Essays Books by BIPOC Authors
- by Jesmyn Ward
- Demographic Studies, Essays, History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2026
The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From...
- by Scaachi Koul
- Essays, Humor Essays, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today. Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the...
- by Yiyun Li
- Death and Dying, Essays, Memoir, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
Things in Nature Merely Grow is Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her sons James and Vincent. “There is no good way...
- by Zadie Smith
- Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2025
A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays. In this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist...
- Essays, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and writer Morgan Parker has spent much of her adulthood in therapy, trying to square the resonance of her writing with the alienation...
- Essays, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A Taiwanese American writer unfurls themes of memory, dislocation, language, and loss to tell a unique story about reclaiming one’s heritage while living in a diaspora. Born in Taiwan, Grace...
- by Jen Soriano
- Biology, Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brings together...
- Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2023
A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today’s food and hospitality landscape—from farm to table and beyond—chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom,...
- by Elias Jahsan
- Demographic Studies, Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers – some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find heart-warming connections and moments of celebration...
- by Ross Gay
- Essays, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights. In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author...
- Essays, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Editors Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido bring together 131 personal narrativeswritten by established and emerging women of color. In 300 words or less, these true stories speak to otherness,...
- Essays, Literary Criticism & Theory, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or...
- Essays, Nonfiction, Personal Growth and Self Development
- Publication Year: 2022
ALOHA (love) – ‘ĀINA (land) – MO’OLELO (stories) – ‘OHANA (family)DISCOVER FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF HAWAIIAN LIVINGFOR A PEACEFUL AND BALANCED LIFE. More than just a beautiful paradise, Hawai’i has a...
- by Elie Mystal
- Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
Allow Me to Retort is an easily digestible argument about what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away, and how to stop them. Elie Mystal explains...
- Culture and Heritage, Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2022
“Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People...
- Culture and Heritage, Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2021
The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays—on everything from Mario Kart to issues of...
- by Ali Wong
- Celebrity, Essays, Memoir, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2019
Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like...
- Activism and Social Justice, Essays, Nonfiction, People with Disabilities
- Publication Year: 2018
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers...
- by Scaachi Koul
- Essays, Humor Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2017
A collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, “a land of ice and casual racism,” by the cultural observer, Scaachi Koul. In One Day...
- Humor Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2017
Hilariously wry social commentary, delivered as a guide to modern manners; in hardcover for the first time, with festive packaging and tour de force bonus essay about the “walking Cheeto”...
- by Trevor Noah
- Celebrity, Essays, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2016
“Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be...
- Essays, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2015
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century. Drawing extensively on...
- by Mohsin Hamid
- Essays, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2015
From “one of his generation’s most inventive and gifted writers” (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and “the war on terror.” Mohsin Hamid’s...
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that...