Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom's, Which I Know Sounds Weird)

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher · 163 pages

Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir.

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

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah · 297 pages

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often ab

Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir

Jennette Fulda · 300 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

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 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.

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

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

The Jerusalem syndrome

Marc Maron · 180 pages

Joyful Recollections of Trauma

Paul Scheer · 256 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

That Book about Harvard: Surviving the World's Most Famous University, One Embarrassment at a Time

Eric Kester

Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar

Kelly Oxford

Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir

H. Jon Benjamin

Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer

Jen Lancaster · 379 pages

Unfortunately, being overweight isn't simply a societal issue that can be fixed with a dose healthy of positive self-esteem. It's a health matter, and on the eve of her fortieth year, Lancaster learns to make changes. Because what good is finally being able to afford a pedicure if you lose a foot to adult onset diabetes?

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

Chuck Klosterman · 277 pages

Not Taco Bell Material

Adam Carolla · 330 pages

"In his second book, Adam Carolla--author of New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks and chart-topping podcaster--reveals all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today. Funnyman Adam Carolla is known for two things: hilarious rants about things that drive him crazy and personal stories about everything from his hardscrabble childhood to his sl