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- 2021 Pushcart prize XLV : best of the small presses
- 30 Before 30
- 30 before 30 : how I made a mess of my 20s, and you can too
- 50 Yale admission success stories : and the essays that made them happen
- ?apu ?o?? ra?a ane dariy? vacce jh?le
- ?jan? gha?? ra?iy?ma??
- A Cynic Looks at Life
- A Handful of Stars
- A Map Is Only One Story
- A Piece of My Mind
- A Pluralistic Universe
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
- A Very Punchable Face
- A Walk in the Woods
- A bone to pick : the good and bad news about food, along with wisdom, insights, and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs policy, farming, and more
- A good man is hard to find, and other stories
- A guest at the feast : essays
- A kidnapped West : the tragedy of Central Europe
- A la caza del le?n
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A literary education
- A permeable life : poems and essays
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A small place
- A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- AOC : the fearless rise and powerful resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- ATTENTION
- Abolition for the people : the movement for a future without policing & prisons
- About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
- After the tall timber : collected nonfiction
- Against Amazon : and other essays
- Against memoir : complaints, confessions & criticisms
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Aliens : the world's leading scientists on the search for extraterrestrial life
- All Things Considered
- All the fierce tethers : essays
- All the women in my family sing : women write the world--essays on equality, justice, and freedom
- All things aside : (absolutely correct opinions)
- All things considered (illustrated) : St. Dismas Catholic classics, vol. 1
- Allegorizings
- Allies : real talk about showing up, screwing up, and trying again
- Alone together : love, grief, and comfort in the time of COVID-19
- Always Home
- Always looking : essays on art
- Am I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- American Savage : insights, slights, and fights on faith, sex, love, and politics
- American happiness and discontents : the unruly torrent, 2008-2020
- American like me : reflections on life between cultures
- American like me : reflections on life between cultures
- American originality : essays on poetry
- Americans and Others
- An Edinburgh Eleven
- An Englishman Looks at the World
- An affirming flame : meditations on life and politics
- An inventory of losses
- An outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- And we came outside and saw the stars again : writers from around the world on the COVID-19 pandemic
- And yet... : essays
- And yet... : essays
- Andy Rooney
- Animal joy : a book of laughter and resuscitation
- Animals strike curious poses : essays
- Appendix project : talks and essays
- Aren't you forgetting someone? : essays from my mid-life revenge
- Arguably : essays
- Arguing with zombies : economics, politics, and the fight for a better future
- Attention : dispatches from a land of distraction
- Autumn
- Bad Feminist
- Bad feminist : essays
- Bad feminist : essays
- Bad vibes only (and other things I bring to the table) : essays
- Based on a True Story
- Beaten, Seared, and Sauced
- Beautiful and impossible things
- Because the light will not forgive me : essays from a poet
- Becoming dangerous : witchy femmes, queer conjurers, and magical rebels
- Believers : making a life at the end of the world
- Best Friends, Occasional Enemies--The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter
- Best. State. Ever.
- Better
- Betwixt-and-between : essays on the writing life
- Beyond basketball : Coach K's keywords for success
- Beyond measure : essays
- Beyond the Messy Truth
- Bhini matini mahek
- Bird cloud : [a memoir]
- Birds and Man
- Bit rot : stories + essays
- Bitch doctrine : essays for dissenting adults
- Bitters
- Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing
- Black joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration
- Black nerd problems
- Black reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings
- Blue Plate Special
- Blue iris : poems and essays
- Body horror : capitalism, fear, misogyny, jokes
- Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Book bonding : building connections through family reading
- Bookends : collected intros and outros
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Borealis
- Both flesh and not : essays
- Brave Dames and Wimpettes
- Brief encounters : a collection of contemporary nonfiction
- Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant brilliant brilliant : essays
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Burn it down : women writing about anger
- Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces 2004 to 2021
- Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces, 2004 to 2021
- Buttermilk Graffiti
- C?lo j?vanan? lagolaga : ah?? andhak?ra nath?, keva?a che urjano uj?sa
- Call them by their true names
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Carsick
- Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
- Chronicles of a liquid society
- Chuck Klosterman IV : a decade of curious people and dangerous ideas
- Chuck Klosterman X : a highly specific, defiantly incomplete history of the early 21st century
- Civilisation
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Collected nonfiction : selections from the memoirs and travel writings, Volume 2
- Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays
- Coming of age at the end of nature : a generation faces living on a changed planet
- Community
- Complications
- Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays
- Consider the Lobster
- Consider the lobster and other essays
- Cool, Calm & Contentious
- Coventry : essays
- Creative Unity
- Creativity without law : challenging the assumptions of intellectual property
- Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays
- Crush : writers reflect on love, longing, and the lasting power of their first celebrity crush
- Crying in the bathroom : a memoir
- DIRT
- Daddy, Stop Talking!
