Short Nonfiction Collections

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Recommended collections of general interest short-form nonfiction. Feel free to add your own recommendations.
1
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
22,402 members
385 reviews
4
2 Members
hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
2
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
10,571 members
227 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
3
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
by Bill Bryson
7,815 members
128 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
4
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
by Joan Didion
5,091 members
102 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
5
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
by Chuck Palahniuk
3,578 members
41 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
6
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,984 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
7
31 Songs
by Nick Hornby
2,452 members
38 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
8
Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
2,426 members
51 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
9
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
by Chuck Klosterman
1,885 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
10
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
1,580 members
108 reviews
4.2
Member
souloftherose
11
Life Among the Savages
by Shirley Jackson
1,204 members
48 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
Raising Demons
by Shirley Jackson
490 members
14 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
13
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
by Lester Bangs
410 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
14
In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
by Judith Kitchen
240 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
15
How I Learned To Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs
by Kimberly Witherspoon
194 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
16
American Stories
by Calvin Trillin
156 members
1 review
4.1
Member
hipdeep
17
The Secret World of the Irish Male
by Joseph O'Connor
128 members
½ 3.3
Member
hipdeep
19
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
by David Rutledge
97 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
20
A Few Thousand Words About Love
by Mickey Pearlman
28 members
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
21
Grantland Quarterly, No. 7
by Bill Simmons
8 members
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
23
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
4,855 members
69 reviews
4
24
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
3,848 members
166 reviews
½ 3.5
25
Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,467 members
35 reviews
4
26
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,434 members
35 reviews
4
27
The View from the Cheap Seats
by Neil Gaiman
1,939 members
90 reviews
3.9
28
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
by Michael Pollan
1,893 members
58 reviews
4
29
Mortality
by Christopher Hitchens
1,835 members
82 reviews
4
30
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by Ann Patchett
1,582 members
85 reviews
4.1
31
The control of nature
by John McPhee
1,555 members
20 reviews
4.2
32
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
by Michael Pollan
1,265 members
19 reviews
3.8
33
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
by Anne Lamott
1,254 members
45 reviews
3.9
34
Microbe Hunters
by Paul De Kruif
1,201 members
21 reviews
3.9
35
Where I Was From
by Joan Didion
944 members
16 reviews
3.8
36
The Best American Essays of the Century
by Joyce Carol Oates
872 members
6 reviews
3.9
37
Uncommon Carriers
by John McPhee
820 members
29 reviews
3.8
38
How to Cook a Wolf
by M. F. K. Fisher
688 members
16 reviews
4
39
The Gastronomical Me
by M. F. K. Fisher
685 members
19 reviews
4.2
40
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
by Anne Lamott
633 members
36 reviews
3.9
41
Travels with Alice
by Calvin Trillin
418 members
6 reviews
3.8
42
The way the world works : essays
by Nicholson Baker
218 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
44
It's a Don's Life
by Mary Beard
150 members
5 reviews
3.8
45
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World
by Bob Abernethy
132 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
46
Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago
by Blair Kamin
118 members
½ 4.3
47
Naked To The Bone: Medical Imaging In The Twentieth Century
by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles
75 members
3 reviews
3
48
Workin' on the Railroad: Reminiscences from the Age of Steam
by Richard Warren Reinhardt
39 members
1 review
½ 4.5
49
She's Been Working on the Railroad
by Nancy Smiler Levinson
30 members
1 review
½ 3.3
50
Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science
by Miriam P. Cooney
19 members
51
We Took the Train (Railroads in America)
by H. Roger Grant
12 members
1 review
5