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Our Booksellers' Favourite: Literary Criticism & Essays

Which as You Know Means Violence

Philippa Snow

An Apartment on Uranus

Paul B. Preciado

Sleepless

Marie Darrieussecq

Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell

What Is Mine

José Henrique Bortoluci

Signed first edition

The Gender of Sound

Anne Carson

Bookworm

Lucy Mangan

On Writing

Stephen King

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Susan Sontag

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

George Saunders

A Guest at the Feast

Colm Tóibín

Space Crone

Ursula K. Le Guin

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

Steering the Craft

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Medium is the Massage

Marshall McLuhan

Portable Magic

Emma Smith

No Straight Road Takes You There

Rebecca Solnit

We're Falling Through Space

J. David Reed

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Too Much of Life

Clarice Lispector

Blueberries

Ellena Savage

Artful

Ali Smith

Solutions for Writers

Sol Stein

The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise

Jorge Luis Borges

Coventry

Rachel Cusk

Writing Down the Bones

Natalie Goldberg

Essayism

Brian Dillon

How NOT to Write a Novel

Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman

Little Weirds

Jenny Slate

Decline of the English Murder

George Orwell

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

Devotion

Patti Smith

Affinities

Brian Dillon

The Long-Winded Lady

Maeve Brennan

A Horse at Night

Amina Cain

The Science of Storytelling

Will Storr

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Susan Sontag

Novelist as a Vocation

Haruki Murakami

Dysphoria Mundi

Paul B. Preciado

Signed by the author

Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino

Into The Woods

John Yorke

Intimations

Zadie Smith

On Writers and Writing

Margaret Atwood

Consider The Lobster

David Foster Wallace

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

The Weird and the Eerie

Mark Fisher

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

Reading Lessons

Carol Atherton

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

Patricia Highsmith

In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Little Virtues

Natalia Ginzburg

Minor Monuments

Ian Maleney