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- The 1619 Project : a new origin story
- The 2000s made me gay : essays on pop culture
- The 50 funniest American writers : an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion
- The American Revolution : a world war
- The American crisis : what went wrong, how we recover
- The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet
- The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet
- The Best American Essays 2017/
- The Black experience in design : identity, expression & reflection
- The Condé Nast Traveler book of unforgettable journeys : great writers on great places., Volume II
- The David Foster Wallace Reader
- The Kraus project : essays : a bilingual edition
- The Oxford illustrated history of the book
- The Queer bible : essays
- The Socrates express : in search of life lessons from dead philosophers
- The U.S.-Mexico transborder region : cultural dynamics and historical interactions
- The V-word : true stories about first-time sex
- The abundance : narrative essays old and new
- The abundance : narrative essays old and new
- The annotated Emerson
- The anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet
- The art of loading brush : new agrarian writings
- The asylum : true tales of madness from a life in fashion
- The best American essays 2010
- The best American essays 2012
- The best American essays 2013
- The best American essays 2014
- The best American essays 2015
- The best American essays 2016
- The best American essays 2018
- The best American essays 2019
- The best American essays 2020
- The best American essays 2021
- The best American essays, 2008
- The best American food writing 2019
- The best American food writing 2021
- The best American science and nature writing 2007
- The best American science and nature writing 2010
- The best American science and nature writing 2011
- The best American science and nature writing 2017
- The best American science and nature writing 2019
- The best American science and nature writing 2020
- The best American science and nature writing 2021
- The best American sports writing 2012
- The best American sports writing 2014
- The best American sports writing 2015
- The best American sports writing, 2017
- The best American travel writing 2020
- The best American travel writing 2021
- The best of Brevity : twenty groundbreaking years of flash nonfiction
- The best of me
- The best of me
- The best science writing online 2012
- The bitch is back : older, wiser, and (getting) happier
- The book of delights
- The book of difficult fruit : arguments for the tart, tender, and unruly (with recipes)
- The book of my lives
- The burden : African Americans and the enduring impact of slavery
- The case of the poisonous socks : tales from chemistry
- The challenge of things : thinking through troubled times
- The collected schizophrenias : essays
- The collected schizophrenias : essays
- The constitution today : timeless lessons for the issues of our era
- The correspondence
- The cruelty is the point : the past, present, and future of Trump's America
- The destiny thief : essays on writing, writers and life
- The disordered cosmos : a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred
- The displaced : refugee writers on refugee lives
- The doctor will see you now : essays on the changing practice of medicine
- The ecstasy of influence : nonfictions, etc.
- The elephant in the womb : declarations of a sudden mother
- The empathy exams : essays
- The end of the end of the earth : essays
- The everybody ensemble : donkeys, essays, and other pandemoniums
- The fame lunches : on wounded icons, money, sex, the Brontës, and the importance of handbags
- The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race
- The first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic
- The first collection of criticism by a living female rock critic
- The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change
- The geek feminist revolution
- The givenness of things : essays
- The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present
- The good immigrant : 26 writers reflect on America
- The groom will keep his name : and other vows I've made about race, resistance, and romance
- The hard crowd : essays 2000-2020
- The heartbeat of trees : embracing our ancient bond with forests and nature
- The lonely stories : 22 celebrated writers on the joys & struggles of being alone
- The long slide : thirty years in American journalism
- The matter of Black lives : writing from the New Yorker
- The meaning of Michelle : 16 writers on the iconic first lady and how her journey inspires our own
- The most of Nora Ephron
- The mother of all questions
- The national road : dispatches from a changing America
- The nature of consciousness : essays on the unity of mind and matter
- The night the referee hit back : memorable moments from the world of boxing
- The nineties : a book
- The organic farming revolution : past, present, future
- The patch
- The point of it all : a lifetime of great loves and endeavors
- The pretty one : on life, pop culture, disability, and other reasons to fall in love with me
- The radiant lives of animals
- The reindeer chronicles : and other inspiring stories of working with nature to heal the Earth
- The river of consciousness
- The roots of my obsession : thirty great gardeners reveal why they garden
- The rub of time : Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: essays and reportage, 1994-2017
- The scandal of the century : and other writings
- The secret life : three true stories of the digital age
- The seven necessary sins for women and girls
- The sociology book
- The souls of yellow folk : essays
- The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations
- The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations
- The state of music & other writings
- The sun also rises & other writings, 1918-1926
- The sweet science and other writings
- The three battles of Wanat : and other true stories
- The unreality of memory : and other essays
- The unspeakable : and other subjects of discussion
- The view from flyover country : dispatches from the forgotten America
- The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
- The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
- The way the world works : essays
- The wilderness idiot : lessons from an accidental adventurer
- The witches are coming
- The witches are coming
- The world-ending fire : the essential Wendell Berry
- The wreckage of my presence : essays
- There is simply too much to think about : collected nonfiction
- These precious days : essays
- These precious days : essays
- They can't kill us until they kill us : essays
- Things I have withheld : essays
- Things that are
- Things that bother me : death, freedom, the self, etc.
