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The Best American Essays 2003

By Anne Fadiman, Robert Atwan

Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

By David Foster Wallace

Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels

By Dr Sebastian Groes, Barry Lewis, Sean Matthews

Who Was Albert Einstein?

By Gero von Boehm

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

By Angela Carter, Carter, Angela, Moorcock, Michael

Granta 98: The Deep End (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

By Jack, Ian

The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber

By Nicholson Baker

Granta 62: What Young Men Do

By Ian Jack

This Young Monster

By Charlie Fox

The Paris Review Interviews

By Philip Gourevitch

A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45

By Astrid Lindgren, Sarah Death

A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999

By Chris Mullin

A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin

By Mullin, Chris

Die Totaldemokraten: Aufsatze Uber Die Schweiz

By Peter Bichsel

The Life of Johnson

By James Boswell, R. W. Chapman, Pat Rogers

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

By Sacks, Oliver

Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year

By Alexandra Shulman

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (Penguin Modern)

By Lorde, Audre

Collecting Himself (A Mandarin humour classic)

By Thurber, James, Rosen, Michael J.

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By Susan Cain

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: A Study

By R. B. Rutherford (Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages, Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages, Christ Church, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature)

On Narcotism by the Inhalation of Vapours

By Snow, John, Ellis, Richard H.

Moranifesto

By Caitlin Moran

The Obedience of a Christian Man (Penguin Classics)

By Tyndale, WILLIAM, Daniell, David

Afrique Ambigue

By Georges Balandier

As If

By Morrison, Blake

Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays

By Christopher Hitchens

Letter to My Mother

By Georges Simenon

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

By Wendell Berry

Notes on Camp

By Susan Sontag