Lose Well
By: Chris Gethard
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A laugh-out-loud, kick-in-the-pants self-help narrative for anyone who ever felt like they didn’t f…
Want to Read $ 9.99"If you’re not feeling scared, you’re not growing. If there’s no room to grow, then there’s no room to breathe. Things that can’t breathe die, even ambitions."-Chris Gethard, Lose Well
"Failure is your friend. Winning is your goal, or losing is your goal. You never want to land in that sad middle ground where you haven’t failed. Where you did nothing to embarrass yourself, but didn’t do anything to distinguish yourself either. That’s the difference between winning and playing not to lose."-Chris Gethard, Lose Well
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1. How Music Works
By: David Byrne
4.00
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"Performers try harder."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"You might say that the universe plays the blues."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?"-David Byrne, How Music Works
2. Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
By: Mike Massimino
4.53
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that’s abo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"If you work hard and get help from good friends, together you can overcome almost any challenge, no matter how great."-Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
"The important thing in life is having a passion, something you really love doing, and you take joy in the fact that you get to wake up every day and do it."-Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
"I realized much later in life that the reason this decision between MIT and IBM was so agonizing was because it wasn't really about choosing a career; it was about deciding who I was, which part of m…"-Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
"I think he was trying to tell us that life is not about achieving one great thing, because once that thing is over, life keeps going. What motivates you then? The important thing is having a passion,…"-Mike Massimino, Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
3. How To Be The Greatest Improviser On Earth
By: Will Hines , None
4.54
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
Become great at performing long-form improv! We skip the basics and get into advanced topics like: … read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- self help
4. I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era
By: William Knoedelseder
4.09
Format: None pages,
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- nonfiction
- humor
- biography
- comedy
5. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
By: Mike Birbiglia
3.59
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hello, I am Mike Birbiglia and I want you to read my book. Too on the nose? Sorry. Let me dial it b… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
7. 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
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- 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
8. Hausfrau
By: None
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
A striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine wh… read more
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9. Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
By: David Rakoff
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
A bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess from an award-winning humorist. Whether David … read more
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10. The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide
By: Jenna Fischer
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hom… read more
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11. Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
By: Rob Delaney
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
Who is that hairy guy in the green Speedo? Rob Delaney is a father, a husband, a comedian, a writer… read more
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12. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
13. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
14. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
By: Kyle Buchanan
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
15. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
16. The Baseball 100
By: Joe Posnanski
4.74
Format: 869 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
17. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
By: Patrik Svensson
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
By: Warren Zanes
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
19. MOX
By: Jon Moxley
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A vivid trip through the mind of the top professional wrestler in the… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
By: Karen Kilgariff
4.07
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The instant #1 New York Times and USA Today best seller by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, t… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- self help
"if i could just stop eating for 5 seconds, maybe i could be anorexic like a model"-Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
"Why does everyone think whistling indicates relaxation? It’s literally one of the weirdest things you can do in public without breaking the law."-Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
"if you’re a model go with god, enjoy your endless flow of worship and have a great time for the rest of us, reenact the father-figure video, that’s what i’d do"-Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
"Politeness doesn’t require actual humanity. It’s just cultural ritual... Politeness is fancy curtains in your front window. Kindness is the home-cooked meal on your dinner table."-Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
21. Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
By: Chris Payne
4.41
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
An explosive oral history of emo's takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuring MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FA… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- contemporary
" Jonathan Daniel: I mean, people knew "Sins." That song was so big everywhere. But yeah, I don't think they knew the band as much. I remember Panic! went to see Kanye in Vegas, and Pete asked Kanye i…"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
" Jim Adkins: ...There was a girl who wrote us, explaining how she felt like an outsider at her school because the punk rock kids wouldn't accept her, even though she liked us and a lot of the really …"-Chris Payne, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
22. Safe and Sound
By: Laura McHugh
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
23. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
By: Dan Ozzi
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
24. Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
By: Michael Shellenberger
4.18
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. 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
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 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
26. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
By: Dana Stevens
4.19
Format: 432 pages, ebook
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Lieutenant Dangerous: A Vietnam War Memoir
By: Jeff Danziger
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
"A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related by one of the most incisive observers of… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
28. The Body Scout
By: Lincoln Michel
3.63
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister lo… read more
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- audiobook
"...People had been predicting the death of the city for years. Would that finally drive all the people out of this sinking island? I imagined office buildings filled with screeches instead of confere…"-Lincoln Michel, The Body Scout
29. Comedy Sex God
By: Pete Holmes
3.95
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilar… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
"I felt far more Christlike when I stopped calling myself a Christian."-Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God
"It took me over three decades to realize you're not supposed to think about paintings, flowers, or God, you're supposed to merge with them."-Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God
"I know it sounds strange, but I look back on my depression fondly. So much anxiety in my life comes from not knowing what to do or how to behave, but everyone knows how to be sad."-Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God
"I was always drowning in my own humanity, forever a spectator to the love and oneness I had heard stories about, like I had been sent away from the party for wearing the wrong clothes. But in this mo…"-Pete Holmes, Comedy Sex God
30. Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book
By: Scott Aukerman
4.44
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Scott Aukerman and the comedic geniuses who created the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast comes a boo… read more
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- humor
- comedy
31. Lose Well
By: Chris Gethard
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A laugh-out-loud, kick-in-the-pants self-help narrative for anyone who ever felt like they didn’t f… read more
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- audiobook
- personal development
- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- comedy
- self help
"If you’re not feeling scared, you’re not growing. If there’s no room to grow, then there’s no room to breathe. Things that can’t breathe die, even ambitions."-Chris Gethard, Lose Well
"Failure is your friend. Winning is your goal, or losing is your goal. You never want to land in that sad middle ground where you haven’t failed. Where you did nothing to embarrass yourself, but didn’…"-Chris Gethard, Lose Well