- Things that helped : on postpartum depression
- Things that matter : three decades of passions, pastimes, and politics
- Think, write, speak : uncollected essays, reviews, interviews, and letters to the editor
- This is major : notes on Diana Ross, dark girls, and being dope
- This is really happening : true stories
- This is what a librarian looks like : a celebration of libraries, communities, and access to information
- This might be too personal : and other intimate stories
- This will be my undoing : living at the intersection of black, female, and feminist in (white) America
- This woman's work : essays on music
- Thomas W. Schaller, architect of light : watercolor paintings by a master
- Time bites : views and reviews
- Time for socialism : dispatches from a world on fire, 2016-2021
- To fight against this age : on fascism and humanism
- To my trans sisters
- Together we rise : behind the scenes at the protest heard around the world
- Too much and not the mood
- Translating myself and others
- Trap door : trans cultural production and the politics of visibility
- Travels with Henry James
- Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion
- Twenty poems that could save America : and other essays
- Typewriters, bombs, jellyfish : essays
- Uncertain ground : citizenship in an age of endless, invisible war
- Uncomfortable conversations with a black man
- Unfinished business : notes of a chronic re-reader
- Unfollow me : essays on complicity
- Untold : defining moments of the uprooted
- Up up, down down : essays
- Upstream : select essays
- Van Gogh & Japan
- Vesper flights
- Vesper flights : new and collected essays
- Virginibus puerisque
- Visionary New England
- We are never meeting in real life : essays
- We are the Baby-Sitters Club : essays and artwork from grown-up readers
- We can't breathe : on black lives, white lies, and the art of survival
- We gon' be alright : notes on race and resegregation
- We learn nothing : essays and cartoons
- We rise, we resist, we raise our voices
- We say #neverAgain : reporting by the Parkland student journalists
- We should all be feminists
- We wear the mask : 15 true stories of passing in America
- We were eight years in power : an American tragedy
- We're going to need more wine : stories that are funny, complicated, and true
- Well-read black girl : finding our stories, discovering ourselves : an anthology
- What God is honored here? : writings on miscarriage and infant loss by and for native women and women of color
- What about the baby? : some thoughts on the art of fiction
- What are we doing here? : essays
- What are we doing here? : essays
- What doesn't kill you makes you blacker : a memoir in essays
- What editors do : the art, craft, and business of book editing
- What if this were enough? : essays
- What light can do : essays on art, imagination, and the natural world
- What makes this book so great
- What my mother and I don't talk about : fifteen writers break the silence
- What should we be worried about? : real scenarios that keep scientists up at night
- What to read and why
- What unites us
- What unites us : reflections on patriotism
- What we don't talk about when we talk about #MeToo : essays on sex, authority & the mess of life
- What white people can do next : from allyship to coalition
- When Einstein walked with Gödel : excursions to the edge of thought
- When I was a child I read books
- When birds are near : dispatches from contemporary writers
- When things fall apart : heart advice for difficult times
- White
- White hot light : twenty-five years in emergency medicine
- White magic : essays
- White sands : experiences from the outside world
- White space : essays on culture, race, & writing
- Who will pay reparations on my soul? : essays
- Whose story is this? : old conflicts, new chapters
- Why I run : 35 progressive candidates who are changing politics
- Why Wakanda matters : what Black Panther reveals about psychology, identity, and communication
- Why didn't you just do what you were told? : essays
- Why save the bankers? : and other essays on our economic and political crisis
- Why write? : collected nonfiction, 1960-2013
- Wild tongues can't be tamed : 15 voices from the Latinx diaspora
- Winter
- Woman in American society
- Women & power : a manifesto
- Women and other monsters : building a new mythology
- Women in the American Revolution : gender, politics, and the domestic world
- Women's liberation! : Feminist writings that inspired a revolution & still can
- Words and worlds : from autobiography to zippers
- World enough & time : on creativity and slowing down
- World of wonders : in praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments
- Wow, no thank you : essays
- Year million : science at the far edge of knowledge
- Yes please
- Yoke : my yoga of self-acceptance
- You are your best thing : vulnerability, shame resilience, and the Black experience -- an anthology
- You can't touch my hair : and other things I still have to explain
- You don't know us Negroes : and other essays
- You don't know us Negroes : and other essays
- You gotta get bigger dreams : my life in stories and pictures
- You look so much better in person : true stories of absurdity and success
- You play the girl : on Playboy bunnies, Stepford wives, train wrecks, and other mixed messages
- You too?
