Dave Eggers

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2000
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Circle

1 - The Circle (Oct-2013)
2 - The Every (Oct-2021)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

    in Speaking With the Angel
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    12 completely new stories, written by 12 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today; clever, outrageous, witty, edgy, tender, wicked... this is what they meant by "original." Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded g...

  • You Shall Know Our Velocity!

    An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. •  From the bestselling auth...

  • Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

    A hilarious collection from McSweeney's that "achieves the sensation of being hit by a hip, humorous train.... Breaks mold after mold in hilarious fashion" (The New York Times).Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modern...

  • Timothy McSweeney's

    Issue 14 features a return of the hard-hitting journalism that has made McSweeney's our nation's preeminent source of Whys and Wherefores: Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil (Rhombomys Opimus) of central Asia...

  • How We Are Hungry

    In this "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review), the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Circle demonstrates his mastery of the short story.“These tales reinvigorate … the short story with a jittery sense of adventure.” ...

  • What Is the What

    In a sprawling and epic novel, Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of a young boy, Valentino Achak Deng. What is the What tells the story of Valentino and another boy, both caught in the Sudanese civil war. ...

  • McSweeney's Rejoice!

    Featuring new work by Wells Tower, Michael Cera, and Etgar Keret, along with as always a bevy of lesser-known but nonetheless excellent writers investigating everything from mental hospitals to sentient mists, and possibly some kind of poster, Iss...

  • The Wild Things

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this visionary adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic work, the bestselling author of The Circle “is brilliant at portraying the exuberance and chaos of a young boy’s mind and heart” (San Francisco Chronicle).&#x...

  • Zeitoun

    Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the stor...



  • A Hologram for the King

    In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologr...

  • We Like You so Much and Want to Know You Better

  • The Circle

    The Circle - 1

    When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social m...

  • The Best of McSweeney's

    To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called "a key barometer of the literary climate” by The New York Times and twice honored with a National Magazine Award for fiction, here is The Best of McSweeney’s -- a comprehensive coll...

  • Where Is It Coming From?

    This is what happens when the insanely original and hilarious stories of elementary-school students are paired with the equally anarchic drawings of a novelist/erstwhile artist. In Where Is It Coming From? author Dave Eggers illustrates brash new sto...

  • Your Fathers, Where Are They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

    rom Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tour de force of dialogue and dark humor, coursing emotions and tight control. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed s...

  • Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly

    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Dave Eggers displays his emotional range in this quiet tour-de-force from How We Are Hungry, the often funny and masterful collection of short f...

  • Heroes of the Frontier

    A captivating, often hilarious novel of family and wilderness from the bestselling author of The Circle, this is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. Josie and her children’s father have split up, sh...

  • This Bridge Will Not Be Gray

    In this delightfully original take on nonfiction, bestselling author Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural and natural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge. Cut-paper illustrations by Tucker Nichols ensures that this book...

  • The Lifters

    Discover an underground world full of tunnels and mystery in this middle grade adventure What if nothing was as it seemed? What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth and stone but had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels an...



  • What Can a Citizen Do

    A citizen can pick up litter A citizen can pull a weed A citizen can help that critter A citizen can plant a seed A citizen can aid a neighbor A citizen can join a cause A citizen can write a letter A citizen can help change laws... Empo...

  • End of Trust

    Is this era of unprecedented, low-level distrust―in our tech companies and our peers, our democracy and our justice system―we never know who's watching us, what they know, and how they'll use it.

    Our personal data must be protected against...

  • Dutch

    Dutch is a horse. A small horse, but a horse nonetheless. Even when, one day, someone has the wise idea to strap a horn to her head and call her a unicorn.

    Even with all the photo shoots and birthday parties and children on her back, even with...

  • The Story of Captain Nemo

  • The Parade

    From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country. Four and Five are partners,...

  • Tomorrow Most Likely

    Told in rhyme, a little boy, tucked into his bed, thinks of all the wonderful and ordinary things he will see and do tomorrow. ...

  • Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up

    Abner and Ian are stuck sideways in this clever picture book created by a bestselling, acclaimed author and cartoonist--and perfect for fans of Elephant & Piggie and Press Here. Abner and Ian are stuck sideways on the pages of their debut picture ...

  • Most of the Better Natural Things in the World

    A tiger carries a dining room chair on her back. But why? Where is she going? With just one word per page, in lush, color-rich landscapes, we learn about the features that make up our world: an archipelago, a dune, an isthmus, a lagoon. Across them a...

  • The Captain and the Glory

    A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster. When the decorated Captain o...

  • The Lights and Types of Ships at Night

    You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there''s nothing more beautiful than a ship and its lights on the sea at night? In warm and witty prose, this picture book''s narrator asks the reader ...



  • Animals on the Moon

    In this outrageous and very funny picture book, a trio of woodland animals with no experience in aerospace engineering decide to go to the moon. Luckily, a friend of theirs-a beaver-has a degree from MIT, so that problem is taken care of. But how to ...

  • We Became Jaguars

    Revel in the breathtaking fantasticality of We Became Jaguars -- a picture book from bestselling author Dave Eggers.When Grandma comes to visit and a young boy's parents leave, the rules of the house -- and the world -- change: grandson and grandmoth...

  • Faraway Things

    From a bestselling author comes an evocative, classic-feeling adventure tale about a boy and his sword, and how giving away something precious leads to an even more important discovery.
    Lucian''s father called them faraway things, th...

  • The Museum of Rain

    Oisín Mahoney is an American Army vet in his 70s who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California’s Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their destination is a place called The ...

  • The Every

    The Circle - 2

    From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and m...

  • The Eyes and the Impossible

    NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enthralling novel for all ages by award-winning author Dave Eggers, told from the perspective of one uniquely endearing dog -- featuring beautiful color artwork with illustration...

  • Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion

  • The Honor of Your Presence

    Winner of the 2024 O. Henry PrizeIn this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Peter Mahoney, a homebody niece and her adventurous, almost-British uncle. Helen designs invitations to parties and gala...

  • Soren's Seventh Song

    From Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Eggers, Soren’s Seventh Song is a deadpan take on creativity and persistence, as told through the eyes of a humpback whale looking for a new song -- with color illustrations by...

  • The Comebacker

    Lionel Vratimos is a beat reporter covering the San Francisco Giants — an enviable job if not for the soggy fries, and the so-so weather, and the Giants’ losing record, and the shoe Lionel paid a Romanian shoemaker re-sole but which now s...



  • The Keeper of the Ornaments

    Cole lives alone, has no pets, and has grown accustomed to a homelife of profound quiet (not to say tedium). When Daphne and her two young children move into the apartment next door, the noise is extraordinary—impossible to believe, really̵...

  • The Lighted Boat Parade

  • Where the Candles Are Kept

Award-Winning Books by Dave Eggers

You Shall Know Our Velocity!
2003 Independent Publisher Book Award -- Storyteller


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dave Eggers has published 42 books.

Dave Eggers does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Where the Candles Are Kept, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Dave Eggers, After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned, was published in January 2000.

Yes. Dave Eggers has 1 series.
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