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Short Nonfiction Collections

Description: Recommended collections of general interest short-form nonfiction. Feel free to add your own recommendations.

Members: 3 participating members (show all)

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1
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
19,993 members, 345 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

2
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
9,150 members, 202 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

3
Notes from a Big Country: A Selection
by Bill Bryson
6,836 members, 107 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

4
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,636 members, 30 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

5
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
1,839 members, 45 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

7
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
1,089 members, 84 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: souloftherose

Score: 1

8
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
by Lester Bangs
350 members, 2 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

10
American Stories
by Calvin Trillin
145 members, 1 review
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

11
The Secret World of the Irish Male
by Joseph O'Connor
108 members, 0 reviews
3.14 stars (3.14 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

13
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
by David Rutledge
85 members, 5 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

14
A Few Thousand Words About Love
by Mickey Pearlman
20 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

15
Grantland Quarterly, No. 7
by Bill Simmons
2 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: hipdeep

Score: 1

17
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
4,245 members, 63 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Score: 0

18
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
by Joan Didion
3,577 members, 72 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Score: 0

19
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
3,103 members, 143 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

Score: 0

20
Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,093 members, 31 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Score: 0

21
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,089 members, 28 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Score: 0

22
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
by Neil Gaiman
1,416 members, 68 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

23
Mortality
by Christopher Hitchens
1,413 members, 70 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Score: 0

24
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
by Michael Pollan
1,401 members, 50 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Score: 0

25
The control of nature
by John McPhee
1,239 members, 17 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Score: 0

26
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by Ann Patchett
1,194 members, 73 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Score: 0

27
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
by Michael Pollan
994 members, 17 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Score: 0

28
Life Among the Savages
by Shirley Jackson
882 members, 41 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Score: 0

29
Microbe Hunters
by Paul De Kruif
855 members, 17 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Score: 0

30
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
by Anne Lamott
850 members, 33 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Score: 0

31
Where I Was From
by Joan Didion
738 members, 14 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Score: 0

32
The Best American Essays of the Century
by Joyce Carol Oates
697 members, 4 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Score: 0

33
Uncommon Carriers
by John McPhee
680 members, 27 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Score: 0

34
The Gastronomical Me
by M. F. K. Fisher
559 members, 17 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Score: 0

35
How to Cook a Wolf
by M. F. K. Fisher
549 members, 12 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Score: 0

36
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
by Anne Lamott
475 members, 34 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Score: 0

37
Travels with Alice
by Calvin Trillin
378 members, 6 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Score: 0

38
Raising Demons
by Shirley Jackson
364 members, 12 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Score: 0

39
The way the world works : essays
by Nicholson Baker
179 members, 8 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Score: 0

41
It's a Don's Life
by Mary Beard
113 members, 4 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Score: 0

43
Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago
by Blair Kamin
103 members, 0 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Score: 0

46
She's Been Working on the Railroad
by Nancy Smiler Levinson
20 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Score: 0

48
We Took the Train (Railroads in America)
by H. Roger Grant
11 members, 1 review
5 stars (5 stars)

Score: 0

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Started by: sturlington (April 2016)

Type: Unnumbered

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