No One Asked for This: Essays
By: Cazzie David
3.55
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From writer Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about misanthropy, social m…
Want to Read $ 2.99"I was so depressed last night that I read my horoscope"-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays
"People who aren’t foreign who greet people by kissing them on the cheek cannot be trusted"-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays
"Shit-talking, like improv or tennis, is most gratifying when you have someone to bounce things off of."-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays
"I live every day like I’m dying, but not in the fun way where you live life to the fullest; in the miserable way where you live it to the emptiest."-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays
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1. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
By: Lena Dunham , Joana Avillez
3.29
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
"There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to b… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
"Energy attracts energy."-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
"Luxury is nice but creativity is nicer."-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
"Everyone hates a suit. Event the suits."-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
"Being a student was an enviable identity."-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
2. Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
By: Nicolaia Rips
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise—a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly ca… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
3. Hyena
By: Jude Angelini
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hyenais a collection of autobiographical stories by Jude Angelini, which takes the reader on his jo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
4. Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar
By: Kelly Oxford
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From her beginnings as a wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-olds, throug… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
5. literally show me a healthy person
By: Darcie Wilder
3.48
Format: 93 pages,
Darcie Wilder's literally show me a healthy personis a careful confession soaking in saltwater, a s… read more
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- mental health
6. I'm Fine...and Other Lies
By: Whitney Cummings
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Well, well, well. Look at you, ogling my book page. . . . I presume if you're reading this it means… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
7. The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living
By: Joseph Telushkin
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In The Book of Jewish Values, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has combed the Bible, the Talmud, and the whol… read more
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8. Live Fast Die Hot
By: Jenny Mollen
4.58
Format: None pages,
By the New York Times bestselling author, a searingly funny collection of essays that explores life… read more
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9. The Woman in Me
By: Britney Spears
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me
10. The Guest
By: Emma Cline
3.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more
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- audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."-Emma Cline, The Guest
"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"-Emma Cline, The Guest
11. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
By: Marisa Meltzer
3.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
12. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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- audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
13. The Wreckage of My Presence
By: Casey Wilson
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multi-talented actress, comedian,… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
14. A Very Punchable Face
By: Colin Jost
4.21
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
If there’s one trait that makes someone well suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch—meta… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
"As Lorne says, 'Careers are made by choices."-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face
"Every public golf course on Staten Island has a secret alter ego."-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face
"When you go to auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.' -Paula Abdul"-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face
"I now hate the phrase ‘That will work.’ It’s such a mediocre goal to set for yourself."-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face
15. Yearbook
By: Seth Rogen
4.17
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phra… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
16. My Body
By: Emily Ratajkowski
4.01
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity. Emily Ratajkowski… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
- audiobook
"I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find it. (Buying Myself Back)"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. (Me…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"I was also ashamed. I hated myself for trying to impress you. It didn’t feel as if I’d hustled you to get on in life. Instead, it felt as if I’d betrayed and fetishized myself to be appealing to you.…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were th…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
17. Down the Drain
By: Julia Fox
4.40
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"-Julia Fox, Down the Drain
18. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
By: Jia Tolentino
4.04
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"Even if you avoid the internet completely—my partner does: he thought #tbt meant “truth be told"-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"People have been carping in this way for many centuries. Socrates feared that the act of writing would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
"A woman is unruly if anyone has incorrectly decided that she’s too much of something, and if she, in turn, has chosen to believe that she’s just fine."-Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
19. Little Weirds
By: Jenny Slate
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
20. Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
By: Gracie Gold
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental il… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
22. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes
By: Moshe Kasher
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
23. Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
By: Lili Anolik
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
24. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- mental health
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
25. Black Friend: Essays
By: Ziwe
4.30
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays
26. Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
By: Lily Bailey
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"For as long as I could remember, I wasn't me, I was me."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"I suppose I should be thankful that if I have to go mad, at least I get to do it in a fashionable, aristocratic way."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"I’d love to learn everything all over again, but learn it right this time. I’d love to return my brain to factory settings."-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
"Two of us sat side by side in my head, woven together, inseparable. She didn't even have a name; she was just She. Really, it was hard to say where She ended and I began. But food was not shared with…"-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
27. The World Deserves My Children
By: Natasha Leggero
3.70
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A laugh-out-loud funny collection of insightful and razor-sharp essays on motherhood in our post-ap… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
"I meet twenty-three-year-olds who need to watch a ten-second video on their phones to figure out how much milk to put in their coffee."-Natasha Leggero, The World Deserves My Children
28. No One Asked for This: Essays
By: Cazzie David
3.55
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From writer Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about misanthropy, social m… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- mental health
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
- comedy
- audiobook
"I was so depressed last night that I read my horoscope"-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays
"People who aren’t foreign who greet people by kissing them on the cheek cannot be trusted"-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays
"Shit-talking, like improv or tennis, is most gratifying when you have someone to bounce things off of."-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays
"I live every day like I’m dying, but not in the fun way where you live life to the fullest; in the miserable way where you live it to the emptiest."-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays
29. The Shift
By: Tinx
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The lifestyle creator, advice expert, and host of the It’s Me, Tinx podcast shares her hilarious an… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"I was in dicksand. I was dicknotized."-Tinx, The Shift
30. I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
By: Abbi Jacobson
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully u… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Love revealed how covered up I was, but heartache broke me open."-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
"Real life is like a constant Yelp review, everyone has notes on how the experience could be improved."-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
"I thought about how pain is also a symptom of transformation. I thought about bouncing back. How we can start again. And again."-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
"From that poorly lit room on the top floor of a tiny mini mall in Sedona, a stranger told me exactly what I knew already. I guess that's what I was looking for, someone to see me and my fears and my …"-Abbi Jacobson, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
31. Do This For Me
By: Eliza Kennedy
3.56
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of I Take You a high-powered attorney and mother of two delves into the m… read more
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- audiobook
