14 must-read biography books like Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? by Zach Zimmerman

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Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

By: Zach Zimmerman

3.62

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerm…

If you liked the biography plot in Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? by Zach Zimmerman , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Loftus's Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."

-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

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2. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Washington's Family Meal book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

3. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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4. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jones's Leslie F*cking Jones book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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5. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury by Geraldine DeRuiter

6. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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7. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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8. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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9. Just by Looking at Him

By: Ryan O'Connell

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more

Similar categories in Ryan O'Connell's Just by Looking at Him book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."

-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him

Cover of Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume

10. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Baume's Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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11. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

12. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Let's Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih

13. Let's Get Back to the Party

By: Zak Salih

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

What Does It Mean to Be a Gay Man Today? It’s just weeks after the historic Supreme Court marriage … read more

Similar categories in Zak Salih's Let's Get Back to the Party book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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14. 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

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • queer
"[...] 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

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15. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

By: Greg Marshall

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets… read more

Similar categories in Greg Marshall's Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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16. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Congratulations, the Best is Over! book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

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17. We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

By: Tre’vell Anderson

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-mom… read more

Similar categories in Tre’vell Anderson's We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • memoir
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag

By: Sasha Velour

4.41

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gende… read more

Similar categories in Sasha Velour's The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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19. 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

Similar categories in Ziwe's Black Friend: Essays book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."

-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays

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20. Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs

By: Andrew Rannells

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Candid, hilarious essays from the star of The Book of Mormon, Girls, and Big Mouth on anxiety, ambi… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Rannells's Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable Triumphs book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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21. Big Gay Wedding

By: Byron Lane

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unashamedly proud, loud, and hilarious novel about a small town that’s forever changed by a big … read more

Similar categories in Byron Lane's Big Gay Wedding book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You by Reductress

22. How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You

By: Reductress

3.47

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A biting humor collection about the cult of productivity and the feeling of impending doom that com… read more

Similar categories in Reductress's How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"8 Things Other Than Your Productivity to Base Your Worth On: -Hair shininess -Easily calculating a 20 percent tip -Compliments from others about your productivity -Attention span (ability to watch se…"

-Reductress, How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You

"In my stressful 9-to-5, it was hard to find time for peace. Often, I would become so frustrated I would send messages to colleagues like, 'I am confused as to why you did not notify me sooner of your…"

-Reductress, How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Everyone Needs to Relax More Except You

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23. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

By: Zachary Zane

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Zane's Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

24. Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

By: Krista Burton

3.86

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappear… read more

Similar categories in Krista Burton's Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • memoir
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"While I appreciate the freedom to live anywhere we want, and I love visiting those places, I do feel a sharp sense of loss knowing I can't see the people I consider my queer family on a daily basis. …"

-Krista Burton, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America

Cover of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

25. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
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26. Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

By: Aisha Harris

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics. The nine pieces of… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Harris's Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art by Emily C. Bloom

27. I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art

By: Emily C. Bloom

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An eloquent and intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in m… read more

Similar categories in Emily C. Bloom's I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt

28. The Male Gazed

By: Manuel Betancourt

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more

Similar categories in Manuel Betancourt's The Male Gazed book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro  Varela

29. The People Who Report More Stress

By: Alejandro Varela

3.87

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more

Similar categories in Alejandro Varela's The People Who Report More Stress book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? by Zach  Zimmerman

30. Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

By: Zach Zimmerman

3.62

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, New York-based comedian Zach Zimmerm… read more

Similar categories in Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • queer
Cover of Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex by Casey Tanner

31. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex

By: Casey Tanner

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels     the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more

Similar categories in Casey Tanner's Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex book and Zach Zimmerman's Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth?

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer

29 Best audiobook books like Is It Hot in Here? Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth? by Zach Zimmerman

Transform Your Habits

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

Jamie Loftus

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Family Meal

Bryan Washington

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

4.11

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19 Best adult books like Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris

Transform Your Habits

Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

Kate Flannery

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Butts: A Backstory

Heather Radke

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Come and Get It

Kiley Reid

3.38

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