Essays and Explorations | Wikipedia | |
| 601 | The Treasure of the Humble | Wikipedia | |
| 602 | The Treasure of Tranicos (collection) | Wikipedia | |
| 603 | The Tsar of Love and Techno : Stories | Anthony Marra | Book Browse |
| 604 | The UnAmericans : Stories | Molly Antopol | Book Browse |
| 605 | The Unknown Errors of Our Lives | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | Book Browse |
| 606 | The Uses of Literature | Italo Calvino | Library Thing |
| 607 | The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power | Audre Lorde, illustrated | Flashlight Worthy |
| 608 | The View from Castle Rock : Stories | Alice Munro | Book Browse |
| 609 | The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction | Neil Gaiman | Tor |
| 610 | The Virtue of Selfishness | Wikipedia | |
| 611 | The War Against Cliché | Martin Amis | Flavorwire 2 |
| 612 | The Way the World Works | Wikipedia | |
| 613 | The Weight of a Human Heart : Stories | Ryan O’Neill | Book Browse |
| 614 | The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses | Wikipedia | |
| 615 | The Well Wrought Urn | Wikipedia | |
| 616 | The Whore’s Child | Richard Russo | Book Browse |
| 617 | The Woman Warrior | Maxine Hong Kinston | Book Riot |
| 618 | The Wonder Garden | Lauren Acampora | Book Browse |
| 619 | The Works of Max Beerbohm | Wikipedia | |
| 620 | The World’s Last Night and Other Essays | Wikipedia | |
| 621 | The Writer and the World: Essays | Wikipedia | |
| 622 | The Writing Life | Annie Dillard | Book Riot |
| 623 | The Yogi and the Commissar | Wikipedia | |
| 624 | There Are Jews In My House : Stories | Lara Vapnyar | Book Browse |
| 625 | They Asked for a Paper | Wikipedia | |
| 626 | They Would Never Hurt a Fly | Wikipedia | |
| 627 | Thirteen Ways of Looking : Fiction | Colum McCann | Book Browse |
| 628 | This Is How You Lose Her | Junot Diaz | Book Browse |
| 629 | This Is Running for Your Life | Michelle Orange | Book Riot |
| 630 | This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death | Wikipedia | |
| 631 | Three Critics of the Enlightenment | Wikipedia | |
| 632 | Ticket to the Fair | David Foster Wallace | Buzzfeed |
| 633 | Time Bites: Views and Reviews | Wikipedia | |
| 634 | Times Square Red, Times Square Blue | Wikipedia | |
| 635 | To Quebec and the Stars | Wikipedia | |
| 636 | Too Much Happiness : Stories | Alice Munro | Book Browse |
| 637 | Total Eclipse | Annie Dillard | Buzzfeed |
| 638 | Traveling Mercies | Anne Lamott | Better World Books |
| 639 | Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water | Wikipedia | |
| 640 | True Believer | Virginia Euwer Wolff | Book Browse |
| 641 | Tunneling to the Center of the Earth : Stories | Kevin Wilson | Book Browse |
| 642 | Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture | Gerald Early | Book Riot |
| 643 | Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints | Joan Acocella | Book Riot |
| 644 | Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri | Book Browse |
| 645 | Upstream: Selected Essays | Mary Oliver | Goodreads |
| 646 | Valentines | Olaf Olafsson | Book Browse |
| 647 | Vampires in the Lemon Grove : Stories | Karen Russell | Book Browse |
| 648 | Vermeer in Bosnia | Lawrence Weschler | Book Riot |
| 649 | Visions Before Midnight | Clive James | Five Books |
| 650 | Visiting Mrs Nabokov | Wikipedia | |
| 651 | Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons | Wikipedia | |
| 652 | We Do Abortions Here | Sallie Tisdale | Buzzfeed |
| 653 | We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think | Shirley Hazzard | Book Riot |
| 654 | We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction | Joan Didion | Tin House |
| 655 | Welcome to the Desert of the Real | Slajov Zizek | Tin House |
| 656 | What Are People For? | Wendell Berry | Book Riot |
| 657 | What Becomes : Stories | A.L. Kennedy | Book Browse |
| 658 | What Happened to Burger’s Daughter or How South African Censorship Works | Wikipedia | |
| 659 | What If? (essays) | Wikipedia | |
| 660 | What If? 2 | Wikipedia | |
| 661 | What Ifs? of American History | Wikipedia | |
| 662 | What Is Your Dangerous Idea? | Wikipedia | |
| 663 | What Next for Labour? | Wikipedia | |
| 664 | What We Believe But Cannot Prove | Wikipedia | |
| 665 | What’s Going On (book) | Wikipedia | |
| 666 | When You Are Engulfed in Flames | David Sedaris | Goodreads |
| 667 | Where the Stress Falls | Wikipedia | |
| 668 | White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art | Manny Farber | Flavorwire |
| 669 | White Girls | Hilton Als | Book Riot |
| 670 | Who Is Ayn Rand? | Wikipedia | |
| 671 | Who Speaks for the Negro? | Wikipedia | |
| 672 | Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch | Wikipedia | |
| 673 | Why Not Me? | Mindy Kaling | Goodreads |
| 674 | Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings | Wikipedia | |
| 675 | Writing With Intent | Margaret Atwood | Book Riot |
| 676 | X (Cage book) | Wikipedia | |
| 677 | Yes Means Yes | Wikipedia | |
| 678 | You Could Look It Up (2016 book) | Wikipedia | |
| 679 | You Don’t Have to Like Me | Alida Nugent | Book Riot |
| 680 | You Know When the Men Are Gone | Siobhan Fallon | Book Browse |
| 681 | You Should Pity Us Instead | Amy Gustine | Book Browse |
20 Best Essay Collection Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| Better World Books | 10 Fun-to-Read Essay Collections |
| Book Browse | Short Stories & Essays |
| Book Riot | 100 MUST-READ ESSAY COLLECTIONS |
| Buzzfeed | 17 Personal Essays That Will Change Your Life |
| Five Books | Adam Gopnik recommends the best books on Favourite Essay Collections |
| Flashlight Worthy | Top Ten Essay Collections by Lesbians |
| Flavorwire | hat Are the 10 Best Nonfiction Essays of the Past 50 Years? |
| Flavorwire 2 | The 25 Greatest Essay Collections of All Time |
| Goodreads | Popular Essay Collections Books |
| Library Thing | Best Essay Collections |
| Publishers Weekly | The Top 10 Essays Since 1950 |
| Salon | 8 Great Essay Collections for Your Reading Pleasure |
| The Daily Beast | Andrew O’Hagan’s Six Favorite Essay Collections |
| The Missouri Review | The Collected Voice: Three Recent Essay Collections of Note |
| The Telegraph | Amit Chaudhuri on great essay collections |
| Tin House | Staff Picks: Best of the Decade, Essay Collections |
| Tor | Go Behind the Fiction in These 17 Essay Collections and Biographies |
| Verso | Five Book Plan: Essay Collections |
| Vox Magazine | Best collection of essays books to read now |
| Wikipedia | Category:Essay collections |