- You'll grow out of it
- Zanele Muholi
- ¡Hola Papi! : how to come out in a Walmart parking lot and other life lessons
- 100 essays I don't have time to write : on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater
- 12 bytes : how we got here, where we might go next
- 1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- 1968 : today's authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- 2011 Pushcart prize XXXV : best of the small presses
- 2013 Pushcart prize XXXVII : best of the small presses
- 2015 Pushcart prize XXXIX : best of the small presses
- 2019 Pushcart prize XLIII : best of the small presses
- A Grace Paley reader : stories, essays, and poetry
- A bone to pick : the good and bad news about food, with wisdom, insights, and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A coat of yellow paint : moving through the noise to love the life you live
- A history of my brief body
- A history of scars : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A map is only one story : twenty writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home
- A measure of belonging : twenty-one writers of color on the new American South
- A new American sculpture, 1914-1945 : Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A swim in a pond in the rain : in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life
- A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind
- A world without why
- Abolition for the people : the movement for a future without policing & prisons
- About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
- About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
- Abundance : nature in recovery
- Afro-Atlantic histories
- After the tall timber : collected nonfiction
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alibis : essays on elsewhere
- Aliens : the world's leading scientists on the search for extraterrestrial life
- Alignment matters : the first five years of Katy Says
- All art is propaganda : critical essays
- All the lives I want : essays about my best friends who happen to be famous strangers
- All we can save : truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis
- Allies : real talk about showing up, screwing up, and trying again
- American epidemic : reporting from the front lines of the opioid crisis
- American happiness and discontents : the unruly torrent, 2008-2020
- American like me : reflections on life between cultures
- An arrangement of skin : essays
- An editor's burial : journals and journalism from the New Yorker and other magazines
- An outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- An outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- And yet-- : essays
- Angels & saints
- Animals strike curious poses : essays
- Anni Albers
- Anti-intellectualism in American life ; : The paranoid style in American politics ; Uncollected essays, 1956-1965
- Any other way : how Toronto got queer
- Approval junkie : adventures in caring too much
- Areas of fog
- Arguably : essays
- Ask : building consent culture
- Ask me what's for dinner one more time : inappropriate thoughts on motherhood
- Bad feminist : essays
- Bad feminist : essays
- Believe me : how trusting women can change the world
- Between hell and reason : essays from the Resistance newspaper Combat, 1944-1947
- Big white ghetto : dead broke, stone-cold stupid, and high on rage in the dank woolly wilds of the "real America"
- Biography of silence : an essay on meditation
- Bit rot : stories + essays
- Black joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration
- Black magic : what Black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
- Black nerd problems
- Black reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings
- Bland fanatics : liberals, race, and empire
- Body talk : 37 voices explore our radical anatomy
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Borealis
- Both flesh and not : essays
- Both flesh and not : essays
- Breakfast on Mars and 37 other delectable essays
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Burn it down : women writing about anger
- Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces 2004 to 2021
- Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces 2004-2021
- But enough about you : essays
- But what if we're wrong? : thinking about the present as if it were the past
