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- Walden, or, Life in the woods ; : and "Civil disobedience"
- We are never meeting in real life : essays
- We can't help it if we're from Florida : new stories from a sinking peninsula
- We rise, we resist, we raise our voices
- We say #never again : reporting by the Parkland student journalists
- Well, this is exhausting : essays
- What about the baby? : some thoughts on the art of fiction
- What are we doing here? : essays
- What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays
- What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays
- What if this were enough? : essays
- What just happened : [notes on a long year]
- What to read and why
- What unites us
- What unites us : reflections on patriotism
- What unites us : reflections on patriotism
- What unites us : the graphic novel : reflections on patriotism
- What we wish were true : reflections on nurturing life and facing death
- What white people can do next : from allyship to coalition
- When Einstein walked with Gƶdel : excursions to the edge of thought
- When you are engulfed in flames
- Where I come from : stories from the deep South
- Where I come from : stories from the deep South
- White magic : essays
- White sands : experiences from the outside world
- Wholehearted faith
- Why didn't you just do what you were told? : essays
- Wife, daughter, self
- Wild tongues can't be tamed : 15 voices from the Latinx diaspora
- Wind sprints : shorter essays
- Women and other monsters : building a new mythology
- Women talk money : breaking the last taboo
- Words are my matter : writings about life and books, 2000-2016, with a journal of a writer's week
- Would everybody please stop? : reflections on life and other bad ideas
- Wow, no thank you : essays
- Yearbook
- Yoke : my yoga of self-acceptance
- You are here *for now : a guide to finding your way
- You are your best thing : vulnerability, shame resilience, and the Black experience -- an anthology
- You don't know us negroes and other essays
- You don't know us negroes and other essays
- You got anything stronger? : stories
- You got anything stronger? : stories
- You look so much better in person : true stories of absurdity and success
- You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages
- You too? : [25 voices share their #MeToo stories]
- You're doing great! : and other reasons to stay alive
- You're leaving when? : adventures in downward mobility
- Ā”Hola Papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons
- 12 bytes : how we got here, where we might go next
- 15 views of Jacksonville : short stories from a bold city
- 1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- 1968 : today's authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- A cry from the far middle : dispatches from a divided land
- A measure of belonging : twenty-one writers of color on the new American South
- A perfect 10 : the truth about things I'm not and never will be
- A really big lunch
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- All we can save : truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis
- Allies : real talk about showing up, screwing up, and trying again
- Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live
- Am I there yet? : the loop-de-loop, zigzagging journey to adulthood
- Amateur hour : motherhood in essays and swear words
- American audacity : in defense of literary daring
- American birds : a literary companion
- American originality : essays on poetry
- An arrangement of skin : essays
- An editor's burial : journals and journalism from the New Yorker and other magazines
- An outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- And yet ... : essays
- Appalachian reckoning : a region responds to "Hillbilly Elegy"
- Attention : dispatches from a land of distraction
- Between eternities and other writings
- Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing
- Black joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration
- Black love matters : real talk on romance, being seen, and happy ever afters
- Black magic : what Black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
- Black nerd problems
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Bookends : collected intros and outros
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Both flesh and not : essays
- Bound in the bond of life : Pittsburgh writers reflect on the Tree of Life tragedy
- Brief encounters : a collection of contemporary nonfiction
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces, 2004-2021
- But what if we're wrong? : thinking about the present as if it were the past
- But you seemed so happy : a marriage, in pieces and bits
- Call them by their true names : American crises (and essays)
- Calypso
- Can you tolerate this? : essays
- Chronicles of a liquid society
- Citizen : an American lyric
- Cold moon : on life, love, and responsibility
- Collection of sand : essays
- Cook, eat, repeat : ingredients, recipes and stories
- Coventry : essays
- Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays
- Crush : writers reflect on love, longing, and the lasting power of their first celebrity crush
- Cuba on the verge : 12 writers on continuity and change in Havana and across the country
- CÄlo jÄ«vananÄ« lagolaga : ahÄ«į¹ andhakÄra nathÄ«, kevaįø·a che urjano ujÄsa
- Dead girls : essays on surviving American obsession
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Deep creek : finding hope in the high country
- Did I say that out loud? : midlife indignities and how to survive them
- Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
- Dispatches from the race war
- 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 save anything : uncollected essays, articles, and profiles
- Don't wait up : confessions of a stay-at-work mom
- Eat cake. Be brave
- Empty the pews : stories of leaving the church
- Entertaining race : performing blackness in America
- Entertaining race : performing blackness in America
- Erosion : essays of undoing
- Essays one
- Essays two : on Proust, translation, foreign languages, and the city of Arles
- Everyone you hate is going to die : and other comforting thoughts on family, friends, sex, love, and more things that ruin your life
- Everything I know about love : a memoir
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Everything's trash, but it's okay
- Ex Libris : [100+ books to read and reread]
- Facing Florida : essays on culture and religion in early modern southeastern America
- Feel free : essays
- Festival days
- Fifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the grown-up years
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- Flash forward : an illustrated guide to possible (and not so possible) tomorrows
- Freedom is a constant struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement
- Funny girl : funniest. stories. ever.
