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Dave Eggers

(b.1970)
Husband of Vendela Vida

Dave Eggers, author of the phenomenal bestseller A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and editor of McSweeney's, is inaugural guest editor. He is the founder of 826 Valencia, a San Francisco writing lab for city youth.

Awards: Newbery (2024), NBA (2009) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Children's Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

New and upcoming books

August 2025

Sanrevelle
(Forgetters)

November 2025

The Eyes, The Fire, and the Avalanche Kingdom
(Adventures of Johannes, book 2)

Series

Circle
1. The Circle (2013)
2. The Every (2021)

Adventures of Johannes
1. The Eyes & the Impossible (2023)
2. The Eyes, The Fire, and the Avalanche Kingdom (2025)

Forgetters
   0. The Comebacker (2024)
   The Keeper of the Ornaments (2024)
   Where the Candles Are Kept (2024)
   Sanrevelle (2025)
   The Ocean Is Everyone's But It Is Not Yours (2025)
   The Minister of Color and Light (2026)

Novels

   You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002)
   Hello Children (2006)
   What is the What (2006)
   The Wild Things (2009)
   A Hologram for the King (2012)
   Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (2014)
   Heroes of the Frontier (2016)
   The Lifters (2018)
   The Parade (2019)
   Fourteen Days (2024) (with others)

Collections

   How We Are Hungry (2004)
   Short Short Stories (2005)
   The Small Box of Short Stories (2007) (with Sarah Manguso and Deb Olin Unferth)
   Stories Upon Stories (2016) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

   We Like You so Much and Want to Know You Better (2013)
   Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly (2016)
   The Captain and the Glory (2019)
   The Museum of Rain (2021)

Anthologies edited

   McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales: Comics Issue (2004) (with Chris Ware)
   Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans (2004)
   The Future Dictionary of America (2004) (with Jonathan Safran Foer, Eli Horowitz and Nicole Krauss)

Anthology series

Best of McSweeney's
1. Best of McSweeney's Volume 1 (2004)
2. Best of McSweeney's Volume 2 (2005)

Series contributed to

Save the Story
2. The Story of Captain Nemo (2013)

Plays show

Picture Books show

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Dave Eggers

The Best Short Stories 2024 (2024)
(O. Henry Prize Stories)
edited by
Amor Towles

Freeman's Conclusions (2023)
edited by
John Freeman

Small Odysseys (2022)
Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories
edited by
Hannah Tinti

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Awards

	2024 Newbery Medal : The Eyes & the Impossible
	2009 Literarian Award

Award nominations

	2016 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
	2014 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Circle
	2012 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : A Hologram for the King

Dave Eggers recommends

James (2024)
Percival Everett
"This is a brilliant, accessible, and very necessary companion to Huckleberry Finn."

Same Bed Different Dreams (2023)
Ed Park
"A book of dizzying scope and erudition . . . very funny, intimate, and playful and interested in basic questions of existence, beginning with: Why are we here and what gives us meaning?"

Fire in the Canyon (2023)
Daniel Gumbiner
"Daniel Gumbiner is fast becoming a sort of 21st century Steinbeck, authoritatively illuminating life in California, with all its glories and calamity. Filled with vivid characters and deep knowledge of the land, this is a commanding second novel."

The Humble Lover (2023)
Edmund White
"[Edmund White is] one of the three or four most virtuosic living writers of sentences in the English language."

Nightcrawling (2022)
Leila Mottley
"Leila Mottley has a poet's delicate touch when she tells us the most brutal, heart-crushing truths. This is an electrifying debut."

Time Shelter (2022)
Georgi Gospodinov
"Gospodinov is one of Europe's most fascinating and irreplaceable novelists, and this his most expansive, soulful and mind-bending book."

The Teller of Secrets (2021)
Bisi Adjapon
"Bisi Adjapon writes with incredible vividness and clarity. Her similes and attention to all of the senses are really extraordinary."

The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021)
Ruth Ozeki
"This is both an extremely vivid picture of a small family enduring unimaginable loss, and a very powerful meditation on the way books can contain the chaos of the world and give it meaning and order. Annabelle and Benny Oh try to stay afloat in a sea of things, news, substances, technological soullessness, and psychiatric quagmires, and the way they learn to live and breathe and even swim through it all feels like the struggle we all face. The Book of Form and Emptiness builds on the themes of A Tale for the Time Being, and ratifies Ozeki as one of our era’s most compassionate and original minds."

Heaven and Earth (2020)
Paolo Giordano
"This is at once a lush picture of growing up in the Italian countryside, a highly original exploration of Christianity and the transmigration of souls, and a deeply affecting story of friendships under the strain of time and tragedy. Giordano’s best book yet."

Black Nowhere (2019)
(Lisa Tanchik, book 1)
Reece Hirsch
"Black Nowhere is an extremely unsettling thriller that haunted me for weeks. It’s a shrewd critique of Silicon Valley startup culture, a brisk FBI procedural, and a chilling look at a very modern form of amorality."

The House of Broken Angels (2018)
Luis Alberto Urrea
"One of the most vivid and engrossing family epics of the last twenty years."

Gork, the Teenage Dragon (2017)
Gabe Hudson
"No good human won't love this named Gork."

Modern Gods (2017)
Nick Laird
"In Modern Gods, Nick Laird takes two experiences poles apart and unites them in gorgeous language, with the same fierce tenderness as he employs in his poetry. It’s about families, tribes, peoples - and if you’re a member of any of those you’ll find a home both strange and familiar in this story."

The Hate Race (2017)
Maxine Beneba Clarke
"A powerful and fearless storyteller."

Things We Lost in the Fire (2017)
Mariana Enríquez
"Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read."

Old Heart (2015)
Peter Ferry
"A page-turning book of ideas that has the power to change lives."

This is the Water (2014)
Yannick Murphy
"Yannick Murphy, while being one of our most daring and original writers, is first and foremost an exquisitely attuned observer of human behavior. . . . Murphyâ€™s work provides pretty much unexceeded reading pleasure."

Luminarium (2011)
Alex Shakar
"Luminarium is dizzyingly smart and provocative, exploring as it does the state of the present, of technology, of what is real and what is ephemeral. But the thing that separates Luminarium from other books that discuss avatars, virtual reality and the like is that Alex Shakar is committed throughout with trying, relentlessly, to flat-out explain the meaning of life. This book is funny, and soulful, and very sad, but so intellectually invigorating that you'll want to read it twice."

Memory Wall (2010)
Anthony Doerr
"Doerr has set a new standard for what a story can do."

Look at the Birdie (2009)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
"Relentlessly fun to read."

No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007)
Miranda July
"Incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny."

Don't I Know You? (2006)
Karen Shepard
"Riveting and deeply felt and true."

The Seas (2004)
Samantha Hunt
"One of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I have read in years. This book will linger . . . in your head for a good long time."

Things You Should Know (2002)
A M Homes
"Insanely good... huge meaty stories."

Red Ant House (2001)
Ann Cummins
"I devour anything Ann Cummins does, she's as good as we have."

Sam the Cat (2000)
Matthew Klam
"His stories... pierce and leap, are always bitingly funny, and are so, so alive... Klam is telling the truth while almost no one else is."

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