Samantha Irby Books in Order
Samantha Irby has written 5 books, published between 2013 and 2023. The first book is Meaty (2013) and the newest is Quietly Hostile: Essays (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 5
- Published
- 2013–2023
- Pages on record
- 1,103 in 4 of 5 books
- Reading time
- 18–28 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,103 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 5 titles with a page count on record.
Samantha Irby is an American comedian, essayist and television writer whose books collect humorous writing about her own life and about modern society. The 5 catalogued titles are Meaty (2013), New Year, Same Trash (2017), We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (2017), Wow, No Thank You. (2020) and Quietly Hostile: Essays (2023); the 2017 and 2020 essay collections both reached the New York Times bestseller list. Irby writes the blog bitches gotta eat and took the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for bisexual nonfiction. Television credits include And Just Like That..., Work in Progress, Shrill and Tuca & Bertie.
How many Samantha Irby books are there?
Samantha Irby has 5 books, released between 2013 and 2023.
Samantha Irby Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 5 Samantha Irby books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Meaty2013 · 253 pages · confirmed 2/420132532/4
- 2New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep2017 · confirmed 2/42017–2/4
- 3We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.2017 · 275 pages · confirmed 2/420172752/4
- 4Wow, No Thank You.2020 · 319 pages · confirmed 2/420203192/4
- 5Quietly Hostile: Essays2023 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/420232562/4
Samantha Irby books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Standalone books
5 books5 Samantha Irby titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Samantha Irby books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 5 Samantha Irby books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Samantha Irby
Start with Meaty (2013), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Samantha Irby book?
Quietly Hostile: Essays (2023) is the newest Samantha Irby book released so far.
Is there a new Samantha Irby book coming?
No next Samantha Irby book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Samantha Irby at a glance
- Paused
- No new Samantha Irby title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Samantha Irby books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,103 pages across the 4 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 266 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Samantha Irby books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2010s.
What the Samantha Irby books are about
4 of the 5 Samantha Irby books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Biography 2 of 4 books
- Comedians 2 of 4 books
- African American comedians 1 of 4 books
- African American women authors 1 of 4 books
- Authors 1 of 4 books
- American literature 1 of 4 books
- Humor 1 of 4 books
- Bloggers 1 of 4 books
- Conduct of life 1 of 4 books
- Humor, form, essays 1 of 4 books