Fiction
You Shall Know Our Velocity, McSweeney’s, 2002
(Vintage paperback), 2003
How We Are Hungry, McSweeney’s, 2004
(Vintage paperback), 2005
Short Short Stories, Penguin Books UK, 2005
What is the What, McSweeney’s, 2006
(Vintage paperback), 2007
A Hologram for the King, McSweeney’s, 2012
(Vintage paperback), 2013
The Circle, Knopf and McSweeney’s, 2013
(Vintage paperback), 2014
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, McSweeney’s and Knopf, 2014
(Vintage paperback), 2015
Heroes of the Frontier, Knopf, 2016
(Vintage paperback), 2017
The Parade, Knopf, 2019
(Vintage paperback), 2020
The Captain and The Glory, Knopf, 2019
The Museum of Rain [mini-book], McSweeney’s, 2021
The Every, McSweeney’s & Knopf, 2021
(Vintage paperback), 2021
The Honor of Your Presence [mini-book], McSweeney’s 2023
Memoir
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Simon and Schuster, 2000
(Vintage paperback), 2001
Nonfiction
Zeitoun, McSweeney’s, 2009
(Vintage paperback), 2010
Understanding the Sky, McSweeney’s, 2016
The Monk of Mokha, Knopf, 2018
(Vintage paperback), 2019
Phoenix [mini-book available digitally only], McSweeney’s, 2019
Unnecessarily Beautiful Space for Young Minds on Fire: How 826 Valencia, and Dozens of Centers Like It, Got Built—and Why., McSweeney’s 2020.
edited by the International Alliance of Youth Writing Centers; introduction by Dave Eggers & Amanda Uhle.
Children’s & All-Ages Books
The Wild Things, Knopf, 2010
Captain Nemo, Pushkin Children’s Books, 2016
Her Right Foot, illustrated by Shawn Harris, Chronicle Books, 2017
The Bridge Will Not Be Gray, illustrated by Tucker Nichols, McSweeney’s & Chronicle Books, 2018
The Lifters, illustrated by Aaron Renier, Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2018
What a Citizen Can Do?, illustrated by Shawn Harris, Chronicle Books, 2018
Tomorrow Most Likely, illustrated by Lane Smith, Chronicle Books, 2019
Abner & Ian Get Right Side Up, illustrated by Laura Park, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019
Most of the Better Natural Things in the World, illustrated by Angel Chang, Chronicle Books, 2019
The Lights & Types of Ships at Night, illustrated by Annie Dills, McSweeney’s, 2020
We Became Jaguars, illustrated by Woodrow White, Chronicle Books, 2021
Faraway Things, illustrated by Kelly Murphy, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2021
The Eyes and The Impossible, illustrated by Shawn Harris, Knopf Books for Young Readers & McSweeney’s, 2023
Moving the Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion, illustrated by Juliá Sardà, Candlewick Press, 2023
Soren’s Seventh Song, illustrated by Mark Hoffman, Cameron + Company, 2024
Art Books
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur, McSweeney’s, 2010
Ungrateful Mammals, Abrams, 2017
As Editor
The Best American Nonrequired Reading series, (2002-2013), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Future Dictionary of America, (with Jonathan Safran Foer), McSweeney’s, 2004
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, co-edited with Lola Vollen, foreword by Scott Turow, Voices of Witness, 2004 and Verso, 2017
Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers, co-edited by Daniel Moulthrop and Ninive Calegari, New Press, 2006
Art of McSweeney’s, McSweeney’s, 2010
The Voice of Witness Reader: Ten Years of Amplifying Unheard Voices, Voice of Witness and McSweeney’s, 2015