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This Is Ridiculous This Is Amazing: Parenthood in 71 Lists
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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom
Stefanie Wilder-Taylor · 218 pages
Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures
Amber Dusick · 214 pages
Dusick's stories about her Crappy Baby, Crappy Boy and her husband, Crappy Papa, will make everyone laugh over those frustrating moments of parenting.
Blacklisted from the PTA
Lela Davidson · 243 pages
"Blacklisted by the PTA is an irreverent look at motherhood and the modern family. From the high chair to a vinyl restaurant booth on date night, Lela Davidson has captured life on the cul-de-sac with a husband, two kids, and the occasional pet. Whether failing at cloth diaper origami or smug in knowledge that her children have never consumed a PopTart, Lela assures parents they are not alone, and
Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood: The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Jill Smokler
Don't Lick the Minivan: And Other Things I Never Thought I'd Say to My Kids
Leanne Shirtliffe · 282 pages
When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be
Amy Wilson · 272 pages
When Did I Get Like This? is the hilarious story of one mother's struggle to shrug off the ridiculous standards of modern parenting, and remember how to enjoy her childrenOver the last seven years of long days with little children, I have had many moments of joy, calm, and peaceful reverie.This book is about the other moments.Before I became a mother, failing at something did not shake my fundamen
Home Game – An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
Michael Lewis
Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood
Drew Magary · 243 pages
In brutally honest and funny stories, Drew Magary reveals how American mothers and fathers cope with being in over their heads (getting drunk while trick-or-treating, watching helplessly as a child defiantly pees in a hotel pool, engaging in role-play with a princess-crazed daughter), and how stepping back can sometimes make all the difference (talking a toddler down from the third story of a nett
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
Ayelet Waldman · 213 pages
In the tradition of recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Perfect Madness comes a hilarious and controversial book that every woman will have an opinion about, written by America's most outrageous writer. In our mothers' day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers, and occasionally great mothers.Today we have only Bad Mothers.If you work, you're neglectful; if you stay home, you're smoth
Life Among the Savages
Shirley Jackson · 240 pages
A hilariously charming memoir of Shirley Jackson and her family's life in rural Vermont: children who won't behave, cars that won't start, furnaces that break down, a pugnacious corner bully, household help that never stays, and a patient, capable husband who remains lovingly oblivious to the many thousands of things mothers and wives accomplish every single day.
Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son
Lori Duron · 283 pages
Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy’s boy, Lori’s younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand while singing Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi.” C.J. is gender variant or gender nonconforming, whichever you prefer. Whatever the term, Lori has a boy who likes girl stuff—really likes girl stuff. He floats on the
I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting
Karen Alpert · 320 pages
Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us
Laurie Kilmartin, Karen Moline, Alicia Ybarbo, Mary Ann Zoellner
Ketchup is a Vegetable: And Other Lies Moms Tell Themselves
Robin O'Bryant · 234 pages
"If you don't have anything nice to say about motherhood, then... read this book. Robin O'Bryant offers a no holds barred look at the day to day life of being a mother to three, running a household and the everyday monotony of parenting. It's not always pretty but it's real. Whether she's stuffing cabbage in her bra... dealing with defiant yet determined daughters... yelling at the F.B.I... or exp
Hurrah for Gin: A book for perfectly imperfect parents
Katie Kirby · 304 pages
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Anne Lamott · 251 pages
It seems no mother of a newborn has ever been more hilarious, more honest, or more touching than Anne Lamott is in Operating Instructions. A single parent whose baby's father is out of the picture, Lamott struggles not only to support her little family by her wits and her writing but to stay sober at the same time. Faith in God helps; so does her loyal band of helpers, from her childless best frie
Dad Is Fat
Jim Gaffigan · 274 pages
"In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children--everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers' communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to the
All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism
Kim Stagliano · 200 pages
Kim Stagliano's electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family's journey raising three daughters with autism. In these stories, Stagliano has joined the ranks of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs with her ability to lay everything on the table--from family, friends, and enemies to basement floods to birthdays to (possible) heroin addictions--eviscerating and celebrating the absurd. From her lo
I Just Want to Pee Alone: A Collection of Humorous Essays by Kick Ass Mom Bloggers
Bethany Meyer, Rebecca Gallagher · 194 pages