- By the book : writers on literature and the literary life from the New York Times Book Review
- Call them by their true names : American crises (and essays)
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Can you tolerate this? : essays
- Carson McCullers : stories, plays & other writings
- Catherine Opie : keeping an eye on the world
- Choice words : writers on abortion
- Chronicles of a liquid society
- Chuck Klosterman X : a highly specific, defiantly incomplete history of the early 21st century
- Citizen : an American lyric
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Collected essays & memoirs
- Collected essays of the 1960s
- Collected essays on evolution, nature, and the cosmos
- Collected prose : autobiographical writings, true stories, critical essays, prefaces, and collaborations with artists
- Color me English : migration and belonging before and after 9/11
- Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays
- Countries that don't exist : selected nonfiction
- Coventry : essays
- Creationists : selected essays, 1993-2006
- Critical mass : four decades of essays, reviews, hand grenades, and hurrahs
- Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays
- Crossing borders : stories and essays about translation
- Crying in the bathroom : a memoir
- Crystal clear : reflections on extraordinary talismans for everyday life
- Cuba on the verge : 12 writers on continuity and change in Havana and across the country
- Daemon voices : on stories and storytelling
- Damaged like me : essays on love, harm, and transformation
- Dear heartbreak : YA authors on the dark side of love
- Dear memory : letters on writing, silence, and grief
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Devotion
- Dictionary of the undoing
- Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
- Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
- Discontent and its civilizations : dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
- Dispatches from the race war
- Don't call me princess : essays on girls, women, sex, and life
- Don't let it get you down : essays on race, gender, and the body
- Don't save anything : the uncollected writing of James Salter
- Don't wait up : confessions of a stay-at-work mom
- Double bind : women on ambition
- Dress code : unlocking fashion from the new look to millennial pink
- Earth's wild music : celebrating and defending the songs of the natural world
- Eat cake. Be brave
- Edward Hopper : a fresh look at landscape
- Edward Hopper and the American hotel
- Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays
- Entertaining race : performing Blackness in America
- Entitled : how male privilege hurts women
- Erosion : essays of undoing
- Essaying the essay
- Essays 1969-1990
- Essays 1993-2017
- Essays After Eighty
- Ethics in the real world : 82 brief essays on things that matter
- Everyone you hate is going to die : and other comforting thoughts on family, friends, sex, love, and more things that ruin your life
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Ex Libris
- Exile & pride : disability, queerness, and liberation
- F. Scott Fitzgerald : The great Gatsby ; All the sad young men ; & other writings, 1920-1926
- Facing the change : personal encounters with global warming
- Falling into place : an intimate geography of home
- Far and away : reporting from the brink of change : seven continents, twenty-five years
- Farther away
- Fasting for Ramadan
- Feel free : essays
- Feminasty : the complicated woman's guide to surviving the patriarchy without drinking herself to death
- Festival days
- Field recordings from the inside : essays
- Fight of the century : writers reflect on 100 years of landmark ACLU cases
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- First & wildest : the Gila wilderness at 100
- Flash forward : an illustrated guide to possible (and not so possible) tomorrows
- For the Republic : political essays
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- France in the world : a new global history
- Free women, free men : sex, gender, feminism
- Freedom and the arts : essays on music and literature
- Freedom is a constant struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement
- Full dissidence : notes from an uneven playing field
- Funny girl : funniest. stories. ever.
