7 must-read essays books like That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill by Amanda Rosenberg

Cover of That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill by Amanda Rosenberg

That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill

By: Amanda Rosenberg

4.17

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Award-winning Asian British comedy writer Amanda Rosenberg presents an intimate memoir of confessio…

"It's about how we've both been the worst and we're still trying our best."

-Amanda Rosenberg, That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill

"It's about how we've both been the worst and we're still trying our best."

-Amanda Rosenberg, That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill

If you liked the essays plot in That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill by Amanda Rosenberg , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line by Cindy Lambert, Abby Johnson

1. Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

By: Cindy Lambert , Abby Johnson

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Retailers Choice Award winner, 2012Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act becam… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of 212 (Ellie Hatcher #3) by Alafair Burke

2. 212 (Ellie Hatcher #3)

By: Alafair Burke

4.48

Format: 448 pages,

In New York City, Nights Are Dangerous. Days Are Numbered. When New York University sophomore Mega… read more

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Cover of I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer

3. I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star

By: Judy Greer

4.16

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

You know Judy Greer, right? Maybe from The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30, Carrie, Arrested Develo… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

4. Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving

By: Judi Kingry

2.96

Format: 63 pages,

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Road Between by Courtney Peppernell

5. The Road Between

By: Courtney Peppernell

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Road Betweenis poetry well-lived. Poetry for the soul that walks the fine line between losing y… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules by Karen Karbo

6. In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

By: Karen Karbo

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

From Amelia Earhart to Carrie Fisher, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the impe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook

7. You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

By: Phoebe Robinson , None

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stan… read more

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8. 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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Cover of Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir by Lisa F. Smith

9. Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir

By: Lisa F. Smith

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in NYC when alcoholism and drug addi… read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

10. MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H, #1)

By: Richard Hooker

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlih… read more

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11. All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness

By: Sheila Hamilton

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"A boldly beautiful page-turner about loving and losing someone with mental illness. I'll be recomm… read more

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12. The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian

By: W. Kamau Bell

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

You may know W. Kamau Bell from his hit show on CNN. Or maybe you've read about him in The New York… read more

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13. Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist

By: Tim Federle

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

Congrats. You fought through War and Peace, burned through Fahrenheit 451, and sailed through Moby-… read more

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14. Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front

By: Mary Jennings Hegar

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar was shot down while on a Medeva… read more

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Cover of The Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen

15. 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

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  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

16. 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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  • memoir
  • humor
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations by Craig Ferguson

17. Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations

By: Craig Ferguson

4.04

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir… read more

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  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"I was struck by the ancient, pagan feel of the place. New Orleans doesn't feel like any other American city I've been to. It has an atmosphere like Rome or Istanbul, a sense of the veil being very th…"

-Craig Ferguson, Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations

Cover of Two Thousand Minnows: A Young Girl's Story of Separation, Hope, and Forgiveness by Sandra Leigh Vaughan

18. Two Thousand Minnows: A Young Girl's Story of Separation, Hope, and Forgiveness

By: Sandra Leigh Vaughan

3.80

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sandra Vaughan was seven years old, she fell into the role of protector of her mother and thre… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby

19. 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

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  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"[...] 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

Cover of Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes by Moshe Kasher

20. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

By: Moshe Kasher

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more

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  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix

21. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

By: Camonghne Felix

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

 When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"

-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

Cover of Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After by Chloé Hayden

22. Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

By: Chloé Hayden

4.34

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old… read more

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  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities."

-Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

Cover of Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer

23. 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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  • memoir
  • humor
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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

Cover of Nobody Wants Your Sh*t: The Art of Decluttering Before You Die by Messie Condo

24. Nobody Wants Your Sh*t: The Art of Decluttering Before You Die

By: Messie Condo

3.75

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Free yourself and your family from the f*cking clutter before you croak!   Inspired by The Gentle A… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall by Vitale Buford

25. Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall

By: Vitale Buford

3.69

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Perfection is a mask we use to avoid pain. We think that if we can achieve perfection, we will achi… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Manu by Kelly Fernandez

26. Manu

By: Kelly Fernandez

3.82

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Set at a magical school for girls, a funny and heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel adventure ab… read more

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27. Idiot

By: Laura Clery

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From YouTube star and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays in … read more

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  • memoir
  • humor
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Will Be Funny Later by Jenny Pentland

28. This Will Be Funny Later

By: Jenny Pentland

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding yo… read more

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  • memoir
  • humor
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack by Jim Dutcher

29. Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack

By: Jim Dutcher

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspira… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill by Amanda Rosenberg

30. That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill

By: Amanda Rosenberg

4.17

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Award-winning Asian British comedy writer Amanda Rosenberg presents an intimate memoir of confessio… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • humor
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"It's about how we've both been the worst and we're still trying our best."

-Amanda Rosenberg, That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill

Cover of Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques (-) by Fancy Feast

31. Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques (-)

By: Fancy Feast

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Naked , a celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker bares it all, with inc… read more

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  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

Cindy Lambert , Abby Johnson

4.31

Transform Your Habits

I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star

Judy Greer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

Karen Karbo

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir

Lisa F. Smith

4.15

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My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean

Amy Dresner

3.93

The Bitter Taste of Dying: A Memoir

Jason Smith

3.96

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Dry

Augusten Burroughs

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp

4.09

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