Everything Sad Is Untrue: (A True Story) is a young adult/middle grade autobiographical novel[1] by Daniel Nayeri, published August 25, 2020 by Levine Querido.

[1] Although he began writing the book in his twenties, Nayeri says he had been contemplating it since he was ten years old because, as an immigrant from Iran to Oklahoma, he often found himself explaining himself.

[5] In terms of Everything Sad Is Untrue's guiding principle, Nayeri noted, "The book is immediately asking the reader not to lie to themselves.

[10] In various reviews, the book was called "[m]esmerizing and hard-hitting,"[9] "a modern epic,"[8] "impressive,"[9] Booklist's Ronny Khuri noted, "Nayeri challenges outright what young readers can handle, in form and content, but who can deny him when it's his own experience on display?

He demands much of readers, but in return he gives them everything," and ultimately called the book "[a] remarkable work that raises the literary bar in children's lit.