- Dance of the Reptiles
- Dance of the Reptiles
- David Sedaris: Live at Carnegie Hall/Live for Your Listening Pleasure
- Dead girls : essays on surviving American obsession
- Dear Damage
- Dear Girls
- Dear heartbreak : YA authors on the dark side of love
- Demigods and Monsters
- Devotion
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults/
- Discontent and its civilizations : dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
- Distrust that particular flavor
- Do You Mind If I Cancel?
- Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?
- Don't call me princess : essays on girls, women, sex, and life
- Don't let it get you down : essays on race, gender, and the body
- Don't look now : things we wish we hadn't seen
- Don't wait up
- Don't wait up : confessions of a stay-at-work mom
- Dreams of Wakanda : creators, writers, and comics legends on the impact of Marvel Studios' Black Panther
- Dress your family in corduroy and denim
- Dress your family in corduroy and denim
- Dyscalculia : a love story of epic miscalculation
- E. E. Cummings : a miscellany
- Eat cake. Be brave
- Eat joy : stories & comfort food from 31 celebrated writers
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- El escándalo del siglo : textos en prensa y revistas (1950-1984)
- Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays
- Emile
- Entertaining race : performing blackness in America
- Equipment for living : on poetry and pop music
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : imaginary travels
- Erosion : essays of undoing
- Escape and Other Essays
- Escape into meaning : essays on Superman, public benches, and other obsessions
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays & Term Papers
- Essays : a fully annotated edition
- Essays and Lectures
- Essays in Radical Empiricism
- Essays in the Art of Writing
- Essays in the foundations of mathematics
- Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Essays of Schopenhauer
- Essays, First Series
- Essays, Second Series
- Essential essays : culture, politics, and the art of poetry
- Eureka
- Even the terrible things seem beautiful to me now : on hope, loss, and wearing sunscreen
- Even the terrible things seem beautiful to me now : the best of Mary Schmich
- Everything Is Under Control
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything in its place : first loves and last tales
- Everything we don't know : essays
- Ex Libris
- Excuse me while I disappear : tales of midlife mayhem
- F*ck your diet : and other things my thighs tell me
- F*ck your diet : and other things my thighs tell me
- Faces in the Fire
- Facts and Fictions of Life
- Falling in Love
- Far away from close to home : a Black millennial woman in progress : essays
- Feel free : essays
- Feminasty : the complicated woman's guide to surviving the patriarchy without drinking herself to death
- Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault
- Fifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the grown-up years
- Fight of the century : writers reflect on 100 years of landmark ACLU cases
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- First and Last Things
- Following the Equator
- Food
- Food
- From a College Window
- Full dissidence : notes from an uneven playing field
- Funny girl : funniest. stories. ever.
- Gauguin : portraits
- Getting at the Inner Man
- Ginger-Snaps
- Girl Logic
- Glimmer of hope : how tragedy sparked a movement
- Go See the Principal
- Go See the Principal
- Goodbye, again : essays, reflections, and illustrations
- Goodness and the literary imagination : Harvard Divinity School's 95th Ingersoll Lecture : with essays on Morrison's moral and religious vision
- Got your number : the greatest sports legends and the numbers they own
- Greedy : notes from a bisexual who wants too much
- Gross Anatomy
- Gross anatomy : dispatches from the front (and back)
- Growing up trans : in our own words
- Had I Known
- Had I known : collected essays
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Hav?m?? n?k?ba?dh?
- Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
- Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
- Having and Being Had
- Having and being had
- Here for It
- Here for it : or, how to save your soul in America : essays
- Hirkyĭ svit, solodkyĭ svit : ese pro pysʹmennykiv i dovkola
- Holidays on Ice
- Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot
- Hope nation : YA authors share personal moments of inspiration
- Housebroken
- How Did You Get This Number
- How Not to Get Shot
- How To
- How To
- How a poem moves : a field guide for readers of poetry
- How not to be a doctor : and other essays
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How to American : an immigrant's guide to disappointing your parents
- How to Be the Perfect Gentleman
- How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
- How to be a Christian : reflections and essays
- How to make a slave and other essays
- How to write an autobiographical novel
- How we go home : voices from indigenous North America
- How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- Hr̥dayamandira
- Human relations and other difficulties : [essays]
- Hungry heart
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hungry hearts : essays on courage, desire, and belonging
- I Feel Bad About My Neck
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
- I Might Regret This
- I Might Regret This
- I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool
- I Remember Nothing
- I Remember Nothing
- I Was Told There'd Be Cake
- I hate everyone, except you
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- I see life through rosé-colored glasses
- I see life through rosé-colored glasses : true stories and confessions
- I want to be where the normal people are
- I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki
- I was told there'd be cake : essays
- I will never see the world again : the memoir of an imprisoned writer
- I wouldn't do that if I were me : modern blunders and modest triumphs (but mostly blunders)
- I wrote this book because I love you : essays
- I'd like to play alone, please
- I'd like to play alone, please : essays
- I'll Mature When I'm Dead
- I'll show myself out : [essays on midlife and motherhood]
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- I'll tell you in person
- I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
- I'm Fine...And Other Lies
- I'm Just a Person
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself
- I'm judging you : the do-better manual
- I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying : essays
- I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places
- I've been wrong before : essays
- Ideas and Opinions
- Idiot
- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother
- Illustrating Spain in the US
- Impossible owls : essays
- In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks
- In praise of good bookstores
- In rough country : essays and reviews
- In search of a beautiful freedom : new and selected essays
- In the Heights : finding home
- In the land of the cyclops : essays
- In the margins : on the pleasures of reading and writing
- Inciting joy
- Inciting joy : essays
- Indigo : arm wrestling, snake saving, and some things in between
- Infinite baseball : notes from a philosopher at the ballpark
- Insane Clown President
- Insane clown president : dispatches from the 2016 circus
- Intentions
- Intimations : six essays
- Ipsit?yana
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
- Is it hot in here (or am I suffering for all eternity for the sins I committed on earth)?
- Istorii iz lëgkoĭ i mgnovennoĭ zhizni
- It Was Me All Along
- It all adds up : from the dim past to the uncertain future : a nonfiction collection
- It came from the closet : queer reflections on horror
- It gets worse : a collection of essays
- It's messy : on boys, boobs, and badass women
- Jak przejąć kontrolę nad światem, nie wychodząc z domu
- Jesie?
- Joyous Gard
- Just us : an American conversation
- Kant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays
- Kathleen Hale is a crazy stalker : six essays
- Keep It Pithy
- Keep moving : notes on loss, creativity, and change
- Keep moving : notes on loss, creativity, and change
- Keeping an eye open : essays on art
- Kingdom and country : following Jesus in the land that you love
- Known and strange things : essays
- Koniec końca świat : eseje
- La bustina di Minerva
- La fuente de la autoestima : ensayos, discursos y meditaciones
- Languages of truth : essays 2003-2020
- Lapidarium V
- Late migrations
- Leaving isn't the hardest thing : essays
- Lectures on the Forces of Matter
- Lee Krasner : living colour
- Lessons from a dark time : and other essays
- Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings
- Let me tell you what I mean
- Let me tell you what I mean
- Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
- Let's explore diabetes with owls
- Let's explore diabetes with owls : essays, etc.
- Letter to a future lover : marginalia, errata, secrets, inscriptions, and other ephemera found in libraries
- Letters on England
- Life As I Blow It
- Life in the garden
- Listen to your mother : what she said then, what we're saying now
- Listening in the dark : women reclaiming the power of intuition
- Little Weirds
- Little victories : perfect rules for imperfect living
- Little weirds
- Little weirds
- Live wire : long-winded short stories
- Live wire : long-winded short stories
- Living beyond borders : growing up Mexican in America
- Living in the Anthropocene : Earth in the age of humans
- Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century
- Long walk home : reflections on Bruce Springsteen
- Look Alive Out There
- Look alive out there : essays
- Look for me there : grieving my father, finding myself
- Looking for an enemy : 8 essays on antisemitism
- Lost classics
- Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life
- Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life
- Love's long line
- Lures of Life
- Maeve in America : essays by a girl from somewhere else
- Maeve's times : in her own words
- Make it scream, make it burn : essays
- Making a scene
- Making a scene
