Hunger Like a Thirst From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table
Besha Rodell
Published 2025
272 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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Dead and Alive Essays
Zadie Smith
Published 2025
352 pages
Wild in Seattle Stories at the Crossroads of People and Nature
David B. Williams
Published 2025
224 pages
塞尚、大師們、與我 Cézanne, Masters, and Me
Chao-Liang Calvin Yu, 尤昭良
Published 2025
98 pages
Nalanda How It Changed the World
Abhay K.
Published 2025
288 pages
Unbound Notes from a Reluctant Disability Activist
Ben Mattlin
Published 2025
292 pages
Sardar Patel An Icon of India's Unity
Harish K. Thakur
Published 2025
288 pages
Jean-Michel Basquiat The Making of an Icon
Doug Woodham
Published 2025
272 pages
Expensive Basketball
Shea Serrano
Published 2025
352 pages
The Stolen Crown Treachery, Deceit, and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
Tracy Borman
Published 2025
448 pages
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
Granny's Gripes Life, Laughter & Loud Opinions
Christine Smith
Published 2025
104 pages
What Is Queer Food?
John Birdsall
2025 · 2026 edition
304 pages
Writings -- Miscellaneous
K. E. FROESCHNER
Published 2025
148 pages
Wonderstruck Because the Universe Wants Us to be Surprised by what Comes Next
Greg Wright
Published 2025
306 pages
Wonderstruck by The Methow Because the Universe Wants Us to be Surprised by what Comes Next
Greg Wright
Published 2025
204 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
Musings In The Laboratory
E. V. Keath
Published 2025
118 pages
Robert Lowell's Poetry An In Depth Essay
Matthew Vernon Hanson
Published 2025
42 pages
Dog Days
Emily LaBarge
2025 · 2026 edition
280 pages
El Mundo Zurdo 10 Selected Academic and Creative Works from the 2024 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
Sonya M. Alemán, Rachel Cruz, Yael Valencia Aldana
Published 2025
260 pages
Opportunities for Learning A Sociological Perspective
Maureen T. Hallinan
Published 2025
602 pages