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Section: Literary Nonfiction
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A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
A History of My Brief Body
Billy-Ray Belcourt
A Sinister Assassin: Antonin Artaud's Last Writings, September 1947-March 1948
Antonin Artaud
and
stephen barber (Editor)
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders
A Whore's Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers
Kay Kassirer
Abantu Besizwe: Historical and Biographical Writings, 1902-1944
S. E. K. Mqhayi
Adrienne Rich: Poetry and Prose
Adrienne Rich
,
Albert Gelpi
, and
Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Aftermath
Preti Taneja
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Maya Angelou
Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom
Shelby Lorman
Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition)
Arundhati Roy
Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition)
Arundhati Roy
Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World
Eliane Brum
Behind Shut Eyes QTBIPOC Dream Anthology
Coyote Park
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Joshua Bennett
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
Julia Lee
Black and Female: Essays
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Black Futures
Kimberly Drew
and
Jenna Wortham
Black Women Writers at Work
Claudia Tate (Editor)
and
Tillie Olsen (Foreword)
Blind Spot
Teju Cole
Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written on the Epic American Tragicomedy
Lee Camp
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
Margaret Atwood
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues
Kavita Das
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Edwidge Danticat
Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist
Albert Camus
Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games
Carmen Maria Machado
Critical Writings
James Joyce
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner
Dark Museum
María Negroni
and
Michelle Gil-Montero (Translator)
Daughters of Latin America: Two Centuries of Women's Voices
Sandra Guzman
Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
Pete Davis
Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body
Savala Nolan
Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment
Juliana Spahr (Author)
El origen de los otros
Toni Morrison
Essays on the Self
Virginia Woolf
Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
Adrienne Rich
and
Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor)
Excavation: A Memoir
Wendy C. Ortiz
Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson
Feel Free
Zadie Smith
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Alice Walker
Gentrifier: A Memoir
Anne Elizabeth Moore
Guidebook to Relative Strangers
Camille T. Dungy
Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time
Sheila Liming
Heart Beating Beneath the Earth
Jennifer Wallace
and
Jennifer Wallace (Editor)
High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir
Edgar Gomez
Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging
Vanessa A. Bee
How To Be Autistic
Charlotte Amelia Poe
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Kiese Laymon (Author)
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
Kiese Laymon
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Live a Life of the Mind
Regan Penaluna
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
Alexander Chee
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
Jericho Brown
and
Darlene Taylor
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
Jericho Brown (Editor)
and
Darlene Taylor (Editor)
Hummingbirds in the Trenches
Kondwani Fidel
I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear
Sean DeLear
I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader
Gerald Horne
and
Tionne Alliyah Parris (Editor)
I Know What's Best for You
Shelly Oria
I'm Not Here to Give a Speech
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying: Essays
Bassey Ikpi
If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
Cynthia Heimel
If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back: 171 Short, But True Stories
Ron Cassie
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
Alice Walker
In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation
Isabel Zapata
Inciting Joy: Essays
Ross Gay
Inventing the Enemy: Essays
Umberto Eco
Journal of Radical Permission: A Daily Guide for Following Your Soul's Calling
Adrienne Maree Brown
and
Sonya Renee Taylor
Just Us: An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine
Land of Women
María Sánchez
and
Curtis Bauer
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
and
M.D. Herter Norton
Little Foxes Took Up Matches
Katya Kazbek
Luck
Margaret Randall
Making Love with the Land: Essays
JOSHUA. WHITEHEAD
Migratory Birds
Mariana Oliver
and
Julia Sanchez
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
M. K. Asante
Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing
Jen Soriano
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of 20th and 21st Century Writing by Women of African Descent
Margaret Busby
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
Margaret Busby (Editor)
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay
Julian Aguon
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters
Ursula K. Le Guin
Nothing Personal
James Baldwin
and
Imani Perry
Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami
Of Walking in Ice
Werner Herzog
Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures
Connie Wang
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Maggie Nelson
On Mysticism
Jorge Luis Borges
On the Inconvenience of Other People
Lauren Berlant
Ordinary Notes
Christina Sharpe
Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
Raja Shehadeh
Pathetic Literature
Eileen Myles (Editor)
Pathetic Literature
Eileen Myles
Pimp: The Story of My Life
Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck
Pleasure of Thinking: Essays
Wang Xiaobo
Railtracks
Anne Michaels
and
John Berger
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
Alejandra Oliva
Saturation Project
Christine Hume
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
Valarie Kaur
Selected Essays of John Berger
John Berger
Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore
Lawrence Jackson
Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
,
Imani Perry (Editor)
, and
Tarana Burke (Foreword)
Sir
Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle
Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia
Marie Darrieussecq
Small Predators
Jennifer Ilse Black
Social Poetics
Mark Nowak
Some of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays of June Jordan
June Jordan
Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
Anthony Veasna So
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani Perry
Special Topics in Being a Human
S. Bear Bergman
and
Saul Freedman-Lawson (Illustrator)
Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
Kate Flannery
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones
and
The New York Times Magazine
The Antiracist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonizethe Creative Classroom
Felicia Rose Chavez
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
Harold Bloom
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
The Book of (More) Delights
Ross Gay
The Book of Beginnings and Endings
Jenny Boully
The Breaks: An Essay
Julietta Singh
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
Ralph Ellison
,
John F. Callahan (Editor)
, and
Saul Bellow (Preface)
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit
Julian Randall
The Edward Dahlberg Reader
Edward Dahlberg
and
Paul Carroll (editor)
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
and
Sally Fitzgerald
The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise
Pico Iyer
The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom
Toni Morrison
and
Zadie Smith (introduction)
The Origin of Others
Toni Morrison (Author)
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays: Introduction by David Bellos
Albert Camus
The Properties of Perpetual Light
Julian Aguon
The Reckonings: Essays
Lacy M. Johnson
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
Courtney Thorsson
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Toni Morrison
The Toni Morrison Book Club
Juda Bennett
,
Winnifred Brown-Glaude
,
Casssandra Jackson
, and
Piper Kendrix Williams
The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Visible Unseen: Essays
Andrea Chapela
and
Kelsi Vanada (Translator)
These Possible Lives
Fleur Jaeggy
and
Minna Proctor
They Called Me 299-359: Poetry by the Incarcerated Youth of Free Minds
Free Minds Writers
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Thin Skin: Essays
Jenn Shapland
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
Michael Bennett
and
Dave Zirin
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
Michael Bennett
and
Dave Zirin
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
Jeannie Vanasco
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Cole Arthur Riley
Tone
Sofia Samatar
and
Kate Zambreno
Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
Durga Chew-Bose
Touching the Art
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Trans Girl Suicide Museum
Hannah Baer
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (LOA #315): Author's Expanded Edition
Ursula K. Le Guin
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
Terrance Hayes
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
D. Watkins
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
Joan Didion
We're Alone: Essays
Edwidge Danticat
What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues
Clifford Thompson
When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent
Alan Pelaez Lopez
White Magic
Elissa Washuta
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing with Caca
Luis Felipe Fabre
and
JD Plueker (translator)
Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art
Erica N. Cardwell
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Zora Neale Hurston
,
Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
, and
Genevieve West (Editor)
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021
Alaa Abd el-Fattah
You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir
Wole Soyinka
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