Books written by Rebecca Solnit

  • Recuerdos de mi inexistencia
    Recuerdos de mi inexistencia

    Las que tanto necesitamos para coger el testigo que nos ofrece: Solnit nos pide a las mujeres, sin decírnoslo, que lo hagamos mejor que ellos; nos pide que usemos su experiencia en el poder para hacer con él algo distinto.» Marta Nebot, ...

  • Orwell's Roses
    Orwell's Roses

    Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography “An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” ...

  • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

    Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new ...

  • After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
    After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

    Compares photographs taken just after the fires of the 1906 earthquake with new photos of modern San Francisco from the same vantage points, in a photo essay created in conjunction with the exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco ...

  • Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

    The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millenn.

  • The Best American Essays 2019
    The Best American Essays 2019

    Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and ...

  • The Faraway Nearby
    The Faraway Nearby

    From the author of Orwell's Roses, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy—a fitting companion to Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award In this exquisitely ...

  • River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
    River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Recollections of My Nonexistence explores what it was about ...

  • Cinderella Liberator
    Cinderella Liberator

    In this modern twist on the classic story, Cinderella, who would rather just be Ella, meets her fairy godmother, goes to a ball, and makes friends with a prince. But that is where the familiar story ends.

  • Wanderlust: A History of Walking
    Wanderlust: A History of Walking

    A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of ...

  • Wanderlust: A History of Walking
    Wanderlust: A History of Walking

    With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja - ...

  • The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle
    The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle

    A collection of short essays celebrating and reclaiming the story of WTO resistance. Media distortions and activist myths are investigated and refuted by award-winning authors Rebecca and David Solnit.

  • Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters
    Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters

    Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions,...

  • Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters
    Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters

    New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me.

  • Whose Story Is This?: Essays at the Intersection
    Whose Story Is This?: Essays at the Intersection

    In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.

  • A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
    A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland

    The author describes her experiences traveling in Ireland, and shares her impressions of the countryside

  • Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
    Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

    Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.

  • Orwell's Roses
    Orwell's Roses

    Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography “An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” ...

  • Wanderlust: A History Of Walking

    Draws together many histories-- of anatomical evolution & city design, of treadmills & labyrinths, of walking clubs & sexual mores -- to create a portrait of the range of possibilities...

  • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
    Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

    When the first edition of Hope in the Dark was published in mid-2004 it gained an instant cult audience. Many readers were so inspired by Solnit's book that they bought multiple copies to give to friends.