Best Essays Books

A selection of recommended essays books worth reading.

• Mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis
• The Myth of Sisyphus Vintage InternationalAlbert Camus
• Mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis
• Slouching Towards BethlehemJoan Didion
• Mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis
• Talking ClassicsMary Beard
• Theres Always Room at the TableKaleb Wyse
• Mythical CookbkJosh Scherer
• Lao KitchenSaeng Douangdara
• Rebel an Essay on Man in RevoltAlbert Camus
• Walden & Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
• Conspiracy Against the Human RaceThomas Ligotti
• CalypsoDavid Sedaris
• Old Farmers Almanac Flower Gardeners HanOld Farmer’s Almanac
• Consider the LobsterDavid Foster Wallace
• Reading Like a WriterFrancine Prose
• Padmas All AmerPadma Lakshmi
• UpstreamMary Oliver
• Bottom of the PotNaz Deravian
• Star Trek Light up Starship Enterprise Rp MinisChip Carter
• PenseesBlaise Pascal
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy & DenimDavid Sedaris
• Eros the BittersweetAnne Carson
• Mero Cristianismo/mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis
• Best Amer Essays 2025Jia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman
• Dreyers EnglishBenjamin Dreyer
• Mother Tongue English & How It GotBill Bryson
• Brunos CookbkMartin Walker, Julia Watson
• Source of Self RegardToni Morrison
• A Book of Luminous Things an International Anthology of Poetry
• World Central Kitchen CookbkJosé Andrés, World Central Kitchen
• Holidays on IceDavid Sedaris
• Im Too Young to Be SeventyJudith Viorst
• Slouching Towards BethlehemJoan Didion
• Dancing with Jesus Bobbling FigurineSam Stall
• Art of FictionJohn Gardner
• Wild GardenWilliam Robinson
• Gered Mankowitz Photographs
• Game at the End of the WorldJuan Villoro
• Bite Sized Hist of ItalyDanielle Callegari
• I Cant Stop LaughingAmy Newmark
• Spanglish Recipes & StoriesMonti Carlo
• In Natures SlipstreamCarol Bruce
• No Contact Writers on Estrangement