Mandery's first novel Dreaming of Gwen Stefani was published in 2007. A review about the book was available on Booklist magazine. The novel deals with a mathematical genius and hot-dog vendor, who falls in love with Gwen Stefani.
Mandery's second novel, First Contact, Or, It's Later Than You Think, was published by HarperCollins in January, 2010. It is a story of a hyper-intelligent alien species and a dim-witted President, who is mistrustful of the aliens without basis. The book was reviewed in Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and the Winnipeg Free Press.
Q
Q was published by HarperCollins in August, 2011. It is a story based on time travel, where the unnamed protagonist is visited by his future self and advised not to marry the love of his life. The novel was reviewed by The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement and Booklist magazine. Q was published in the UK in July 2012 and thereafter translated into Italian, Polish, and Czech. In November, 2011, Columbia Pictures optioned the movie rights to Q. David Gordon Green was hired to write the screenplay and direct.
Artificial
Artificial, also referred to as ArtificialNext, is the first ever scripted and interactive show distributed on twitch.tv. Created by Bernie Su and Evan Mandery, Artificial follows Dr. Matt Lin and his artificial intelligence creation/daughter Sophie. Dr. Lin socializes Sophie with the live and interactive Twitch audience in order to help her become human. Episodes are broken into recorded and live scenes. In the live scenes, the audience directly influences the story, and, through in-stream polls and comments, helps the characters make decisions. The first season ran weekly from August 12, 2018 through October 25, 2018 for a total of sixteen episodes and accrued more than two million views. The second season began on March 6, 2019, and will conclude on August 28. In 2019, the series was awarded the Peabody Futures of Media Award for Webisode. The series also received a Creative Arts Emmy Award in 2018 for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media. Artificial has a spinoff podcast, Artificial Uncovered, which is an in-universe transmedia video podcast that airs as two livestreams with one of the show's two hosts providing commentary and taking questions on a pre-recorded podcast with both hosts. The audio of the pre-recorded segments is also posted for download.
Works of Non-Fiction
Mandery began as a non-fiction writer and his first book The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton and the Race to be Mayor of New York was published in 1999 by Westview Press. His academic writing focuses on capital punishment, and he has published two books on the subject named Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Examination and A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America. A Wild Justice was reviewed by The New York Times. Mandery is a critic of legacy preference and colleges admissions practices generally at Harvard and other elite private colleges. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, CNN, The Harvard Crimson, and Daily News.
Books
The campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messenger, Al Sharpton, and the race to be mayor of New York City, 1999,
