Looking for the best David Sedaris books? Browse our list to find excellent book recommendations on the subject.
- Calypso (2019)
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2005)
- Naked (1998)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day (2001)
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls (2014)
- Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) (2018)
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2009)
- Holidays on Ice (2010)
- Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (2011)
- Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays (1995)
- Oklahomo: Pee, Peeping, Police, Pistols, Puritans, Pedophiles, and a Witch (2019)
- Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005)
- Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (2017)
Calypso (2019)
If you’ve ever laughed your way through David Sedaris’s cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you’re getting with Calypso. You’d be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2005)
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface.
Naked (1998)
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable.
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2001)
A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of “Naked”, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback. #9,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #183 in Satire (Books) #51 in Essays (Books) #71 in Humor Essays (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls (2014)
“Sedaris is a remarkably skilled storyteller and savvy essayist.And based, on this latest collection, he’s getting only better.” —Los Angeles Times A guy walks into a bar car andFrom here the story could take many turns.
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) (2018)
One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York’s “Vulture”, The Week, Bustle, BookRiot A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A Goodreads Choice Awards nomineeDavid Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making.For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2009)
“David Sedaris’s ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art,” (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina.
Holidays on Ice (2010)
David Sedaris’s beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story.
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (2011)
Featuring David Sedaris’s unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new illustrated collection of animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.In “The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck,” three strangers commiserate about animal bureaucracy while waiting in a complaint line.
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays (1995)
In David Sedaris’s world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. Sedaris’s collection of essays and stories is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves.
Oklahomo: Pee, Peeping, Police, Pistols, Puritans, Pedophiles, and a Witch (2019)
Mom and Mickey had the kind of marriage that wanted no witnesses and so they decided I was—at age seven—too old to be indoors; the house was locked until nightfall. I wasn’t allowed to loiter around our yard either, I couldn’t skulk behind its shrubs, so I waited instead in the abutting weed field. The field behind our house stretched from our wire fence to infinity. Its dense unmolested weeds grew several feet tall and had dried to resemble hay.
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005)
A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction from Flannery O’Connor to Tobias Wolff.David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them memorized.
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (2017)
In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:”I’ve often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people’ also might never understand.
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The Best of Me
Author(s): David Sedaris
ID: 2807386, Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Year: 2020, Size: 512 Kb, Format: epub
Calypso
Author(s): David Sedaris
ID: 2232089, Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Year: 2018, Size: 9 Mb, Format: epub
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
Author(s): David Sedaris
ID: 1686529, Publisher: Little, Brown and Co., Year: 2017, Size: 10 Mb, Format: epub
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