Welcome to our mystery unboxing feature with Westfield librarians, with a new episode released every month! In this episode, librarian Kat asked her colleagues for recommendations for nonfiction memoirs or essay collections that would, hopefully, be less soothing than searing. All of these are available from the Westfield Athenaeum if you’re interested in them! Below the video is a list with links to the catalog.
Coming Home:
- Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott
- Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays by Helen MacDonald
For Later:
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- Floating in the Most Peculiar Way by Louis Chude-Sokei
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
- Mean by Myriam Gurba
- How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
- The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
No Thank You:
- The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New by Annie Dillard
- These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
Read Before:
- Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
