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This year's Guest Author of the University of Groningen is Marja Pruis. Her interview and lecture will focus on literary non-fiction.
In this genre, it's increasingly acceptable to place the person of the author in the foreground. The writer's 'I' makes the boundaries between novel, memoir and essay more fluid.
On this page, you'll find non-fiction e-books with a personal touch, about personal life, society and politics, art and nature. If you want to start writing yourself, read our ebooks on creativity, writing a literary essay and creative writing.
Don't forget to check out the theme cabinet in the hallway on the second floor of the UB.
Here you'll find books by Marja Pruis, and Dutch and English literary non-fiction.
Personal writings
Mean boys: a personal history
Geoffrey Mak
Approaching Eye Level
Vivian Gornick
Happening
Annie Ernaux
Crossing Borders
Sergio Troncoso
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Lauren Hough
This Fish Is Fowl
Xu Xi
Essays in Idleness
Kenkō Yoshida
Pirates You Don't Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life
John Griswold
The Middle of Things
Meghan Florian
Thick And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
About society and politics
A room of one's own
Virginia Woolf
Dart
Alice Oswald
All about love. New visions
bell hooks
Shapes of Native nonfiction. Collected essays by contemporary writers
Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton
This bridge called my back. Writings by radical women of color
Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
An essay on man
Alexander Pope
Choice words. A collection of writing about abortion
Louise Swinn ed.
Men explain things to me
Rebecca Solnit
You don't know us Negroes, and other essays
Zora Neale Hurston
Queer as camp. Essays on summer, style, and sexuality
Kenneth B. Kidd, Derritt Mason, et al.
The mother of all questions
Rebecca Solnit
The displaced. Refugee writers on refugee lives
Viet Nguyen
The men in my life
Vivian Gornick
The Male Gazed
Manuel Betancourt
How to Be Alone
Jonathan Franzen
The Harlem Ghetto
James Baldwin
No Apologies
Katherine Brodsky
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things
Katy Kelleher
No Is Not Enough
Naomi Klein
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fate, Time, and Language
David Wallace
Art
Don't Suck, Don't Die Giving Up Vic Chesnutt
Kristin Hersch
The library book
Ann Cleeves, Seth Godin, Susan Hill, Tom Holland
A view from the stars
Cixin Liu
Go ahead in the rain. Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib
The Red Hand Files
Nick Cave
Buried Not Dead
Fiona McGregor
Open at the close. Literary essays on Harry Potter
Cecilia Konchar Farr
On Elizabeth Bishop
Colm Tóibin
Women Artists. The Linda Nochlin Reader
Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly
Just kids
Patty Smith
Walter Benjamin and art
Andrew Benjamin
Street art of resistance
Sarah H. Awad and Brady
On nature
Through a green lens: fifty years of writing for nature
Robert Michael Pyle
To the river: a journey beneath the surface
Olivia Laing
Upstream. Selected essays
Mary Oliver
"Wild apples" and other natural history essays
Henry D. Thoreau
Nature and other essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'll be your mirror. Essays and aphorisms
David Lazar
Salt. Selected essays and stories
Bruce Pascoe
Animals Strike Curious Poses
Elena Passarello
Selected works
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison
Kelly Reames and Prof Linda Wagner-Martin
My final territory. Selected essays
Yuri Andrukhovych
Elizabeth Bishop in context
Angus J. Cleghorn (ed.)
The siren's lament: essential stories
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
I write the yawning void. Selected essays of Sindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona and Renée Schatteman
The selected works of Edward Said
Edward Said
What is man? And other essays
Mark Twain
Essays and lectures
Oscar Wilde
Disparates. Essays
Patrick Madden
Simone Weil. Basic writings
Simone Weil and D.K. Levy
A harp in the stars. An anthology of lyric essays
Randon Billings Noble
