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
On Human Nature
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
Life in Code
A Personal History of Technology
Memoir
Technology
Science
The Great Book of Journaling
How Journal Writing Can Support a Life of Wellness, Creativity, Meaning and Purpose
Writing
Journaling
Self Help
Aging Thoughtfully
Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret
Philosophy
Essays
Sociology
What to Think About Machines That Think
Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
Science
Artificial Intelligence
Technology
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
We Need New Stories
Politics
Feminism
Essays
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Humor
Memoir
Essays
Answers for Aristotle
How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life
Philosophy
Science
Skepticism
The Wisdom of the Heart
Essays
Philosophy
Writing
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
Humor
Essays
Self Help
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life
Adventures in Anxiety
Memoir
Mental Health
Humor
Now I Can Die in Peace
How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank and the 2004
Sports
Baseball
Humor
Thinking In Numbers
On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Science
Mathematics
Essays
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
The Unsettling of America
Culture and Agriculture
Agriculture
Food
Nature
Steering the Craft
Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
Writing
Crafts
Reference
I'd Rather Be Reading
The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
Books About Books
Essays
Memoir
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please
Essays
Humor
Memoir
Comedy
Letters from Burma
Politics
History
Asia
Letters on Cézanne
Art
Poetry
Classics
Old Age
A Beginner's Guide
Memoir
Essays
Humor
Q is for Quantum
Science
Physics
Technical
Living Beyond Borders
Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America
Short Stories
Young Adult
Poetry
And Here's the Kicker
Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry
Humor
Comedy
Writing
Magical Thinking
True Stories
Memoir
Humor
Short Stories
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Science
Physics
Astronomy
Superheroes and Philosophy
Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way
Philosophy
Comics
Superheroes
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy
Classics
Essays
How to Be a Person in the World
Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life
Self Help
Essays
Psychology
This Is How
Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Self Help
Memoir
Humor
Science in the Soul
Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
Memoir
LGBT
Queer
For the New Intellectual
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
I'm Judging You
The Do-Better Manual
Humor
Essays
Feminism
Soccer in Sun and Shadow
Sports
Football
Soccer
More Baths, Less Talking
Essays
Books About Books
Humor
The Rant Zone
An All-Out Blitz Against Soul-Sucking Jobs, Twisted Child Stars, Holistic Loons, and People Who Eat Their Dogs!
Humor
Comedy
Politics
Breaking Bread with the Dead
A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
Books About Books
Philosophy
Essays
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Essays
History
Philosophy
Context
Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century
Essays
Technology
Politics
Lyrical and Critical Essays
Philosophy
Essays
Literature
Find the Good
Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
Memoir
Self Help
Essays
Nonconformity
Writing on Writing
Writing
Essays
Small Pleasures
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
Welcome to the United States of Anxiety
Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
Humor
Memoir
Self Help
What On Earth Have I Done?
Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
Humor
Essays
Philosophy
Best American Essays 2018
Essays
Anthologies
21st Century
Unreliable Narrator
Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
Memoir
Humor
Essays
