The Best American Essays 2019 (The Best American Series ®)
By: Robert Atwan
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. “…
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1. The Best American Essays 2002
By: Robert Atwan , Stephen Jay Gould
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Edited by the award-winning late author of The Mismeasure of Man a new collection of the finest non… read more
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- nonfiction
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2. Howl and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.13
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more
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"You too must seek the sun..."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"America this is quite serious"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems
3. Hag-Seed
By: Margaret Atwood
3.80
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
When Felix is deposed as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival by his devious assist… read more
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"La grandeza está en la virtud, no en la venganza"-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
"Suddenly revenge is so close he can actually taste it. It tastes like steak, rare."-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
"But once you’ve climbed a ladder, what use is it? You kick it away, if you don’t intend to go down it again."-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
"You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke," Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham."-Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed
4. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
By: Kiese Laymon
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in Am… read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
5. Infidel
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into interna… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
6. The Best American Essays 2007
By: David Foster Wallace , Robert Atwan
3.70
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
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7. Dear Life: Stories
By: Alice Munro
2.50
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales abo… read more
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8. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- race
- memoir
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- nonfiction
- essays
9. A Philosophy of Walking
By: John Howe , Clifford Harper , Frédéric Gros
3.74
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
In A Philosophy of Walking, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get fro… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Thus the man who walks all day has become certain by nightfall."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"Discipline is the impossible conquered by the obstinate repetition of the possible."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
"You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second."-John Howe, A Philosophy of Walking
10. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
By: Zadie Smith
3.40
Format: 208 pages,
A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade. Zadie Smith brings to her … read more
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11. Small Wonder
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.03
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful exami… read more
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- memoir
- essays
"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda."-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
"Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to …"-Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder
12. The Best American Essays 2013
By: Alice Munro , Zadie Smith , Charles Baxter , Poe Ballantine , Robert Atwan , Marcia Aldrich , Cheryl Strayed , Tod Goldberg , Kevin Sampsell , Vanessa Veselka , Eileen Pollack , Walter Kirn , Mako Yoshikawa , Brian Doyle , Richard Schmitt , Ander Monson , Angela Morales , William Melvin Kelley , Matthew Vollmer , Jon Kerstetter , None
2.00
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
Selected and introduced by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Timesbest-selling author of Wildand the wri… read more
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13. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
14. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
15. The Pachinko Parlour
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.61
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and … read more
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"They made it illegal to speak Korean. You could be sentenced to death for speaking it. And do you know what your grandmother’s mother did to avoid being subjected to speaking Japanese at school? She …"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
"When Korea was divided, we were still nationals of a unified Korea. It was called Choson. At separation, the Japanese government gave us permission to keep our Korean identity, but we had to choose b…"-Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour
16. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- nonfiction
- unfinished
- essays
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
17. The Best American Short Stories 2022
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.67
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer … read more
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- anthologies
18. Hell of a Book
By: Jason Mott
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In Hell of a Book, an African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his … read more
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- race
"Because God needs the little people more than he needs anyone"-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
"The modern author is only as important as their search results."-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
"From his perspective, Daddy Henry was a nice enough collection of wrinkles."-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
"I know all the smells: humidity, pine trees, thinly veiled racism. It’s what home feels like for me."-Jason Mott, Hell of a Book
19. 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
"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
20. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"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
21. Homeland Elegies
By: Ayad Akhtar
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Eleg… read more
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- politics
- race
22. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
23. The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection)
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous ye… read more
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- anthologies
- unfinished
24. 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
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- essays
- 21st century
25. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
By: Héctor Tobar
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
26. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
By: Joy Buolamwini
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
27. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
28. The Surrender Theory
By: Caitlin Conlon
4.01
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
The Surrender Theory begins in the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and … read more
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- nonfiction
"In retrospect I can see that you gave me very little and I tried to build an entire future with it. You must understand, I had never been remembered like that, before. With purpose. Without begging f…"-Caitlin Conlon, The Surrender Theory
29. Ponyboy
By: Eliot Duncan
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more
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30. The Best American Essays 2019 (The Best American Series ®)
By: Robert Atwan
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit. “… read more
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- memoir
- unfinished
- feminism
- politics
- anthologies
- gender studies
- nonfiction
- essays
- 21st century
31. The Best American Essays 2021
By: Kathryn Schulz
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff w… read more
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- nonfiction
- anthologies
- essays
