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That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World's Most Famous University, One Embarrassment at a Time
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Include books by the same authorThe Fry Chronicles
Stephen Fry · 448 pages
The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
Philip Delves Broughton · 280 pages
In the century since its founding, Harvard BusinessSchool has become the single most influential institution inglobal business. Twenty percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500companies are HBS graduates, as are many of our savviestentrepreneurs (e. g. , Michael Bloomberg) and canniest felons(e. g. , Jeffrey Skilling). The top investment banks and brokeragehouses routinely send their brightest young star
Prozac Nation
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 336 pages
Full of promise is how anyone would have described Elizabeth Wurtzel at age ten, a bright-eyed little girl who painted, wrote stories, and excelled in every way. By twelve she was cutting her legs in the girls' bathroom and listening to scratchy recordings of the Velvet Underground. College was marked by a series of breakdowns, suicide attempts, and hospitalizations before she was finally given P
Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
Jen Lancaster · 400 pages
A memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life and perfect job vanishes when she goes from a six-figure career to unemployment, and, forced to do some soul searching, becomes an author.
This Is Really Happening
Erin Chack · 256 pages
I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks
Edward Ugel
One man’s humorous and heartfelt journey through his year-long attempt to regain his health and change his life. Lovers of narrative nonfiction will relish this contagiously readable book that looks back at Ugel’s complicated history with food, obesity, and the ruinous effects this lifelong relationship has had on him. Filled with humor, ultimately this is a book about the private hell of being
Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom's, Which I Know Sounds Weird)
Michael Ian Black · 194 pages
"A frank and funny-because-it's-true memoir from New York Times bestselling author Michael Ian Black, about confronting his genetic legacy as he hits his 40s--the alt-comedy answer to Brad Garrett's WHEN THE BALLS DROP"-- When a medical diagnosis forces him to realize he's not getting any younger, Black reexamines his life as a middle-aged guy-- in the deadpan wit and self-deprecating vignettes t
The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke
Angela Nissel · 212 pages
The author describes her days as a broke college student and the misadventures she had trying to make money and survive.
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
Rhoda Janzen · 256 pages
In this memoir, Janzen chronicles the experience of re-connecting with her Mennonite roots after her personal life has fallen apart.
The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos
Bryony Gordon · 288 pages
When the Balls Drop
Brad Garrett · 276 pages
A refreshingly candid and wickedly funny look at life’s second half from Everybody Loves Raymond TV sitcom star and three-time Emmy Award–winning comic Brad Garrett. In this no-holds-barred book of comedic and personal essays, Brad Garrett divulges his hilarious—and irreverently honest—experiences with the many challenges and ultimately joys of middle age, as he advises us on how to best naviga
The Jerusalem syndrome
Marc Maron · 180 pages
Memoirs of a Gas Station: A Delightfully Awkward Journey Across the Alaskan Tundra
Sam Neumann · 312 pages
It's Hard Not to Hate You: A Memoir
Valerie Frankel · 242 pages
After being advised to reduce stress by her doctor, humorist Valerie Frankel realized the biggest source of pressure in her life was maintaining an unflappable, easy-going persona. After years of glossing over the negative, she goes on a mission of emotional honesty, vowing to let herself feel and express all the toxic emotions she'd long suppressed or denied: jealousy, rage, greed, envy, impatien
My Booky Wook
Russell Brand · 352 pages
"From his troubled childhood in Essex and his addictions to drink, drugs and sex, to his giddy rise through the world of entertainment, this is not simply a story of fame but of redemption, achingly and hilariously honest throughout"--Cover.
Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom
Sara Benincasa · 263 pages
A comedian's account of her battle with agoraphobia.
Sweet Tooth: A Memoir
Tim Anderson · 319 pages
It's All Relative: Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays, and 50 Boxes of Wine
Wade Rouse · 288 pages
A humorous memoir that looks at holidays and how they bring out the best and the worst in relatives.
Alone Forever: The Singles Collection
Liz Prince · 104 pages
Liz Prince takes an autobiographical look in graphic novel form at dating and relationships.
Joyful Recollections of Trauma
Paul Scheer · 256 pages
Unreliable Memoirs
Clive James · 176 pages
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
Julie Powell · 309 pages
Julie Powell is 30 years old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy, but as she moves from