The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama
Published 2006
375 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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Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Chelsea Handler, Zach Cordner
2008 · 2009 edition
272 pages
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
1972 · 2020 edition
448 pages
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
1971 · 1950 edition
123 pages
Sh*t My Dad Says
Justin Halpern
1994 · 2025 edition
176 pages
Julie and Julia
Julie Powell
2005 · 2009 edition
362 pages
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
1990 · 2026 edition
591 pages
All About Love
bell hooks
Published 1999
240 pages
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
2019 · 2021 edition
535 pages
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
David Sedaris
2013 · 2014 edition
288 pages
The Aeneid
Virgil
1839 · 2017 edition
353 pages
GRIT
Angela Duckworth
2014 · 2017 edition
345 pages
The Fall
Albert Camus
1970 · 2016 edition
46 pages
Through the Looking-Glass (Royal Collector's Edition) (Illustrated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Lewis Carroll
1893 · 2021 edition
112 pages
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Nicole Krauss, [美]妮可-克劳斯
1993 · 2014 edition
302 pages
Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham
2014 · 2018 edition
320 pages
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
1976 · 2015 edition
146 pages
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray, Guiffrey
1848 · 2012 edition
430 pages
Letters to a Young Poet (Translated and with an Afterword by Ulrich Baer)
Rainer Maria Rilke
1981 · 2022 edition
100 pages
Superfreakonomics
Lie Wei Te. Du Bo Na(Dubne
2009 · 2015 edition
320 pages
Holidays on Ice
David Sedaris
1997 · 1998 edition
176 pages
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer, Эми Шумер
2016 · 2018 edition
400 pages
Aesop's fables
Aesop
1972 · 1990 edition
52 pages
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
1970 · 2025 edition
103 pages