You are Not So Smart
David McRaney
2011 · 2021 edition
320 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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Portrait of a Killer
Patricia Cornwell, Kornuell P.
2001 · 2012 edition
416 pages
The Rules Do Not Apply
Ariel Levy
Published 2017
207 pages
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
Ina May Gaskin
2003 · 2020 edition
352 pages
This Is Your Mind On Plants
Michael Pollan
Published 2021
274 pages
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Thomas C. Foster
2003 · 2024 edition
305 pages
How Democracies Die
Daniel Ziblatt
2014 · 2018 edition
312 pages
Paddle Your Own Canoe
Nick Offerman
2013 · 2014 edition
352 pages
The Elephant Whisperer
Anthony Lawrence, Graham Spence
2007 · 2009 edition
384 pages
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
1970 · 2011 edition
287 pages
The Antichrist
Friedrich Nietzsche
1971 · 2019 edition
88 pages
A Cook's Tour
Anthony Bourdain
2001 · 2006 edition
274 pages
I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong
2016 · 2017 edition
354 pages
Assata
Assata Shakur
1973 · 2014 edition
390 pages
Salt Sugar Fat
Michael Moss
Published 2013
480 pages
All the Beauty in the World
Patrick Bringley
Published 2023
226 pages
Food
Jim Gaffigan
2014 · 2015 edition
352 pages
Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
2014 · 2018 edition
556 pages
It Chooses You
Miranda July
Published 2011
224 pages
Death by Black Hole
Neil deGrasse Tyson
2006 · 2014 edition
384 pages
Writing Down the Bones
Natalie Goldberg
1986 · 2016 edition
198 pages
Windmills of the Gods
Sidney Sheldon
1987 · 2006 edition
464 pages
Bright Lights, Big Ass
Jen Lancaster
Published 2007
380 pages
Six Easy Pieces (Popular Penguins)
Richard P. Feynman
1994 · 2008 edition
144 pages