Best American Non Required Reading - April 2024

Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year’s anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.

• ASIN: 1328465810
• ASIN: 1328465810
• ISBN: 9781328465818
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

“A gift . . . One wonders how the world might be different if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required.” —USA Today Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States and other best-selling titles "gilded with snark, buoyant on charm" (NPR), worked with the students of  the 826 Valencia writing lab to edit this year's anthology. They compiled new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.

• ASIN: 1328663809
• ASIN: 1328663809
• ISBN: 1328663809
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted by a group of students that met in the basement of a robot shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, and under the guidance of guest editor Adam Johnson, these high schoolers selected the contents of The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015. The writing in this book is very essential, if not required, like visiting the Louvre if you’re in Paris. In any case, nothing in this... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544569636
• ASIN: 0544569636
• ISBN: 0544569636
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011

The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the field, making the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 includesDaniel Alarcón, Clare Beams, Sloane Crosley, Anthony Doerr, Neil Gaiman, Mohammed Hanif, Mac McClelland, Michael Paterniti, Olivier Schrauwen,Gary Shteyngart, and others

• ASIN: 0547577435
• ASIN: 0547577435
• ISBN: 0547577435
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

In a small but comfortable conference room, in a publishing house in San Francisco, a group of high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. They had some good times. There was a whiteboard in the conference room, and often cartoons were drawn on this whiteboard. The cartoons were of varying quality. By the end of the year, with the help of a similar committee of high school students in Ann Arbor, and their guest editor, Rachel Kushner, they selected the contents of this anthology. The Best American Nonrequired... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544812115
• ASIN: 0544812115
• ISBN: 0544812115
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (The Best American Series)

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 is a sele... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618246940
• UPC: 046442246941
• ASIN: 0618246940
• ISBN: 0618246940
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 (The Best American Series ®)

Dave Eggers and his students at the 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs compile fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics, as well as category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.

• ASIN: 0544105508
• ASIN: 0544105508
• ISBN: 9780544105508
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. Over the past year, fifteen Bay Area high school students have gathered each week in the basement of an independent publishing house to pore over online and print literary journals, magazines, books, plays, and graphic novels. They read things they couldn’t shake and engaged in deep conversations about how good writing brings people together, no matter what else is happening around the world. With the help of New York Times be... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0358093163
• ASIN: 0358093163
• ISBN: 0358093163
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (The Best American Series ®)

The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 includesKevin Brockmeier, Judy Budnitz, Junot Díaz, Louise Erdrich... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547595964
• ASIN: 0547595964
• ISBN: 0547595964
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

Best American Essays 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender” (New York Times) to the task. “The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great one when you feel it, because it is concentrated life,” writes Hilton Als in his introduction. Expertly guided by Als’s instinct and intellect, The Best American Essays 2018 showcases gre... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544817346
• ASIN: 0544817346
• ISBN: 0544817346
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

Unfreedom of the Press

From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through actions of government officials, but through its own abandonment of reportorial integrity and objective journalism.Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476773092
• ASIN: 1476773092
• ISBN: 1476773092
• Brand: Threshold Editions
• Manufacturer: Threshold Editions

Night (Night)

• ASIN: 0374500010
• ASIN: 0374500010
• ISBN: 9780374500016
• Brand: Wiesel, Elie/ Wiesel, Marion (TRN)
• Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

The Best American Magazine Writing 2018

In a time of reckoning, this year’s National Magazine Awards finalists and winners focus on abuse of power in many forms. Ronan Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize–winning revelation of Harvey Weinstein’s depredations (New Yorker), along with Rebecca Traister’s charged commentary for New York and Laurie Penny’s incisive Longreads columns, speak to the urgency of the #MeToo moment. Ginger Thompson’s reporting on the botched U.S. operation that triggered a cartel massacre in Mexico (National Geographic/ProPublica) and Azmat Khan and Anand Gopal’s New York Times Magazine investigation of the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0231189990
• ASIN: 0231189990
• ISBN: 0231189990
• Manufacturer: Columbia University Press

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while pr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553447459
• ASIN: 0553447459
• ISBN: 0553447459
• Brand: BROADWAY
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

“This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. “Things aren’t perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more places about more things than ever before.” The twenty-six pieces assembled here chart the full spectrum of those discoveries. From the outer reaches of space, to the mysteries of the human mind, to the changing culture in labs and universities across the nation, we see time and again the someti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328987809
• ASIN: 1328987809
• ISBN: 9781328987808
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Best American Paper

My 1st Read And Learn Bible (Board Book)

Baby's First Read and Learn Bible features eight timeless stories from the Old and New Testament including: the Creation, The Story of Noah, The Nativity, and Jesus and the Children. Illustrated in full color, this

• UPC: 4197509
• Rating: 4.636

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 - eBook

“Lively, eclectic and surprising.” — Minneapolis Star TribuneDaniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the enormously popular young adult series A Series of Unfortunate Events, takes over as editor for this volume. He will work with the students

• UPC: 130317914
• Rating: 3.714

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014

Presents a selection of short works from mainstream and alternative American periodicals published in 2013, including nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, fiction, and alternative

• UPC: 34162827
• Rating: 3.714

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015 - eBook

For the past year, a group of high school students met at a publishing house in San Francisco every Monday night to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. This committee was assisted

• UPC: 259189980
• Rating: 3.667

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son works with a group of high school students out of 826 San Francisco to pour through literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, blogs, transcripts, and anything else

• UPC: 45056382
• Rating: 3.667

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 - eBook

The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals,

• UPC: 417207737
• Rating: 3.4

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 - eBook

The Best American Series®First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading

• UPC: 820545153
• Rating: 3.4

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 - eBook

Dave Eggers and his students at the 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs compile fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics, as well as category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively

• UPC: 343589502
• Rating: 4.0

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011

Eggers has hand-picked a selection of the best writing--including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and blogs--published during

• UPC: 15699313
• Rating: 3.4

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013

A selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and comics, published in American periodicals during during 2012 aimed at readers fifteen and

• UPC: 22750267
• Rating: 4.0

Best American Non-Required Reading 2008 Paperback various stories VG

• UPC: 114174763682
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 7 USD

The Best American Non Required Reading 2008 Very Good Condition Paperback

• UPC: 272479233493
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 4 USD

Best American Non-Required Reading 2017- 359 pages-

• UPC: 184242710725
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 2 USD

THE BEST AMERICAN NON REQUIRED READING BY DAVE EGGERS PB 2002

• UPC: 293532823511
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 4 USD

Best American Non-Required Reading 2008 Book The Fast Free Shipping

• UPC: 392191333723
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 10 USD

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005

• UPC: 302335870182
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 3 USD

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 by Eggers, Dave

• UPC: 302335741502
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 4 USD

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

• UPC: 302335865543
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 4 USD

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 by Eggers, Dave

• UPC: 302335871277
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 3 USD

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 by Handler, Daniel

• UPC: 302335741569
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 4 USD