15 Top nonfiction books like Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too by Louie Anderson

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Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

By: Louie Anderson

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With wry wit and poignant humor, Louie Anderson, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award–w…

"The mind wanders when it’s never totally satisfied."

-Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

"The mind wanders when it’s never totally satisfied."

-Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

"Anyway, Lisa probably said it best: “We made our own happiness but I don’t think we were a happy family."

-Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

"Anyway, Lisa probably said it best: “We made our own happiness but I don’t think we were a happy family."

-Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too by Louie Anderson , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess by Rachel  Hoffman

1. Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess

By: Rachel Hoffman

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our curr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hoffman's Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin  Short

2. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

By: Martin Short

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging memoir, written with heart, wisdom, and a huge helping of hilarity, Martin Short s… read more

Similar categories in Martin Short's I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them."

-Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

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3. Attempting Normal

By: Marc Maron

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

People make a mess. Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved come… read more

Similar categories in Marc Maron's Attempting Normal book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle by Rachel Dratch

4. Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle

By: Rachel Dratch

4.25

Format: None pages,

In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Livestar recounts the hilarious adventures… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Dratch's Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook

5. The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation

By: Melissa Rivers

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover

Joan Rivers was known all over the world--from the Palace Theater to Buckingham Palace, from the br… read more

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6. I Know I Am, But What Are You?

By: Samantha Bee

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Candid, outspoken, laugh-out-loud funny essays from the much-loved Samantha Bee, the Most Senior Co… read more

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7. Mean Little Deaf Queer

By: None

3.68

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. … read more

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8. Food: A Love Story

By: Jim Gaffigan

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

“What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here’s why:… read more

Similar categories in Jim Gaffigan's Food: A Love Story book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"I'm a fan of relaxing, and when i get tired of relaxing I like to do nothing."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don’t have tons of money to waste."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and then we’ll grab some pizza."

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

"I love the phrase "I have a sweet tooth." I always want to say, "You're ordering it for your tooth? That's interesting, because it's going straight to your butt. I think your butt owed your tooth an …"

-Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story

9. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

By: Sarah Silverman

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne Sarah Silverman comes a memoir--her firs… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Silverman's The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

10. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut

By: Rob Sheffield

3.60

Format: 224 pages,

The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally pers… read more

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11. Digging Up Mother: A Love Story

By: Doug Stanhope

4.50

Format: None pages,

After enjoying early success as co-host of The Man Showwith Joe Rogan, the past twenty years of Dou… read more

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12. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

By: Bob Odenkirk

3.60

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nob… read more

Similar categories in Bob Odenkirk's Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedian
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen."

-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

"I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back."

-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

"Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite …"

-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

Cover of The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally

13. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

By: Megan Mullally

3.65

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

At last, the full story behind Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, including stories, … read more

Similar categories in Megan Mullally's The Greatest Love Story Ever Told book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"You know what? I've never had any money, and I've always lived like a king."

-Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

"Get out of your house. Get off of your phone. Then go and participate in things that thrill you."

-Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

"It may seem a little obvious that Megan would feel that in her music or that I would feel it in woodworking, but there are so many domestic places, so many little ways that you can make your existenc…"

-Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

"I hate it, how high-stakes the fashion aspect of it has become. A long time ago, Janeane Garofalo wore cutoffs and a T-shirt to an awards show, and that’s always been my gold standard. I wish everyon…"

-Megan Mullally, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

Cover of Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work by Alison  Green

14. Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work

By: Alison Green

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

What do you say when your new job is very different from what you agreed to? How do you tell your b… read more

Similar categories in Alison Green's Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown by Kenan Thompson

15. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

By: Kenan Thompson

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When I Was Your Age  is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more

Similar categories in Kenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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16. You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

By: Tom Papa

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Comedian and “Live from Here” head writer Tom Papa, author of Your Dad Stole My Rake, tackles the m… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Try and be strong. Try and be better. Try to enjoy."

-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

"Social media is like a photo album with all the bad parts taken out."

-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

"Life isn’t easy. It’s actually extremely difficult, with only one guaranteed ending. But you should refuse to waste it, if not for yourself, then for everyone around you."

-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

"We're all somewhat unpleasant--which is another way of saying disgusting--and we're all flawed. All of us. That's what love is. Finding someone whose flaws you can put up with."

-Tom Papa, You're Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive

Cover of About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son by Peggy Rowe

17. About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son

By: Peggy Rowe

4.33

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before … read more

Similar categories in Peggy Rowe's About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
Cover of I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses (The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman, #9) by Lisa Scottoline

18. I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses (The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman, #9)

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In I See Life Through Rosé Colored-Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with anoth… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Grand: A Memoir by Sara Schaefer

19. Grand: A Memoir

By: Sara Schaefer

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, comedian and E… read more

Similar categories in Sara Schaefer's Grand: A Memoir book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too by Louie Anderson

20. Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

By: Louie Anderson

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With wry wit and poignant humor, Louie Anderson, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award–w… read more

Similar categories in Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedian
  • family
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"The mind wanders when it’s never totally satisfied."

-Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

"Anyway, Lisa probably said it best: “We made our own happiness but I don’t think we were a happy family."

-Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

"Life is finite. (Duh.) Time is valuable. (Ditto.) And so am I. I'm valuable. I'm starting to treat myself as valuable."

-Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

"I wonder how many people look at their own lives as having an arc, and live their lives accordingly, given the built-in certainty of cancellation. We’re all going to get canceled someday. We just don…"

-Louie Anderson, Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

Cover of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination by Sadie Dingfelder

21. Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination

By: Sadie Dingfelder

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning science writer discovers she’s faceblind, and investigates the neuroscience of sig… read more

Similar categories in Sadie Dingfelder's Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination book and Louie Anderson's Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, But You Can Read Them Too

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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3.78

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