Best Essay Collections

1
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman
4,596 members
213 reviews
4.2
6 Members
kageeh, trandism, VioletBramble, andejons, souloftherose, thedailywandering
3
Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
2,070 members
30 reviews
4.2
3 Members
thorold, aulsmith, DorsVenabili
4
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
21,308 members
370 reviews
4
3 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom, thedailywandering
5
Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia
by Charles Lamb
257 members
4 reviews
4.1
2 Members
thorold, Crypto-Willobie
6
Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,315 members
34 reviews
4
2 Members
SqueakyChu, kageeh
7
Selected Non-Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
1,892 members
15 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
Edward, trandism
8
The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast
by C. S. Lewis
17,991 members
156 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom
10
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
by Howard Zinn
335 members
3 reviews
4.2
2 Members
daschaich, trandism
11
Beyond life : dizain des démiurges
by James Branch Cabell
126 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
elenchus, Crypto-Willobie
Explanations
elenchus: A closely-reasoned look at what literature contributes to life, with insight into Cabell's own writings but certainly not limited to his.
12
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
9,939 members
217 reviews
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom
13
By Any Other Name
by Spider Robinson
361 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom
14
Giving Good Weight
by John McPhee
421 members
2 reviews
4
Member
ABVR
15
Citizenship Papers: Essays
by Wendell Berry
285 members
1 review
4.1
Member
StephenBarkley
16
American Stories
by Calvin Trillin
153 members
1 review
4.1
Member
hipdeep
17
De långhåriga merovingerna : Sällskap för en eremit : essayer
by Frans G. Bengtsson
33 members
½ 4.5
Member
andejons
18
Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial
by Nicole Hollander
25 members
½ 3.3
Member
lilithcat
19
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,283 members
34 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
20
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
by Ursula K. Le Guin
879 members
9 reviews
4.1
Member
lquilter
22
Pieces of the Frame
by John McPhee
267 members
4
Member
ABVR
25
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
by David Rutledge
94 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
26
A Collection of Essays
by George Orwell
1,541 members
17 reviews
4.2
Member
thorold
28
Kritik
by Klara Johanson
6 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
andejons
29
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
by Bill Bryson
7,407 members
117 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
30
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
by Walter Benjamin
3,241 members
24 reviews
4.2
Member
elenchus
31
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
1,259 members
23 reviews
4
Member
trandism
32
Revolutionary Voices
by Amy Sonnie
164 members
1 review
3.9
Member
EmScape
33
Den utbrände kronofogden som fann lyckan
by Fredrik Sjöberg
16 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
andejons
34
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
by Christopher Hitchens
1,923 members
34 reviews
4.1
Member
trandism
35
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology
by Bennett L. Singer
288 members
½ 3.4
Member
EmScape
36
Orden och evigheten : [tankar om språk, religion och humaniora]
by Ola Wikander
10 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
andejons
37
The Secret World of the Irish Male
by Joseph O'Connor
117 members
3.2
Member
hipdeep
38
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
by Chuck Klosterman
1,786 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
39
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
by Lester Bangs
384 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
40
The Best American Food Writing 2018
by Ruth Reichl
93 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
41
The Best American Sports Writing 2001
by Bud Collins
50 members
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
42
The Best American Travel Writing 2010
by Bill Buford
105 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
43
Best Food Writing 2010
by Holly Hughes
105 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
hipdeep
44
Grantland Quarterly, No. 7
by Bill Simmons
4 members
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
45
A Few Thousand Words About Love
by Mickey Pearlman
22 members
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
46
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas Sermons
by Edwin H. Robertson
103 members
1 review
3.8
Member
hipdeep
47
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
by Thomas Merton
678 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
48
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
by bell hooks
1,620 members
16 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
50
How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs
by Kimberly Witherspoon
187 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
51
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,818 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
52
That Was the Millennium That Was
by John Scalzi
17 members
1 review
3.8
Member
hipdeep
53
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
2,139 members
48 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
54
The Best American Sports Writing 2009
by Leigh Montville
55 members
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
55
The Bones: Us and Our Dice
by Will Hindmarch
27 members
1 review
3.9
Member
hipdeep
56
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball
by Charles Einstein
107 members
4
Member
hipdeep
57
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by Albert Camus
7,135 members
43 reviews
4
58
Essays: First Series and Second Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
1,980 members
7 reviews
4.2
59
The Uses of Literature
by Italo Calvino
934 members
3 reviews
3.8
60
The Dolphin Reader
by Douglas Hunt
123 members
1 review
3.8