The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge 2022 - hosted by thestorygraph

An essay collection by a new-to-you author
All books added
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

Taste: My Life Through Food

Stanley Tucci

6 hours, 50 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink memoir funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics

Dionne Brand

6 hours, 47 minutes • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Not That Bad by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad

Roxane Gay

350 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Jesmyn Ward

240 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction essays poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott

Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play

James C. Scott

198 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics informative slow-paced
People who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living by Sally Olds

People who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure and Loose Living

Sally Olds

132 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Themes and Variations by David Sedaris

Themes and Variations

David Sedaris

18 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional funny reflective fast-paced
Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays

Henry David Thoreau

90 pages • first pub 1849 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy politics challenging reflective medium-paced
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante

In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

Elena Ferrante

112 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative reflective slow-paced
Well, This Is Exhausting: Essays by Sophia Benoit

Well, This Is Exhausting: Essays

Sophia Benoit

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir funny reflective medium-paced