- Girl gurl grrrl : on womanhood and belonging in the age of black girl magic
- Girlhood : essays
- Girls can kiss now : essays
- Glimmer of hope : how tragedy sparked a movement
- Go ask Ali : half-baked advice (and free lemonade)
- God, human, animal, machine : technology, metaphor, and the search for meaning
- Good enough : a cookbook : embracing the joys of imperfection & practicing self-care in the kitchen
- Goodbye, again : essays, reflections, and illustrations
- Graceland, at last : notes on hope and heartache from the American South
- Grand : a grandparent's wisdom for a happy life
- Happy-go-lucky
- Having and being had
- Hogs wild : selected reporting pieces
- Homo irrealis : essays
- Hope nation : YA authors share personal moments of inspiration
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How to live a good life : a guide to choosing your personal philosophy
- How to make a slave and other essays
- How to raise a feminist son : motherhood, masculinity, and the making of my family
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays
- How to write an autobiographical novel : essays
- How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- Human(kind) : how reclaiming human worth and embracing radical kindness will bring us back together
- Hungry hearts : essays on courage, desire, and belonging
- I am sorry to think I have raised a timid son
- I hate myselfie
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I see life through rose-colored glasses : true stories and confessions
- I see life through rosƩ-colored glasses
- I see life through rosƩ-colored glasses
- I too sing America : the Harlem Renaissance at 100
- I want to be where the normal people are
- I want to be where the normal people are
- I wrote this book because I love you : essays
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife and motherhood
- I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying : essays
- I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying : essays
- I've got sand in all the wrong places
- Idiophone
- Idiot : life stories from the creator of Help Helen Smash
- In a narrow grave : essays on Texas
- In defense of ska
- In the land of the cyclops : essays
- In the margins : on the pleasures of reading and writing
- In the margins : on the pleasures of reading and writing
- In their lives : great writers on great Beatles songs
- Indigo : arm wrestling, snake saving, and some things in between
- Intimations : six essays
- Intimations : six essays
- It gets worse : a collection of essays
- It's not about the burqa : Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race
- Just us : An American conversation
- Kant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays
- Kingdom of olives and ash : writers confront the occupation
- Kingdoms in the air : dispatches from the far away
- Known and strange things : essays
- Krepche veselitesŹ¹
- Languages of truth : essays 2003-2020
- Late essays, 2006-2017
- Leaving isn't the hardest thing
- Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings
- Let me tell you what I mean
- Letter to a stranger : essays to the ones who haunt us
- Letter to a young farmer : how to live richly without wealth on the new garden farm
- Life in the garden
- Life, I swear : intimate stories from Black women on identity, healing, and self-trust
- Like a song : essays
- Like streams to the ocean : notes on ego, love, and the things that make us who we are
- Literary wonderlands : a journey through the greatest fictional worlds ever created
- Little weirds
- Living beyond borders : growing up Mexican in America
- Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century
- Look alive out there : essays
- Lost in summerland : essays
- Love and other ways of dying : essays
- Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life
- Maeve in America : essays by a girl from somewhere else
- Maeve's times : in her own words
- Magic hours : essays on creators and creation
- Make it scream, make it burn : essays
- Managing expectations : [a memoir in essays]
- Managing expectations : a memoir in essays
- Mantel pieces : Royal bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books
- Midlife bites : anyone else falling apart, or is it just me?
- More alive and less lonely : on books and writers
- Mother noise
- 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
- Murakami T : the t-shirts I love
- My body
- My generation : collected nonfiction
- My inner sky : on embracing day, night, and all the times in between
- 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 squirrel days
- My time among the whites : notes from an unfinished education
- Nebula Awards Showcase 2017 : the year's best science fiction and fantasy
- Night rooms : essays
- No one asked for this : essays
- No time to spare : thinking about what matters
- 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
- None of my business : P.J. explains money, banking, debt, equity, assets, liabilities, and why he's not rich and neither are you
- Not that Bad : Dispatches from Rape Culture
- Notes on grief
- Notes to self : essays
- Nothing is wrong and here is why : essays
- Now comes good sailing : writers reflect on Henry David Thoreau
- Okay fine whatever : the year I went from being afraid of everything to only being afraid of most things
- On animals
- On animals
- On flowers : lessons from an accidental florist
- On quality : an inquiry into excellence : unpublished and selected writings
- Other people : takes & mistakes
- Our only world : ten essays
- Our women on the ground : essays by Arab women reporting from the Arab world
- Our work is everywhere : an illustrated oral history of queer & trans resistance
- Out of my later years
- Out on a limb : selected writing, 1989-2021
- Patria e imperio : ensayos polĆticos
- Personal writings
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Pilot impostor
- Places I've taken my body : essays
- Please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes : essays
- Pops : fatherhood in pieces
- Prichinnoe vremiĶ”a
- Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings
- Pushcart prize XLII, 2018 : best of the small presses
- Pushcart prize XLV, 2021 : best of the small presses
