David Sedaris Books
This page lists the stories found in each of David Sedaris' books. Most of the stories which aired as part of Meet David Sedaris, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 are published in his various books.
Barrel Fever (1994)
Stories
- Parade
- Music for Lovers
- The Last You'll Hear from Me
- My Manuscript
- Firestone
- We Get Along
- Glen's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2
- Don's Story
- Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!
- Jamboree
- After Malison
- Barrel Fever
Essays
- Diary of a Smoker
- Giantess
- The Curly Kind
- SantaLand Diaries
Holidays on Ice (1997)
- SantaLand Diaries
- Season's Greetings to Our Friend and Family!!!
- Dinah, the Christmas Whore
- Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol
- Based on a True Story
- Christmas Means Giving
Naked (1997)
- Chipped Beef
- A Plague of Tics
- Get Your Ya-Ya's Out!
- Next of Kin
- Cyclops
- The Women's Open
- True Detective
- Dix Hill
- I Like Guys
- The Drama Bug
- Dinah, the Christmas Whore
- Planet of the Apes
- The Incomplete Quad
- C.O.G.
- Something for Everyone
- Ashes
- Naked
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
One
- Go Carolina
- Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities
- Genetic Engineering
- Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist
- You Can't Kill the Rooster
- The Youth in Asia
- The Learning Curve
- Big Boy
- The Great Leap Forward
- Today's Special
- City of Angels
- A Shiner Like a Diamond
- Nutcracker.com
Deux
- See You Again Yesterday
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Jesus Shaves
- The Tapeworm Is In
- Make That a Double
- Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa
- 21 Down
- The City of Light in the Dark
- I Pledge Allegiance to the Bag
- Picka Pocketoni
- I Almost Saw This Girl Get Killed
- Smart Guy
- The Late Show
- I'll Eat What He's Wearing
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
- Us and Them
- Let It Snow
- The Ship Shape
- Full House
- Consider the Stars
- Monie Changes Everything
- The Change in Me
- Hejira
- Slumus Lordicus
- The Girl Next Door
- Blood Work
- The End of the Affair
- Repeat After Me
- Six to Eight Black Men
- Rooster at the Hitchin' Post
- Possession
- Put a Lid on It
- A Can of Worms
- Chicken in the Henhouse
- Who's the Chef?
- Baby Einstein
- Nuit of the Living Dead
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008)
- It's Catching
- Keeping Up
- The Understudy
- This Old House
- Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie?
- Road Trips
- What I Learned
- That's Amore
- The Monster Mash
- In the Waiting Room
- Solution to Saturday's Puzzle
- Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool
- Memento Mori
- All the Beauty You Will Ever Need
- Town and Country
- Aerial
- The Man in the Hut
- Of Mice and Men
- April in Paris
- Crybaby
- Old Faithful
- The Smoking Section
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (2010)
- The Cat and the Baboon
- The Migrating Warblers
- The Squirrel and the Chipmunk
- The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck
- The Motherless Bear
- The Mouse and the Snake
- The Parenting Storks
- The Faithful Setter
- The Crow and the Lamb
- The Sick Rat and the Healthy Rat
- The Cow and the Turkey
- The Vigilant Rabbit
- The Judicious Brown Chicken
- The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig
- Hello Kitty
- The Grieving Owl
Exploring Diabetes with Owls (2013)
- Dentists Without Borders
- Attaboy
- Think Differenter
- Memory Laps
- A Friend in the Ghetto
- Loggerheads
- If I Ruled the World
- Easy, Tiger
- Laugh, Kookaburra
- Standing Still
- Just a Quick E-mail
- A Guy Walks into a Bar Car
- Author, Author
- Obama!!!!!
- Standing By
- I Break for Traditional Marriage
- Understanding Understanding Owls
- #2 to Go
- Health-Care Freedom and Why I Want My Country Back
- Now Hiring Friendly People
- Rubbish
- Day In, Day Out
- Mind the Gap
- A Cold Case
- The Happy Place
- Dog Days
Calypso (2018)
- Company Man
- Now We Are Five
- Little Guy
- Stepping Out
- A House Divided
- The Perfect Fit
- Leviathan
- Your English Is So Good
- Calypso
- A Modest Proposal
- The Silent Treatment
- Untamed
- The One(s) Who Got Away
- Sorry
- Boo-hooey
- A Number of the Reasons I've Been Depressed Lately
- Why Aren't You Laughing?
- I'm Still Standing
- The Spirit World
- And While You're Up There, Check On My Prostate
- The Comey Memo