The closest I’ve come to reading essays in my life, I think, has been the opinion columns of certain authors I admire. So, I’m looking for books of essays (either books that are entirely a single essay or collections containing multiple essays).
The topics these essays cover can vary—I don’t have any specific preference. The only condition is that you consider them books worth recommending.
Looking forward to your suggestions!
by Otroscolores
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Ann Patchett and Lauren Graham have good ones!
The White Album by Joan Didion
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
You want ppl to recommend essays. Or collections of essays, that other ppl consider books? Not essays? What are, what’s your aim here mate?
a room of one’s own
the myth of sisyphus
any by didion or baldwin
bad feminist by roxanne gay, on women by sontag, men explain things to me by solnit
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green.
*Understanding Power,* by Noam Chomsky
Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul by Jesse McCarthy (art and culture); It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited by Joe Vallese; The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang (schizophrenia memoir essays); Any of James Baldwin’s essay collections, I liked The Price of the Ticket but it is long.