Beyond David Sedaris: Essay Collections

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The White Album
The White Album 4.03 avg rating — 47,326 ratings
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments 4.14 avg rating — 52,658 ratings
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Comedian Gone Wrong
Comedian Gone Wrong really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays 4.18 avg rating — 52,972 ratings
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist 3.92 avg rating — 117,712 ratings
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,727 ratings
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman 3.74 avg rating — 84,663 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating — 10,422 ratings
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Farther Away
Farther Away 3.60 avg rating — 3,935 ratings
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Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters 4.15 avg rating — 6,787 ratings
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The Empathy Exams
The Empathy Exams 3.67 avg rating — 15,588 ratings
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The Faraway Nearby
The Faraway Nearby 4.21 avg rating — 7,556 ratings
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Comedian Gone Wrong 2
Comedian Gone Wrong 2 3.97 avg rating — 310 ratings
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays 3.47 avg rating — 41,649 ratings
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What If This Were Enough?: Essays
What If This Were Enough?: Essays 3.64 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage 4.01 avg rating — 38,353 ratings
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My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays
My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays 3.61 avg rating — 2,265 ratings
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Songbook
Songbook 3.56 avg rating — 14,165 ratings
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Notes from No Man's Land
Notes from No Man's Land
by: Eula Biss
4.18 avg rating — 3,798 ratings
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Wallflower at the Orgy
Wallflower at the Orgy 3.43 avg rating — 3,740 ratings
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays 4.36 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 6,089 ratings
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Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son 4.37 avg rating — 23,277 ratings
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The Boys of My Youth
The Boys of My Youth 4.12 avg rating — 5,771 ratings
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto 3.74 avg rating — 72,258 ratings
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Shooting an Elephant
Shooting an Elephant 4.06 avg rating — 10,897 ratings
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Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women
Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women 3.57 avg rating — 2,439 ratings
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Scribble Scribble
Scribble Scribble 3.66 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews 3.81 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Gratitude
Gratitude 4.18 avg rating — 23,484 ratings
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Upstream: Selected Essays
Upstream: Selected Essays 4.16 avg rating — 24,008 ratings
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Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems 3.72 avg rating — 10,536 ratings
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Small Wonder
Small Wonder 4.02 avg rating — 11,174 ratings
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High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never 4.07 avg rating — 12,746 ratings
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
A Field Guide to Getting Lost 3.91 avg rating — 20,201 ratings
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Comedian Gone Wrong 3
Comedian Gone Wrong 3 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 3.86 avg rating — 509,670 ratings
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Distrust That Particular Flavor
Distrust That Particular Flavor 3.80 avg rating — 3,332 ratings
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional 3.59 avg rating — 7,416 ratings
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader 4.10 avg rating — 13,933 ratings
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The Complete Essays
The Complete Essays 4.23 avg rating — 21,559 ratings
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We Learn Nothing
We Learn Nothing 4.16 avg rating — 5,109 ratings
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The Complete Works
The Complete Works 4.46 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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The Best American Essays 2010
The Best American Essays 2010 3.76 avg rating — 435 ratings
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Paris to the Moon
Paris to the Moon 3.75 avg rating — 15,348 ratings
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer 4.02 avg rating — 10,619 ratings
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions 4.19 avg rating — 5,031 ratings
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My Misspent Youth: Essays
My Misspent Youth: Essays 3.57 avg rating — 2,502 ratings
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A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country 4.10 avg rating — 48,821 ratings
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The Common Reader
The Common Reader 4.11 avg rating — 1,927 ratings
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I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory 3.91 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Both Flesh and Not: Essays
Both Flesh and Not: Essays 3.86 avg rating — 6,083 ratings
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Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? 4.53 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal 4.02 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Devotion
Devotion 3.85 avg rating — 15,461 ratings
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Fraud
Fraud 3.86 avg rating — 9,426 ratings
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My 1980s & Other Essays
My 1980s & Other Essays 3.74 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food 4.18 avg rating — 2,010 ratings
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What Are People For?
What Are People For? 4.23 avg rating — 2,819 ratings
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Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays 4.26 avg rating — 2,192 ratings
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts 4.13 avg rating — 1,879 ratings
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Winter: Five Windows on the Season
Winter: Five Windows on the Season 3.78 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Arguably: Selected Essays
Arguably: Selected Essays 4.20 avg rating — 9,834 ratings
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Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow: Essays
Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow: Essays 4.16 avg rating — 79 ratings
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White Girls
White Girls 3.87 avg rating — 4,182 ratings
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Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York 3.74 avg rating — 3,782 ratings
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love 3.72 avg rating — 964 ratings
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How to Be Alone
How to Be Alone 3.58 avg rating — 12,392 ratings
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History 3.42 avg rating — 6,542 ratings
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Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era
Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era 4.02 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Loitering: New & Collected Essays
Loitering: New & Collected Essays 4.02 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
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Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation
Mahadevi Varma: Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Eating the Dinosaur
Eating the Dinosaur 3.77 avg rating — 16,217 ratings
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American Stories
American Stories 4.04 avg rating — 142 ratings
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This Way Back
This Way Back 4.79 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things 3.89 avg rating — 171,414 ratings
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The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader
The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader 4.42 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays
Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays 3.77 avg rating — 656 ratings
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The Secret World Of The Irish Male
The Secret World Of The Irish Male 3.55 avg rating — 286 ratings
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A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction 4.24 avg rating — 5,946 ratings
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All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers 3.65 avg rating — 2,099 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
Notes from a Small Island 3.92 avg rating — 117,836 ratings
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion 4.03 avg rating — 76,743 ratings
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At Adair's House: More Columns from America's Favorite Former Single Mom
At Adair's House: More Columns from America's Favorite Former Single Mom 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Not Exactly What I Had In Mind
Not Exactly What I Had In Mind 3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away 3.90 avg rating — 68,628 ratings
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education 3.93 avg rating — 8,990 ratings
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Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)
Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction) 4.62 avg rating — 159 ratings
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I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays
I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays 3.78 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? 4.19 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Use All the Crayons!: The Colorful Guide to Simple Human Happiness
Use All the Crayons!: The Colorful Guide to Simple Human Happiness 3.57 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms
Anathemas and Admirations: Essays and Aphorisms 4.01 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader 3.95 avg rating — 2,343 ratings
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Approaching Eye Level
Approaching Eye Level 3.87 avg rating — 2,359 ratings
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The Snake Has All the Lines
The Snake Has All the Lines
by: Jean Kerr
4.05 avg rating — 261 ratings
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation 4.09 avg rating — 2,973 ratings
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How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs
How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs 3.73 avg rating — 612 ratings
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My Life As a Gal
My Life As a Gal 3.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers 4.18 avg rating — 849 ratings
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The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast
The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast 4.31 avg rating — 7,478 ratings
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