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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
1996

Me Talk Pretty One Day
2000

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2003

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
2004

When You Are Engulfed in Flames
2008

Seabiscuit: An American Legend
1999

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2013

A Moveable Feast
1964

Notes from a Small Island
1995

We Should All Be Feminists
2014

Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
1994

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
2016

Bad Feminist
2014

Utopia
1516

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2006

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
1942

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
2005

Walden & Civil Disobedience
1854

Letters to a Young Poet
1929

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
2014

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
1993

Citizen: An American Lyric
2014

Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
2013

Binge
2015

Wildflower
2015

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
1995

Essays and Poems
1856

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
1984

Take the Cannoli
2000

Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
1959

The 20th Century Art Book
1996

The Empathy Exams: Essays
2014

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
2013

Edvard Munch: 1863-1944 (Basic Art)
1990

The Message
2024

There's Always This Year
2024

Grief Is for People
2024
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