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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAgorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom
Sara Benincasa · 263 pages
A comedian's account of her battle with agoraphobia.
Alone Forever: The Singles Collection
Liz Prince · 104 pages
Liz Prince takes an autobiographical look in graphic novel form at dating and relationships.
The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos
Bryony Gordon · 288 pages
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Matthew Polly · 359 pages
Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become a fighter like in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. Later, Matthew decided to pursue this quixotic dream: he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism. Expecting to find a
Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch
Jim Norton · 233 pages
Sweet Tooth: A Memoir
Tim Anderson · 319 pages
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
This Is Really Happening
Erin Chack · 256 pages
Pretty in Plaid
Jen Lancaster · 365 pages
The hardcover debut from the New York Times bestselling author the prequel to Bitter is the New Black.In Pretty in Plaid, Jen Lancaster reveals how she developed the hubris that perpetually gets her into trouble. Using fashion icons of her youth to tell her hilarious and insightful stories, readers will meet the girl she used to be.Think Jen Lancaster was always like David Sedaris with pearls and
Joyful Recollections of Trauma
Paul Scheer · 256 pages
Memoirs of a Gas Station: A Delightfully Awkward Journey Across the Alaskan Tundra
Sam Neumann · 312 pages
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
Gabourey Sidibe · 256 pages
"Sidibe's memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight"--
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Firoozeh Dumas · 240 pages
In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her well-meaning family, and on amusing cultural conundrums, all told with insights into the universality of the
The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl
Shauna Reid · 400 pages
A hilarious and heartwarming tale of a real-life superhero who battled the bulge and won.In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began. Toda
Lady Parts
Andrea Martin · 352 pages
I'm Awesome: One Man's Triumphant Quest to Become the Sweetest Dude Ever
Jason Ellis, Mike Tully
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 · 310 pages
A rising comedian describes with humor the absurdity of his troubled youth in Oakland, California, where his mother walked him on a leash until he chewed through it and ran away and started taking drugs at age twelve.
Uganda Be Kidding Me
Chelsea Handler · 257 pages
In this uproarious collection, the author answers the most frequently asked traveler's questions, hot travel trips, and travel etiquette, none of which should be believed. Wherever she travels, one thing is certain: she always ends up in the land of the ridiculous. Now, in this uproarious collection, she sneaks her sharp wit through airport security and delivers her most absurd and hilarious stori
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Sophia Amoruso · 248 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
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott · 272 pages
"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun-Times)In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive.
The Jerusalem syndrome
Marc Maron · 180 pages
Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It
Brittany Gibbons · 240 pages
"I hope you buy 'Fat Girl Walking' because I want to start a conversation. Or continue a conversation, one I inadvertently started a while ago when I took my clothes off on a stage in front of 700 people. A lot of people thought I was awesome for doing that. A lot of others thought a size 18 woman had absolutely no business showing off her body. Unfortunately for them, I've made it my personal mis