The most popular French essays books of 2020

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 2020. Only books in French are listed.

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Le Cygne Noir
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Le Cygne Noir

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Published 2020

608 pages

Traverser l'hiver
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Traverser l'hiver

Katherine May, キャサリン・メイ

2020 · 2021 edition

235 pages

Le Monde caché
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Le Monde caché

Merlin Sheldrake

2020 · 2021 edition

378 pages

Vols au crépuscule
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Vols au crépuscule

Helen Macdonald, Ricard Vela

2020 · 2021 edition

352 pages