Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen · 480 pages

Chicken Soup For The Girl's Soul: Real Stories By Real Girls About Real Stuff

Jack Canfield · 345 pages

My Life as an Experiment: One Man's Humble Quest to Improve Himself

A.J. Jacobs · 250 pages

A.J. explores the big issues of our time--happiness, dating, morality, marriage--by immersing himself in eye-opening situations. In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provides readers with equal parts insight and humor. (And drives his patient wife, Julie, to the brink of insanity.) Among the many adventures: He outsources his life to

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

David Sedaris · 288 pages

From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his listeners on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whet

Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light

Penelope Rowlands · 279 pages

Paris is “the world capital of memory and desire,” concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers forever. In thirty-two personal essays—more than half of which are here published for the first time—the writers describe how they were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to writ

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami · 179 pages

Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women

Candace Walsh, Laura Andre · 270 pages

The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

Katie Couric · 320 pages

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

Dan Savage · 338 pages

A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.

Kid Me Not: An anthology by child-free women of the '60s now in their 60s

Aralyn Hughes · 108 pages

"Whatever became of the youth of the ‘60s, the turbulent era of sex, drugs and rock & roll? [This] collection of intimate stories by women from the first generation ever to have access to The Pill, offers a unique perspective on the decade before Roe v. Wade, when free love wasn’t always free. As the women’s movement spread, these women faced a future of extraordinary possibilities – possibilities

Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer

Heather Lende · 162 pages

As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she's distilled what she's learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words: find the good. It's that simple-- and that hard. Lende reminds us that we can choose to see any event as an opportunity to find

Walden

Henry David Thoreau · 260 pages

Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times

Amanda Hesser · 204 pages

"New York Times Magazine"--Food editor Hesser has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading writers. "Eat, Memory" collects the 26 best stories and recipes from some of the playwrights, novelists, and journalists featured in her column.

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Charles T. Munger · 512 pages

Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves

E. Kristin Anderson, Sarah Ockler, Stephanie Pellegrin, Tera Lynn Childs, Beth Fantaskey, Dave Roman, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Carrie Jones, Tom Angleberger, Ellen Hopkins, Sara Zarr, Jessica Burkhart, Jessica Corra, Jessica Lee Anderson, Jessica Spotswood, Kekla Magoone, Erika Stalder, Joseph Bruchac · 192 pages

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone

Jenni Ferrari-Adler · 280 pages

A delightful and unexpected collection of pieces by writers, foodies, and others-including Nora Ephron, Marcella Hazan, and Ann Patchett-on the distinctive experiences of cooking for one and dining alone.If, sooner or later, we all face the prospect of eating alone, then Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant provides the perfect set of instructions. In this unique collection, twenty-six writers an

Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York

Sari Botton · 269 pages

"Goodbye to All That is a collection of essays about loving and leaving the magical city of New York. Inspired by Joan Didion's well-loved essay by the same name, this anthology features the experiences of 28 women for whom the magic of the city has worn off-whether because of loneliness after many friends marry, have kids, and head to the suburbs; jadedness about their careers; or difficulty find

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present

Bernard Cooper, Michael W. Cox, Annie Dillard, Mark Doty, Tony Earley, Anthony Farrington, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, Diane Glancy, Lucy Grealy, Jo Ann Beard, Robin Hemley, Adam Hochschild, Jamaica Kincaid, Barbara Kingsolver, Ted Kooser, Sara Levine, E.J. Levy, Phillip Lopate, Barry Lopez, Wende · 576 pages

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism--this anthology brings together fifty works from all genres of creative nonfiction. --from back cover.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Donald Miller · 256 pages

Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories

Megan Kelley Hall, Carrie Jones · 369 pages

Presents top authors for teens as they share their stories about bullying--as silent observers on the sidelines of high school, as victims, and as perpetrators.

I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project

Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler · 416 pages

A collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts from NPR's National Story Project reflects the work of men and women of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life and is accompanied by a look at the role of storytelling in our lives.

What I Know for Sure

Oprah Winfrey · 240 pages

"After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the question offered her a way to take "stock of her life," Oprah has penned one column a month over the last fourteen years, years in which she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated program of its kind in history), l

So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister

Anna Akana · 176 pages

"From Internet sensation Anna Akana comes a candid and poignant collection of essays about love, loss, and chasing adulthood. In 2007, Anna Akana lost her teen sister, Kristina, to suicide. In the months that followed, she realized that the one thing helping her process her grief and begin to heal was comedy. So she began making YouTube videos as a form of creative expression and as a way to conne

The Moth

Catherine Burns · 407 pages

In the tradition of book anthologies created from public radio programs such as StoryCorps and This I Believe, THE MOTH collects the best storytelling moments--most in print here for the very first time--straight from their archive of more than 3000 shows since the first Moth Evening in 1997.