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:
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Publication Order of The Circle Books
| The Circle | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Every | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Save The Story Books
| The Story of Captain Nemo | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Forgetters Books
| The Keeper of the Ornaments | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Comebacker | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Where the Candles Are Kept | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| You Shall Know Our Velocity! | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hello Children | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What Is the What | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wild Things | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Hologram for the King | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Heroes of the Frontier | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lifters | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Parade | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Eyes and the Impossible | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Museum of Rain | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| How We Are Hungry | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Short Short Stories | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| Tomorrow Most Likely | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lights and Types of Ships at Night | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| We Became Jaguars | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Faraway Things | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
| Away We Go | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Teachers Have It Easy | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Surviving Justice | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Zeitoun | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| America: Now and Here | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| It Is Right to Draw Their Fur | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| David Shrigley | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Visitants | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Better than Fiction 2 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| This Bridge Will Not Be Gray | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Her Right Foot | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ungrateful Mammals | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Monk of Mokha | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What Can a Citizen Do? | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Most of the Better Natural Things in the World | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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.
If You Like Dave Eggers Books, You’ll Love…
Dave Eggers Synopsis: A Hologram for the King is a standalone novel by Dave Eggers. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something special. Readers are taken around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy’s gale-force winds.