Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers has written at least 214 books. Their most popular book is Infinite Jest with 1110 saves with an average rating of 4.26⭐.

Author Bio

Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including his most recent, Zeitoun, a nonfiction account of a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina and What Is the What, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in southern Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng and dedicated to building secondary schools in southern Sudan. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine (The Believer), and Wholphin, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. In 2004, Eggers taught at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and there, with Dr. Lola Vollen, he co-founded Voice of Witness, a series of books using oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. A native of Chicago, Eggers graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in journalism. He now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.

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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest
ByDavid Foster Wallace

1996 • 1,110 Readers • 1,079 pages 4.3

The Circle

#1 of 4 in The Circle

The Circle
ByDave Eggers

2013 • 595 Readers • 493 pages 3.2

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2000 • 359 Readers • 437 pages 3.7

What Is the What

What Is the What
ByDave Eggers

2006 • 140 Readers • 475 pages 4

The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song
ByNorman Mailer

1979 • 124 Readers • 1,103 pages 3.6

Zeitoun

Zeitoun
ByDave Eggers

2009 • 114 Readers • 342 pages 3.9

The Every

#2 of 4 in The Circle

The Every
ByDave Eggers

1994 • 97 Readers • 580 pages 3.3

Fourteen Days

Fourteen Days
ByCharlie Jane Anders,Joseph Cassara,+32 more

2022 • 88 Readers • 363 pages 2.8

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
ByMachado de Assis,Flora Thomson-DeVeaux(Translator)

1881 • 87 Readers • 370 pages 4.1

You Shall Know Our Velocity!

2002 • 78 Readers • 401 pages 3.4

A Hologram for the King

2012 • 69 Readers • 312 pages 3.2

Heroes of the Frontier

2016 • 46 Readers • 400 pages 3

The Monk of Mokha

The Monk of Mokha
ByDave Eggers

2018 • 42 Readers • 352 pages 4.6

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The Monk of Mokha
ByDave Eggers

2018 • 39 Readers 4.2

Fight of the Century

Fight of the Century
ByYiyun Li,Ann Patchett,+35 more

2020 • 37 Readers • 336 pages 4

Your Fathers, Where Are They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

2014 • 31 Readers • 212 pages 3.3

While mortals sleep

While mortals sleep
ByKurt Vonnegut

2011 • 30 Readers • 253 pages 3.6

The Eyes and the Impossible

2023 • 27 Readers • 256 pages 3.9

The Wild Things

The Wild Things
ByDave Eggers

2009 • 26 Readers • 288 pages 3.5

The Parade

The Parade
ByDave Eggers

2019 • 23 Readers • 126 pages 3.5

How We Are Hungry

How We Are Hungry
ByDave Eggers

2004 • 23 Readers • 199 pages 3.5

My Ideal Bookshelf

My Ideal Bookshelf
ByJane Mount,Maira Kalman,+20 more

2012 • 17 Readers • 226 pages 4.2

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
ByMichael Lewis(Editor),Casey Cep(Contributor)

2025 • 16 Readers • 273 pages 4.2

The Writer's Library

The Writer's Library
ByNancy Pearl,Jeff Schwager

2020 • 16 Readers • 368 pages 4

Speaking with the Angel

Speaking with the Angel
ByIrvine Welsh,Melissa Bank,+9 more

2000 • 16 Readers • 256 pages 3.4

The Captain and the Glory

2019 • 15 Readers 3.6

De Cirkel

#1 of 4 in The Circle

De Cirkel
ByDave Eggers

2013 • 12 Readers • 350 pages 3.5

McSweeney's #13

McSweeney's #13
ByLawrence Weschler,Sean Wilsey,+40 more

2004 • 11 Readers • 368 pages 5

The best American nonrequired reading 2013

11 Readers 4

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011
ByDave Eggers(Editor),Guillermo del Toro(Introduction)

2011 • 9 Readers • 531 pages 3.7

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
ByDave Eggers(Editor),Sufjan Stevens(Introduction)

2007 • 7 Readers • 384 pages 3.7

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
ByDavid Rakoff(Contributor),Tony Horwitz(Contributor)

2008 • 7 Readers • 609 pages 3.5

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010
ByDave Eggers(Editor),David Sedaris(Introduction)

2010 • 6 Readers • 484 pages 3

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
ByDave Eggers(Editor),Michael Cart(Series Editor)

2002 • 6 Readers 3.5

The Lifters

The Lifters
ByDave Eggers

2018 • 6 Readers • 354 pages 3.5

Who Done It?

Who Done It?
ByLibba Bray,Gayle Forman,+25 more

2013 • 6 Readers • 373 pages 4

The Tenants of Moonbloom

The Tenants of Moonbloom
ByEdward Lewis Wallant

1963 • 6 Readers • 264 pages

The Best of McSweeney's

2006 • 5 Readers 4

Zeitoun

Zeitoun
ByDave Eggers

5 Readers 2

The Museum of Rain

5 The Forgetters

The Museum of Rain
ByDave Eggers

2021 • 5 Readers • 44 pages 4.5

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McSweeney's #14
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

2004 • 4 Readers • 306 pages 4.5

The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners

The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners
ByBrian Robert Moore(Translator),Zoë Perry(Translator)

2024 • 4 Readers • 433 pages

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012

2011 • 4 Readers 4

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McSweeney's #18
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

4 Readers • 250 pages 4

McSweeney's Issue 46: Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America

McSweeney's Issue 46: Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America
ByDave Eggers(editor),Rodrigo Hasbún(Contributor)

