You Can't Be Serious
Kal Penn
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
The most popular essays books of 2020
Essays are short works of nonfiction in which a writer thinks something through. The subject can be anything: politics, a walk, a film, a grief. What matters is the mind at work and the voice. Collections here range from the classic to the sharply contemporary. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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How to Write One Song Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
Jeff Tweedy
Published 2020
176 pages
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Shaun Bythell
Published 2020
144 pages
How Do We Know We're Doing it Right? Essays on Modern Life
Pandora Sykes
Published 2020
275 pages
Funny Weather Art in an Emergency
Olivia Laing
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
More Than a Woman
Caitlin Moran
Published 2020
277 pages
A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Published 2020
326 pages
Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Rebekah Taussig
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
All Along You Were Blooming Thoughts for Boundless Living
Morgan Harper Nichols
Published 2020
182 pages
Consider This Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
Chuck Palahniuk
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
Calling Bullshit The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
2020 · 2021 edition
336 pages
How to be Fine What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-help Books
Kristen Meinzer, Jolenta Greenberg
Published 2020
239 pages
The Cold Vanish Seeking the Missing in North America's Wilderness
Jon Billman
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
The Precipice Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Toby Ord
Published 2020
480 pages
Keep Moving Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
Maggie Smith
Published 2020
224 pages
Goodbye, Again
Jonny Sun
2020 · 2021 edition
238 pages
Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
2020 · 2021 edition
272 pages
No One Asked for this
Cazzie David
Published 2020
352 pages
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Elif Shafak
Published 2020
90 pages
Having and Being Had
Eula Biss
2020 · 2023 edition
336 pages
Olive, Mabel & Me
Andrew Cotter
Published 2020
237 pages
Owls of the Eastern Ice The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Jonathan C. Slaght
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
On Time and Water
Andri Snær Magnason
2020 · 2021 edition
347 pages
Cassandra Speaks When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Elizabeth Lesser
2020 · 2022 edition
304 pages