Books about American essays (sorted alphabetically)
- Modern Essays and Stories
- Observations of Professor Maturin Clyde Furst
- Overland Tales Josephine Clifford
- Oxford Book of American Essays
- philosophy of Elbert Hubbard Elbert Hubbard
- philosophy of Jake Haiden (late Jacob K. Huff) : selected from the columns of the Reading Times, Reading, Pennsylvania : with a biographical appreciation by his friend Henry W. Shoemaker Jacob K. Huff
- Revolution, and Other Essays Jack London
- Romance of the Commonplace Gelett Burgess
- Rosemary and Rue, by Amber Martha Everts Holden
- Seven Ages of Man Ralph Bergengren
- The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces Joyce Kilmer
- Unseen World, and Other Essays John Fiske
- What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain
- Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays Charles W. Chesnutt
- Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies Washington Irving