Popular Essays Books

The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green

Essays
A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Essays
The White Album

Joan Didion

Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

Essays
Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

Essays
Consider the Lobster

David Foster Wallace

Essays
The Abundance

Annie Dillard

Essays
Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li

Essays
High Tide in Tucson

Barbara Kingsolver

Essays
El laberinto de la soledad (edición española)

Octavio Paz

Essays
The Best American Essays 2025

Jia Tolentino & Kim Dana Kupperman

Essays
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Ann Patchett

Fiction & Literature
When the Facts Change

Tony Judt & Jennifer Homans

Essays
Why I Write

George Orwell

Essays
The Source of Self-Regard

Toni Morrison

Fiction & Literature
Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?

Zach Zimmerman

Essays
You Were Never in Chicago

Neil Steinberg

Essays
The Anthony Bourdain Reader

Anthony Bourdain

Fiction & Literature
The Book of Delights

Ross Gay

Essays
The Last Days of Socrates

Plato & Christopher Rowe

Essays
The Glorious American Essay

Phillip Lopate

Essays
James Joyce: The Ultimate Collection

James Joyce

Fiction & Literature
Representations of the Intellectual

Edward W. Said

Essays
Everywhere I Look

Helen Garner

Essays
True Stories

Helen Garner

Essays
The Little Book Of Philosophy

André Comte-Sponville & Frank Wynne

Essays
The Best American Food Writing 2019

Samin Nosrat

Essays
China 2035: el plan para construir una era poscapitalista

Simon Levy & Ma Wukong

Essays
A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 10

Anaïs Nin

Essays
El chivo expiatorio de Hitler

Stephen Koch

Essays
Hacia una teología feminista

Ivone Gebara

Essays
Dreadful Sorry

Jennifer Niesslein

Essays
Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino

Essays
Citizen

Claudia Rankine

Essays
The Inner Experience

Thomas Merton & William H. Shannon

Fiction & Literature
One Long River of Song

Brian Doyle & David James Duncan

Essays
The Portable Enlightenment Reader

Various Authors & Isaac Kramnick

Essays
My Ideal Bookshelf

Jane Mount & Thessaly La Force

Essays
Animal Joy

Nuar Alsadir

Essays
Russian Thinkers

Isaiah Berlin & Henry Hardy

Essays
Changing My Mind

Julian Barnes

Essays
50 World's Greatest Essays

Various

Essays
The Book of the City of Ladies

Christine Pizan

Essays
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction & Literature
This I Believe

Jay Allison & Dan Gediman

Essays
American Originality

Louise Gluck

Essays
The Complete Works of Lord Byron (Inlcuding Biography)

Lord Byron & Musaicum Press

Fiction & Literature
The Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated Edition)

George MacDonald & Musaicum Press

Fiction & Literature
我与地坛

史铁生

Essays
Reunion Beach

Elin Hilderbrand, Adriana Trigiani, Patti Callahan Henry, Cassandra King, Nathalie Dupree, Marjory Wentworth & Mary Alice Monroe

Fiction & Literature
A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Essays
In a Narrow Grave

Larry McMurtry

Essays
Managing Expectations

Minnie Driver

Essays
Create Dangerously

Albert Camus & Sandra Smith

Essays
The Contemporary American Essay

Phillip Lopate

Essays
Somewhere We Are Human

Reyna Grande & Sonia Guiñansaca

Essays
The World As We Knew It

Amy Brady & Tajja Isen

Essays
The Complete Works of Lord Byron

Lord Byron

Fiction & Literature
A Map Is Only One Story

Nicole Chung & Mensah Demary

Essays
Sister Love

Audre Lorde, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan & Pat Parker

Fiction & Literature
Black Love Letters

Cole Brown & Natalie Johnson

Fiction & Literature
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless

Maria Pinto

Essays
Ukraine 22

Mark Andryczyk

Essays
Living, Thinking, Looking

Siri Hustvedt

Essays
Sabers and Utopias

Mario Vargas Llosa

Essays
Upstream

Mary Oliver

Essays
Arguably

Christopher Hitchens

Essays
Small Victories

Anne Lamott

Essays
The Lie

Chad Kultgen

Fiction & Literature
The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison

Essays
Pulphead

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Essays
My Southern Journey

Rick Bragg

Essays
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

Michele Filgate

Essays
Little Weirds

Jenny Slate

Essays
The Moth Presents: All These Wonders

Catherine Burns

Essays
Early Decision

Lacy Crawford

Fiction & Literature
Old Age

Michael Kinsley

Essays
Intimations

Zadie Smith

Essays
Essential Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Fiction & Literature
South and West

Joan Didion

Essays
Bluets

Maggie Nelson

Essays
The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

Essays
Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Joan Didion

Essays
The Collected Schizophrenias

Esmé Weijun Wang

Essays
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

Meghan Daum

Essays
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone

Hunter S. Thompson

Essays
We Learn Nothing

Tim Kreider

Essays
A Man Without a Country

Kurt Vonnegut

Essays
The Portable Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche & Walter Kaufmann

Essays
This I Believe II

Jay Allison & Dan Gediman

Essays
Well-Read Black Girl

Glory Edim

Fiction & Literature
White

Bret Easton Ellis

Essays
A Lowcountry Heart

Pat Conroy

Essays
I'll Show Myself Out

Jessi Klein

Essays
Afterparties

Anthony Veasna So

Fiction & Literature
Reading Like a Writer

Francine Prose

Essays
The Colossus of New York

Colson Whitehead

Essays
Feel Free

Zadie Smith

Essays
Look Alive Out There

Sloane Crosley

Essays
And Yet...

Christopher Hitchens

Fiction & Literature

John Green

Essays

Virginia Woolf

Essays

Joan Didion

Essays

Albert Camus

Essays

Joan Didion

Essays

David Foster Wallace

Essays

Annie Dillard

Essays

Yiyun Li

Essays

Barbara Kingsolver

Essays

Octavio Paz

Essays

Jia Tolentino & Kim Dana Kupperman

Essays

Ann Patchett

Fiction & Literature

Tony Judt & Jennifer Homans

Essays

George Orwell

Essays

Toni Morrison

Fiction & Literature

Zach Zimmerman

Essays

Neil Steinberg

Essays

Anthony Bourdain

Fiction & Literature

Ross Gay

Essays

Plato & Christopher Rowe

Essays

Phillip Lopate

Essays

James Joyce

Fiction & Literature

Edward W. Said

Essays

Helen Garner

Essays

Helen Garner

Essays

André Comte-Sponville & Frank Wynne

Essays

Samin Nosrat

Essays

Simon Levy & Ma Wukong

Essays

Anaïs Nin

Essays

Stephen Koch

Essays

Ivone Gebara

Essays

Jennifer Niesslein

Essays

Jia Tolentino

Essays

Claudia Rankine

Essays

Thomas Merton & William H. Shannon

Fiction & Literature

Brian Doyle & David James Duncan

Essays

Various Authors & Isaac Kramnick

Essays

Jane Mount & Thessaly La Force

Essays

Nuar Alsadir

Essays

Isaiah Berlin & Henry Hardy