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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
4.53 average rating, · 26.8k ratings
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Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver
4.16 average rating, · 26.7k ratings
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Exercises in Style
Raymond Queneau
4.05 average rating, · 13.3k ratings
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Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
Durga Chew-Bose
4.01 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Flannery O'Connor
4.27 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
Shirley Jackson
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Artful
Ali Smith
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The Abundance
Annie Dillard
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Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology
Brandon Sanderson
4.18 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
Sarah Ruhl
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The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer
Gene Weingarten
4.33 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
C.S. Lewis
4.13 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
Alice LaPlante
4.25 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Salman Rushdie
4.13 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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The Hemingway Stories
Ernest Hemingway
4.09 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
David Foster Wallace
4.36 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding On and Letting Go
The Moth
4.32 average rating, · 880 ratings
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Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction
Damon Knight
4.05 average rating, · 842 ratings
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How To Become A Writer
Lorrie Moore
4.02 average rating, · 663 ratings
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The Art of the Short Story
Dana Gioia
4.26 average rating, · 616 ratings
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