Dave Eggers Reading Order

42 books (2000–2024)

Dave Eggers has edited 38 anthology collections spanning from 2000 to 2024, with the series remaining ongoing. These collections should be read in publication order, beginning with Speaking With the Angel. The series encompasses various themed compilations, including the annual Best American Nonrequired Reading volumes, McSweeney's issues, and curated collections of short fiction and essays from notable contemporary writers.

Start with Speaking With the Angel, the first of 38 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Speaking With the Angel 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Burned Children of America 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Best of McSweeney's 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 2 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	McSweeney's Issue 24: Trouble 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Thomas Demand: L'Esprit d'Escalier 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Better of McSweeney's, Vol. 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	ESPN Quick Pitches: A Star-Studded Lineup of Original Sports Fiction 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	McSweeney's #42 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	My Ideal Bookshelf 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Legacy of David Foster Wallace 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Minus Times Collected: Twenty Years / Thirty Issues 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Granta 124: Travel 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	McSweeney's #44 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Who Done It? 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Stories Upon Stories 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Freeman's: Arrival 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	The Kindness of Strangers 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	Astro Noise 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	McSweeney's #49 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	What We Do Now: Standing Up For Your Values in Trump's America 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Fight of the Century 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	The Best Short Stories 2024 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (2005–2016)

The Lonely Planet Travel Literature series comprises seven non-fiction travel writing collections published between 2005 and 2016. These standalone essay anthologies feature contributions from acclaimed travel writers and should be read in publication order, beginning with By the Seat of My Pants. The series concludes with Lonely Planet Tales from Nowhere and is now complete.

Start with By the Seat of My Pants(By: Jan Morris,Simon Winchester,Danny Wallace,Don George,Sean Condon), the first of 7 books in the Lonely Planet Travel Literature series.

16 books (2000–2019)

Dave Eggers' non-fiction collection spans 16 books published between 2000 and 2019, covering diverse subjects from memoir and social justice to art and human interest stories. The series includes his acclaimed memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius alongside collaborative works with writers like Scott Turow and Jane Smiley, as well as volumes exploring topics ranging from the 2005 New Orleans floods in Zeitoun to the global coffee trade in The Monk of Mokha. These books should be read in publication order to follow Eggers' evolving perspectives and projects across two decades. The complete series concluded in 2019.

Start with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, the first of 16 books in the Non-Fiction series.

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1	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Surviving Justice(With: Scott Turow) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Teachers Have It Easy 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Zeitoun 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	America: Now and Here 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	It Is Right to Draw Their Fur 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	David Shrigley 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers(With: Jane Smiley) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Better than Fiction 2 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	This Bridge Will Not Be Gray 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Visitants 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Her Right Foot 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Ungrateful Mammals 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Monk of Mokha 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	What Can a Citizen Do? 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Most of the Better Natural Things in the World 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (2019–2026)

The Picture series is an ongoing collection of seven illustrated books by Dave Eggers, published between 2019 and 2026. These works combine narrative and visual art, with several entries featuring collaborations with illustrators including Annie Dills and Kelly Murphy. Readers should begin with Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up and proceed in publication order through the complete series, which includes The Lights and Types of Ships at Night, Faraway Things, We Became Jaguars, Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion, and The Eyes, The Fire, and the Avalanche Kingdom.

Start with Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up, the first of 7 books in the Picture series.

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1	Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Tomorrow Most Likely 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Lights and Types of Ships at Night(With: Annie Dills) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Faraway Things(With: Kelly Murphy) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	We Became Jaguars 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Eyes, The Fire, and the Avalanche Kingdom 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2013–2013)

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1	The Story of Captain Nemo 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2021–2021)

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1	The Museum of Rain 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2005–2007)

Dave Eggers published three short story collections between 2005 and 2007, completing this series. Read these books in publication order, beginning with How We Are Hungry, followed by Short Short Stories, and concluding with One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box, which was co-authored with Deb Olin Unferth.

Start with How We Are Hungry and read in order.

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1	How We Are Hungry 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Short Short Stories 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box(With: Deb Olin Unferth) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

13 books (2002–2026)

Dave Eggers has published twelve standalone novels between 2002 and 2023, with the series likely concluded. These books should be read in publication order, beginning with You Shall Know Our Velocity!. The collection spans from his early work through his most recent fiction, offering readers a chronological view of his evolving literary voice across more than two decades.

Start with You Shall Know Our Velocity!, the first of 12 books in the Standalone Novels series.

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1	You Shall Know Our Velocity! 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Hello Children 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	What Is the What 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Wild Things 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	A Hologram for the King 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Heroes of the Frontier 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Lifters 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Parade 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Eyes and the Impossible 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Contrapposto 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2009–2009)

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1	Away We Go 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

9 books (2011–2019)

The Best American: Nonrequired Reading is a nine-book anthology series curated by Dave Eggers, collecting notable short works of fiction, essays, and other pieces from 2011 through 2019. Each annual edition features selections intended to appeal to readers seeking quality writing across diverse genres and styles. The series is now complete and should be read in publication order, beginning with the 2011 edition and continuing through 2019.

Start with The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, the first of 9 books in the The Best American: Nonrequired Reading series.

2 books (2013–2021)

Dave Eggers' two-book series begins with The Circle in 2013 and concludes with The Every in 2021. These novels should be read in publication order, with The Every serving as a direct sequel to the first installment. The series is complete, though technically not definitively closed, and follows events across an eight-year gap between releases. Both works explore themes relevant to technology, corporate power, and society through interconnected narratives.

Start with The Circle and read in order.

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1	The Circle 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Every 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (2023–2026)

Dave Eggers's ongoing The Forgetters series consists of multiple interconnected non-fiction works that began publishing in 2024. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with The Comebacker and continuing through subsequent releases. With at least eight titles announced or released, this expanding collection explores interconnected themes across distinct narrative voices and perspectives.

Start with The Comebacker and read in order.

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1	The Honor of Your Presence 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Comebacker 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Keeper of the Ornaments 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Where the Candles Are Kept 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Sanrevelle 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Ocean is Everyone's But It Is Not Yours 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Uncle Patrick's Secessionist Breakfast 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Minister of Color and Light 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible