Beyond his fiction and apologetics, Lewis was a prodigious and excellent essayist. He wrote on many subjects—sometimes with the intent to inspire, and other times to stir up or discuss a controversial topic. While you may not agree with everything Lewis writes, his material is almost always challenging and rewarding, and his style, clear and witty, is nearly universally enjoyable.
Lewis wrote a LOT of essays, sermons, lectures, editorials, and reviews. Many of them were compiled or revised into books like Mere Christianity, Miracles, Abolition of Man, Four Loves, Studies in Words, Discarded Image, and parts of English Literature in the Sixteenth Century. Those are not included here. But his essays were published in a variety of places and in different formats (about 25 different books), both in the UK and the US. Trying to find them all is complicated! Fortunately, we have some Lewis sleuths (notably Arend Smilde and Brenton Dickison) who have done the work to track down which essays are which and where, and we at Exodus have been able to simply build on their foundation.
There are a known total of 158 essays that are not part of the above list, and this nine-volume collection of books published by Harper, Eerdmans, and Canto efficiently gathers them all into one place. If you'd like to read them chronologically, here's a link to a helpful list; if you simply want the list sorted alphabetically, here you go!
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