Guide No Longer Updated
As of July 2023 this guide—started during the early days of the COVID 19 pandemic—is no longer being actively updated or maintained. For an up-to-date listing of essay eBooks (and audio books) please see the Essays section in OverDrive/Libby.
Essay Collections
Books are listed by author's surname.
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948–1985 by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807006573Publication Date: 2021
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780807025697Publication Date: 2021
Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781949116212Publication Date: 2021
The Politics of Care: From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781839763113Publication Date: 2020
Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063089068Publication Date: 2023
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780593243640Publication Date: 2021
Café Shapiro Anthology - 23rd AnnualPublication Date: 2020
What Future 2018 : The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology & the Planet by ISBN: 9781944700669Publication Date: 2018
Damaged Like Me: Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781849354141Publication Date: 2021
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food From 31 Celebrated Writers by ISBN: 9781936787791Publication Date: 2019
Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781771682299Publication Date: 2020
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063043879Publication Date: 2022
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781620976258Publication Date: 2021
Wanting: Women Writing About Desire by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781646220120Publication Date: 2023
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781643752235Publication Date: 2022
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by ISBN: 9781618731340Publication Date: 2016
Stop the World: Snapshots from a Pandemic by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780578717753Publication Date: 2020
She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063098527Publication Date: 2022
All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective by ISBN: 9781949467338Publication Date: 2020
Just Us: An American Conversation by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781644451199Publication Date: 2020
The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780063017566Publication Date: 2020
Lessons Learned and Cherished: The Teacher Who Changed My Life by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781368095051Publication Date: 2023
So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire by ISBN: 9781781318270Publication Date: 2019
There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters From a Crisis by Call Number: EBSCOISBN: 9780593314692Publication Date: 2021
Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781797205175Publication Date: 2020
Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780369722409Publication Date: 2022
Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781642594546Publication Date: 2021
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781608468683Publication Date: 2017
Great LGBTQ+ Speeches: Empowering Voices That Engage And Inspire by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780711275027Publication Date: 2022
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival: Essays on Sex Work and Survival by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781558612853Publication Date: 2021
Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781948742887Publication Date: 2020
