The Book of (more) Delights
Ross Gay
Published 2023
288 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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Thinning Blood
Leah Myers
2023 · 2024 edition
176 pages
Winning Fixes Everything How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
Evan Drellich
Published 2023
368 pages
The God Desire
David Baddiel
2023 · 2025 edition
112 pages
The Perfection Trap Embracing the Power of Good Enough
Thomas Curran
Published 2023
288 pages
Fieldwork A Forager's Memoir
Iliana Regan
Published 2023
329 pages
Wolfish
Erica Berry
Published 2023
432 pages
Unreliable Narrator Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
Aparna Nancherla
Published 2023
304 pages
Everybody's Favorite Tales from the World's Worst Perfectionist
Lillian Stone
Published 2023
224 pages
Not Funny ... And Other Things I've Been Called
Jena Friedman
2023 · 2024 edition
256 pages
On Women
Susan Sontag
Published 2023
208 pages
Belonging
Michelle Miller
2023 · 2024 edition
320 pages
The Real Work
Adam Gopnik
2023 · 2024 edition
256 pages
The Abuse of Power Confronting Injustice in Public Life
Theresa May
Published 2023
344 pages
Sleepless
Marie Darrieussecq
Published 2023
267 pages
The Upstairs Delicatessen On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Dwight Garner
Published 2023
256 pages
But Have You Read the Book? 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films
Kristen Lopez
Published 2023
240 pages
Opening the Door A Study of New Policies for the Mentally Handicapped
Peter Williams, John Brown, Julian Roberts, Kathleen Jones, J. W. Cunningham
Published 2023
280 pages
Cosmic Kinship Celebrating Community
Karen Molenaar Terrell
Published 2023
204 pages
Abortion A Personal Story, a Political Choice
Pauline Harmange, Caitlin O'Neil
Published 2023
85 pages
It's Not that Radical Climate Action to Transform Our World
Mikaela Loach
Published 2023
239 pages
The Social Dimension of Social Housing
Simon Güntner, Christoph Reinprecht, Juma Hauser, Judith M. Lehner
Published 2023
368 pages
Boomer Notes
Kevin Ferguson
Published 2023
280 pages
Shelburne Essays; Volume 5
Paul Elmer More
Published 2023
276 pages