
1984
George Orwell
1971 · 2021 edition
416 pages
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. Only books in French are listed.

George Orwell
1971 · 2021 edition
416 pages

William Shakespeare, David Wardle
1871 · 1994 edition
95 pages

Charlotte Brontë
1895 · 2019 edition
768 pages

Orson Scott Card
1977 · 2012 edition
380 pages

James Clear, Manjul Books
2014 · 2019 edition
320 pages

Frances Hodgson Burnett
1970 · 2010 edition
64 pages

Mark Twain
1970 · 1973 edition
250 pages

Charles Dickens
1874 · 1989 edition
416 pages

John Steinbeck
1971 · 1947 edition
536 pages

Viktor E. Frankl
1970 · 1988 edition
165 pages

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
2005 · 2006 edition
246 pages

Charles Dickens
1880 · 2021 edition
490 pages

Malcolm Gladwell
1976 · 2014 edition
313 pages

Malcolm Gladwell
2000 · 2016 edition
270 pages

Stephen R. Covey
1989 · 2019 edition
464 pages

Blake Crouch
2003 · 2024 edition
544 pages

David Sedaris
2000 · 2002 edition
317 pages

Neil Gaiman
2013 · 2016 edition
251 pages

Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
2012 · 2014 edition
424 pages

Herman Melville
1970 · 2025 edition
626 pages

Malcolm Gladwell
2004 · 2007 edition
254 pages

Daniel Kahneman
2010 · 2025 edition
706 pages

Isaac Asimov
1970 · 2000 edition
256 pages

Maya Angelou, 玛雅·安吉洛
1970 · 2023 edition
544 pages