Big Books of 2026
Genres

Essay


Essay Books

A Room of One’s Own
We Should All Be Feminists
Men Explain Things to Me
Bad Feminist
The Fire Next Time
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
In Praise of Shadows
The Myth of Sisyphus
Between the World and Me
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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Khairlanji by Anand TeltumbdeHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanComing Out as Dalit by Yashica DuttSpotted Goddesses by Roja SinghVenomous Touch by Ravikumar
Dalit Nonfiction
92 books — 4 voters
The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil GaimanThe Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne JonesA Slip of the Keyboard by Terry PratchettSteering the Craft by Ursula K. Le GuinTraveler of Worlds by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
Speculative Fiction: Literary Criticism, Essays, Non-Fiction
130 books — 29 voters

All Out by Saundra MitchellMeet Cute by Jennifer L. ArmentroutKissing the Witch by Emma DonoghueToil & Trouble by Jessica SpotswoodHow Beautiful the Ordinary by Michael Cart
YA Short Stories and Collections with LGBT Themes
134 books — 45 voters
Lovebug by Daisy LafargeThe Waterfront Journals by David WojnarowiczRadical Attention by Julia BellThe Passenger Seat by Vijay KhuranaMother Naked by Glen James Brown
Peninsula Press
5 books — 1 voter

Quotes Tagged “Essay”

Amit Kalantri
“ Be a worthy worker and work will come. ”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ...more ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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