The most popular essays books of 2025

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 2025.

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I Am Lost
Cover of I Am Lost

I Am Lost

Ashlyn McLan

Published 2025

28 pages

Tim Page
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Tim Page

Tim Page, Stephen Dupont, Jacques Menasche, Michael Stuart-Fox

Published 2025

80 pages

The Buddhist Years
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The Buddhist Years

Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth

Published 2025

296 pages