Best Essay Collections

1
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman
4,840 members
223 reviews
4.2
6 Members
kageeh, trandism, VioletBramble, andejons, souloftherose, thedailywandering
3
Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
2,497 members
34 reviews
4.2
3 Members
thorold, aulsmith, DorsVenabili
4
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
22,388 members
385 reviews
4
3 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom, thedailywandering
5
Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia
by Charles Lamb
266 members
4 reviews
4
2 Members
thorold, Crypto-Willobie
6
Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,463 members
35 reviews
4
2 Members
SqueakyChu, kageeh
7
Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
1,721 members
10 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
Edward, trandism
8
The Screwtape Letters / Screwtape Proposes a Toast
by C. S. Lewis
19,872 members
165 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom
10
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
by Howard Zinn
357 members
3 reviews
4.2
2 Members
daschaich, trandism
11
Beyond life : dizain des démiurges
by James Branch Cabell
134 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
10,566 members
227 reviews
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom
13
By Any Other Name
by Spider Robinson
395 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
hipdeep, gypsysmom
14
Giving Good Weight
by John McPhee
458 members
2 reviews
4
Member
ABVR
15
Citizenship Papers: Essays
by Wendell Berry
308 members
1 review
4.1
Member
StephenBarkley
16
American Stories
by Calvin Trillin
156 members
1 review
4.1
Member
hipdeep
17
De långhåriga merovingerna : Sällskap för en eremit : essayer
by Frans G. Bengtsson
33 members
½ 4.4
Member
andejons
18
Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial
by Nicole Hollander
26 members
½ 3.3
Member
lilithcat
19
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
by Barbara Kingsolver
2,432 members
35 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
20
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
by Ursula K. Le Guin
1,017 members
9 reviews
4.1
Member
lquilter
22
Pieces of the Frame
by John McPhee
301 members
3.9
Member
ABVR
25
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
by David Rutledge
97 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
26
A Collection of Essays
by George Orwell
1,707 members
21 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
7,814 members
128 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
30
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
by Walter Benjamin
3,566 members
24 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
elenchus
31
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
1,311 members
26 reviews
4
Member
trandism
32
Revolutionary Voices
by Amy Sonnie
169 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
EmScape
33
Den utbrände kronofogden som fann lyckan
by Fredrik Sjöberg
18 members
1 review
4
Member
andejons
34
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
by Christopher Hitchens
2,163 members
38 reviews
4.1
Member
trandism
35
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology
by Bennett L. Singer
309 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
127 members
½ 3.3
Member
hipdeep
38
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
by Chuck Klosterman
1,885 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
39
Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
by Lester Bangs
409 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
40
The Best American Food Writing 2018
by Ruth Reichl
104 members
2 reviews
4.2
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
114 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
43
Best Food Writing 2010
by Holly Hughes
119 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
hipdeep
44
Grantland Quarterly, No. 7
by Bill Simmons
8 members
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
45
A Few Thousand Words About Love
by Mickey Pearlman
28 members
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
46
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas Sermons
by Edwin H. Robertson
111 members
1 review
3.8
Member
hipdeep
47
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
by Thomas Merton
761 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
48
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
by bell hooks
1,887 members
20 reviews
4.2
Member
hipdeep
49
Care At The Core
by Sherri Spelic
7 members
4
Member
hipdeep
50
How I Learned To Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs
by Kimberly Witherspoon
193 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
hipdeep
51
My Adventures with God
by Stephen Tobolowsky
31 members
1 review
½ 2.5
Member
hipdeep
52
Paris to the Moon
by Adam Gopnik
2,982 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
53
That Was the Millennium That Was
by John Scalzi
21 members
1 review
3.8
Member
hipdeep
54
Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
2,421 members
51 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
55
The Best American Sports Writing 2009
by Leigh Montville
60 members
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
56
The Bones: Us and Our Dice
by Will Hindmarch
33 members
1 review
3.9
Member
hipdeep
57
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball
by Charles Einstein
114 members
4
Member
hipdeep
58
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by Albert Camus
8,394 members
49 reviews
4
59
Essays: First Series and Second Series
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
2,188 members
7 reviews
4.2
60
The Uses of Literature
by Italo Calvino
997 members
2 reviews
3.8
61
The Dolphin Reader
by Douglas Hunt
131 members
1 review
3.8