22 best-selling nonfiction books like Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why by Alexandra Petri

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Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

By: Alexandra Petri

3.82

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from …

"At the end of the day, there is only one way to parent: wrong."

-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

"At the end of the day, there is only one way to parent: wrong."

-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

"At the end of the day, there is only one way to parent: wrong."

-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

"[That five-year-old refugee] has plans to grow up to become the most terrifying thing in the world: an American."

-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why by Alexandra Petri , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator

By: Thomas Rockwell , Norman Rockwell

4.50

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Thomas Rockwell's Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator book and Alexandra Petri's Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

  • nonfiction
  • history
"I just wanted to do something important."

-Thomas Rockwell, Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator

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2. Ghost Beach (Goosebumps, #22)

By: R.L. Stine

3.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Jerry can't wait to explore the dark, spooky old cave he found down by the beach. Then the other … read more

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3. One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

By: Scaachi Koul

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, "a land of ice… read more

Similar categories in Scaachi Koul's One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter book and Alexandra Petri's Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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4. The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

By: Keith Payne , Keith Payne

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"The Broken Ladderis an important, timely, and beautifully written account of how inequality affect… read more

Similar categories in Keith Payne's The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die book and Alexandra Petri's Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.46

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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6. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves, #11)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Bertie is in it up to his neck when a perfectly harmless visit to … read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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7. How Right You Are, Jeeves (Jeeves, #12)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidabl… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook

8. The Partly Cloudy Patriot

By: Sarah Vowell , None

4.33

Format: 57 pages,

Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy road… read more

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9. Jam

By: Yahtzee Croshaw

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

We were prepared for an earthquake. We had a flood plan in place. We could even have dealt with zom… read more

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10. The President's Brain is Missing

By: John Scalzi

4.14

Format: 438 pages, ebook

The question is, how can you tellthe President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back? read more

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11. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Alexandra Petri's Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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12. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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13. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts

By: Sarah Thornton

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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16. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Ingrassia's A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery book and Alexandra Petri's Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day

By: Ivana Bodrožić

3.63

Format: 240 pages, None

U svom novom romanu višestruko nagrađivana pjesnikinja i prozaistica Ivana Bodrožić se kroz žanr po… read more

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18. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

Similar categories in Anupam B. Jena's Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health book and Alexandra Petri's Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

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  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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21. Look Alive Out There

By: Sloane Crosley

3.77

Format: 256 pages, None

From the New York Times-bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There―a brand-new co… read more

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  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Everyone knows WebMD is a Choose Your Own Adventure book in which all roads lead to death."

-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

"There are few things sadder than an off-duty earlobe that’s been trained to accommodate a human fist"

-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

"I think by now we can all agree that the foundation of world travel goes something like "Bring a cardigan."

-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

"My roommate came running out of the closet and did not stop until he reached Los Angeles. I knew this day would come. Sometimes it's easier to be your actual self where nothing of your alleged self e…"

-Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

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22. Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live

By: Dan Ahdoot

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, an… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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23. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

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  • audiobook
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24. Promises of Gold

By: José Olivarez

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, f… read more

Similar categories in José Olivarez's Promises of Gold book and Alexandra Petri's Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me?

By: Jen Mann

3.95

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

A smart, personal, darkly funny examination of what it's like to be at the crossroads of a midlife … read more

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  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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26. Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells

By: Michelle Duster

3.74

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Called “a dangerous negro agitator” by the FBI, and a “brave woman” by Frederick Douglass, an inspi… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of This Must Be the Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City by Jesse Rifkin

27. This Must Be the Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City

By: Jesse Rifkin

4.26

Format: None pages, ebook

A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community and the highs and lo… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Rifkin's This Must Be the Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City book and Alexandra Petri's Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

By: Alexandra Petri

3.82

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from … read more

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  • history
  • unfinished
  • feminism
  • politics
  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"At the end of the day, there is only one way to parent: wrong."

-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

"[That five-year-old refugee] has plans to grow up to become the most terrifying thing in the world: an American."

-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

"A little child was in the audience [at Donald Trump’s inauguration], and he started to cry, because the emperor was wearing so many clothes."

-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

"The good news about approaching a black hole is that you will live a very long time. The bad news about approaching a black hole is that you will never die."

-Alexandra Petri, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

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29. Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth

By: Christopher Zara

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

67% of Americans do not have a college degree. Christopher Zara is one of them. Boldly honest, wry… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens

By: Charles Dickens

3.09

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Everybody knows A Christmas Carol, but the prolific Charles Dickens wrote several other holiday tal… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
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31. The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

By: Clayton Page Aldern

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life , to all those who… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

23 Top audiobook books like Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why by Alexandra Petri

Transform Your Habits

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Scaachi Koul

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport

Carl Hiaasen

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves, #11)

P.G. Wodehouse

4.01

Transform Your Habits

How Right You Are, Jeeves (Jeeves, #12)

P.G. Wodehouse

3.66

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The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty

Amanda Filipacchi

4.39

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Quietly Hostile: Essays

Samantha Irby

3.70

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