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Thinking Out Loud

Anna Quindlen

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Irons in the Fire

John McPhee

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Living by the Word

Alice Walker

The Reveries of the Solitary Walker Book Cover

The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Necessary Angel Book Cover

The Necessary Angel

Wallace Stevens

Portrait Inside My Head Book Cover

Portrait Inside My Head

Phillip Lopate

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Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine

Tom Wolfe

On Democracy Book Cover

On Democracy

E. B. White

On Being 40(ish) Book Cover

On Being 40(ish)

Lindsey Mead

Art Matters Book Cover

Art Matters

Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell

Life Sentences Book Cover

Life Sentences

William H. Gass

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare Book Cover

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

Henry Miller

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Hogs Wild

Ian Frazier

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Living, Thinking, Looking

Siri Hustvedt

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I Thought My Father Was God

Paul Auster

Kingdom of Olives and Ash Book Cover

Kingdom of Olives and Ash

Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman

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See What Can Be Done

Lorrie Moore

When the Facts Change Book Cover

When the Facts Change

Tony Judt & Jennifer Homans

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Coventry

Rachel Cusk

Essays in Idleness Book Cover

Essays in Idleness

Meredith McKinney, none Kenko & Kamo no Chomei

The Best American Essays 2020 Book Cover

The Best American Essays 2020

André Aciman & Robert Atwan

A Literary Education and Other Essays Book Cover

A Literary Education and Other Essays

Joseph Epstein

Selected Writings Book Cover

Selected Writings

Hildegard von Bingen

True Crimes Book Cover

True Crimes

Kathryn Harrison

Heaven's Coast Book Cover

Heaven's Coast

Mark Doty

Nobody's Looking at You Book Cover

Nobody's Looking at You

Janet Malcolm

The Uncanny Book Cover

The Uncanny

Sigmund Freud & David McLintock

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Wind Sprints

Joseph Epstein

The Last Empire Book Cover

The Last Empire

Gore Vidal

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The Edward Said Reader

Edward W. Said, Moustafa Bayoumi & Andrew Rubin

A Message to Garcia and Other Essays Book Cover

A Message to Garcia and Other Essays

Elbert Hubbard

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The Book of the Courtier

Baldesar Castiglione & George Bull

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The Most Important Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson & Edna H. L. Turpin

New York Stories Book Cover

New York Stories

Editors of New York Magazine, Steve Fishman, John Homans & Adam Moss

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The Girls in My Town

Angela Morales

The Grey Album Book Cover

The Grey Album

Kevin Young

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Burning Down the House

Charles Baxter

El progreso del peregrino Book Cover

El progreso del peregrino

John Bunyan

New York Looks Best in Fall Book Cover

New York Looks Best in Fall

Adam Gopnik

One Life at a Time, Please Book Cover

One Life at a Time, Please

Edward Abbey

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The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

The Impossible Will Take a Little While Book Cover

The Impossible Will Take a Little While

Paul Rogat Loeb

Laid Book Cover

Laid

Shannon T. Boodram

Nature and Other Essays Book Cover

Nature and Other Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Best American Magazine Writing 2013 Book Cover

The Best American Magazine Writing 2013

Sid Holt & The American Society of Magazine Editors

Signposts in a Strange Land Book Cover

Signposts in a Strange Land

Walker Percy

Essays Book Cover

Essays

Robert Louis Stevenson

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays Book Cover

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays

Paul Kingsnorth

The Portable Machiavelli Book Cover

The Portable Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella & Mark Musa

Somebody with a Little Hammer Book Cover

Somebody with a Little Hammer

Mary Gaitskill

The Message in the Bottle Book Cover

The Message in the Bottle

Walker Percy

My Ideal Bookshelf Book Cover

My Ideal Bookshelf

Jane Mount & Thessaly La Force

Impossible Owls Book Cover

Impossible Owls

Brian Phillips

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Front Porch Tales

Philip Gulley

Goodbye to All That Book Cover

Goodbye to All That

Sari Botton

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Scribble, Scribble, Scribble

