Who are the best essays authors?

The best-known essays authors here, ranked by how widely they are read and written about, are Barack Obama, Karl Marx, Donald Trump, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.

What are the best essays series?

Neapolitan by Elena Ferrante, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome and In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust — each listed in reading order.

Can I read essays books for free?

Yes. 4,302 essays books by these authors are in the public domain in the US and free to read here.

Essays authors and series

The best-known essays authors are Barack Obama, Karl Marx and Donald Trump. Below are all 623 essays writers in the directory, their series in reading order, and 4,302 of their books free to read.

Authors: 623
Series: 12
Free to read: 4,302

Best-known essays authors

Essays series in reading order

All series

Neapolitan
Elena Ferrante · 4 books
1Q84
Haruki Murakami · 3 books
Swallows and Amazons
Arthur Ransome · 13 books
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 11 books
Narratives of Empire
Gore Vidal · 6 books
The Sea of Fertility
Yukio Mishima · 4 books
The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell · 4 books
The Black Flame Trilogy
W. E. B. Du Bois · 3 books

Free essays classics

All free classics

The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
Charles Darwin
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
Charles Darwin
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Charles Dickens
Freedom's Battle
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Home Rule
Mahatma Gandhi
Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche

Classic essays authors

All essays authors

Barack Obama 15 books
Karl Marx 25 books
Donald Trump 24 books
Charles Darwin 29 books
Abraham Lincoln 17 books
Charles Dickens 42 books
Mahatma Gandhi 52 books
Dante Alighieri 10 books
Friedrich Nietzsche 26 books
Ronald Reagan 24 books
Sigmund Freud 60 books
Voltaire 51 books
Aristotle 0 books
Immanuel Kant 29 books
Oscar Wilde 30 books
Confucius 1 books
Leonardo da Vinci 0 books
Rabindranath Tagore 63 books
George W. Bush 6 books
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 25 books
Martin Luther 29 books
John F. Kennedy 16 books
Napoleon 0 books
Adam Smith 3 books
Benjamin Franklin 13 books
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 0 books
Friedrich Engels 20 books
Ludwig van Beethoven 0 books
H. G. Wells 118 books
Thomas Jefferson 10 books
Bill Clinton 10 books
Bertrand Russell 76 books
Virginia Woolf 29 books
Richard Wagner 20 books
Cicero 14 books
Vincent van Gogh 0 books
Francis Bacon 14 books
Marcel Proust 25 books
Blaise Pascal 5 books
Theodore Roosevelt 34 books
Franklin D. Roosevelt 0 books
Christopher Columbus 0 books
Jonathan Swift 21 books
Benito Mussolini 5 books
Henry Ford 4 books
Jimmy Carter 21 books
Arthur Schopenhauer 15 books
Thomas Mann 52 books
Carl Jung 69 books
Woodrow Wilson 18 books
Dwight D. Eisenhower 15 books
T. S. Eliot 59 books
Helen Keller 15 books
Kahlil Gibran 27 books
James Madison 12 books
Jorge Luis Borges 36 books
Aldous Huxley 63 books
W. B. Yeats 61 books
John Stuart Mill 19 books
Ralph Waldo Emerson 27 books
David Hume 18 books
Henry David Thoreau 15 books
Walt Whitman 13 books
John Milton 14 books
George Eliot 19 books
John Adams 7 books
Seneca the Younger 16 books
G. K. Chesterton 85 books
Ulysses S. Grant 2 books
William Wordsworth 15 books
Nathaniel Hawthorne 31 books
Erasmus 20 books
Thomas Paine 14 books
John Keats 4 books
