A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays
By: Randon Billings Noble
4.33
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way th…
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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
By: Annie Dillard
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"Innocence is a better world."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
2. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
3. A Bestiary
By: Lily Hoang
4.27
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
* Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum * “Rarely have … read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- school
- nonfiction
- essays
"It is not a desire to play games: it is an urge, a yearning, an addiction."-Lily Hoang, A Bestiary
"When I was young, my mother would cuddle me closely when I was sick. She would say, "Shhh, shhh," and tell me that she wanted me to give her all of my sickness, so that she would be sick and I wouldn…"-Lily Hoang, A Bestiary
4. The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot
By: Charles Baxter
4.02
Format: 426 pages,
Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intel… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
5. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
6. Crush
By: Richard Siken
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more
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- poetry
7. Abandon Me: Memoirs
By: Melissa Febos
3.64
Format: 221 pages,
For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that expl… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
8. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
9. Pulphead
By: John Jeremiah Sullivan
3.89
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and… read more
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10. Blue Nights
By: Joan Didion
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more
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11. The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
By: Mark Strand , Eavan Boland
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Poetry's Ingredients: Mark Strand and Eavan Boland Explore Form Explaining beauty is hard work. But… read more
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12. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- poetry
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
13. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
14. Our Country Friends
By: Gary Shteyngart
3.21
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotion… read more
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"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Russian was a language built around the exhalation of warmth and pain...."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
"Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't."-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends
15. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.06
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
16. The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
17. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- writing
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
18. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- writing
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
19. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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20. In the Dream House
By: Carmen Maria Machado
4.42
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"But this story? This one's mine."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
21. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
22. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
By: Eric LaRocca
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more
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- anthologies
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances
23. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
24. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
By: Chelsea Hodson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
25. The Best American Essays 2022
By: Alexander Chee
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexand… read more
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- memoir
- school
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
26. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
By: Katie Farris
4.31
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as th… read more
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- poetry
- memoir
27. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
By: Jane Wong
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
28. A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays
By: Randon Billings Noble
4.33
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way th… read more
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- memoir
- school
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
29. The Wild Delight of Wild Things
By: Brian Turner
4.79
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Although grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love… read more
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- poetry
30. Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
By: Lars Horn
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"Where did they go, all the gods and the beasts? The jackals and winged horses, sphinxes and fish, all those creatures that weighed our organs in the afterlife, fed on years ill-lived? What do they to…"-Lars Horn, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
31. The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins
By: Zoë Bossiere
4.31
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Lyric essayists draw on memoir, poetry, and prose to push against the arbitrary genre restrictions … read more
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- poetry
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
