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Nonself is a cross-genre category for books that decenter the singular “I” and treat identity as relational, porous, or absent. It gathers fiction, essays, memoir, poetry, and speculative work that dissolve protagonists into collectives, ecosystems, networks, or mythic roles; use chorus, second-person, or unstable narration; and foreground collaborative, anonymous, or multi-voiced authorship. Drawing on ideas from Buddhism’s anatta, phenomenology, and cognitive science, these books question ego, authorship, and ownership of experience, exploring themes of anonymity, multiplicity, posthuman and ecological consciousness, and the limits of perspective. Rather than charting self-realization, Nonself invites readers to inhabit distributed minds and shared worlds, to feel how stories can be told without a fixed center, and to rethink what a “self” is—if it is anything at all.

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