Horace 3 books
Samuel Johnson 20 books
Michel de Montaigne 2 books
Mary Wollstonecraft 9 books
William James 26 books
André Gide 31 books
Alexander von Humboldt 17 books
Romain Rolland 28 books
John Quincy Adams 14 books
Henri Bergson 11 books
Harriet Beecher Stowe 38 books
John Ruskin 77 books
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 23 books
George H. W. Bush 4 books
Herbert Hoover 12 books
Umberto Eco 54 books
Emma Goldman 14 books
Percy Bysshe Shelley 20 books
Henry James 82 books
Petrarch 8 books
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 26 books
John Dewey 55 books
Maurice Maeterlinck 44 books
Queen Victoria 0 books
Thomas Carlyle 36 books
Alexander Pope 11 books
John Calvin 4 books
Peter Kropotkin 19 books
John Galsworthy 71 books
Edmund Burke 28 books
Edward Gibbon 5 books
Haruki Murakami 48 books
Herbert Spencer 29 books
Florence Nightingale 1 books
Montesquieu 7 books
August Strindberg 50 books
Frederick Douglass 16 books
William Makepeace Thackeray 50 books
Ezra Pound 74 books
Adam Mickiewicz 5 books
Lope de Vega 16 books
P. T. Barnum 8 books
Orhan Pamuk 17 books
Thomas Henry Huxley 34 books
José Rizal 8 books
Franz Liszt 5 books
Alexis de Tocqueville 4 books
Calvin Coolidge 0 books
Alfred North Whitehead 18 books
James Monroe 6 books
Giacomo Leopardi 8 books
Grover Cleveland 14 books
John Donne 7 books
John Bunyan 21 books
Jerome K. Jerome 31 books
George Berkeley 10 books
Apuleius 3 books
Alfred Russel Wallace 20 books
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 8 books
Charles Babbage 8 books
W. E. B. Du Bois 38 books
Joseph Addison 7 books
Robert Browning 26 books
Miguel de Unamuno 14 books
John Dryden 28 books
Jane Addams 9 books
Robert Burns 5 books
William Howard Taft 0 books
German Emperor William II 9 books
Yukio Mishima 43 books
Annie Besant 56 books
William McKinley 0 books
François de La Rochefoucauld 2 books
Robert Graves 66 books
François-René de Chateaubriand 13 books
Gore Vidal 60 books
James VI and I 11 books
V. S. Naipaul 41 books
Herta Müller 11 books
Helena Blavatsky 17 books
Benjamin Harrison 6 books
Willa Cather 34 books
Warren G. Harding 0 books
Alfred de Musset 10 books
Horace Walpole 11 books
Felix Mendelssohn 1 books
George Santayana 35 books
Peter Abelard 4 books
John Henry Newman 66 books
Zora Neale Hurston 19 books
Henry VIII 0 books
Matthew Arnold 38 books
William Godwin 18 books
Arnold Bennett 85 books
Booker T. Washington 20 books
François Mauriac 45 books
Han Kang 7 books
Thomas Babington Macaulay 21 books
Benedetto Croce 25 books
Samuel Butler 15 books
Thérèse of Lisieux 7 books
John Wesley 33 books
H. L. Mencken 52 books
Max Müller 47 books
William Ewart Gladstone 12 books
David Ricardo 4 books
Ernest Renan 13 books
James Baldwin 28 books
Olga Tokarczuk 12 books
Susan Sontag 30 books
Richard Francis Burton 21 books
Hilaire Belloc 99 books
Noah Webster 26 books
Kenzaburō Ōe 24 books
Edmond Rostand 8 books
Jules Michelet 13 books
Thomas De Quincey 26 books
Samuel Pepys 1 books
Andrew Lang 113 books
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 19 books
Giosuè Carducci 1 books
Louis-Ferdinand Céline 20 books
Clara Zetkin 2 books
Thomas Moore 16 books
Humphry Davy 3 books
Hippolyte Taine 12 books
Charles Kingsley 37 books
Alberto Moravia 37 books
Francis Galton 16 books
Lafcadio Hearn 36 books
Giuseppe Mazzini 2 books
Bartolomé de las Casas 3 books
Amerigo Vespucci 1 books
Baron d'Holbach 6 books
Jefferson Davis 3 books
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 0 books
Demosthenes 1 books
Roland Barthes 30 books
