A Sand County almanac,
Aldo Leopold
1970 · 1987 edition
226 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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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Angela Y. Davis
2016 · 2022 edition
192 pages
Things My Son Needs to Know About The World
Fredrik Backman
2012 · 2021 edition
193 pages
A Good Man is Hard to Find And Other Stories
Flannery O'Connor
1992 · 1955 edition
251 pages
You Are Not So Smart Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
David McRaney
2011 · 2021 edition
320 pages
Portrait of a Killer Jack the Ripper Case Closed
Patricia Cornwell
2002 · 2003 edition
562 pages
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson, Robert
2005 · 2006 edition
454 pages
Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Александр Солженицын
1973 · 1999 edition
496 pages
Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
Jenny Lawson
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
The Opposite of Loneliness Essays and Stories
Marina Keegan
2014 · 2015 edition
208 pages
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
1970 · 2011 edition
285 pages
A Street Cat Named Bob
James Bowen
Published 2012
279 pages
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace
1997 · 2009 edition
368 pages
The Antichrist
Friedrich Nietzsche
1973 · 2018 edition
108 pages
The Book of Basketball The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Bill Simmons
2009 · 2010 edition
752 pages
Born Free
Joy Adamson
1970 · 1960 edition
221 pages
My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor, Jill B. Taylor
2006 · 2021 edition
183 pages
It Chooses You
Miranda July
2011 · 2012 edition
218 pages
A Cook's Tour
Anthony Bourdain
Published 2001
284 pages
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2017 · 2018 edition
272 pages
The Game
Neil Strauss
Published 2005
452 pages
Death by Black Hole
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Published 2007
384 pages
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
Published 2014
304 pages
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
1987 · 2022 edition
113 pages