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
22,345 members
384 reviews
4
2 Members
hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
2
Notes from a Small Island
by Bill Bryson
10,548 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
7,805 members
127 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
4
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
by Joan Didion
5,084 members
101 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
5
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
by Chuck Palahniuk
3,565 members
41 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
6
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,981 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
7
31 Songs
by Nick Hornby
2,449 members
38 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
8
Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
2,412 members
51 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
9
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
by Chuck Klosterman
1,883 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
10
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
1,572 members
108 reviews
4.2
Member
souloftherose
11
Life Among the Savages
by Shirley Jackson
1,197 members
48 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
12
Raising Demons
by Shirley Jackson
486 members
14 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
13
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
by Lester Bangs
409 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
191 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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
127 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
4,847 members
69 reviews
4
24
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
3,843 members
166 reviews
½ 3.5
25
Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,455 members
35 reviews
4
26
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,430 members
35 reviews
4
27
The View from the Cheap Seats
by Neil Gaiman
1,928 members
90 reviews
3.9
28
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
by Michael Pollan
1,886 members
59 reviews
4
29
Mortality
by Christopher Hitchens
1,834 members
83 reviews
4
30
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
by Ann Patchett
1,571 members
85 reviews
4.1
31
The control of nature
by John McPhee
1,550 members
20 reviews
4.2
32
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
by Michael Pollan
1,261 members
19 reviews
3.8
33
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
by Anne Lamott
1,245 members
45 reviews
3.9
34
Microbe Hunters
by Paul De Kruif
1,197 members
21 reviews
3.9
35
Where I Was From
by Joan Didion
940 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
819 members
29 reviews
3.8
38
The Gastronomical Me
by M. F. K. Fisher
684 members
19 reviews
4.2
39
How to Cook a Wolf
by M. F. K. Fisher
682 members
16 reviews
4
40
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
by Anne Lamott
632 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
217 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
73 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