Personal essay
Wanting. Women writing about desire
Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters
Leaving isn't the hardest thing. Essays
Lauren Hough
Mean boys : a personal history
Geoffrey Mak
A year and a day. An experiment in essays
Phillip Lopate
Look at the lights, my love
Annie Ernaux
The Middle of Things. Essays.
Meghan Florian
Thick, and other essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Approaching eye level
Vivian Gornick
About society and politics
Slouching towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
Talking cure. An essay on the civilizing power of conversation
Paula Marantz Cohen
The Harlem ghetto. Essays
James Baldwin
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
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
A room of one's own
Virginia Woolf
You don't know us Negroes, and other essays
Zora Neale Hurston
The men in my life
Vivian Gornick
Art
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
Upstream. Selected essays
Mary Oliver
"Wild apples" and other natural history essays
Henry D. Thoreau
By the river. Essays from the water's edge
Various writers
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
Collected works
Due considerations. Essays and criticism
John Updike
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison
Kelly Reames and Prof Linda Wagner-Martin
My final territory. Selected essays
Yuri Andrukhovych
I write the yawning void. Selected essays of Sindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona and Renée Schatteman
The selected works of Edward Said
Edward Said
The Most of Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
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
On creativity
The Creative Act. A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
Mark Twain
Wild about Books. Essays on Books and Writing
Michael Wilding
Creative confidence. Unleashing the creative potential within us all
David Kelley and Tom Kelley
How to write an essay
The Lyric Essay as Resistance. Truth from the Margins
Zoë Bossiere, Erica Trabold, et al.
Truth in nonfiction. Essays
David Lazar, John D'Agata, Mark Doty, Su Friedrich
Bending genre. Essays on creative nonfiction
Dr. Margot Singer and Dr. Nicole Walker
Literary non-fiction. Writing about everything from travel to food to sex
Sally Cline, Midge Gillies, et al.
Thinking through style. Non-fiction prose of the long nineteenth century
Michael D. Hurley and Marcus Waithe
The Wiley guide to writing essays about literature
Paul Headrick
Creative Writing
The Handbook of Creative Writing
Steven Earnshaw
Creative writing
Mark Pearson and Helen Foster
Essays in the art of writing
Robert Louis Stevenson
Discovering creative writing
Graeme Harper
The creative writing compass
Graeme Harper
Creative writing. Writers on writing
Amal Chatterjee
The Clay Writer. Shaping in Creative Writing
Zoran Živković
The elements of style
William Strunk Jr., E. B. White, et al.
The Bloomsbury introduction to creative writing
Tara Mokhtari