Best Essay Collections
Best Essay Collections is a structured books dataset with 25 entries. Its fields include Title, Author, Year. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 25 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Title, Author, Year, Main Theme, Essay Count (approx).
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Year span
- 1580 to 2019
- Across 25 preview rows
- Essay Count (approx) range
- 2 to 107
- Across 25 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Title, Author, and Year across books entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 25 downloadable records
Title↕ | Author↕ | Year↕ | Main Theme↕ | Essay Count (approx)↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Notes of a Native Son | James Baldwin | 1955 | Race in America | 10 |
The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin | 1963 | Race and religion | 2 |
Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion | 1968 | 1960s California | 20 |
The White Album | Joan Didion | 1979 | American disorder | 20 |
Against Interpretation | Susan Sontag | 1966 | Art and culture | 26 |
On Photography | Susan Sontag | 1977 | Photography as medium | 6 |
Regarding the Pain of Others | Susan Sontag | 2003 | War imagery | 9 |
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again | David Foster Wallace | 1997 | American excess | 7 |
Consider the Lobster | David Foster Wallace | 2005 | Ethics and culture | 10 |
Self-Reliance and Other Essays | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1841 | Individualism | 12 |
Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | Simple living | 18 |
The Common Reader | Virginia Woolf | 1925 | Literary criticism | 25 |
A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf | 1929 | Women and fiction | 6 |
Shooting an Elephant | George Orwell | 1950 | Empire and politics | 12 |
Essays of E.B. White | E.B. White | 1977 | American life | 31 |
The Essays | Michel de Montaigne | 1580 | Self and mortality | 107 |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard | 1974 | Nature and mysticism | 15 |
Teaching a Stone to Talk | Annie Dillard | 1982 | Nature and faith | 14 |
Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay | 2014 | Feminism and pop culture | 38 |
Men Explain Things to Me | Rebecca Solnit | 2014 | Gender and power | 9 |
The Empathy Exams | Leslie Jamison | 2014 | Empathy and pain | 11 |
Changing My Mind | Zadie Smith | 2009 | Books and culture | 24 |
Pulphead | John Jeremiah Sullivan | 2011 | American subcultures | 14 |
Trick Mirror | Jia Tolentino | 2019 | Internet and identity | 9 |
Upstream | Mary Oliver | 2016 | Nature and writing | 19 |
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