- Managing expectations : a memoir in essays
- Manan? b?yap?sa sarjar? : a?gata nibandho
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Meaty
- Medical school essays that made a difference
- Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim
- Memories and Studies
- Migratory birds
- Mirrors in the earth : reflections on self-healing from the living world
- Mit Syzyfa i inne eseje
- Mojamāṃ re'vuṃ re ... : [hāsyanibandho]
- Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
- Money matters for teens : advice on spending and saving, managing income, and paying for college
- More Baths Less Talking
- Mother noise
- Mothers : an essay on love and cruelty
- Mothers, fathers, and others : essays
- Movies (and other things) : a collection of questions asked, answered, illustrated
- Mr. Know-It-All : the tarnished wisdom of a filth elder
- Mr. Know-it-all : the tarnished wisdom of a filth elder
- Mushrooms on the Moor
- My Discovery of England
- My Life in France
- My Path to Atheism
- My Squirrel Days
- My belief : essays on life and art
- My body
- My generation : collected nonfiction
- My life : growing up Asian in America
- My life as a villainess : essays
- My life as a villainess : essays
- My life as a villainess : essays
- My moment : 106 women on fighting for themselves
- My mother, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and the last stand of the angry white man
- My own words
- My own words
- My people : five decades of writing about Black lives
- Mystery and manners : occasional prose
- Más allá de la frontera : crecer como mexicano en Estados Unidos
- Mārī tamārī vāta
- NPR Driveway Moments: Baseball
- NPR Laughter Therapy
- Naked pictures of famous people
- Name Drop
- Name Drop
- Nebula Awards showcase 2017 : the year's best science fiction and fantasy
- Nebula awards showcase : stories, excerpts, and poems : the year's best science fiction and fantasy, 2015
- Nebula awards showcase : the year's best science fiction and fantasy : stories, excerpts & essays, 2014
- Nerd : adventures in fandom from this universe to the multiverse
- Nevertheless, we persisted : 48 voices of defiance, strength, and courage
- Nietoperz i suszone cytryny
- No time to spare : thinking about what matters
- Nobody cares : essays
- Nobody's looking at you : essays
- None of my business : P.J. explains money, banking, debt, equity, assets, liabilities, and why he's not rich and neither are you
- Not Taco Bell Material
- Not Taco Bell Material
- Not That it Matters
- Not that bad : dispatches from rape culture
- Notes from a Small Island
- Notes on Life and Letters
- Notes to self : essays
- Novelist as a vocation
- Now comes good sailing : writers reflect on Henry David Thoreau
- O's little book of calm & comfort
- Octopus, seahorse, jellyfish
- Of other worlds: essays and stories
- Official Book Club Selection
- Okay fine whatever : the year I went from being afraid of everything to only being afraid of most things
- On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
- On Tyranny
- On animals
- On being 40(ish)
- On freedom : four songs of care and constraint
- On the Decay of the Art of Lying
- On women
- Once I was cool : personal essays
- One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter
- One long river of song : notes on wonder
- Ongoingness : the end of a diary
- Opening my eyes under water : essays on hope, humanity, and our hero Michelle Obama
- Optimism
- Osiołkiem
- Our only world : ten essays
- Out of My Mind
- Out on a limb : selected writing 1989-2021
- Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
- Owls and other fantasies : poems and essays
- Paddle Your Own Canoe
- Paddle your own canoe : one man's fundamentals for delicious living
- Palm Sunday : an autobiographical collage
- Pandaramo khel???
- Paths of dissent : soldiers speak out against America's misguided wars
- Patriarchy blues : reflections on manhood
- People I Want to Punch in the Throat
- Picasso : the blue and rose periods
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- Please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes : essays
- Podumatʹ tolʹko!..
- Policing the black man : arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment
- Pops : fatherhood in pieces
- Portraits : John Berger on artists
- Portraits and observations : the essays of Truman Capote
- Possible Side Effects
- Post-Prandial Philosophy
- Practicing history : selected essays
- Priya jindag? : a?gata nibandho
- Priya sakh?
- Pro li︠u︡bov : zbirka
- Promenades et souvenirs
- Proxies : essays near knowing
- Pushcart prize XLII, 2018 : best of the small presses
- Quicksand : what it means to be a human being
- Race Matters
- Radość życia
- Raising the bottom : making mindful choices in a drinking culture
- Reaching inside : 50 acclaimed authors on 100 unforgettable short stories
- Read dangerously : the subversive power of literature in troubled times
- Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover
- Recognize! : an anthology honoring and amplifying Black life
- Renaissance Fancies and Studies
- Representative Men
- Return to paradise
- Richard Wright's Native son
- Rookie on love : 45 voices on romance, friendship, and self-care
- Rural voices : 15 authors challenge assumptions about small-town America
- S?ta a?ga, ??ha na?ga ane : ha?av? nibandho
- Save Me the Plums
- Schooled : a love letter to the exhausting, infuriating, occasionally excruciating yet somehow completely wonderful profession of teaching
- Science in Arcady
- Science in the Soul
- Science in the soul : selected writings of a passionate rationalist
- See You on Sunday
- See what can be done : essays, criticism, and commentary
- Selected Essays
- Selected essays from Consider the lobster and other essays
- Selected writings
- Selected writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Self-reliance
- Serious face : essays
- Serious noticing : selected essays, 1997-2019
- Seven Discourses on Art
- She memes well
- She memes well
- She's nice though : essays on being bad at being good
- Shit, Actually
- Shrill
- Side Lights
- Signs of Change
- Sister Mother Husband Dog
- Sister mother husband dog (etc.)
- Six Easy Pieces
- Six memos for the next millennium