- Pushcart prize XLVI : best of the small presses 2022
- RISK! : true stories people never thought they'd dare to share
- Radical hope : letters of love and dissent in dangerous times
- Read dangerously : the subversive power of literature in troubled times
- Red lip theology : for church girls who've considered tithing to the beauty supply store when Sunday morning isn't enough
- Run towards the danger : confrontations with a body of memory
- Save it for later : promises, parenthood, and the urgency of protest
- Say it loud! : on race, law, history, and culture
- Science in the soul : selected writings of a passionate rationalist
- Screen tests : stories and other writing
- See/saw : looking at photographs, essays 2010-2020
- She memes well
- Silent Bob speaks : the collected writings of Kevin Smith
- Sitting pretty : the view from my ordinary resilient disabled body
- Sitting pretty : the view from my ordinary, resilient, disabled body
- Slouching towards Bethlehem
- So sad today : personal essays
- Solutions and other problems
- Somebody with a little hammer : essays
- Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be : essays
- Sorry not sorry
- Soul at the white heat : inspiration, obsession, and the writing life
- South and West : from a notebook
- Southbound : essays on identity, inheritance, and social change
- Southern Lady Code : essays
- Southern Lady Code : essays
- Stakes is high : life after the American dream
- Stranger than fiction : true stories
- Strangers assume my girlfriend is my nurse
- Sunshine State : essays
- Suppose a sentence
- Sure, I'll be your Black friend : notes from the other side of the fist bump
- Surrender, white people! : our unconditional terms for peace
- Survival of the thickest : essays
- Syncopated : an anthology of nonfiction picto-essays
- TRANSLATING MYSELF AND OTHERS
- Taking a long look : essays on culture, literature, and feminism in our time
- Taking on the plastics crisis
- Tales of two Americas : stories of inequality in a divided nation
- Tell everyone on this train I love them : essays
- The 2000s made me gay : essays on pop culture
- The American Revolution : a world war
- The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet
- The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet
- The Oxford illustrated history of the book
- The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All
- The best American essays 2015
- The best American essays 2016
- The best American essays 2017
- The best American essays 2019
- The best American essays 2020
- The best American food writing 2020
- The best American science and nature writing, 2019
- The best American science and nature writing, 2021
- The best American travel writing 2020
- The best American travel writing 2021
- The bitch is back : older, wiser, and (getting) happier
- The book of delights
- The book of difficult fruit : arguments for the tart, tender, and unruly (with recipes)
- The book that made me : [a collection of 32 personal stories]
- The collected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
- The collected schizophrenias : essays
- The contemporary American essay
- The depositions : new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be
- The disordered cosmos : a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred
- The displaced : refugee writers on refugee lives
- The end of the end of the earth : essays
- The end of the end of the earth : essays
- The everybody ensemble : donkeys, essays, and other pandemoniums
- The givenness of things : essays
- The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present
- The golden age of the American essay, 1945-1970
- The groom will keep his name : and other vows I've made about race, resistance, and romance
- The hard crowd : essays 2000-2020
- The heartbeat of trees : embracing our ancient bond with forests and nature
- The juice : vinous veritas
- The life and death of a minke whale in the Amazon : dispatches from the Brazilian rainforest
- The long slide : thirty years in American journalism
- The long slide : thirty years in American journalism
- The matter of Black lives : writing from The New Yorker
- The mother of all questions
- The museum of whales you will never see : and other excursions into the landscape and dreamscape of Iceland
- The new earth reader : the best of Terra Nova
- The other serious : essays for the new American generation
- The patch
- The point of it all : a lifetime of great loves and endeavors
- The portable Dorothy Parker
- The reckonings : essays
- The river of consciousness
- The rub of time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump : essays and reportage, 1994-2017
- The scandal of the century : and other writings
- The sky is blue with a single cloud
- The souls of yellow folk : essays
- The three battles of Wanat : and other true stories
- The unpunished vice : a life of reading
- The unwritten book : an investigation
- The view from flyover country : dispatches from the forgotten America
- The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
- The window seat : notes from a life in motion
- The witches are coming
- The world as I see it
- The world-ending fire : the essential Wendell Berry
- The wreckage of my presence : essays
- There are no grown-ups : a midlife coming-of-age story
- There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness : and other thoughts on physics, philosophy and the world
- There's a revolution outside, my love : letters from a crisis
- These precious days : essays
- These precious days : essays
- These precious days : essays
- They can't kill us until they kill us : essays
- Thin places : essays from in between
- Things I have withheld : essays
- This I believe in II : more personal philosophies of remarkable men and women
- Time for socialism : dispatches from a world on fire, 2016-2021
- Together we rise : behind the scenes at the protest heard round the world
- Tonight I'm someone else : essays
- Una historia de EspaƱa
- Unfiltered : no shame, no regrets, just me
- Unprecedented : the election that changed everything
- Upstream : selected essays
- Vesper flights : new and collected essays
- Voskreshenie Lilit
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