Unbound Notes from a Reluctant Disability Activist
Ben Mattlin
Published 2025
292 pages
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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Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
2025 · 2026 edition
192 pages
Poutine A Deep-Fried Road Trip of Discovery
Justin Giovannetti Lamothe
Published 2025
224 pages
What Is Queer Food?
John Birdsall
2025 · 2026 edition
304 pages
North to the Future An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska
Ben Weissenbach
Published 2025
320 pages
Good Game, No Rematch A Life Made of Video Games
Mike Drucker
Published 2025
304 pages
Opportunities for Learning A Sociological Perspective
Maureen T. Hallinan
Published 2025
602 pages
Someone Like Me An Anthology of Autistic Gender-Diverse and Women Writers
Clem Bastow, Jo Case
Published 2025
352 pages
石巻工房 An Experiment in DIY and Design
Keiji Ashizawa, Naoki Terada, Karen Orton, Rebekah Cheng, Joël Vacheron
Published 2025
256 pages
Three Wild Dogs (and the truth)
Markus Zusak
Published 2025
240 pages
Jeremy Catto A Portrait of the Quintessential Oxford Don
David Vaiani
Published 2025
208 pages
Fugitive Tilts Essays
Ishion Hutchinson
2025 · 2026 edition
384 pages
Self-Sabotage And Other Ways I've Spent My Time
Jeffery Self
2025 · 2026 edition
272 pages
Sumud A New Palestinian Reader
Malu Halasa, Jordan Elgrably
Published 2025
400 pages
The Thinking Heart Essays on Israel and Palestine
David Grossman
Published 2025
112 pages
The Ways of Paradise
Peter Cornell, Saskia Vogel
Published 2025
152 pages
Dust and Light On the Art of Fact in Fiction
Andrea Barrett
Published 2025
240 pages
Dying Livingly
Staci Bu Shea
Published 2025
144 pages
Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good and Bad Government Reconsidered Painting the Politics of Renaissance Siena
Jules Lubbock
Published 2025
304 pages
Eat What Elephants Eat Vegan Recipes for a Strong Body and a Gentle Spirit (A Cookbook)
Dominick Thompson
Published 2025
304 pages
Ordinary Time Lessons Learned While Staying Put
Annie B. Jones
2025 · 2026 edition
240 pages
Snapshots An Album of Essay and Image
Dinah Lenney
Published 2025
168 pages
Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
Alex Coles
Published 2025
128 pages
Words to Sing the World Alive Celebrating First Nations Languages
Jasmin McGaughey
Published 2025
288 pages