Whether you want to read up on life-changing meals, most memorable concerts, or pretty much any other topic you can imagine, there's an essay collection for you. Here's
a stack to get you started:

About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope (Plume, $15), edited by Jessica Berger Gross



Death by Pad Thai: And Other Unforgettable Meals (Three Rivers Press, $14), edited by Douglas Bauer



The Honeymoon's Over: True Stories of Love, Marriage, and Divorce (Warner Books, $25), edited by Andrea Chapin and Sally Wofford-Girand



How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs (Bloomsbury USA, $25), edited by Kimberley Witherspoon and Peter Meehan



I Married My Mother-in-Law: And Other Tales of In-Laws We Can't Live With - and Can't Live Without (Riverhead Books, $14), edited by Ilena Silverman



It's a Wonderful Lie: 26 Truths about Life in Your Twenties (5 Spot, $13), edited by Emily Franklin



Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press, $15), edited by Daniel Jones



Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories about the Men We Used to Love (Ballantine Books, $25), edited by Harriet Brown