Dave Eggers Reading Order

38 books (2000–2024)

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

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

16 books (2000–2019)

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

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

7 books (2019–2026)

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

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

1 book (2013–2013)

#	Title
1	The Story of Captain Nemo 2013Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2021–2021)

#	Title
1	The Museum of Rain 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2005–2007)

Start with How We Are Hungry and read in order.

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

12 books (2002–2023)

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

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

1 book (2009–2009)

#	Title
1	Away We Go 2009Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (2011–2019)

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)

Start with The Circle and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Circle 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Every 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2024–2024)

Start with The Comebacker and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Comebacker 2024Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Keeper of the Ornaments 2024Buy 🇺🇸
3	Where the Candles Are Kept 2024Buy 🇺🇸