Best Essays Books

A selection of recommended essays books worth reading.

• Mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis
• Pardon My Book Ten Years of the Best and Worst in Sports from Pardon My Take BigBig Cat, PFT Commenter
• The Myth of Sisyphus Vintage InternationalAlbert Camus
• Cooking Con OmiOmi Hopper
• Land & Its PeopleDavid Sedaris
• Mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem: EssaysJoan Didion
• Upstream Selected EssaysMary Oliver
• Mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis
• BluetsMaggie Nelson
• Mythical CookbkJosh Scherer
• The Rebel An Essay on Man in RevoltAlbert Camus
• In Praise of ShadowsJunichiro Tanizaki
• Notes of a Native SonJames Baldwin
• Sister OutsiderAudre Lorde
• The Conspiracy against the Human Race A Contrivance of HorrorThomas Ligotti
• Pawverbs for a Dog Lover’s HeartJennifer Marshall Bleakley
• Vegan Asian KitchenWoonHeng Chia
• Walden and Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
• Reading Like a Writer A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write ThemFrancine Prose
• Inhabit the Poem Last EssaysHelen Vendler
• Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and StoriesNaz Deravian
• The Source of Self-Regard Selected Essays, Speeches, and MeditationsToni Morrison
• Consider the Lobster And Other EssaysDavid Foster Wallace
• When God Winks at You How God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of CoincidenceSquire Rushnell
• The Lao Kitchen Lao'd Flavors and Stories Told Through Family RecipesSaeng Douangdara
• Japanese Soul CookingTadashi Ono, Harris Salat
• The World-Ending Fire The Essential Wendell BerryWendell Berry
• PenseesBlaise Pascal
• The Best American Essays 2025 a Premier Showcase of Critically Acclaimed PersonaJia Tolentino, Kim Dana Kupperman
• Theres Always Room at the Table Farmhouse Recipes from My Family to Yours a NytKaleb Wyse
• UpstreamMary Oliver
• TriageClaudia Rankine
• Star Trek Light up Starship Enterprise Rp MinisChip Carter
• Old Farmers Almanac Flower Gardeners HanOld Farmer’s Almanac
• I'm Too Young To Be Seventy And Other DelusionsJudith Viorst
• Art of the Personal EssayPhillip Lopate
• Talking Classics - The Shock of the OldMary Beard
• Dreyer's English An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and StyleBenjamin Dreyer
• MythologiesRoland Barthes
• Cooking the BorderlandsClaudette Zepeda
• The Art of Fiction Notes on Craft for Young WritersJohn Gardner
• Mero Cristianismo/mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis
• A Book of Luminous Things An International Anthology of Poetry
• Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad GaEliot Glazer
• A Walk in the Woods Rediscovering America on the Appalachian TrailBill Bryson
• Brunos CookbkMartin Walker, Julia Watson
• The World Central Kitchen Cookbook Feeding Humanity, Feeding HopeJosé Andrés, World Central Kitchen
• The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025Susan Orlean, Jaime Green
• Against InterpretationSusan Sontag
• CalypsoDavid Sedaris
• Eros the Bittersweet An EssayAnne Carson
• Mother Tongue English & How It GotBill Bryson
• Years Best Sports Writing 2025Glenn Stout, Hanif Abdurraqib
• Resistance Rebellion & DeathAlbert Camus
• You Wont Get Free of ItRachel Aviv
• Eat with AfiaAfia Amoako
• Dreyer's English An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and StyleBenjamin Dreyer
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem EssaysJoan Didion
• Men Explain Things to MeRebecca Solnit