| ||||
 Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale (Picture Puffin)Best Price: $1.95 Ah, a fantastic native legend completely with brilliant artwork. It has a very classic feel to... |  The Seagull Reader: Stories, Second EditionBest Price: $16.50 Less than half the price of full-length anthologies and more economical than most value... |  This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and WomenBest Price: $11.50 A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of people ... |  The Seagull Reader: Essays, Second EditionBest Price: $16.80 I'm wondering if this is essentially the same book as the prior edition or if there have been... |  Myth-ChiefBest Price: $8.00 They are getting worse and worse. Obviously an attempt to continue to wring money out of this... |
 The Culture Industry (Routledge Classics)Best Price: $11.80 This collection of essays is very interesting. They all cover a critique of mass culture with... |  The Complete Works (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $17.00 Montaigne explained his own purpose for writing these essays: To create a portrait of himself. ... |  Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and BeyondBest Price: $3.95 Written when McMurtry was 62, WALTER BENJAMIN AT THE DAIRY QUEEN is probably best classified as... |  Time of Wonder (Picture Puffin)Best Price: $2.95 The wonders of the world as seen from a child's perspective are rendered beautifully in this... |  For the Time BeingBest Price: $7.86 I'm not a big reader these days. I picked this up a couple of years ago at a library sale. I had... |
 Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and EncountersBest Price: $0.71 Essays to tease the depths, this collection comprises some pf the best of Dillard's work. Clear... |  The Book of Other PeopleBest Price: $6.99 Zadie Smith commissioned twenty-three reputable writers (including herself) to each "make... |  Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and RealizationsBest Price: $12.98 Robert Johnson has been a great teacher, mentor, and inspiration for many in the exploration of... |  The Star ThrowerBest Price: $4.14 I discovered this writer in college and consistently pass this book out to friends. They must... |  Essays and Aphorisms (The Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.56 A. Schopenhauer and Ralph W. Emerson deserve to be read together. I remember reading these two... |
 James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)Best Price: $19.40 One of the greatest writers of the 1900's. Excellent physical book. Well-made and aesthetically... |  Evocative Objects: Things We Think WithBest Price: $15.63 This is a beautiful book,the essays are well written and they give the reader a good idea of the... |  Short Fiction: Classic and ContemporaryBest Price: $58.90 Bohner and Grant's collection has a wonderful assortment of stories, both classic and... |  Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and CraftBest Price: $8.46 "Real Sofistikashun: Essays On Poetry And Craft" by Tony Hogland (who is the author of... |  The Darwin Awards: Felonious Failures (Darwin Awards)Best Price: $1.86 The price is right, and there are the usual Darwin Award stories but be aware that this is a... |
 Wild Ducks Flying BackwardBest Price: $6.30 As a loyal Tom Robbins fan, I have read almost all of his published works. Like many of you, I... |  Aphrodite: A Memoir of the SensesBest Price: $5.25 John Updike once said that there are three great mysteries in life: sex, art, and religion.... |  50 Essays: A Portable AnthologyBest Price: $49.99 I enjoyed the book. It was a terrific way to gain insight on the writing styles of some of... |  Crafting the Very Short Story: An Anthology of 100 MasterpiecesBest Price: $45.00 For starters, it's a mix of "very short stories" and "very short excerpts"... |  Drink Cultura: ChicanismoBest Price: $8.44 This book is better than I imagined. I have not finished reading it but I am about halfways and... |
 Erotism: Death and SensualityBest Price: $10.00 Bataille's philosophical/anthropological examination into taboo's and transgressions is a fine... |  The World As I See ItBest Price: $7.25 To most of us the name Albert Einstein is synonymous with the formula E = MC-squared. Because... |  The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold WarBest Price: $4.89 Few books will set the hair on fire and make us stand to attention as will this book. In very... |  The Boys of My YouthBest Price: $5.56 I rarely do reviews of books, but Beard's "The Boys of My Youth" has forced me to make... |  Clothing Optional: And Other Ways to Read These StoriesBest Price: $8.90 "Garry, it's Alan. Look, I'm calling because I just felt the need to tell someone that I'm... |
 Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide (Insiders' Guides)Best Price: $6.72 Such a great read. It makes me want to go back to Tuscany and take a tour with him. |  Essays and Lectures: Nature: Addresses and Lectures / Essays: First and Second Series / Representative Men / English Traits / The Conduct of Life (Library of America)Best Price: $20.74 Like fine wine, these essays get better with time. Beware of trying to rush through these fine... |  On Beauty and Being Just.Best Price: $8.05 This is vintage Scarry. The book's purpose seems to be an attempt to create a mental switch in... |  My Misspent Youth: EssaysBest Price: $3.84 Daum is a really really good writer. Her essay on the ease of acquiring debt in NYC is spot on,... |  The Cornel West ReaderBest Price: $11.14 West's passionate treatment of the problem of race in America demands serious attention. His... |
 Six Plays by Lillian HellmanBest Price: $3.00 I orginally bought this just to read "The Children's Hour"; however, I truly enjoyed... |  The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian MiscellanyBest Price: $15.79 Very, very few books this physically beautiful are published today. This is a true gem! The... |  The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and BetrayalBest Price: $7.04 This book is a collection of short stories (most written by authors) describing their personal... |  One Hundred Great Essays (Penguin Academics Series) (3rd Edition) (Penguin Academics)Best Price: $27.99 If you are an instructor of advanced English Composition or a literature class, this volume,... |  Classics for PleasureBest Price: $4.00 So infectious is Dirda's delight in the passion for living that goes into a good book that I... |
 On Tolkien: Interviews, Reminiscences, and Other EssaysAn extraordinary glimpse into the world of J.R.R. Tolkien through his own words and those of... |  Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.00 "It is not wisdom to be always wise, and on the inward vision close the eyes" That is... |  The Portable MachiavelliBest Price: $8.75 A useful compendium of Machiavelli's works that reveals a breadth of views not typically... |  High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or NeverBest Price: $2.51 The title story in this collection is that of a stowaway hermit crab that Kingsolver... |  Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookBest Price: $6.99 Walker Percy was an author who came highly recommended to me, so I chose "Lost in the... |
 Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (HOW)Best Price: $10.15 Completes the triad of Dr. and Mr. Haggis-on-Whey volumes (although I have to hope that there... |  The Answer / La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poems (A Feminist Press Sourcebook)Best Price: $13.91 The Answer/La Respuesta by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, is the best answer I have ever read. In... |  Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings, Third Edition (Norton Critical Editions)Best Price: $10.00 This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the texts of Walden, Civil... |  Due Considerations: Essays and CriticismBest Price: $13.00 You'll laugh out loud and at times want to cry. I've read the Rabbit series twice now and... |  Montaigne: EssaysBest Price: $8.37 In 1580, Michel de Montaigne dedicated this "honest book" to his family and friends. ... |
 Nothing's SacredBest Price: $6.44 Lewis Black is at his very best. Truly, "nothing is sacred" from Lew's uniquely... |  Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary NonfictionBest Price: $8.92 As a high school English teacher, I have been searching for a good collection of SHORT,... |  Crow Boy (Picture Puffins)Best Price: $2.95 Really, if books like this were read more often in schools, I bet bullying would decrease. This... |  Selected Political WritingsBest Price: $7.65 The Prince is a book everyone should read in order to understand how many kings and rulers who... |  The Braindead MegaphoneBest Price: $7.22 If you really like Pastoralia for its insanity and out of this world fantasy, then you may not... |
 The Color of Violence: The Incite! AnthologyBest Price: $11.27 Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology is a collection of politically charged writings by a... |  The Painters of Modern Life (Arts & Letters)Best Price: $6.94 This book was a historical landmark in the beginnings of modern criticism, and is seen as a... |  The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great PlacesBest Price: $3.24 The previous two reviewers both gave this two stars only. I think the arrangement of the... | ||
See also for General Books