Essays
Great minds share their sharpest observations and most compelling arguments through the intimate art of the essay, exploring everything from creativity and culture to philosophy and the peculiarities of modern life. Whether wrestling with life's biggest questions or finding profound meaning in everyday moments, these carefully crafted pieces invite readers to see the world through fresh eyes.
Essays Book Summaries
50 Successful Harvard Application Essays
What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice
Writing
Self Help
Essays
Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
Russia
Books About Books
Memoir
Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?
from The Righteous Mind (Kindle Single)
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
Bowie's Bookshelf
The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie's Life
Music
Biography
Books About Books
On Boxing
Sports
Essays
Martial Arts
The Creative Writing Coursebook
Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
Writing
Reference
Essays
The Lonely Voice
A Study of the Short Story
Writing
Short Stories
Literary Criticism
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Want
Feminism
Short Stories
Sexuality
Monkeyluv
And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
Science
Psychology
Biology
Liberty
Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet
Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
Memoir
Self Help
Christian
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Memoir
Poetry
Biography
The Writing Life
Writing
Memoir
Essays
Danse Macabre
Horror
Writing
Essays
Why Not Me?
Memoir
Humor
Biography
I Can't Date Jesus
Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
Memoir
Essays
LGBT
Make Good Art
Art
Writing
Essays
The True Life
Philosophy
Essays
Psychology
Death by Black Hole
And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Science
Physics
Astronomy
Nobody Knows My Name
Essays
Race
Classics
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
Short Stories
Self Help
Inspirational
The Problems of Philosophy
Philosophy
Classics
History
Thick
And Other Essays
Essays
Feminism
Race
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Politics
Environment
Science
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Classics
Philosophy
Essays
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Essays
Memoir
Humor
Somehow
Thoughts on Love
Essays
Memoir
Spirituality
Letters to a Young Scientist
Science
Biology
Nature
Ethics in the Real World
86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
Philosophy
Essays
Politics
Real Estate
Memoir
Feminism
Biography
Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
Memoir
Spirituality
Religion
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone
Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
India
Politics
History
Gift from the Sea
Memoir
Classics
Book Club
Called to Community
The Life Jesus Wants for His People
Theology
Faith
Christian
The Lives of a Cell
Notes of a Biology Watcher
Science
Biology
Essays
Very Good Lives
The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
Self Help
Essays
Inspirational
Trust Kids!
Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
Parenting
Politics
Psychology
The Feminist Porn Book
The Politics of Producing Pleasure
Feminism
Sexuality
Queer
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Humor
Self Help
Philosophy
Big Questions from Little People
And Simple Answers from Great Minds
Science
Philosophy
Childrens
Bird by Bird
Writing
Memoir
Self Help
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
History
Essays
Self Help
On Confidence
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
The Accidental Universe
The World You Thought You Knew
Science
Philosophy
Physics
The American Spirit
Who We Are and What We Stand For
History
Politics
American History
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Essays
Politics
Philosophy
The Fire Next Time
Classics
Essays
Race
12 Bytes
How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
Essays
Science
Technology