Françoise Sagan 24 books
Peter Handke 32 books
Samuel Richardson 5 books
James Allen 8 books
Frédéric Bastiat 4 books
Charles Spurgeon 40 books
Havelock Ellis 30 books
Walter Lippmann 19 books
Michel Houellebecq 18 books
Charles Lamb 13 books
Noël Coward 43 books
Iris Murdoch 38 books
William Hazlitt 16 books
William Cowper 6 books
Pliny the Younger 0 books
Edward VII 0 books
Thorstein Veblen 12 books
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield 5 books
James Boswell 6 books
Frances Burney 8 books
Algernon Charles Swinburne 40 books
Elbert Hubbard 20 books
J. B. Priestley 98 books
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 0 books
Laura Ingalls Wilder 43 books
James McNeill Whistler 3 books
Ernesto Sabato 6 books
Margaret Sanger 7 books
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 0 books
Naomi Klein 15 books
Flinders Petrie 56 books
Arthur Ransome 34 books
Julian 0 books
Henry van Dyke Jr. 67 books
William Dean Howells 101 books
Jean-Henri Fabre 14 books
Ambrose 0 books
Thomas Browne 4 books
Lu Xun 0 books
Jean de La Bruyère 3 books
William Penn 8 books
Marie Corelli 34 books
Mary Baker Eddy 16 books
Walter Pater 12 books
Julian Huxley 37 books
Margaret Fuller 7 books
Karl Liebknecht 4 books
D. T. Suzuki 25 books
Elizabeth Blackwell 13 books
Alexander Berkman 6 books
Abigail Adams 1 books
Carlos Castaneda 19 books
Lytton Strachey 17 books
Christopher Morley 33 books
Walter Crane 44 books
James Russell Lowell 22 books
Max Beerbohm 26 books
William Osler 16 books
Georg Brandes 11 books
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 4 books
Richard Steele 9 books
Edward Carpenter 21 books
Grant Allen 60 books
John Tyndall 20 books
Jacob Riis 12 books
Robert G. Ingersoll 7 books
John C. Calhoun 16 books
Georges Duhamel 12 books
Antonin Artaud 10 books
Asa Gray 17 books
Friedrich Schlegel 2 books
Malcolm Gladwell 14 books
Carl Van Vechten 15 books
Douglas Hyde 9 books
Elena Ferrante 13 books
Jonathan Edwards 15 books
Amy Poehler 2 books
Neal Stephenson 25 books
Martin Amis 26 books
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 6 books
Isaac Watts 24 books
Olive Schreiner 8 books
Clarence Darrow 8 books
Catherine of Siena 0 books
Evelyn Underhill 38 books
Báb 5 books
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá 10 books
Robert Benchley 13 books
Charles Sanders Peirce 0 books
Simon Newcomb 13 books
Ben Hecht 16 books
Lev Shestov 6 books
Marquis de Condorcet 3 books
Leigh Hunt 28 books
Herbert Giles 19 books
Aubrey Beardsley 7 books
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton 4 books
John Greenleaf Whittier 22 books
Banana Yoshimoto 17 books
William Wilberforce 6 books
Lawrence Durrell 40 books
William Styron 13 books
Zitkala-Ša 2 books
Mika Waltari 14 books
Axel Munthe 3 books
Eugene V. Debs 5 books
Charles Brockden Brown 8 books
Daniel Webster 3 books
Georges Bernanos 11 books
Elinor Glyn 20 books
Paul Claudel 11 books
James Anthony Froude 23 books
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 5 books
Bernard Mandeville 5 books
David Starr Jordan 26 books
Franz Boas 0 books
George Canning 9 books
Walter Savage Landor 9 books
Richard Jefferies 20 books
Andrew Dickson White 21 books
Henry Fairfield Osborn 23 books
Remy de Gourmont 3 books
John Cowper Powys 39 books
John Addington Symonds 24 books
George Borrow 10 books
Victoria Woodhull 13 books
William Cobbett 35 books
Dwight L. Moody 19 books
Margaret of Valois 0 books
William Graham Sumner 12 books
Ellen Key 14 books
George du Maurier 7 books
William Cullen Bryant 10 books
