Samantha Irby Books in Order

Samantha Irby's first essay collection examines adulthood through experiences of chronic illness, depression, food, sex, and failed relationships. Personal mishaps and bodily indignities become occasions for candid reflections on vulnerability, survival, and everyday embarrassment.

In this short comic essay, Samantha Irby attempts seventy small New Year's resolutions with a group of fellow optimists. Plans for exercise, better habits, and personal improvement collide with exhaustion, procrastination, and ordinary daily life.

Samantha Irby examines difficult childhood memories, money troubles, awkward sexual encounters, and changing friendships. Essays about adulthood range from romantic disappointment to a trip to scatter her father's ashes, mixing intimate recollection with irreverent humor.

At forty, Samantha Irby considers marriage, aging, and a move from Chicago to domestic life in the Midwest. Essays follow new friendships, household demands, Hollywood meetings, and the gap between outward success and persistent personal awkwardness.

Samantha Irby's essays examine the awkward private realities behind apparent professional success. Hollywood encounters, bodily mishaps, online expectations, pandemic pet ownership, and shopping habits expose the gulf between a curated public image and the daily business of getting by.