Order of Dave Eggers Books
Dave Eggers is an American author of literary fiction and non-fiction, in addition to also being an editor and a publisher. He is the son of an attorney and a teacher. Both of his parents died relatively young, and thus he ended up having to take care of his eight-year-old brother, interrupting his journalism studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These events were chronicled in his first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. He later founded his own publishing house, McSweeney’s. Eggers is married to fellow writer Vendela Vida and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dave Eggers debuted as a published author in 1999 with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. His first novel was You Shall Know Our Velocity, published in 2002. Below is a list of Dave Eggers’ books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of The Circle Books
The Circle | (2013) | |
The Every | (2021) |
Publication Order of Save The Story Books
The Story of Captain Nemo | (2013) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
You Shall Know Our Velocity! | (2002) | |
Hello Children | (2006) | |
What Is the What | (2006) | |
The Wild Things | (2009) | |
A Hologram for the King | (2012) | |
We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better | (2013) | |
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? | (2014) | |
Heroes of the Frontier | (2016) | |
The Lifters | (2018) | |
The Parade | (2019) | |
The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment | (2019) | |
The Eyes and the Impossible | (2023) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Museum of Rain | (2021) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
How We Are Hungry | (2005) | |
Short Short Stories | (2005) | |
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box | (2007) |
Publication Order of Picture Books
Tomorrow Most Likely | (2019) | |
Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up | (2019) | |
The Lights and Types of Ships at Night | (2020) | |
We Became Jaguars | (2021) | |
Faraway Things | (2021) | |
Moving the Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion | (2023) |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
Away We Go | (2009) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | (2000) | |
Teachers Have It Easy | (2005) | |
Surviving Justice | (2005) | |
Zeitoun | (2009) | |
America: Now and Here | (2010) | |
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur | (2010) | |
David Shrigley | (2012) | |
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers | (2014) | |
Visitants | (2015) | |
Better than Fiction 2 | (2015) | |
This Bridge Will Not Be Gray | (2015) | |
Her Right Foot | (2017) | |
Ungrateful Mammals | (2017) | |
The Monk of Mokha | (2018) | |
What Can a Citizen Do? | (2018) | |
Most of the Better Natural Things in the World | (2019) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Speaking With the Angel | (2000) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 | (2002) | |
The Burned Children of America | (2003) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 | (2003) | |
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans | (2004) | |
The Best of McSweeney’s | (2004) | |
The Best of McSweeney’s, Volume 2 | (2004) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 | (2004) | |
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers | (2005) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 | (2005) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 | (2006) | |
Thomas Demand: L’Esprit d’Escalier | (2007) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 | (2007) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 | (2008) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 | (2009) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 | (2010) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 | (2011) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 | (2011) | |
ESPN Quick Pitches: A Star-Studded Lineup of Original Sports Fiction | (2011) | |
The Legacy of David Foster Wallace | (2012) | |
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2012) | |
McSweeney’s #42 | (2012) | |
The Minus Times Collected: Twenty Years / Thirty Issues | (2012) | |
Who Done It? | (2013) | |
McSweeney’s #44 | (2013) | |
Granta 124: Travel | (2013) | |
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 | (2013) | |
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today’s New York | (2014) | |
Stories Upon Stories | (2014) | |
Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America | (2014) | |
The Kindness of Strangers | (2015) | |
Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2015) | |
Freeman’s: Arrival | (2015) | |
Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance | (2016) | |
What We Do Now: Standing Up For Your Values in Trump’s America | (2017) | |
McSweeney’s #49 | (2017) | |
Fight of the Century | (2020) | |
The Writer’s Library | (2020) | |
McSweeney’s Issue 70 | (2023) | |
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering | (2024) | |
The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners | (2024) |
Notes: The Small Box of Short Stories also has stories by Sarah Manguso and Deb Olin Unferth. Stories Upon Stories also has stories by Alessandro Baricco, Umberto Eco, Abraham Yehoshua and Yiyun Li. Away We Go was written with Vendela Vida. The Burned Children of America was edited with Zadie Smith. Teachers Have it Easy was written with Ninive Clements Calegari and Daniel Moulthrop. America: Now and Here was co-authored with Eric Fischl. David Shrigley: Brain Activity was written with Cliff Lauson, Martin Herbert, Jonathan Monk and David Shrigley. An Innocent Abroad also contains contributions by John Berendt, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley. Better than Fiction 2 also has contributions from Sophie Cunningham, M.J. Hyland, Lloyd Jones, Fiona Kidman, Marina Lewycka, Alexander McCall Smith, D.B.C. Pierre, Francine Prose and Jane Smiley.