- Funny weather : art in an emergency
- Garden design master class : 100 lessons from the world's finest designers on the art of the garden
- Gene everlasting : a contrary farmer's thoughts on living forever
- Gio Ponti : archi-designer
- Girl gurl grrrl : on womanhood and belonging in the age of Black girl magic
- Girlhood : essays
- Girls can kiss now : essays
- Glimmer of hope : how tragedy sparked a movement
- Good things happen to people you hate : essays
- Goodbye, again : essays, reflections, and illustrations
- Grand : a grandparent's wisdom for a happy life
- Gratitude
- Green card entrepreneur voices : how-to business stories from Minnesota immigrants
- Growing up trans : in our own words
- Guys read : true stories
- Had I known : collected essays
- Happy-go-lucky
- Having and being had
- Hearth : a global conversation on community, identity, and place
- Hearts of our people : Native women artists
- Higher gossip : essays and criticism
- Homo irrealis : essays
- Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot
- Hope nation : YA authors share personal moments of inspiration
- Horse girls : recovering, aspiring, and devoted riders redefine the iconic bond
- How I became a tree
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How to live a good life : a guide to choosing your personal philosophy
- How to make a slave and other essays
- How to raise a feminist son : motherhood, masculinity, and the making of my family
- How to see : looking, talking, and thinking about art
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays
- How to write an autobiographical novel : essays
- Human relations and other difficulties
- Human(kind) : how reclaiming human worth and embracing radical kindness will bring us back together
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hungry hearts : essays on courage, desire, and belonging
- I hate myselfie : a collection of essays
- I hate to leave this beautiful place
- I hope we choose love : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world
- I like to watch : arguing my way through the TV revolution
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I see life through rosé-colored glasses
- I want to be where the normal people are
- I wrote this book because I love you : essays
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- I, grape; or the case for fiction : essays
- Idiot : life stories from the creator of Help Helen Smash
- In praise of messy lives : essays
- In search of Stonewall : the riots at 50, the Gay & Lesbian Review at 25 : best essays, 1994-2018
- In short : a collection of brief creative nonfiction
- In the Heights : finding home
- In the land of the cyclops : essays
- In the margins : on the pleasures of reading and writing
- In their lives : great writers on great Beatles songs
- Incidental inventions
- Indelible in the hippocampus : writings from the me too movement
- Indigo : arm wrestling, snake saving, and some things in between
- Insane clown president : dispatches from the 2016 circus
- Intimations : six essays
- Inventing the enemy and other occasional writings
- It's not about the burqa : Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race
- Joan Didion : the 1960s & 70s : Run river, Slouching towards Bethlehem, Play it as it lays, A book of common prayer, the white album
- Joan Didion : the 1980s & 90s
- Journeys : an American story
- Just us : an American conversation
- Kant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays
- Keep moving : notes on loss, creativity, and change
- Keeping an eye open : essays on art
- Kingdoms in the air : dispatches from the far away
- Know this : today's most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments
- Known and strange things : essays
- Languages of truth : essays 2003-2020
- Later essays : Under the sign of Saturn ; Aids and its metaphors ; Where the stress falls ; Regarding the pain of others ; At the same time: essays and speeches
- Leaving isn't the hardest thing : essays
- Lee Krasner : living colour
- Lessons from a dark time : and other essays
- Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings
- Let me tell you what I mean
- Let's explore diabetes with owls
- Letters to a young farmer : on food, farming, and our future
- Life in the garden
- Life is good : conservation is an age of mass extinction
- Life, I swear : intimate stories from Black women on identity, healing, and self-trust
- Life, death, and other inconvenient truths : a realist's view of the human condition
- Like a boy but not a boy : navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary
- Like streams to the ocean : notes on ego, love, and the things that make us who we are
- Lines of vision : Irish writers on art
- Little labors
- Little weirds
- Little weirds
- Lives and letters
- Living beyond borders : growing up Mexican in America
- Living in the anthropocene : Earth in the age of humans
- Loitering : new & collected essays
- Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century
- Long time coming : reckoning with race in America
- Look alive out there : essays
- Loss, survive, thrive : bereaved parents share their stories of healing and hope
- Lost in language & sound, or, How I found my way to the arts : essays
- Lost in space : a father's journey there and back again : essays
- Lost in summerland : essays
- Love and other ways of dying : essays
- Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life
