Books most popular in the United States●Essays

Check out the latest list of books that people in the United States are enjoying the most right now. The list is ordered by popularity and the genre of the list is Fiction & Literature > Essays.

1. I'll Show Myself Out - Jessi Klein. Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

Release date: 2022-04-26 $11.99
Comments

1. She did it again - I stopped everything I was doing and reading when this book came out and it did not disappoint! This is a beautiful, brilliant, hilarious take on new motherhood and adulthood. I’m expecting my first so this couldn’t have come at a better time but I believe I would’ve enjoyed it just as much even without a baby on the way. Jessi Klein is an incredible author with a unique voice. Both of her books are some of my favorite memoirs.
2022-05-04
2. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

Release date: 1991-05-07 $11.99
3. The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green. Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Release date: 2021-05-18 $12.99
Comments

1. Anthropecene Reviewed, Reviewed - I wonder if John Green ever looks at his accolades and asks if he really deserves them. All the awards, all the kind words about his work. I personally have a lot of difficulty believing anything good anyone has to say about what I make, even when I know it’s good too. If he ever reads my review of his book on reviews, I hope he believes me when I say I believe he’s made a star book.
2021-07-31

2. My favorite of John Green’s works thus far. - I have been a fan of John Green since I was in high school, and I’ve read his books over and over, but this one is definitely my favorite. It’s beautifully written, and thought provoking. It’s full of insight. And I even learned about a lot of things I didn’t know previously. I definitely recommend this book.
2021-06-05
4. 我与地坛 - 史铁生

Release date: 2015-10-09 $0.99
5. How to Be Normal - Phil Christman Christman

Release date: 2022-02-01 $9.99
6. But Enough About You - Christopher Buckley. Essays

Release date: 2014-05-06 $1.99
7. Citizen - Claudia Rankine. An American Lyric

Release date: 2014-10-07 $9.99
8. Let Me Tell You What I Mean - Joan Didion

Release date: 2021-01-26 $9.99
9. Just Enough Liebling - A. J. Liebling. Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

Release date: 2005-10-05 $0.99
10. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed - Meghan Daum. Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids

Release date: 2015-03-31 $11.99
11. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion. Essays

Release date: 2017-03-21 $12.99
Comments

1. So Good - I wish I could climb into this book and live inside of it. Didion’s masterful use of language creates a vivid and compelling depiction of life in s California. The book is rich with details that make a good story yet lacks all of the unnecessary frills that often lose the attention or interest of the reader. I could not recommend this book more.
2019-02-24
12. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace. And Other Essays

Release date: 2005-12-01 $10.99
Comments

1. Explicit Content - Potential readers should be warned that the first story contains pretty explicit language. It’s not a story about sex, it’s a story about a reporter covering the sex industry. Unfortunately it’s hard to quote people from the sex industry without including a lot of not family or work safe dialog. This story is _WAY_ more graphic than other books tagged as explicit in the iBooks Store.
2014-09-09

2. Serious format issues - Let me be clear that the essays themselves, which are basically reprints of articles DFW wrote for various magazines in the early 's, are superb. The main issue is that the footnotes are not well placed, in the sense that when you tap on a footnote to read it, tapping "back to text" at the end of the note often brings you a page or two away from the original text. Furthermore, footnotes of footnotes (this is DFW after all) are uniformly denoted with a " ", so that when you tap a footnote's footnote, you're taken to a page with a number of short paragraphs or sentences all denoted with an asterisk, and no way of knowing which one is the one you want until you've read a few of them, and even then sometimes you're not really sure. To make things worse, sometimes the footnote navigation texts aren't hyperlinked at all, forcing you to click "back to text" on an adjacent footnote and hope for the best. Worst of all is the exclusion of the essay "Host" because of a claimed inability to reproduce the formatting. It was originally written for the Atlantic Monthly and they have it on their website as of this writing, with the atypical formatting (arrows and boxes of text and such) restyled as footnotes. In sum, Consider the Lobster on iBooks is readable, if unnecessarily mangled.
2011-05-06
13. Burning Questions - Margaret Atwood. Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

Release date: 2022-03-01 $14.99
14. Modern Love, Revised and Updated - Daniel Jones, Andrew Rannells, Ayelet Waldman, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Veronica Chambers, Deborah Copaken, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Trey Ellis, Ann Hood, Howie Kahn, Mindy Hung, Terri Cheney, Ann Leary & Larry Smith. True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

Release date: 2019-09-03 $4.99
15. The White Album - Joan Didion. Essays

Release date: 2017-05-09 $14.99
16. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage - Ann Patchett. A Reese's Book Club Pick

Release date: 2013-11-05 Genre:Fiction & Literature $13.99
Comments

1. Great Book for Patchett Fans - Note: I received This is the Story of a Happy Marriage from TLC Book Tours in exchange for an honest review. I've been an Ann Patchett fan for years. I loved State of Wonder and adored The Patron Saint of Liars, so when I was given the opportunity to read about Ann Patchett by Ann Patchett, I jumped. And boy, am I glad I did! Confession: I had no idea she started out writing magazine articles. I consider myself to be pretty up-to-snuff when it comes to the writing histories of authors I love, but for some reason I never did much Patchett research. I think this is probably a good thing because it lent an air of mystery to her work. My favorite essay from the book was The Getaway Car. In it, she discusses how she became a writer and gives advice (like don't get an MFA because it's a waste of money) and her self-deprecating process of writing a book. In it, she details the circumstances surrounding writing The Patron Saint of Liars, which is my favorite book by her, and I loved reading the backstory. I think I might actually go back and reread it now that I have some insight into her writing processes. Voracious readers will love this book. As a writer who is writing about writing (follow all that?), Patchett's love for all things literary is palpable. I, for one, relished in her descriptions of reading, wanting to be a writer as a kid, putting pen to paper, and actually put down the book to write a short, personal essay just because she inspired me. But enough talking about the book. Run to the library and borrow your copy NOW! Allison @ The Book Wheel
2013-11-21
17. Well-Read Black Girl - Glory Edim. Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Release date: 2018-10-30 Genre:Fiction & Literature $9.99
18. The Braindead Megaphone - George Saunders

