18 Top nonfiction books like Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes] by Mindy Kaling

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Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

By: Mindy Kaling

4.08

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

In this hilarious collection, Mindy Kaling considers her new role as single mom, the perks of not h…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes] by Mindy Kaling , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

By: Jewel

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling poet and multiplatinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventio… read more

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2. The Polygamist's Daughter

By: Leslie Wilson , Anna LeBaron

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

"My father had more than fifty children." So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter o… read more

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3. The Burnout Generation

By: Anne Helen Petersen

3.18

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

1 hora y 47 minutos. In January 2019, culture writer Anne Helen Petersen set the Internet on fir… read more

Similar categories in Anne Helen Petersen's The Burnout Generation book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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4. The Debutante

By: Jon Ronson

3.41

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad … read more

Similar categories in Jon Ronson's The Debutante book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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5. The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

By: Jenna Fischer

4.23

Format: 321 pages, ebook

An intimate, behind-the-scenes, richly illustrated celebration of beloved The Office co-stars Jenna… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Fischer's The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Invest in the people in your lives. Find that friend who makes you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof. Build them up and encourage them. Show up for each other no matter how big or small the occasion…"

-Jenna Fischer, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

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6. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

By: Ali Wong

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they wer… read more

Similar categories in Ali Wong's Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"That day, my co-workers found out my secret: I'm a fucking idiot."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"I don't care how funny or beloved someone is. Take his ass down if he fucks with you."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"My dad would sometimes say things to my mom like, “Devil, get away, for I am God’s property!"

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"It made me realize that the most important part of parenting, relationships, pretty much anything is just actually being there."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

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7. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

By: Molly Shannon

4.13

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption b… read more

Similar categories in Molly Shannon's Hello, Molly!: A Memoir book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"But I thought, I can do whatever I want. I can be friends with whoever I want. I'm going to be friends with the freaks and the geeks and I don't have to fit into any clique. And I'm Free! And I like …"

-Molly Shannon, Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

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8. Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

By: Dolly Parton

4.03

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of … read more

Similar categories in Dolly Parton's Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My coat of many colors that my mama made for me, Made only from rags, but I wore it so proudly. Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be. In my coat of many colors my mama made for me…"

-Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

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9. Tell Her Story

By: Margot Hunt

3.60

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

2 hours, 52 minutes From the author of Buried Deep and The House on the Water comes a shocking … read more

Similar categories in Margot Hunt's Tell Her Story book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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10. Honeymoon For One

By: Portia MacIntosh

3.91

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

When disaster strikes, paradise calls... As a published novelist, Lila Rose has been writing about… read more

Similar categories in Portia MacIntosh's Honeymoon For One book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"You worry, in the real world whether your worth as a person is attached to your relationship status. You know that it shouldn't be, but as women we are raised to believe that we need to find a man"

-Portia MacIntosh, Honeymoon For One

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11. Love at First Psych

By: Cara Bastone

3.61

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

True love is put to the test in this romantic comedy brought to hilarious life by Santino Fontana (… read more

Similar categories in Cara Bastone's Love at First Psych book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • humor
  • audiobook
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12. The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

By: Michelle Obama

4.27

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 - In an insp… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Obama's The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Going high is about learning to keep the poison out and the power in."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Being different conditions you toward cautiousness, even as it demands being bold."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Life has shown me that strong friendships are most often the result of strong intentions. Your table needs to be deliberately built, deliberately populated, and deliberately tended to."

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

"Real-world connections most often tend to cut against stereotypes. They can be remarkably calming, in fact—a small but potent way to reset a bad mood or challenge broader feelings of mistrust. The on…"

-Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

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13. Call Me Maybe (Love Lines, #1)

By: Cara Bastone

3.98

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

5 hours, 55 minutes True love is on the line in this charming, laugh-out-loud rom-com—created sp… read more

Similar categories in Cara Bastone's Call Me Maybe (Love Lines, #1) book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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14. 33 Unplayed Voicemails

By: Melissa de la Cruz

2.90

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From number one New York Times best-selling author of Melissa de la Cruz comes a love story about m… read more

Similar categories in Melissa de la Cruz's 33 Unplayed Voicemails book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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15. Finding Tamika

By: Erika Alexander

3.83

Format: 6 pages, Audiobook

Black girls and women disappear every day, but not without a trace. Join actress and activist Erika… read more

Similar categories in Erika Alexander's Finding Tamika book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Own It: The Secret to Life

By: Diane Von Furstenberg

3.16

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

“ Own It is a must-have survival guide that you can come back to time and again for immediate inspi… read more

Similar categories in Diane Von Furstenberg's Own It: The Secret to Life book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. TMI: My Life in Scandal

By: Pérez Hilton

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Delicious memoir. . . . catnip for Hollywood gossip hounds.”  — Publishers Weekly  The story of ho… read more

Similar categories in Pérez Hilton's TMI: My Life in Scandal book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Miranda Obsession

By: Jen Silverman

3.61

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length 2 hours and 40 minutes Emmy Award-winning actress Rachel Brosnahan brings to li… read more

Similar categories in Jen Silverman's The Miranda Obsession book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • short stories
  • audiobook
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19. The Comeback

By: Lily Chu

3.75

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

12 hours, 14 minutes Who is Ariadne Hui? • Laser-focused lawyer diligently climbing the corp… read more

Similar categories in Lily Chu's The Comeback book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • audiobook
"It's hard to cope when simultaneously drunk and hungover."