- Maeve in America : essays by a girl from somewhere else
- Maeve's times : in her own words
- Maeve's times : in her own words
- Magic hours : essays on creators and creation
- Make it scream, make it burn : essays
- Managing expectations : a memoir in essays
- Managing expectations : a memoir in essays
- March was made of yarn : reflections on the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown
- Maybe it's me : on being the wrong kind of woman
- Meaty : essays
- Men explain things to me
- Microbes and evolution : the world that Darwin never saw
- Millennial nuns : reflections on living a spiritual life in a world of social media
- Modern ethics in 77 arguments : a Stone reader
- Modern masters from Latin America : the Pérez Simón collection
- Monsters & myths : surrealism and war in the 1930s and 1940s
- Mothers, fathers, and others : essays
- Movement matters : essays on: movement science, movement ecology and the nature of movement
- Mrs. de Peyster's parties, : and other lively studies from the New Yorker
- My Southern journey : true stories from the heart of the South
- My body
- My generation : collected nonfiction
- My life : growing up Asian in America
- My life with Bob : flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues
- My own words
- My seditious heart : collected nonfiction
- My time among the whites : notes from an unfinished education
- Mysteries of the mall : and other essays
- Nasty women : feminism, resistance, and revolution in Trump's America
- Nature is a human right : why we're fighting for green in a gray world
- Nature love medicine : essays on wildness and wellness
- Nature matrix : new and selected essays
- New Orleans griot : the Tom Dent reader
- New moons : contemporary writing by North American Muslims
- No time to spare : thinking about what matters
- None of my business : P.J. explains money, banking, debt, equity, assets, liabilities, and why he's not rich and neither are you
- Not that bad : dispatches from rape culture
- Notes on grief
- Nothing is lost : selected essays of Ingrid Sischy
- Nothing personal
- Now that we're men : a play and true life accounts of boys, sex & power
- Octopus, seahorse, jellyfish
- Of all that ends
- On animals
- On animals
- On compromise : art, politics, and the fate of an American ideal
- On democracy
- On faith : lessons from an American believer
- On fire : the (burning) case for a green new deal
- On flowers : lessons from an accidental florist
- On freedom : four songs of care and constraint
- On quality : an inquiry into excellence : unpublished and selected writings
- One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter
- One long river of song : notes on wonder
- Ongoingness : the end of a diary
- Our stories, our voices : 21 YA authors get real about injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America
- Out of the sun : on race and storytelling
- Out on a limb : selected writing, 1989-2021
- Pedro and Ricky Come Again : Selected Writing 1988-2020
- Places I've taken my body : essays
- Please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes : essays
- Pop song : adventures in art and intimacy
- Pops : fatherhood in pieces
- Possible minds : twenty-five ways of looking at AI
- Present over perfect : leaving behind frantic for a simpler, more soulful way of living
- Pretty bitches : on being called crazy, angry, bossy, frumpy, feisty, and all the other words that are used to undermine women
- Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings
- Pulphead
- Pushcart Prize XXXVIII : best of the small presses, 2014
- Pushcart prize XLII, 2018 : best of the small presses
- Pushcart prize XLIII, 2019 : best of the small presses
- Pushcart prize XLV : best of the small presses 2021
- Pushcart prize XLVI : best of the small presses 2022
- Rachel Whiteread
- Radical hope : letters of love and dissent in dangerous times
- Read dangerously : the subversive power of literature in troubled times
- Remake the world : essays, reflections, rebellions
- Return to Moose River : in search of the spirit of the Great North Woods
- Reunion Beach : stories inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank
- Ripped from the headlines! : the shocking true stories behind the movies' most memorable crimes
- Rough ideas : reflections on music and more
- Rude : stop being nice and start being bold
- Rural voices : 15 authors challenge assumptions about small-town America
- Sabers and utopias : visions of Latin America
- Salt and roses : the coastal Maine way of life
- Say it loud! : on race, law, history, and culture
- Science in the soul : selected writings of a passionate rationalist
- Secular Buddhism : imagining the Dharma in an uncertain world
- See what can be done : essays, criticism, and commentary
- Self-confidence : a philosophy
- Seven and a half lessons about the brain
- Sex and the River Styx
- Sex and the single woman : 24 writers reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's cult classic
- Shakespeare and Company, Paris : a history of the rag & bone shop of the heart
- Shattering the stereotypes : Muslim women speak out
- She memes well
- Shrill : notes from a loud woman
- Singular and serial : contemporary monotype and monoprint
- Sister mother husband dog, etc.
- Sister outsider
- Slouching towards Bethlehem : essays
- Small doses
- So sad today : personal essays
- Some of my best friends : essays on lip service
- Some remarks : essays and other writing
- Somebody with a little hammer