Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
4.5
2 reads
#5
From Where You Dream
Robert Olen Butler
3
1 read
#6
Between Panic and Desire
Dinty W. Moore
4
1 read
#7
The best creative nonfiction
Lee Gutkind
4
1 read
#9
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott
3.79
25 reads
#10
Civility
Stephen L. Carter
5
1 read
#11
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
Studs Terkel
4
8 reads
#12
The Last Shot
Darcy Frey
4
3 reads
#13
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
Peter Menzel
5
1 read
#14
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell
3.84
77 reads
#15
What difference do it make?
Ron Hall
Denver Moore
Lynn Vincent
4
1 read
#17
An Alphabet for Gourmets
M.F.K. Fisher
5
2 reads
#18
Serve It Forth
M.F.K. Fisher
4
1 read
#19
Reality Hunger
David Shields
3.5
9 reads
#20
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
3
1 read
#21
The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel
3
1 read
#22
This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity
Susan Moon
3
1 read
#23
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton
3.19
18 reads
#24
52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust
William Alexander
4.25
6 reads
#25
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
4.1
62 reads
#26
The Flaneur
Edmund White
3
2 reads
#27
Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Clay Shirky
3.44
9 reads
#28
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott
4.18
173 reads
#29
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon
Joseph Mitchell
4
1 read
#30
Planting Dandelions
Kyran Pittman
3
1 read
#31
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen
3.63
4 reads
#32
Paris in Love
Eloisa James
4
3 reads
#33
Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
Robin Shulman
4.5
1 read
#34
The New Kings of Nonfiction
Mark Bowden
Bill Buford
Malcolm Gladwell
Jack Hitt
Chuck Klosterman
James McManus
Susan Orlean
Michael Pollan
Lee Sandlin
Dan Savage
Coco Henson Scales
David Foster Wallace
Lawrence Weschler
4
4 reads
#35
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine
4
1 read
#36
Between You & Me
Mary Norris
3.27
12 reads
#37
Pacific
Simon Winchester
4
4 reads
#38
Humans of New York: Stories
Brandon Stanton
4.83
12 reads
#39
The road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson
3.58
44 reads
#40
Turn South at the Second Bridge
Leon Hale
4.5
2 reads
#41
Ties that bind stories of love and gratitude from the first ten years of StoryCorps
David Isay
Lizzie Jacobs
5
1 read
#42
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
David Shields
3.5
2 reads
#43
More Baths, Less Talking
Nick Hornby
3.67
4 reads
#44
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
Anne Fadiman
3.83
6 reads
#45
Readings
Michael Dirda
3.5
2 reads
#46
A Passion for Books
3
4 reads
#47
Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories
Herbert R. Kohl
3
1 read
#48
High Tide in Tucson
Barbara Kingsolver
4.38
8 reads
#49
Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays
Robert James Waller
3
1 read
#50
The Martha Beck Collection: Essays for Creating Your Right Life, Volume One
Martha N. Beck
3
1 read
#51
How Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen
4
5 reads
#52
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Anna Quindlen
3.4
6 reads
#53
Being Perfect
Anna Quindlen
3.5
3 reads
#54
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum
3.43
7 reads
#55
Birdbaths and Paper Cranes: A Family Tale
Sharon Randall
4
1 read
#56
What Now?
Ann Patchett
3.67
3 reads
#58
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett
4.29
18 reads
#59
The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life