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Book Riot's 50 Must-Read Contemporary Essay Collections

"I feel like essay collections don't get enough credit. They're so wonderful! They're like short story collections, but TRUE. It's like going to a truth buffet. You can get information about sooooo many topics, sometimes in one single book! To prove that there are a zillion amazing essay collections out there, I compiled 50 great contemporary essay collections, just from the last 18 months alone. Ranging in topics from food, nature, politics, sex, celebrity, and more, there is something here for everyone!
I've included a brief description from the publisher with each title. Tell us in the comments about which of these you've read or other contemporary essay collections that you love. There are a LOT of them. Yay, books!"
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Alexander Chee)
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Alexander Chee)
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We Were Eight Years in Power (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
We Were Eight Years in Power (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
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Look Alive Out There (Sloane Crossly)
Look Alive Out There (Sloane Crossly)
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Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture (Edited by Roxane Gay)
Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture (Edited by Roxane Gay)
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Tonight I'm Someone Else (Chelsea Hodson)
Tonight I'm Someone Else (Chelsea Hodson)
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Tell Me How It Ends (Valeria Luiselli)
Tell Me How It Ends (Valeria Luiselli)
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We Wear the Mask: 15 Stories of Passing in America (Brando Skyhorse (Editor))
We Wear the Mask: 15 Stories of Passing in America (Brando Skyhorse (Editor))
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The River of Consciousness (Oliver Sacks)
The River of Consciousness (Oliver Sacks)
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Feel Free: Essays (Zadie Smith)
Feel Free: Essays (Zadie Smith)
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, & Criticisms (Michelle Tea)
Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, & Criticisms (Michelle Tea)
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The Mother of All Questions (Rebecca Solnit)
The Mother of All Questions (Rebecca Solnit)
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib)
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib)
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Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas (Jenny Allen)
Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas (Jenny Allen)
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Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds (Yemisi Aribisala)
Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds (Yemisi Aribisala)
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Beyond Measure: Essays (Rachel Z. Arndt)
Beyond Measure: Essays (Rachel Z. Arndt)
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Magic Hours (Tom Bissell)
Magic Hours (Tom Bissell)
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Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession (Alice Bolin)
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession (Alice Bolin)
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Betwixt-And-Between: Essays on the Writing Life (Jenny Boully)
Betwixt-And-Between: Essays on the Writing Life (Jenny Boully)
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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give (Ada Calhoun)
Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give (Ada Calhoun)
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Too Much and Not the Mood (Durga Chew-Bose)
Too Much and Not the Mood (Durga Chew-Bose)
21
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London (Lauren Elkin)
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London (Lauren Elkin)
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Idiophone (Amy Fusselman)
Idiophone (Amy Fusselman)
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Sunshine State (Sarah Gerard)
Sunshine State (Sarah Gerard)
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The Art of the Wasted Day (Patricia Hampl)
The Art of the Wasted Day (Patricia Hampl)
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A Really Big Lunch (Jim Harrison)
A Really Big Lunch (Jim Harrison)
26
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me (Bill Hayes)
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me (Bill Hayes)
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Would You Rather? a Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out (Katie Heaney)
Would You Rather? a Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out (Katie Heaney)
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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (Samantha Irby)
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (Samantha Irby)
29
This Will Be My Undoing (Morgan Jerkins)
This Will Be My Undoing (Morgan Jerkins)
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Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays (Fenton Johnson)
Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays (Fenton Johnson)
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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Scaachi Koul)
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Scaachi Koul)
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All the Lives I Want (Alanna Massey)
All the Lives I Want (Alanna Massey)
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Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays (Tom McCarthy)
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays (Tom McCarthy)
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Nasty Women (Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding)
Nasty Women (Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding)
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Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life (Peggy Orenstein)
Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life (Peggy Orenstein)
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When You Find Out the World Is Against You (Kelly Oxford)
When You Find Out the World Is Against You (Kelly Oxford)
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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman (Anne Helen Petersen)
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman (Anne Helen Petersen)
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Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist (Franchesca Ramsey)
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist (Franchesca Ramsey)
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Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls (Elizabeth Renzetti)
Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls (Elizabeth Renzetti)
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What Are We Doing Here? (Marilynne Robinson)
What Are We Doing Here? (Marilynne Robinson)
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