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Essays

  • Updated 11 months ago
  • 104 Books
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Satellite Sisters' Uncommon Senses
Collections of Nothing
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

From Where You Dream
Between Panic and Desire
The best creative nonfiction
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Civility
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
The Last Shot
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
What difference do it make?
An Alphabet for Gourmets
Serve It Forth
Reality Hunger
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
The Library at Night
This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity
How Proust Can Change Your Life
52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Flaneur
Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
Planting Dandelions
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Paris in Love
Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
The New Kings of Nonfiction
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine
Between You & Me
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
Humans of New York: Stories
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Turn South at the Second Bridge
Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
More Baths, Less Talking
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
Readings
A Passion for Books
Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories
High Tide in Tucson
Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays
The Martha Beck Collection: Essays for Creating Your Right Life, Volume One
How Reading Changed My Life
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Being Perfect
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Birdbaths and Paper Cranes: A Family Tale
What Now?
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
5 Nights in Paris
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Sixty

One Man's Christmas
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Am I Alone Here?

The Moth
Winter
How to Live
God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State
The Wanderer's Guide To Lucca
A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years
Essays
As They Were
Why Read Moby-Dick?
Porch Talk
Shrub
Small Wonder
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Other People's Dirt

If You Ask Me: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible Critic
The rural life
Songbook
Paris, Paris
Take the Cannoli
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Essays
Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
300 Arguments
Wintering
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
Searching for God Knows What
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
On Animals
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The Art of Eating

Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
These Precious Days: Essays
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Hundred Years of Happiness
Inciting Joy: Essays
Novelist as a Vocation
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