- Somebody with a little hammer, essays, Mary Gaitskill
- The unspeakable, and other subjects of discussion, Meghan Daum
- I wrote this book because I love you, essays, Tim Kreider
- The Keillor reader, Garrison Keillor
- Chuck Klosterman X, A highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century, Chuck Klosterman
- What about the baby?, some thoughts on the art of fiction, Alice McDermott
- Sharing too much, musings from an unlikely life, Richard Paul Evans
- The Moth presents All these wonders, true stories about facing the unknown, edited by Catherine Burns
- Listen to your mother, what she said then, what we're saying now, edited by Ann Imig
- The fame lunches, on wounded icons, money, sex, the Brontes, and the importance of handbags, Daphne Merkin
- Morningstar, growing up with books, Ann Hood
- A solemn pleasure, to imagine, witness, and write, by Melissa Pritchard ; foreword by Bret Anthony Johnston
- You, too, could write a poem, David Orr
- 100 essays I don't have time to write, on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater, Sarah Ruhl
- Voices, places, essays, David Mason
- Well-read black girl, finding our stories, discovering ourselves : an anthology, edited by Glory Edim
- Barking with the Big Dogs, On Writing and Reading Books for Children, Natalie Babbitt ; introduction by Katherine Applegate
- The world is on fire, scrap, treasure, and songs of apocalypse, Joni Tevis
- Mythologies, Roland Barthes ; translated from the French by Richard Howard [and] Annette Lavers
- Look alive out there, essays, Sloane Crosley
- Love and other ways of dying, essays, Michael Paterniti
- The destiny thief, essays on writing, writers and life, Richard Russo
- Feel free, essays, Zadie Smith
- My generation, collected nonfiction, William Styron ; edited by James L. W. West III ; foreword by Tom Brokaw
- Touch the future, a manifesto in essays, John Lee Clark
- I'll tell you in person, Chloe Caldwell
- Revelation at the food bank, essays, Merrill Joan Gerber
- Other people, takes & mistakes, David Shields
- Feel free, essays, Zadie Smith
- Typewriters, bombs, jellyfish, essays, Tom McCarthy
- A lowcountry heart, reflections on a writing life, Pat Conroy
- Reporting always, writings from The New Yorker, Lillian Ross
- Collection of sand, essays, Italo Calvino ; translated by Martin McLaughlin
- Attention, dispatches from a land of distraction, Joshua Cohen
- Ten windows, how great poems transform the world, Jane Hirshfield
- Bob Dylan, the essential interviews, edited by Jonathan Cott
- Summer, Karl Ove Knausgaard ; with illustrations by Anselm Kiefer ; translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey
- American English, Italian chocolate, small subjects of great importance, Rick Bailey
- These precious days, Ann Patchett
- White space, essays on culture, race, & writing, Jennifer De Leon
- Kingdom of olives and ash, writers confront the occupation, Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon, editors ; Moriel Rothman-Zecher, associate editor
- My ideal bookshelf, art by Jane Mount ; edited by Thessaly La Force
- Late essays, 2006-2017, J. M. Coetzee
- My life with Bob, flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues, Pamela Paul
- My lost poets, a life in poetry, Philip Levine ; edited by Edward Hirsch
- Small victories, spotting improbable moments of grace, Anne Lamott
- The hidden machinery, essays on writing, Margot Livesey
- Winter, Karl Ove Knausgaard ; with illustrations by Lars Lerin ; translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey
- Dragonwriter, a tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern, edited by Todd McCaffrey, with Leah Wilson
- True stories, and other essays, Francis Spufford