-Lily Chu, The Comeback

"Celebrities are the glitter of humanity: pretty to look at, useless except at parties, and an utter pain to clean up after."

-Lily Chu, The Comeback

"People sometimes have trouble when your face doesn't match your culture. They come to me with ideas of how I should be, what I should eat and like and think. If my grandparents were from France, no o…"

-Lily Chu, The Comeback

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20. It's Not What It Looks Like

By: Molly Burke

3.94

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 3 hours and 5 minutes In an audiobook like none you’ve ever heard before, blin… read more

Similar categories in Molly Burke's It's Not What It Looks Like book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime

By: Dan Rather

4.27

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Tales from the front lines of 60 years of television. Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anch… read more

Similar categories in Dan Rather's Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bedtime Stories for Cynics (Bedtime Stories for Cynics, #1) by Nick Offerman

22. Bedtime Stories for Cynics (Bedtime Stories for Cynics, #1)

By: Nick Offerman

3.46

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

The closest you'll get to having Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson read you a bedtime story, this … read more

Similar categories in Nick Offerman's Bedtime Stories for Cynics (Bedtime Stories for Cynics, #1) book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • humor
  • comedy
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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23. Homecoming: A Memoir

By: Eddie Huang

3.64

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

When Eddie Huang found out Tom Hanks had COVID, he made a split-second decision to cop a flight to … read more

Similar categories in Eddie Huang's Homecoming: A Memoir book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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24. Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

By: Mindy Kaling

4.08

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

In this hilarious collection, Mindy Kaling considers her new role as single mom, the perks of not h… read more

Similar categories in Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes] book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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25. Choice

By: Jodi Picoult

4.14

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 38 minutes In this thought-provoking short, #1 New York Times best-selling and… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's Choice book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of Heads Will Roll by Kate  McKinnon

26. Heads Will Roll

By: Kate McKinnon

3.80

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Heads Will Roll is an Audible Original from Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon and her co-creat… read more

Similar categories in Kate McKinnon's Heads Will Roll book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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27. Spare

By: Prince Harry

3.85

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walkin… read more

Similar categories in Prince Harry's Spare book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It wasn’t that she felt no emotions. On the contrary, I always thought that Granny experienced all the normal human emotions. She just knew better than the rest of us mortals how to control them."

-Prince Harry, Spare

"I heard the story of what Pa allegedly said to Mummy the day of my birth: Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an Heir and a Spare—my work is done. A joke. Presumably. On the other hand, minutes after deli…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

"I'd traveled the world from top to bottom, literally. I'd hopscotched the continents. I'd met hundreds of thousands of people, I'd crossed paths with a ludicrously large cross-section of the planet's…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

"It occurred to me then that identity is a hierarchy. We are primarily one thing, and then we're primarily another, and then another, and so on, until death- in succession. Each new identity assumes t…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

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28. Summer of '85

By: Chris Morrow

4.26

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Welcome to the summer of 1985 in Philadelphia, when the city was rocked—in almost every sense of th… read more

Similar categories in Chris Morrow's Summer of '85 book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant

By: Alan Cumming

4.10

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

2 hrs and 16 mins Legal Immigrant is Alan Cumming's collection of musings on his experiences as… read more

Similar categories in Alan Cumming's Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Southern Belle Insults (Southern Belle Insults, #1-5) by Keke Palmer

30. Southern Belle Insults (Southern Belle Insults, #1-5)

By: Keke Palmer

3.54

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

BETRAYAL. PASSION. MAGIC. And…WIGS! From the sparkling imagination of gifted entertainer Keke Palme… read more

Similar categories in Keke Palmer's Southern Belle Insults (Southern Belle Insults, #1-5) book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • short stories
  • audiobook
Cover of Given Away: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories by Glenn Morey

31. Given Away: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories

By: Glenn Morey

4.34

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

In 1955, an American farming couple saw a film about the thousands of Korean children orphaned by t… read more

Similar categories in Glenn Morey's Given Away: Korean Adoptees Tell Their Stories book and Mindy Kaling's Nothing Like I Imagined [Except For Sometimes]

  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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