Simon Schama

White Girls Book Cover

White Girls

Hilton Als

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The Death of Adam

Marilynne Robinson

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A Paris All Your Own

Eleanor Brown

Mencken Chrestomathy Book Cover

Mencken Chrestomathy

H.L. Mencken

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The Fame Lunches

Daphne Merkin

Between Meals Book Cover

Between Meals

A. J. Liebling

Never Can Say Goodbye Book Cover

Never Can Say Goodbye

Sari Botton

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Dark Night of the Soul

St. John of the Cross

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The Rub of Time

Martin Amis

The Americans Book Cover

The Americans

Alistair Cooke

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Maps and Legends

Michael Chabon

The Patch Book Cover

The Patch

John McPhee

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded Book Cover

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded

John Scalzi

The Ecstasy of Influence Book Cover

The Ecstasy of Influence

Jonathan Lethem

Too Much and Not the Mood Book Cover

Too Much and Not the Mood

Durga Chew-Bose

The Complete Essays Book Cover

The Complete Essays

Michel Montaigne & M. A. Screech

Tremendous Trifles Book Cover

Tremendous Trifles

G. K. Chesterton

What Are We Doing Here? Book Cover

What Are We Doing Here?

Marilynne Robinson

Against Everything Book Cover

Against Everything

Mark Greif

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The Best American Travel Writing 2014

Paul Theroux & Jason Wilson

The Displaced Book Cover

The Displaced

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Where I Come From Book Cover

Where I Come From

Rick Bragg

Create Dangerously Book Cover

Create Dangerously

Edwidge Danticat

All Art Is Propaganda Book Cover

All Art Is Propaganda

George Orwell

Oranges Book Cover

Oranges

John McPhee

Sunshine State Book Cover

Sunshine State

Sarah Gerard

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The Mansions of Limbo

Dominick Dunne

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Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Tom Robbins

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The Possessed

Elif Batuman

Love and Other Ways of Dying Book Cover

Love and Other Ways of Dying

Michael Paterniti

My Misspent Youth Book Cover

My Misspent Youth

Meghan Daum

The Defendant Book Cover

The Defendant

G. K. Chesterton

The Givenness of Things Book Cover

The Givenness of Things

Marilynne Robinson

Fallen Leaves Book Cover

Fallen Leaves

Will Durant

The Best American Essays 2019 Book Cover

The Best American Essays 2019

Rebecca Solnit & Robert Atwan

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Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume

Jennifer OConnell

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The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison

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The Way the World Works

Nicholson Baker

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Collected Essays

Joan Didion

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

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Hooking Up

Tom Wolfe

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Women in Clothes

Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits & Leanne Shapton

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Far and Away

Andrew Solomon

Nobody Knows My Name Book Cover

Nobody Knows My Name

James Baldwin

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Changing My Mind

Zadie Smith

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This Old Man

Roger Angell

Small Wonder Book Cover

Small Wonder

Barbara Kingsolver

Some Remarks Book Cover

Some Remarks

Neal Stephenson

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Stranger Than Fiction

Chuck Palahniuk

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Farther Away

Jonathan Franzen

The Best American Essays 2012 Book Cover

The Best American Essays 2012

Robert Atwan & David Brooks

The Best American Essays 2013 Book Cover

The Best American Essays 2013

Robert Atwan & Cheryl Strayed

The Abundance Book Cover

The Abundance

Annie Dillard

The Myth of Sisyphus Book Cover

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

Walden; or, Life in the Woods Book Cover

Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau & Laura Ross

The Braindead Megaphone Book Cover

The Braindead Megaphone

George Saunders

When I Was a Child I Read Books Book Cover

When I Was a Child I Read Books

Marilynne Robinson

Scout, Atticus, and Boo Book Cover

Scout, Atticus, and Boo

Mary Mcdonagh Murphy

A Man Without a Country Book Cover

A Man Without a Country

Kurt Vonnegut

The Portable Nietzsche Book Cover

The Portable Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche & Walter Kaufmann

White Book Cover

White

Bret Easton Ellis

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High Tide in Tucson

Barbara Kingsolver

We Learn Nothing Book Cover

We Learn Nothing

Tim Kreider

Self-Reliance and Other Essays Book Cover

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How to Be Alone Book Cover

How to Be Alone

Jonathan Franzen

The Unspeakable Book Cover

The Unspeakable

Meghan Daum

Upstream Book Cover

Upstream

Mary Oliver

Old Age Book Cover

Old Age

Michael Kinsley

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Pulphead

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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Arguably

Christopher Hitchens

The Writing Life Book Cover

The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

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The Last Days of Socrates

Plato

Journey to Anchor Book Cover

Journey to Anchor

Marek A Benjamite

The Passenger: Japan Book Cover

The Passenger: Japan

AA.VV.

