The Yellow Leaves: a miscellany is a collection of sermons, essays, short stories, and poetry authored by Frederick Buechner.

In his introduction, the author reveals that, at eighty years of age, he 'no longer has the right kind of energy' to write books, and that what follows is a collection of short pieces.

In his description of a year spent in Europe, the author recalls meeting Princess Margaret and Alice B. Toklas, and witnessing Pope Pius XII conduct a Christmas Eve mass at St. Peter's Basilica.

Elsewhere, Buechner also remembers a journey with his mother late in her life, his friendship with Maya Angelou, and briefly meeting Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman.

The anthology also includes a short story that was initially intended to form part of a fifth installment of the Bebb tetralogy, a brief reflection on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, and a series of 'Family Poems'.