Books by Dave Eggers
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The Wild Things
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is the novelisation of Maurice Sendak's classic Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a... See More
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Your Fathers, Where Are They is Dave Eggers's brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of the world. In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man... See More
The Monk of Mokha
From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by... See More
You Shall Know Our Velocity
Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just... See More
Forty Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human... See More
Lonely Planet The Kindness of Strangers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher* A timely collection of 26 inspiring tales, The Kindness of Strangers explores the unexpected human connections that so often transfigure and transform the... See More
The Museum of Rain
OisÃn Mahoney is an American Army vet in his 70s who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California's Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their... See More
Tomorrow Most Likely
Every night we say goodnight. But tonight we also ask, "What will tomorrow bring? An odd-sounding song? A worried-looking bug? A mysterious rock?" Most likely, all of the above. In a modern take on the classic goodnight... See More
How We Are Hungry
How We Are Hungry is a collection of Dave Eggers's short stories that twist and inspire the imagination Dave Eggers has championed the cause of the short story so magnificently that through his own McSweeney's magazine and... See More
Ungrateful Mammals
Eggers is one of the most notable writers of his generation, recognized for such bestsellÂing and critically acclaimed books as A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Circle. Before he embarked on his writing... See More
Heroes of the Frontier
THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'The mirror image of Eggers's brilliantly dystopian The Circle... [A] state of the nation novel, cleansing the spirit and lifting the heart' Guardian A hilarious and heart-warming... See More
The Parade
From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Monk of Mokha comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. 'Tightly written, carefully designed to wrong-foot preconceptions, and... See More
McSweeney's Issue 46 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Latin American Crime Fiction
In thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angle -- swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to... See More
Most of the Better Natural Things in the World: (Juvenile Fiction, Nature Book for Kids, Wordless Picture Book)
A tiger carries a dining room chair on her back. But why? Where is she going? With just one word per page, in lush, color-rich landscapes, we learn about the features that make up our world: an archipelago, a dune, an... See More
The Circle (Penguin Essentials)
Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - The Circle is Dave Eggers's timely novel about our obsession with the internet. When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's... See More
Her Right Foot
If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her? She's in New York. She's holding a torch. And she's taking one step forward. But why? In this fascinating, fun... See More
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
At the heart of this astonishing novel is a true story of courage and endurance in the face of one of the most brutal civil wars the world has ever known. Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from... See More
This Bridge Will Not Be Gray
In this delightfully original take on nonfiction, bestselling author Dave Eggers tackles one of the most famous architectural and natural monuments in the world: the Golden Gate Bridge. Cut-paper illustrations by Tucker... See More
The Every: The electrifying follow up to Sunday Times bestseller The Circle
The electrifying follow-up to Dave Eggers' New York Times Bestseller The Circle 'Gulpable fictive entertainment... Eggers is a wonderful storyteller with an alert and defiant vision' Observer When the world's largest... See More
Lonely Planet An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)
More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall... See More
A Hologram for the King
New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off... See More
What Can a Citizen Do?
"Obligatory reading for future informed citizens." -- The New York Times "[This] charming book provides examples and sends the message that citizens aren't born but are made by actions taken to help others and the world... See More
We Became Jaguars
Revel in the breathtaking fantasticality of We Became Jaguars -- a picture book from bestselling author Dave Eggers. When Grandma comes to visit and a young boy's parents leave, the rules of the house -- and the world... See More
The Lifters
What if nothing was as it seemed? What if the ground beneath your feet had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysterious forces in these tunnels? What if it were up to twelve-year-old... See More
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
'Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I'd say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too' Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times 'Is this how all orphans would speak - "I am at... See More
Beyond the Possible: 50 Years of Creating Radical Change in a Community Called Glide
In Beyond the Possible, Reverend Cecil Williams, one of the most well-known and provocative ministers in the United States, reflects on his fifty years creating radical social change as the head of San Francisco's Memorial... See More
What Can a Citizen Do?
"[This] charming book provides examples and sends the message that citizens aren't born but are made." -- The Washington Post This is a book about what citizenship -- good citizenship -- means: Across the course of... See More
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living... See More
ESPN Quick Pitches: A Star-Studded Lineup of Original Sports Fiction
Get your red-hot sports fiction right here! QUICK PITCHES fires ten great pieces of short fiction right at the intelligent sports fan's strike zone. Featuring authors as diverse as bestselling writer Dave Eggers and major... See More