DebNance
Deb Nance

Essays

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#2
Satellite Sisters' Uncommon Senses
Satellite Sisters' Uncommon Senses
  • Julie Dolan
  • Satellite Sisters
31 read
#3
Collections of Nothing
Collections of Nothing
  • William Davies King
31 read
#4
Cover 1

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
    4.52 reads
    #5
    From Where You Dream
    From Where You Dream
    • Robert Olen Butler
    31 read
    #6
    Between Panic and Desire
    Between Panic and Desire
    • Dinty W. Moore
    41 read
    #7
    The best creative nonfiction
    The best creative nonfiction
    • Lee Gutkind
    41 read
    #9
    Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
    Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
    • Anne Lamott
    3.731 reads
    #10
    Civility
    Civility
    • Stephen L. Carter
    51 read
    #11
    Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
    Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
    • Studs Terkel
    3.8614 reads
    #12
    The Last Shot
    The Last Shot
    • Darcy Frey
    43 reads
    #13
    Material World: A Global Family Portrait
    Material World: A Global Family Portrait
    • Peter Menzel
    51 read
    #14
    What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
    What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
    • Malcolm Gladwell
    3.78110 reads
    #15
    What difference do it make?
    What difference do it make?
    • Ron Hall
    • Denver Moore
    • Lynn Vincent
    41 read
    #17
    An Alphabet for Gourmets
    An Alphabet for Gourmets
    • M.F.K. Fisher
    52 reads
    #18
    Serve It Forth
    Serve It Forth
    • M.F.K. Fisher
    41 read
    #19
    Reality Hunger
    Reality Hunger
    • David Shields
    3.6311 reads
    #20
    In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
    In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
      31 read
      #21
      The Library at Night
      The Library at Night
      • Alberto Manguel
      4.45 reads
      #22
      This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity
      This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity
      • Susan Moon
      31 read
      #23
      How Proust Can Change Your Life
      How Proust Can Change Your Life
      • Alain de Botton
      3.6731 reads
      #24
      52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust
      52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust
      • William Alexander
      47 reads
      #25
      Slouching Towards Bethlehem
      Slouching Towards Bethlehem
      • Joan Didion
      4.192 reads
      #26
      The Flaneur
      The Flaneur
      • Edmund White
      43 reads
      #27
      Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
      Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
      • Clay Shirky
      3.316 reads
      #28
      Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
      Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
      • Anne Lamott
      4.18214 reads
      #29
      McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
      McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
      • Joseph Mitchell
      41 read
      #30
      Planting Dandelions
      Planting Dandelions
      • Kyran Pittman
      31 read
      #31
      Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
      Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
      • Anna Quindlen
      3.634 reads
      #32
      Paris in Love
      Paris in Love
      • Eloisa James
      3.85 reads
      #33
      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
      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
      • Robin Shulman
      4.51 read
      #34
      The New Kings of Nonfiction
      The New Kings of Nonfiction
      • Mark Bowden
      • Bill Buford
      • Malcolm Gladwell
      • Jack Hitt
      • Chuck Klosterman
      • James McManus
      • Susan Orlean
      • Michael Pollan
      • Lee Sandlin
      • Dan Savage
      • Coco Henson Scales
      • David Foster Wallace
      • Lawrence Weschler
      4.2210 reads
      #35
      True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine
      True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine
        41 read
        #36
        Between You & Me
        Between You & Me
        • Mary Norris
        3.3519 reads
        #37
        Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
        Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
        • Simon Winchester
        3.513 reads
        #38
        Humans of New York: Stories
        Humans of New York: Stories
        • Brandon Stanton
        4.6126 reads
        #39
        The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
        The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
        • Bill Bryson
        3.4260 reads
        #40
        Turn South at the Second Bridge
        Turn South at the Second Bridge
        • Leon Hale
        4.52 reads
        #41
        Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps
        Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps
        • Dave Isay
        4.52 reads
        #42
        The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
        The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
        • David Shields
        3.52 reads
        #43
        More Baths, Less Talking
        More Baths, Less Talking
        • Nick Hornby
        3.759 reads
        #44
        At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
        At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
        • Anne Fadiman
        3.836 reads
        #45
        Readings
        Readings
        • Michael Dirda
        3.53 reads
        #46
        A Passion for Books
        A Passion for Books
          35 reads
          #47
          Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories
          Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories
          • Herbert R. Kohl
          31 read
          #48
          High Tide in Tucson
          High Tide in Tucson
          • Barbara Kingsolver
          4.310 reads
          #49
          Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays
          Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays
          • Robert James Waller
          31 read
          #50
          The Martha Beck Collection: Essays for Creating Your Right Life, Volume One
          The Martha Beck Collection: Essays for Creating Your Right Life, Volume One
          • Martha N. Beck
          31 read
          #51
          How Reading Changed My Life
          How Reading Changed My Life
          • Anna Quindlen
          45 reads
          #52
          A Short Guide to a Happy Life
          A Short Guide to a Happy Life
          • Anna Quindlen
          3.59 reads
          #53
          Being Perfect
          Being Perfect
          • Anna Quindlen
          3.53 reads
          #54
          All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
          All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
          • Robert Fulghum
          3.2515 reads
          #55
          Birdbaths and Paper Cranes: A Family Tale
          Birdbaths and Paper Cranes: A Family Tale
          • Sharon Randall
          41 read
          #56
          What Now?
          What Now?
          • Ann Patchett
          44 reads
          #58
          This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
          This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
          • Ann Patchett
          4.3729 reads
          #59
          The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
          The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
          • Natalie Goldberg
          41 read
          #60
          5 Nights in Paris
          5 Nights in Paris
          • John Baxter
          41 read
          #61
          Cover 4

