Classics[]
- Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenko
- Essays by Francis Bacon
- The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
- Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
- A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays by Charles Lamb
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
- The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire
- In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
- The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde
- Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson
Modern and Contemporary Essays (English Language)[]
- A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
- The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats (vols. IV and V)
- Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf
- Selected Essays by D.H. Lawrence
- Selected Essays by T.S. Eliot
- Kokoro by Lafcadio Hearn
- Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport
- Essays of E.B. White
- Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
- We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion
- Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry by John Simon
- Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experienceby Aldous Huxley
- Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
- Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
- In Favor of the Sensitive Man, and Other Essays by Anais Nin
- Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote
- The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien
- A Jacques Barzun Reader by Jacques Barzun
- Reflections on Exile by Edward W. Said
- The Vintage Mencken by H.L. Mencken
- The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
- Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
- Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
- Fame & Folly: Essays by Cynthia Ozick
- The Donald Richie Reader by Donald Richie
- Dreamer of Dreams by John Simon
- On Histories and Stories by A.S. Byatt
- Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings by John Fowles
- Finding a Form by William H. Gass
- An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
Modern and Contemporary Essays (non-English Language)[]
- Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
- Visions of Excess by Georges Bataille
- Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
- Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays by Raymond Queneau
- Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren
- Selected Bilingual Essays of Lin Yutang
- Illuminations: Essays by Walter Benjamin
- A Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
- Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
- The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
- Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
- Myself With Others: Essays by Carlos Fuentes
- The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
- The Spirit of Prague by Ivan Klima
- Encounter: Essays by Milan Kundera
- How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco
- Anathemas and Admirations by E.M. Cioran
- Passing By: Selected Essays by Jerzy Kosinski
- Other People's Trades by Primo Levi
- Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic
- Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald
