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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Areas of My Expertise: An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order
John Hodgman · 241 pages
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum, Rich Bloomquist, Steve Bodow, Tim Carvell, Eric Drysdale, J.R. Havlan, Scott Jacobson, Tom Johnson, Rob Kutner, Chris Regan, Jason Reich, Jason Ross · 227 pages
Offers tongue-in-cheek insight into American democracy with coverage of such topics as the republican qualities of ancient Rome, the antics of our nation's founders, and the ludicrous nature of today's media.
Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
Richard Ayoade · 320 pages
"Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself"--Publisher's description.
How to Survive a Horror Movie
Seth Grahame-Smith · 175 pages
Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other Musings
Will Ferrell · 224 pages
The popular character from the "Anchorman" movies shares stories of his childhood and the events that led him to choose a career in the news business; personal anecdotes about the women in his life and his legendary news team; and advice on a variety of topics.
Redshirts
John Scalzi · 320 pages
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers. Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to realize that 1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, 2)
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Vol. 2
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin · 384 pages
Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
The Onion, David Javerbaum, Todd Hanson, Carol Kolb, Mike Loew, Tim Harrod · 176 pages
Soul Music
Terry Pratchett · 384 pages
Death goes walk-about and tries everything, including joining the French Foreign Legion, to forget a tragic carriage accident at dead man's curve. His independent-minded teen granddaughter has to surreptitiously take over the reaping biz. Three guys invent music with rocks in it or did the magick in this music invent them? Is time changing or - déjà vu all over again- is it rushing to a new traged
Snuff
Chuck Palahniuk · 208 pages
**From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before** Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camer
How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion
Judah Friedlander
Selp-Helf
Miranda Sings · 231 pages
"Over six million social media fans can't be wrong: Miranda Sings is one of the funniest faces on YouTube. As a bumbling, ironically talentless, self-absorbed personality (a young Gilda Radner, if you will), she offers up a vlog of helpful advice every week on her widely popular YouTube channel. For the first time ever, Miranda is putting her advice to paper in this easy-to-follow guide, illustrat
Bart Simpson's Guide to Life
Matt Groening · 192 pages
Starved for the whole truth, man? Take a bite out of this bitsy but beefy package, brimming with flavorized morsels of wit, wisdom, and worldly knowledge brought to you by the one and only Bartholomew J.* Simpson ~ get the hard-knocks facts of life from the guy who's seen it all, heard it all, done it all ~ and denies it all. **NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION** Serving Size: 192 pages, plus cover Nu
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth
The Onion · 245 pages
A news-parody compendium of world non-facts features maps and incorrect statistics for all of the world's independent nations, from Afghanistan to the Ukraine, and includes the world's rejected flag designs and the planet's most annoying handicrafts.
Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
Dave Barry · 178 pages
Barry's humorous account of our country's history includes the dull parts and discussion questions.
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe · 312 pages
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a