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by Jenny Lawson · about this book

Loved Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson? If its funny, nonfiction 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, Magical Thinking: True Stories and Super Chill: A Year of Living Anxiously. 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 Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir: Funny · Nonfiction · Self-Deprecating Humor · Memoir & Biography · Autobiography

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

   Allie Brosh

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

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   Magical Thinking: True Stories

   Augusten Burroughs

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

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   Super Chill: A Year of Living Anxiously

   Adam Ellis

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

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   So Sad Today: Personal Essays

   Melissa Broder

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

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   When You Are Engulfed in Flames

   David Sedaris

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

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   Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom

   Sara Benincasa

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

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

   Chelsea Handler

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

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   Wishful Drinking

   Carrie Fisher

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

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   The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

   Amy Schumer

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

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    Hi, Anxiety: Life with a Bad Case of Nerves

    Kat Kinsman

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

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    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

    Dave Eggers

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

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    Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

    Daniel B. Smith

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

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

    Emily Colas

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

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14. 

    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

    Tucker Max

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

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    Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16

    Moshe Kasher

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

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    Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash

    Laura Clery

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

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17. 

    You're Never Weird on the Internet

    Felicia Day

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

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18. 

    We Are Never Meeting In Real Life

    Samantha Irby

    Self-Deprecating Humor · Memoir & Biography · Dark Comedy · Funny · Chronic Illness Memoir

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    Prozac Nation

    Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

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    One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

    Scaachi Koul

    Self-Deprecating Humor · Anxiety · Memoir & Biography · Dark Comedy · Funny

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