2013 • 4 Readers • 271 pages 3.3

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McSweeney's #20
ByMcSweeney's Publishing

2006 • 4 Readers • 300 pages 4

The Every

#2 of 4 in The Circle

The Every
ByDave Eggers

2021 • 4 Readers • 512 pages 3

Cover 0

2019 • 4 Readers 3.5

McSweeney's #38

McSweeney's #38
ByMcSweeney's Publishing

2011 • 4 Readers • 253 pages 3.7

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2004 • 3 Readers • 218 pages

The Parade: A novel

The Parade: A novel
ByDave Eggers

2019 • 3 Readers • 179 pages

McSweeney's #25

McSweeney's #25
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

2007 • 3 Readers

McSweeney's #09

McSweeney's #09
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

2002 • 3 Readers • 252 pages 3.5

McSweeney's #23

McSweeney's #23
ByAnn Beattie,Chris Bachelder,+3 more

3 Readers • 300 pages

McSweeney's #41

McSweeney's #41
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

2012 • 3 Readers 2

Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

2004 • 3 Readers • 248 pages 4.3

Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated

3 Voice of Witness

Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
ByDave Eggers(Editor),Scott Turow(Introduction)

2005 • 3 Readers • 496 pages 3

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003
ByDave Eggers(Editor),Zadie Smith(Introduction by)

2003 • 3 Readers • 368 pages 3.5

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McSweeney's #12
ByMcSweeney's Publishing

2003 • 3 Readers • 273 pages 4

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McSweeney's Issue 22
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

2007 • 3 Readers • 350 pages 3

McSweeney's #45

McSweeney's #45
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

2013 • 3 Readers • 448 pages 3.7

Faraway Things

Faraway Things
ByDave Eggers

2021 • 3 Readers • 40 pages 4.5

This Bridge Will Not Be Gray

2015 • 3 Readers • 113 pages 4

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The Burned Children of America
ByDave Eggers(editor)

2003 • 3 Readers 3

La parata

La parata
ByDave Eggers,Francesco Pacifico(Translator)

2019 • 3 Readers • 131 pages 4

McSweeney's #48

McSweeney's #48
ByDave Eggers(Editor),Kelly Link(Contributor)

2014 • 3 Readers • 466 pages 3.3

O Círculo

#1 of 4 in The Circle

O Círculo
ByDave Eggers,Inês Dias(Translator)

2013 • 3 Readers • 408 pages 3

The best American nonrequired reading 2006

3 Readers 4

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008

2008 • 3 Readers • 379 pages 5

Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury

2015 • 3 Readers • 128 pages 4

McSweeney's Issue 68

McSweeney's Issue 68
ByAlejandro Zambra,Hallie Gayle,+15 more

3 Readers • 201 pages 4.3

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McSweeney's #35
ByDave Eggers(Editor),Per Petterson(Contributor)

2010 • 3 Readers • 271 pages 3

McSweeney's #40

McSweeney's #40
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

2011 • 3 Readers • 385 pages 3

McSweeney's Issue 37

McSweeney's Issue 37
ByMcSweeney's Publishing

2010 • 3 Readers • 248 pages 4

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McSweeney's #21
ByMcSweeney's Publishing

2006 • 2 Readers • 256 pages

Het Alles

#2 of 4 in The Circle

Het Alles
ByDave Eggers

2021 • 2 Readers • 456 pages 5

McSweeney's #24

McSweeney's #24
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

2007 • 2 Readers

McSweeney's #08

McSweeney's #08
ByMcSweeney's Publishing

2002 • 2 Readers • 335 pages 3.5

The Future Dictionary of America

The Future Dictionary of America
ByJonathan Safran Foer(Editor),Dave Eggers(Editor)

2004 • 2 Readers • 250 pages

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2013 • 2 Readers • 1 page

McSweeney's Issue 69

McSweeney's Issue 69
ByClaire Boyle(Editor),Dave Eggers(Editor)

2 Readers • 320 pages 2.5

McSweeney's #54: The End of Trust

2018 • 2 Readers • 200 pages 3

Masters of American Comics

Masters of American Comics
ByJohn Carlin(Editor),Robert Storr(Contribution by)

2005 • 2 Readers • 328 pages

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#1 in The Better of McSweeney's

2004 • 2 Readers • 420 pages

The Exquisite Book: 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game

The Exquisite Book: 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game
ByJulia Rothman,Jenny Volvovski,+1 more

2010 • 2 Readers

McSweeney's #16

McSweeney's #16
ByAnn Beattie,Harry Matthews,+1 more

1983 • 2 Readers • 200 pages

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McSweeney's #17
ByEric Hanson

2005 • 2 Readers • 280 pages

McSweeney's #15

McSweeney's #15
ByDave Eggers(Editor)

2005 • 2 Readers • 200 pages

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009

2009 • 2 Readers • 414 pages

McSweeney's #59

McSweeney's #59
ByClaire Boyle(Editor),Dave Eggers(Editor)

2020 • 2 Readers • 346 pages 4.5

McSweeney's #60: Photography Issue

McSweeney's #60: Photography Issue
ByClaire Boyle(Editor),Dave Eggers(Editor)

2020 • 2 Readers • 92 pages 4

McSweeney's Issue 36: Timothy McSweeney's Thirty-sixth Issue

McSweeney's Issue 36: Timothy McSweeney's Thirty-sixth Issue
ByDave Eggers(Editor),Susan Straight(Contributor)

2010 • 2 Readers • 636 pages 3

McSweeney's Issue 34

2010 • 2 Readers 4