Essay genre books (152)
Peru112.
So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans editor Nicholas Laughlin EN
KiribatiDescription:
Collecting new fiction, essays, and poems from seventeen countries around the world, So Many Islands brings us stories about love and protest, about childhood innocence and the traumas of history, about leaving home and trying to return. These writers island homes may seem remote on the map, but there is nothing isolated about their compelling, fresh voices. Featuring contributions by authors from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Cyprus, Grenada, Jamaica, Kiribati, Malta, Mauritius, Niue, Rotuma (Fiji), Samoa, Singapore, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tonga, and Trinidad... continue
South Korea114.
Philippines116.
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk : A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
An original collection of humorous fables features animals with unmistakably human failings, including a cynical cat struggling to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings, and a pair of lovers separated by prejudiced family members.
117.
Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima EN
JapanDescription:
This is the personal testament of Japan's greatest novelist, written shorty before his public suicide in 1970. Through Mishima's finely wrought and emphatic prose, the mind and motivation behind his agonized search for personal identity is revealed. In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them. At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance
118.
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend : Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe EN
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
In the vein of 'What Doesnt Kill You Makes You Blacker' and 'We Are Never Meeting in Real Life', Ben Philippes candid memoir-in-essays chronicles a lifetime of being the Black friend (see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, roommate, enemy) in predominantly white spaces.
Zimbabwe120.
Taste : The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking by Kate Colquhoun EN
IrelandDescription:
Chronicles the social history of Britain through the evolution of its food, tracing the development of aristocratic tastes and street food across the country from pre-Roman times to the present day.