Do What You Want
Bad Religion
Published 2020
336 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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Earth Keeper
N. Scott Momaday
Published 2020
80 pages
Unfinished Business
Vivian Gornick
Published 2020
192 pages
Fight of the Century Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
Brit Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett, Timothy Egan, Dave Eggers, David Handler, Yaa Gyasi, Meg Wolitzer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman Rushdie, Yiyun Li, Jonathan Lethem, Aleksandar Hemon, Jacqueline Woodson, Rabih Alameddine, Héctor Tobar, Sergio De La Pava, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Steven Okazaki
Published 2020
336 pages
OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea
Patrick Freyne
2020 · 2021 edition
224 pages
How to Feed a Dictator Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
Witold Szabłowski
2020 · 2022 edition
267 pages
Librarian Tales Funny, Strange, and Inspiring Dispatches from the Stacks
William Ottens
Published 2020
240 pages
Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why Essays
Alexandra Petri
2020 · 2021 edition
240 pages
Weird but Normal
Mia Mercado
Published 2020
261 pages
Make Me Rain
Nikki Giovanni
Published 2020
144 pages
Missed Translations
Sopan Deb, Hasan Minhaj
Published 2020
272 pages
Strange Rites
Tara Isabella Burton
Published 2020
320 pages
You're Doing Great!
Tom Papa
Published 2020
304 pages
Too Much
Rachel Vorona Cote
Published 2020
352 pages
Mantel Pieces
Hilary Mantel
Published 2020
352 pages
A Map Is Only One Story Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
Nicole Chung, Mensah Demary
Published 2020
240 pages
To be a Man Stories
Nicole Krauss
Published 2020
229 pages
Neon Girls
Jennifer Worley
Published 2020
272 pages
The Best American Short Stories 2020
Curtis Sittenfeld, Heidi Pitlor
Published 2020
400 pages
Fascism and Democracy
George Orwell
2020 · 2021 edition
48 pages
The Writer's Library
Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
A. Kendra Greene
2020 · 2021 edition
252 pages
DMZ Colony
Don Mee Choi
Published 2020
132 pages
The Astonishing Life of August March
Aaron Jackson
Published 2020
200 pages