Books like…

Books Like Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

by Jenny Lawson · about this book

Loved Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson? If its nonfiction, funny and self-deprecating humor hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, Prozac Nation and So Sad Today: Personal Essays. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things: Nonfiction · Funny · Self-Deprecating Humor · Anxiety · Memoir & Biography

1. 

   Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

   Allie Brosh

   Self-Deprecating Humor · Depression · Mental Health Advocacy · Autobiography · Absurdist Humor

   ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
2. 

   Prozac Nation

   Elizabeth Wurtzel

   Mental Health Advocacy · Depression · Anxiety · Autobiography · Writer Protagonist

   ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
3. 

   So Sad Today: Personal Essays

   Melissa Broder

   Anxiety · Depression · Mental Health Advocacy · Self-Deprecating Humor · Memoir & Biography

   ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
4. 

   Super Chill: A Year of Living Anxiously

   Adam Ellis

   Anxiety · Self-Deprecating Humor · Mental Health Advocacy · Depression · Memoir & Biography

   ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
5. 

   Magical Thinking: True Stories

   Augusten Burroughs

   Self-Deprecating Humor · Absurdist Humor · Autobiography · Mental Health Advocacy · Memoir & Biography

   ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
6. 

   Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

   Chelsea Handler

   Self-Deprecating Humor · Autobiography · Writer Protagonist · Memoir & Biography · Absurdist Humor

   ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
7. 

   Hi, Anxiety: Life with a Bad Case of Nerves

   Kat Kinsman

   Anxiety · Mental Health Advocacy · Self-Deprecating Humor · Autobiography · Depression

   ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
8. 

   A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

   Dave Eggers

   Self-Deprecating Humor · Autobiography · Absurdist Humor · Dark Comedy · Memoir & Biography

   ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
9. 

   When You Are Engulfed in Flames

   David Sedaris

   Self-Deprecating Humor · Absurdist Humor · Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Dark Comedy

   ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
10. 

    Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

    Daniel B. Smith

    Anxiety · Mental Health Advocacy · Self-Deprecating Humor · Autobiography · Memoir & Biography

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
11. 

    You're Never Weird on the Internet

    Felicia Day

    Self-Deprecating Humor · Autobiography · Depression · Memoir & Biography · Anxiety

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
12. 

    Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

    Lena Dunham

    Anxiety · Self-Deprecating Humor · Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Writer Protagonist

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
13. 

    Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom

    Sara Benincasa

    Anxiety · Mental Health Advocacy · Self-Deprecating Humor · Autobiography · Memoir & Biography

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
14. 

    The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

    Sarah Silverman

    Self-Deprecating Humor · Depression · Autobiography · Dark Comedy · Memoir & Biography

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
15. 

    The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

    Amy Schumer

    Self-Deprecating Humor · Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Mental Health Advocacy · Dark Comedy

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
16. 

    Wishful Drinking

    Carrie Fisher

    Self-Deprecating Humor · Mental Health Advocacy · Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Dark Comedy

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
17. 

    It's All Absolutely Fine

    Ruby Elliot

    Mental Health Advocacy · Anxiety · Depression · Dark Comedy · Memoir & Biography

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
18. 

    The Anti-Cool Girl

    Rosie Waterland

    Self-Deprecating Humor · Depression · Autobiography · Dark Comedy · Memoir & Biography

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
19. 

    Just Checking: Scenes From the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive

    Emily Colas

    Mental Health Advocacy · Anxiety · Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Dark Comedy

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla
20. 

    It's Kind of a Funny Story

    Ned Vizzini

    Anxiety · Depression · Self-Deprecating Humor · Dark Comedy · Funny

    ➕ Add Buy Libby Hoopla