Essay - Anthologies

• America's Best Newspaper Writing
• Art of the Personal Essay
• Best American Essays
• Best American Essays of the Century
• Fierce Pajamas
• Norton Book of Personal Essays
• The Best American Magazine Writing
• Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction

Essay - Collections

• Almond, Steve. Not That You Asked
• Als, Hilton. White Girls
• Baldwin, James
• Benchley, Robert
• Blanchfield, Brian . Proxies: Essays Near Knowing
• Calhoun, Ada. Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
• Chabon, Michael . Maps and Legends
• Chee, Alexander . How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
• Chew-Bose, Durga. Too Much and Not the Mood
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi . Between the World and Me
• Cottom, Tressie McMillan. Thick
• Daum, Meghan. My Misspent Youth
• Didion, Joan
• Dillard, Annie
• Dowd, Maureen. Are Men Necessary?
• Dubus, Andre. Meditations From a Moveable Chair
• Dunham, Lena. Not That Kind of Girl
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature and Selected Essays
• Ephron, Nora
• Epstein, Joseph
• Fadiman, Anne
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-Up
• Fleischmann, T. Time is a Thing the Body Moves Through
• Galchen, Rivka. Little Labors
• Gates Jr., Henry Louis. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
• Gay, Roxanne. Bad Feminist
• Gay, Ross. The Book of Delights
• Ginzburg, Natalia. The Little Virtues
• Gladman, Renee. Calamites
• Gopnik, Adam
• Hampl, Patricia. Blue Arabesque
• Hitchens, Christopher
• Hoagland, Edward
• Irby, Samantha
• James, Clive . Cultural Amnesia
• Jamison, Leslie . The Empathy Exams
• Jones, Lisa. Bulletproof Diva
• Kingsolver, Barbara. High Tide in Tuscon
• Klosterman, Chuck
• Lebowitz, Fran
• Léger, Nathalie. Suite for Barbara Loden
• Lopate, Phillip
• Manguso, Sarah. Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
• Montaigne, Michel de. Essays
• Nelson, Maggie. On Freedom
• Orange, Michelle. This Is Running For Your Life
• Orwell, George. Collection of Essays
• Ozick, Cynthia
• Paglia, Camille
• Quindlen, Anna
• Rakoff, David. Don't Get Too Comfortable
• Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory
• Ruefle, Mary. Madness, Rack, and Honey
• Selzer, Richard. Confessions of a Knife
• Smith, Zadie . Changing My Mind
• Solnit, Rebecca
• Sontag, Susan
• Sullivan, John Jeremiah. Pulphead
• Thompson, Hunter S. . The Great Shark Hunt
• Thoreau, Henry David. Walden
• Trillin, Calvin
• Updike, John. Self-Consciousness
• Vowell, Sarah
• Wallace, David Foster. Consider the Lobster
• White, E.B.. Essays of E.B. White
• Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own

Reviews & Criticism

• Amis, Martin. The War Against Cliché
• Berger, John
• Biss, Eula. On Immunity
• Davey, Moyra . Index Cards
• Kael, Pauline
• Marcus, Greil. Mystery Train
• Wolcott, James . Critical Mass
• Wolfe, Tom. From Bauhaus to Our House
• Wolfe, Tom. The Painted Word

Travel Memoir/Essay

• Belliveau, Jeannette
• Gopnik, Adam. Paris to the Moon
• Iyer, Pico
• Jones, Alden . The Blind Masseuse
• Morris, Jan
• Theroux, Paul