The Passenger: India Book Cover

The Passenger: India

AA.VV.

Rein Gold Book Cover

Rein Gold

Elfriede Jelinek & Gitta Honegger

My Southern Journey Book Cover

My Southern Journey

Rick Bragg

Goodbye, Again Book Cover

Goodbye, Again

Jonny Sun

Quem diria que viver ia dar nisso Book Cover

Quem diria que viver ia dar nisso

Martha Medeiros

Feel Free Book Cover

Feel Free

Zadie Smith

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter Book Cover

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Scaachi Koul

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone Book Cover

Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone

Hunter S. Thompson

Third Class in Indian Railways Book Cover

Third Class in Indian Railways

Mahatma Gandhi

The Portable Enlightenment Reader Book Cover

The Portable Enlightenment Reader

Various Authors & Isaac Kramnick

Six Memos for the Next Millennium Book Cover

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Italo Calvino

In the American Grain (Second Edition) Book Cover

In the American Grain (Second Edition)

William Carlos Williams

97,196 Words Book Cover

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John Lambert & Emmanuel Carrère

South and West Book Cover

South and West

Joan Didion

Por la tangente Book Cover

Por la tangente

Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez

Notes to Self Book Cover

Notes to Self

Emilie Pine

Traces Remain Book Cover

Traces Remain

Charles Nicholl

我与地坛 Book Cover

我与地坛

史铁生

Two Towns in Provence Book Cover

Two Towns in Provence

M.F.K. Fisher

Small Victories Book Cover

Small Victories

Anne Lamott

On the Good Life Book Cover

On the Good Life

Cicero & Grant Michael

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Tales of Two Americas

John Freeman

One Long River of Song Book Cover

One Long River of Song

Brian Doyle & David James Duncan

Meaty Book Cover

Meaty

Samantha Irby

The Books That Changed My Life Book Cover

The Books That Changed My Life

Bethanne Patrick

The Empathy Exams Book Cover

The Empathy Exams

Leslie Jamison

Selected Federalist Papers Book Cover

Selected Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay

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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Alexander Chee

Bluets Book Cover

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

Stranger Faces Book Cover

Stranger Faces

Namwali Serpell

El infinito en un junco Book Cover

El infinito en un junco

Irene Vallejo

Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces Book Cover

Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

Jenny Erpenbeck & Kurt Beals

The Reckoning Book Cover

The Reckoning

Andrew Solomon

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays Book Cover

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

Claire Messud

Homo Irrealis Book Cover

Homo Irrealis

André Aciman

My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera Book Cover

My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera

Natsume Sōseki, Inger Brodey & Sammy I. Tsunematsu

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed Book Cover

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

Meghan Daum

Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays Book Cover

Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays

Clive James

Art Heals Book Cover

Art Heals

Shaun McNiff

Insomniac City Book Cover

Insomniac City

Bill Hayes

False Papers Book Cover

False Papers

André Aciman

Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe Book Cover

Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe

George Santayana

Facing Unpleasant Facts Book Cover

Facing Unpleasant Facts

George Orwell & George Packer

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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

Clive James

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The Collected Schizophrenias

Esmé Weijun Wang

Charm Book Cover

Charm

Joseph Epstein

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

Hummingbird Book Cover

Hummingbird

Jude Angelini

Trick Mirror Book Cover

Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino

The Gifts of Reading Book Cover

The Gifts of Reading

Candice Carty-Williams, Robert Macfarlane, William Boyd, Chigozie Obioma, Philip Pullman, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson, SF Said, Madeleine Thien, Salley Vickers, John Wood & Markus Zusak

Modern Love, Revised and Updated Book Cover

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Albert Camus

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Heather Havrilesky

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Joan Didion

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David Foster Wallace

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Daemon Voices

Philip Pullman

Just Us Book Cover

Just Us

Claudia Rankine

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The Book of Delights

Ross Gay

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Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Joan Didion

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Bento's Sketchbook

John Berger

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This I Believe II

Jay Allison & Dan Gediman

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Jay Allison & Dan Gediman

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Zadie Smith

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Citizen

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