Release date: 2007-09-04 $10.99
19. Tales of Two Americas - John Freeman. Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

Release date: 2017-09-05 $13.99
20. Oranges - John McPhee

Release date: 2011-04-01 $9.99
21. The Treasure of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan & Sarah Lawson. Or the Book of the Three Virtues

Release date: 2003-10-30 $10.99
22. To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth - Jeff Cooper

Release date: 2021-01-13 $9.99
23. You Were Never in Chicago - Neil Steinberg

Release date: 2012-10-25 $9.99
24. Incidental Inventions - Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein

Release date: 2019-11-19 $2.99
25. In Sensorium - Tanaïs. Notes for My People

Release date: 2022-02-22 $14.99
26. Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women - Angela LoMenzo. Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women (True Life Stories, Beautiful Photography)

Release date: 2023-03-28 Genre:Fiction & Literature $9.99
27. Like Streams to the Ocean - Jedidiah Jenkins. Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are: Essaysc

Release date: 2021-02-02 $11.99
28. De Profundis and Other Prison Writings - Oscar Wilde & Colm Tóibín

Release date: 2013-01-03 $10.99
29. The Book of Delights - Ross Gay. Essays

Release date: 2019-02-19 $12.99
30. Up in the Old Hotel - Joseph Mitchell & David Remnick

Release date: 1992-08-04 $12.99
31. The Quotable Hitchens - Windsor Mann & Martin Amis. From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

Release date: 2011-05-10 $12.99
32. Graceland, At Last - Margaret Renkl. Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

Release date: 2021-09-08 $12.99
33. Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? - Zach Zimmerman

Release date: 2023-04-18 Genre:Fiction & Literature $8.99
34. Small Victories - Anne Lamott. Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

Release date: 2014-11-10 $9.99
Comments

1. Small Victories - I have always enjoyed the musings of Anne Lamott, and was happy to see she had written a new book. But instead of pithy insights, she wrote a great deal of her disdain for George Bush. If I had wanted to read a critique of him, I could have chosen a political book. This was a disappointment and I do not recommend it.
2014-11-30
35. Just Us - Claudia Rankine. An American Conversation

Release date: 2020-09-08 $9.99
36. High Tide in Tucson - Barbara Kingsolver. Essays from Now or Never

Release date: 2009-03-17 $13.99
37. The Cross of Redemption - James Baldwin & Randall Kenan. Uncollected Writings

Release date: 2010-08-24 $9.99
38. We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For - Alice Walker. Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

Release date: 2011-07-26 Genre:Fiction & Literature $11.99
39. Essays in Idleness - Meredith McKinney, none Kenko & Kamo no Chomei. and Hojoki

Release date: 2013-12-05 $10.99
40. If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - Kurt Vonnegut & Dan Wakefield. The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

Release date: 2020-03-31 $11.99
41. Sobre la tiranía - Timothy Snyder

Release date: 2017-03-22 $8.99
42. The Complete Works of Origen. Illustrated - Origen. De Principiis. Africanus to Origen. Origen to Gregory. Against Celsus and others

Release date: 2021-09-24 $1.99
43. The Unknown Islands - Raul Brandão & David Brookshaw

Release date: 2021-02-09 Genre:Fiction & Literature $15.99
44. The Writing Life - Annie Dillard

Release date: 2009-10-13 $12.99
Comments

1. Random Thoughts on the Writer’s Craft - Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize winning Poet, Essayist and Novelist whose work I read many years ago. She married a friend of mine and I’ve followed her work over the years. Since I’ve been doing a little writing recently, I thought I would read her thoughts on the craft. That’s exactly what the bulk of this brief work is: a Stream of Consciousness of her thoughts as she has struggled with the challenges the writer faces when they sit down with the blank page. It’s not a step by step how-to manual but rather a scattering of notions that go through one’s mind during the process. That said, just hearing the thoughts of an accomplished author and sympathizing with her experiences has value to anyone who enjoys writing or even reading. Four stars. I might add that her final story about the work of a professional acrobatic performance pilot and his bi-plane on how he sees his art is worth the price of admission.
2022-12-06
45. After Henry - Joan Didion. Essays

Release date: 2017-05-09 $11.99
46. Todo lo que crece - Clara Obligado. Naturaleza y escritura

Release date: 2021-11-03 $6.99
47. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf

Release date: 2022-03-10 $0.99
48. The Complete Works of Herman Melville (15 Complete Works of Herman Melville Including Moby Dick, Omoo, The Confidence-Man, The Piazza Tales, I and My Chimney, Redburn, Israel Potter, And More) - Herman Melville

Release date: 2018-05-16 $0.99
49. The Death of Adam - Marilynne Robinson. Essays on Modern Thought

Release date: 2014-03-18 $9.99
50. Hungry Hearts - Walsh, Jennifer Rudolph, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Amena Brown, Austin Channing Brown, Cameron Esposito, Ashley C. Ford, Natalie Guerrero, Sue Monk Kidd, Connie (MILCK) Lim, Nkosingiphile Mabaso, Jillian Mercado, Priya Parker, Bozoma Saint John, Michael Trotter Jr & Tanya Blount-Trotter. Essays on Courage, Desire, and Belonging

Release date: 2021-02-09 $11.99