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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

Publication Order of Save The Story Books

The Story of Captain Nemo (2013)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 (With: Deb Olin Unferth) (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 (With: Annie Dills) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
We Became Jaguars (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Faraway Things (With: Kelly Murphy) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Plays

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 (With: Scott Turow) (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 (With: Jane Smiley) (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

Speaking With the Angel(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Burned Children of America(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of McSweeney's(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 2(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
ESPN Quick Pitches: A Star-Studded Lineup of Original Sports Fiction(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Legacy of David Foster Wallace(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
McSweeney's #42(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Minus Times Collected: Twenty Years / Thirty Issues(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Who Done It?(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
McSweeney's #44(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Granta 124: Travel(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories Upon Stories(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Freeman's: Arrival(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What We Do Now: Standing Up For Your Values in Trump's America(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
McSweeney's #49(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fight of the Century(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Writer's Library(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
McSweeney's Issue 70(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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.

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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.

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