          Sixty

          Sixty: A Diary: My Year of Aging Semi-Gracefully
          • Ian Brown
          41 read
          #62
          One Man's Christmas
          One Man's Christmas
          • Leon Hale
          41 read
          #63
          Cover 8

          Am I Alone Here?

          Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
          • Peter Orner
          4.52 reads
          #64
          The Moth
          The Moth
            4.52 reads
            #65
            Winter
            Winter
            • Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd
            • Ingvild Burkey (Translator)
            3.839 reads
            #66
            How to Live
            How to Live
            • Sarah Bakewell
            3.9231 reads
            #67
            God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State
            God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State
            • Lawrence Wright
            4.3310 reads
            #68
            The Wanderer's Guide To Lucca
            The Wanderer's Guide To Lucca
            • Brian Robert Lindquist
            41 read
            #69
            A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
            A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
            • Alberto Manguel
            4.52 reads
            #70
            Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years
            Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years
            • Cathy Guisewite
            3.333 reads
            #71
            Essays
            Essays
            • Ralph Waldo Emerson
            41 read
            #72
            As They Were
            As They Were
            • M.F.K. Fisher
            41 read
            #73
            Why Read Moby-Dick?
            Why Read Moby-Dick?
            • Nathaniel Philbrick
            3.211 reads
            #74
            Porch Talk
            Porch Talk
            • Philip Gulley
            41 read
            #75
            Shrub
            Shrub
            • Molly Ivins
            • Lou Dubose
            3.53 reads
            #76
            Small Wonder
            Small Wonder
            • Barbara Kingsolver
            3.68 reads
            #77
            Cover 2

            Other People's Dirt

            Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
            • Louise Rafkin
            41 read
            #78
            If You Ask Me: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible Critic
            If You Ask Me: The Collected Columns of America's Most Beloved and Irresponsible Critic
            • Libby Gelman-Waxner
            41 read
            #79
            The rural life
            The rural life
            • Verlyn Klinkenborg
            31 read
            #80
            Songbook
            Songbook
            • Nick Hornby
            4.1112 reads
            #81
            Paris, Paris
            Paris, Paris
            • David Downie
            41 read
            #82
            Take the Cannoli
            Take the Cannoli
            • Sarah Vowell
            3.7821 reads
            #83
            The Partly Cloudy Patriot
            The Partly Cloudy Patriot
            • Sarah Vowell
            3.9544 reads
            #84
            Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
            Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
            • Alexandra Petri
            3.56 reads
            #85
            Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
            Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
            • Olivia Laing
            4.3111 reads
            #86
            Essays
            Essays
            • Michel de Montaigne
            • J.M. Cohen (Translator)
            46 reads
            #87
            Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
            Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
            • Lynne Truss
            37 reads
            #88
            300 Arguments
            300 Arguments
            • Sarah Manguso
            47 reads
            #89
            Wintering
            Wintering
            • Katherine May
            3.8777 reads
            #90
            A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life
            A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life
            • George Saunders
            4.6277 reads
            #91
            World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
            World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
            • Aimee Nezhukumatathil
            4.0732 reads
            #92
            I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
            I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman
            • Nora Ephron
            3.3467 reads
            #93
            Searching for God Knows What
            Searching for God Knows What
            • Donald Miller
            4.1919 reads
            #94
            Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
            Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
            • Helen Ellis
            42 reads
            #95
            On Animals
            On Animals
            • Susan Orlean
            3.6511 reads
            #96
            Cover 3

            The Art of Eating

            The Art of Eating: 50th Anniversary Edition
            • M.F.K. Fisher
            • Joan Reardon
            4.52 reads
            #97
            Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
            Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips From North America's Top Birders
              3.52 reads
              #98
              100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
              100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
              • Pamela Paul
              311 reads
              #99
              These Precious Days: Essays
              These Precious Days: Essays
              • Ann Patchett
              4.6140 reads
              #100
              Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
              Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
              • Robin Wall Kimmerer
              4.53240 reads
              #102
              Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
              Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
              • Azar Nafisi
              42 reads
              #103
              Hundred Years of Happiness
              Hundred Years of Happiness
              • Thanhha Lai
              41 read
              #104
              Inciting Joy: Essays
              Inciting Joy: Essays
              • Ross Gay
              4.2512 reads
              #105
              Novelist as a Vocation
              Novelist as a Vocation
              • Haruki Murakami
              • Philip Gabriel (Translator)
              • Ted Goossen (Translator)
              3.6844 reads