Edward Abbey 22 books
Norman Douglas 17 books
Edmund Gosse 37 books
Hans Magnus Enzensberger 23 books
Antonio Machado 7 books
John Muir 0 books
Mario Benedetti 7 books
John Burroughs 30 books
Alfred Dreyfus 0 books
Leslie Stephen 19 books
Anna Laetitia Barbauld 6 books
Ilya Ehrenburg 19 books
José Martí 0 books
Robert Chambers 18 books
William Lloyd Garrison 5 books
Hélène Cixous 20 books
Walter Besant 31 books
Samuel Adams 0 books
Julia Ward Howe 9 books
Arthur Symons 32 books
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon 1 books
Hannah More 19 books
Henry Ward Beecher 16 books
Mary Lamb 2 books
Vernon Lee 34 books
Catharine Beecher 15 books
Dionysius of Halicarnassus 0 books
Max Heindel 12 books
Nicolas Chamfort 3 books
Amos Bronson Alcott 7 books
Joan Fuster 3 books
John Jay 0 books
Augustus De Morgan 0 books
James Truslow Adams 15 books
George Henry Lewes 14 books
Alexander Bain 18 books
A. C. Benson 36 books
G. E. Moore 0 books
Lysander Spooner 4 books
Joseph Butler 6 books
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon 1 books
Madame d'Aulnoy 11 books
Sidney Lee 10 books
Henri Troyat 21 books
Lala Lajpat Rai 5 books
George William Russell 11 books
John Morley 16 books
William Beebe 9 books
Gilbert White 4 books
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon 10 books
Richard A. Proctor 18 books
Émile Faguet 5 books
Mary Astell 7 books
William Ernest Henley 7 books
Horace Mann 4 books
Cassiodorus 2 books
David Sedaris 21 books
Elihu Root 0 books
Fanny Kemble 7 books
Henry Fuseli 7 books
August Wilhelm Schlegel 1 books
Charles Sumner 7 books
Faxian 1 books
Leïla Slimani 7 books
Roger Williams 3 books
Benjamin, Graf von Rumford 4 books
Finley Peter Dunne 14 books
Isaac D'Israeli 18 books
Archibald Geikie 6 books
Eileen Chang 8 books
Robert Bridges 11 books
Walker Percy 9 books
Frances Power Cobbe 6 books
Magda Szabó 6 books
Henry Williamson 26 books
William Ralph Inge 19 books
Logan Pearsall Smith 11 books
Francis Thompson 10 books
Patrick Henry 1 books
Garcilaso de la Vega 0 books
Ray Lankester 7 books
Voltairine de Cleyre 1 books
Ignaz von Döllinger 9 books
Augustine Birrell 13 books
Isaac Barrow 0 books
Emmanuel Carrère 18 books
Josh Billings 7 books
Clive Bell 6 books
George Mallory 0 books
Henry Clay 23 books
Edward FitzGerald 21 books
Nathaniel Parker Willis 19 books
William Petty 0 books
Apolinario Mabini 1 books
Julien Gracq 10 books
Charles Nodier 2 books
Viktor Shklovsky 7 books
Rupert Brooke 3 books
John La Farge 7 books
Alfred Austin 32 books
George Herbert Mead 0 books
Charles Ives 0 books
Robert Kerr 3 books
F. C. S. Schiller 9 books
Amy Schumer 3 books
Kartini 0 books
John Keble 9 books
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner 8 books
Heloise 1 books
Laura Riding 13 books
Juan Goytisolo 17 books
Van Wyck Brooks 30 books
Coventry Patmore 7 books
Émile Souvestre 7 books
Shoghi Effendi 0 books
George Romanes 15 books
Marcel Aymé 13 books
Josephine Butler 0 books
Lysias 0 books
Marsden Hartley 3 books
Edward Everett 39 books
George Jean Nathan 22 books
Theodore Parker 41 books
George Bancroft 8 books
Georges Ohnet 3 books
Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d' Orléans 0 books
Henry Home, Lord Kames 12 books
Octavia Hill 5 books
Izaak Walton 1 books
John Aubrey 0 books
William Quan Judge 3 books
Chittaranjan Das 3 books
Douglas William Jerrold 33 books
Josep Pla 3 books
Javier Cercas 10 books
Henry Charles Carey 9 books
Nellie McClung 12 books
Juli Zeh 10 books
Eduard Limonov 2 books
Richard de Bury 1 books
Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz 1 books
Abraham Cowley 2 books
T. H. Green 5 books
Antonio Muñoz Molina 10 books
Fatou Diome 3 books
Elizabeth Butler 3 books
Umberto Saba 1 books
Ernest Dowson 11 books
Charles Bradlaugh 0 books
Benjamin N. Cardozo 10 books
Bernardo Atxaga 9 books
Péter Nádas 4 books
Tatyana Tolstaya 6 books
Dionysius of Alexandria 0 books
Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro 4 books
Elio Vittorini 4 books
César Aira 11 books
Uwe Timm 5 books
Fazil Iskander 6 books
Enrique Vila-Matas 6 books
Yves Bonnefoy 7 books
George Cruikshank 0 books
Edward MacDowell 0 books
George S. Boutwell 17 books
Pascal Quignard 5 books
Juan Gabriel Vásquez 8 books
Thomas Hart Benton 9 books
Angelina Grimké 4 books
Marie Adélaïde of Savoy 0 books
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll 18 books
Edmund Campion 2 books
Charles Dudley Warner 0 books
Wilhelm Jensen 3 books
Valentin Rasputin 5 books
I. L. Peretz 0 books
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Ahad Ha'am 0 books
Julien Benda 2 books
Jeanne Guyon 0 books
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington 14 books
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Claudio Magris 6 books
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Nassau William Senior 0 books
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Hugh Latimer 4 books
Maurice Baring 0 books
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Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau 4 books
Erich Fried 1 books
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Brother Lawrence 0 books
Terence MacSwiney 3 books
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Philippe Soupault 4 books
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Régis Debray 5 books
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Léon Daudet 3 books
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Gerard Reve 2 books
Veniamin Kaverin 3 books
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Yuri Bondarev 3 books
Abel Bonnard 2 books
Mohamed Choukri 1 books
Ryhor Baradulin 0 books
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Essays FAQ

Who are the best essays authors?: The best-known essays authors here, ranked by how widely they are read and written about, are Barack Obama, Karl Marx, Donald Trump, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.
What are the best essays series?: Neapolitan by Elena Ferrante, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome and In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust — each listed in reading order.
Can I read essays books for free?: Yes. 4,302 essays books by these authors are in the public domain in the US and free to read here.

Best-known essays authors

Barack Obama

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan

George W. Bush

John F. Kennedy

Bill Clinton

Jimmy Carter

Dwight D. Eisenhower

T. S. Eliot

Helen Keller

Jorge Luis Borges

Aldous Huxley

George H. W. Bush

Umberto Eco

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Haruki Murakami

Ezra Pound

Orhan Pamuk

Essays series in reading order

Free essays classics

Classic essays authors

Karl Marx

Charles Darwin

Abraham Lincoln

Charles Dickens

Mahatma Gandhi

Dante Alighieri

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sigmund Freud

Voltaire

Aristotle

Immanuel Kant

Oscar Wilde

Confucius

Leonardo da Vinci

Rabindranath Tagore

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Martin Luther

Napoleon

All essays authors

Essays FAQ