Sloane Crosley Books in Order

Crosley recounts travels to Paris, Portugal and Alaska alongside increasingly complicated life in New York. Encounters with clowns, wildlife, unreliable taxis and shifting relationships turn personal mishaps into essays about adulthood, friendship and finding her place in unfamiliar surroundings.

Three college friends reunite at an extravagant wedding while their adult lives fall short of expectations. An encounter with the groom’s mother sparks Victor’s obsession with a legendary necklace, pulling the friends into a comic treasure hunt and unresolved personal entanglements.

Sloane Crosley’s personal essays turn everyday frustrations and unusual adventures into reflections on modern life. From climbing a volcano and appearing on television to coping with illness and fertility questions, she explores awkward encounters with humour and increasing emotional depth.

Photographs and short essays explore discarded objects spotted on streets around the world. Sloane Crosley and Greg Larson gather humorous and melancholy contributions that imagine the histories of abandoned shoes, toys, and other remnants of daily life.

Engaged New Yorker Lola begins repeatedly encountering former boyfriends in an increasingly improbable sequence. Her best friend and a former boss turned guru may be orchestrating the meetings, forcing her to question her relationship and a cult’s interest in her romantic memories.

After a burglary and her closest friend Russell’s suicide one month later, Crosley searches for ways to understand loss. Memories of their shared literary and working lives intertwine with questions about security, family and mourning during the pandemic.

In these comic personal essays, Sloane Crosley chronicles misadventures involving work, neighbours, museums, and urban life. Her well-intentioned efforts repeatedly go awry, creating a portrait of everyday embarrassment, uncertainty, and unexpected beauty in New York.