2026 Reading Challenge
Genres

Lyric Essay


Lyric Essay Books

Bluets
Citizen: An American Lyric
The Argonauts
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
A Bestiary
The Body: An Essay
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Dictee
Just Us: An American Conversation
The Crying Book
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
The Faraway Nearby
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Bluets by Maggie NelsonCitizen by Claudia RankineDon’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia RankineAutobiography of Red by Anne CarsonThe Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Lyric Essay and Hybrid Genre
59 books — 25 voters