Augusten's most recent book chronicles his experience as a closeted lifelong witch, born into a family filled with witches.
Lust & Wonder
Sometimes your entire life has to come crashing down on top of you so that your best life can rise from the rubble. A love story.
This is How
The self-help book for the psychologically ambitious, for people who want to fix themselves and for people who believe they can't be fixed. Many people have said this book saved their life.
You Better Not Cry
A collection of funny, sad, disturbing and euphoric holiday stories.
A Wolf at the Table
Augusten's most divisive memoir because it lacked his trademark wit and was instead brutal and terrifying. Some reviewers hated it and said his career was over. Others called it his finest work.
Possible Side Effects
A second essay collection followed, this one also receiving rave reviews.
Magical Thinking
Augusten's first essay collection was published to wide acclaim.
Dry
The critically-acclaimed follow-up to Running with Scissors about the author's rocky road to recovery.
Running with Scissors
The memoir that set the genre on fire and remains one of the most widely-read memoirs of all time.
Sellevision
The first book and only novel by Augusten Burroughs.