Beyond David Sedaris: Essay Collections

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The First Time I Heard Kate Bush
The First Time I Heard Kate Bush 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books 3.46 avg rating — 1,995 ratings
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The Crazy Years
The Crazy Years 4.06 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Gender Failure
Gender Failure 4.31 avg rating — 2,443 ratings
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The Braindead Megaphone
The Braindead Megaphone 3.97 avg rating — 5,575 ratings
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas 3.85 avg rating — 17,452 ratings
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Pulphead
Pulphead really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,973 ratings
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
by: Tom Wolfe
3.75 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
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The Best American Food Writing 2018
The Best American Food Writing 2018 3.86 avg rating — 613 ratings
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A Few Thousand Words About Love
A Few Thousand Words About Love 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York 3.76 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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Take What You Got And Fly With It
Take What You Got And Fly With It 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Hooking Up
Hooking Up
by: Tom Wolfe
3.34 avg rating — 2,024 ratings
111.
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander 4.29 avg rating — 724 ratings
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Best Food Writing 2010
Best Food Writing 2010 3.89 avg rating — 254 ratings
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At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays 4.12 avg rating — 2,212 ratings
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Shaken, Not Stirred
Shaken, Not Stirred
by: Tim Gunn
3.87 avg rating — 669 ratings
116.
Grantland Quarterly no. 7
Grantland Quarterly no. 7 3.87 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar 4.15 avg rating — 137,878 ratings
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Lies I Told My Children
Lies I Told My Children 3.36 avg rating — 780 ratings
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Thick: And Other Essays
Thick: And Other Essays 4.43 avg rating — 18,145 ratings
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So You Know It's Me
So You Know It's Me 4.32 avg rating — 81 ratings
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It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy
It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy 3.77 avg rating — 8,033 ratings
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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains 4.04 avg rating — 25,036 ratings
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That Was the Millennium That Was
That Was the Millennium That Was 3.12 avg rating — 58 ratings
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You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool 3.66 avg rating — 2,003 ratings
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina 4.11 avg rating — 3,920 ratings
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Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays
Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays 4.10 avg rating — 199 ratings
128.
Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater
Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater 4.05 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries 4.10 avg rating — 31,877 ratings
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Getting Personal: Selected Essays
Getting Personal: Selected Essays 4.14 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Bachelor Girls
Bachelor Girls 3.40 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Bones: Us and Our Dice
The Bones: Us and Our Dice 3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance 4.25 avg rating — 36,444 ratings
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The Potty Mouth at the Table
The Potty Mouth at the Table 3.71 avg rating — 3,054 ratings
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The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion 3.74 avg rating — 5,470 ratings
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The Best American Travel Writing 2010
The Best American Travel Writing 2010 3.69 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Season of the Body: Essays
Season of the Body: Essays 4.31 avg rating — 143 ratings
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You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning 3.73 avg rating — 3,041 ratings
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Driving with Dvorak: Essays on Memory and Identity
Driving with Dvorak: Essays on Memory and Identity 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Fatal Charms: And Other Tales of Today
Fatal Charms: And Other Tales of Today 3.86 avg rating — 750 ratings
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Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice 4.19 avg rating — 2,298 ratings
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On Imagination (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
On Imagination (Quarternote Chapbook Series) 4.21 avg rating — 492 ratings
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For You, for You I am Trilling These Songs
For You, for You I am Trilling These Songs 3.91 avg rating — 116 ratings
144.
I'd Know That Voice Anywhere: My Favorite NPR Commentaries
I'd Know That Voice Anywhere: My Favorite NPR Commentaries 3.55 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating — 54,649 ratings
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The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness 4.13 avg rating — 180 ratings
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I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Other Side of Silence 3.87 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life
Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life 3.91 avg rating — 680 ratings
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
Alligator Candy: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating — 2,378 ratings
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Florida Frenzy
Florida Frenzy 3.92 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Dimestore: A Writer's Life
Dimestore: A Writer's Life
by: Lee Smith
3.87 avg rating — 3,403 ratings
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The Paradise of Bombs
The Paradise of Bombs 4.06 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, The Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa Of Avila, And 17 Other Colossal Topics Of Conversation
Ultra-Talk: Johnny Cash, The Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa Of Avila, And 17 Other Colossal Topics Of Conversation 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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How Did You Get This Number: Essays
How Did You Get This Number: Essays 3.53 avg rating — 13,057 ratings
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The Book of My Lives
The Book of My Lives 4.18 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
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Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia
Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia 3.87 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Between Panic and Desire
Between Panic and Desire 3.74 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather
Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather 3.57 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Lost Origins of the Essay
The Lost Origins of the Essay 4.42 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Next American Essay
The Next American Essay 4.15 avg rating — 863 ratings
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Portrait of My Body: A Memoir in Essays
Portrait of My Body: A Memoir in Essays 4.03 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present 4.20 avg rating — 2,372 ratings
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present 4.16 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays 3.83 avg rating — 6,109 ratings
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Sex and the River Styx
Sex and the River Styx 3.77 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Things That Are
Things That Are
by: Amy Leach
4.07 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade 3.87 avg rating — 3,140 ratings
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Neck Deep and Other Predicaments: Essays
Neck Deep and Other Predicaments: Essays 3.95 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Meaty
Meaty 3.88 avg rating — 16,854 ratings
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Book of Days: Personal Essays
Book of Days: Personal Essays 3.24 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Halls of Fame: Essays
Halls of Fame: Essays 3.98 avg rating — 473 ratings
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And the Heart Says Whatever
And the Heart Says Whatever 3.18 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Things I Like About America: Personal Narratives
Things I Like About America: Personal Narratives 4.25 avg rating — 287 ratings
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501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays
501 Minutes to Christ: Personal Essays 4.21 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality 4.08 avg rating — 771 ratings
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This Is Running for Your Life: Essays
This Is Running for Your Life: Essays 3.74 avg rating — 379 ratings
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The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt
The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt 3.95 avg rating — 496 ratings
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America 4.32 avg rating — 5,812 ratings
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Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays 4.02 avg rating — 5,604 ratings
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The Correspondence: Essays
The Correspondence: Essays 3.72 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays
Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
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