Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
1970 · 2007 edition
1168 pages
The most popular essays books
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.
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Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
1997 · 2000 edition
307 pages
The Prince (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Niccolò Machiavelli
1891 · 2015 edition
173 pages
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
1992 · 2018 edition
400 pages
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
1970 · 2017 edition
332 pages
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1973 · 2017 edition
26 pages
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
1971 · 1998 edition
224 pages
Just Kids
Patti Smith
2010 · 2019 edition
384 pages
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
1975 · 2003 edition
256 pages
Mrs Dalloway Complete Illustrated and Unabridged Edition
Virginia Woolf
1973 · 2022 edition
176 pages
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
2006 · 2010 edition
548 pages
Beowulf
Burton Raffel
1971 · 2001 edition
259 pages
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
1998 · 2019 edition
400 pages
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
1971 · 2023 edition
108 pages
The Year of Magical Thinking Playscript. Joan Didion
Joan Didion
2005 · 2008 edition
96 pages
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Joffe Numeroff
1980 · 1988 edition
32 pages
The Long Walk
Stephen King
1979 · 2025 edition
320 pages
Candide
Voltaire
1970 · 2020 edition
78 pages
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
1973 · 2012 edition
1020 pages
You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero
Published 2013
254 pages
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
1970 · 2014 edition
210 pages
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
2003 · 2004 edition
257 pages
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Published 2006
374 pages
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers)
Jules Verne
1970 · 1989 edition
176 pages