In Light-Years There's No Hurry
Marjolijn van Heemstra
Published 2023
192 pages
The most popular essays books of 2023
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 2023.
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Glow in the F*cking Dark Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way
Tara Schuster
Published 2023
336 pages
Remember Love Words for Tender Times
Cleo Wade
Published 2023
224 pages
Opinions A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
Roxane Gay
2023 · 2024 edition
320 pages
You Are Only Just Beginning
Morgan Harper Nichols
Published 2023
208 pages
Is It Hot in Here (or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?
Zach Zimmerman
Published 2023
148 pages
Weidenfeld Nicolson A Life of Ones Own Nine Women Writers Begin Again.
Joanna Biggs
2023 · 2024 edition
272 pages
The Comfort of Crows A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl
Published 2023
288 pages
What About Men?
Caitlin Moran
Published 2023
320 pages
The Night Parade A Speculative Memoir
Jami Nakamura Lin
Published 2023
352 pages
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
Helen Ellis
2023 · 2024 edition
224 pages
Adult Drama
Natalie Beach
Published 2023
1 page
In the Form of a Question The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
Amy Schneider
2023 · 2024 edition
272 pages
Truth Telling Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
Michelle Good
Published 2023
215 pages
Small Fires An Epic in the Kitchen
Rebecca May Johnson
Published 2023
192 pages
The Half Known Life In Search of Paradise
Pico Iyer
Published 2023
240 pages
The Lost Tomb
Douglas Preston
Published 2023
212 pages
Lives of the Wives
Carmela Ciuraru
2023 · 2024 edition
336 pages
Don't Think, Dear On Loving and Leaving Ballet
Alice Robb
2023 · 2025 edition
304 pages
A Man of Two Faces A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Published 2023
380 pages
Wannabe
Aisha Harris
Published 2023
336 pages
Leg The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Greg Marshall
Published 2023
304 pages
A Thread of Violence A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
Mark O'Connell - undifferentiated
Published 2023
304 pages
Question 7
Richard Flanagan
2023 · 2024 edition
288 pages