The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
John Koenig
Published 2021
288 pages
The most popular essays books of 2021
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 2021.
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Tacky Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Rax King
Published 2021
208 pages
She Memes Well Essays
Quinta Brunson
Published 2021
293 pages
Breathe
Rickson Gracie, Jacko Willink
Published 2021
320 pages
The Disordered Cosmos A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Published 2021
318 pages
On Freedom Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Maggie Nelson
Published 2021
288 pages
Speak, Okinawa A Memoir
Elizabeth Miki Brina
Published 2021
304 pages
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light Essays
Helen Ellis
Published 2021
192 pages
Good Apple Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York
Elizabeth Passarella
Published 2021
235 pages
A Class Act
Rob Beckett
2021 · 2022 edition
288 pages
The Good Girls
Sonia Faleiro
Published 2021
352 pages
Confident Women Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
Tori Telfer
Published 2021
336 pages
How Stella Learned to Talk The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Christina Hunger
Published 2021
272 pages
Baggage Tales from a Fully Packed Life
Alan Cumming
Published 2021
288 pages
Thanks for Waiting The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
Doree Shafrir
Published 2021
304 pages
Who Gets to be Smart Privilege, Power and Knowledge
Bri Lee
Published 2021
288 pages
Stolen
Elizabeth Gilpin
Published 2021
320 pages
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets An Illustrated Memoir
Margaret Kimball
Published 2021
275 pages
Girly Drinks A World History of Women and Alcohol
Mallory O'Meara
2021 · 2022 edition
384 pages
Bamboozled by Jesus
Yvonne Orji
Published 2021
272 pages
Still Just a Geek
Wil Wheaton
2021 · 2022 edition
464 pages
The Heartbeat of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
2021 · 2022 edition
258 pages
Everybody
Olivia Laing
2021 · 2022 edition
368 pages
Well, This Is Exhausting
Sophia Benoit
Published 2021
336 pages