10 Best comedy books like Big Time by Jen Spyra

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Big Time

By: Jen Spyra

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The debut collection of raucous, dark, strange, satirical stories from the former Late Show with St…

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1. Spoiled Brats

By: Simon Rich

3.97

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

In his collection SPOILED BRATS, Simon Rich takes his absurd, culture-skewering style to new height… read more

Similar categories in Simon Rich's Spoiled Brats book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"The Benders had died in a helicopter explosion but were otherwise in perfect health."

-Simon Rich, Spoiled Brats

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2. Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper, #2)

By: Christopher Moore

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing--and you know that can't be g… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Moore's Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper, #2) book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • comedy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

3. Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

By: Jon Ronson

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times-bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, unc… read more

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4. The Worst Witch (Worst Witch, #1)

By: Jill Murphy

3.96

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Mildred Hubble is the worst witch at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches - she's always getting her s… read more

Similar categories in Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch (Worst Witch, #1) book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • fiction

5. MatchUp

By: Karin Slaughter , Lisa Jackson , John Sandford , Andrew Gross , Sandra Brown , Lee Child , Steve Berry , Charlaine Harris , Gayle Lynds , J.A. Jance , Kathy Reichs , David Morrell , C.J. Box , Lara Adrian , Diana Gabaldon , Lisa Scottoline , Val McDermid , Michael Koryta , Nelson DeMille , Eric Van Lustbader , Peter James , Christopher Rice

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAYbestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of t… read more

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6. A Gate at the Stairs

By: Lorrie Moore

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the … read more

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7. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

Similar categories in Dara Horn's People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • essays
  • audiobook
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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8. Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

4.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major biography of one of our most influential but least known judicial activists that pr… read more

Similar categories in Tomiko Brown-Nagin's Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • audiobook
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9. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

Similar categories in Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Several People Are Typing

By: Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more

Similar categories in Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

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11. 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 Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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12. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

Similar categories in Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs That Explain the '90s book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • adult
  • essays
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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13. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

By: Aparna Nancherla

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou… read more

Similar categories in Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • comedy
  • essays
  • audiobook
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14. Tomb Sweeping

By: Alexandra Chang

3.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Chang's Tomb Sweeping book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire-- a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970'… read more

Similar categories in Priya Guns's Your Driver Is Waiting book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was a woman who wasn’t going to take it anymore because I swear, I have taken so much already."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"This part of the city used to be cool because it wasn't but then it was forced to be a different of cool. A pricey. I think they call that gentrification."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

"I took the pack of cigarettes from my back pocket and lit one, watching Shereef's two other mechanics with their clients, hoping I wouldn't set off an explosion with my lighter."

-Priya Guns, Your Driver Is Waiting

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16. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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18. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

Similar categories in Bill Maher's What This Comedian Said Will Shock You book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • comedy
  • essays
  • audiobook
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19. New Teeth: Stories

By: Simon Rich

4.12

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Laugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning  “Serena Williams of hu… read more

Similar categories in Simon Rich's New Teeth: Stories book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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20. On Earth as It Is on Television

By: Emily Jane

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

First Contact stories have never been as intoxicating and fun as in Emily Jane’s novel of the sudde… read more

Similar categories in Emily Jane's On Earth as It Is on Television book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • fiction
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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21. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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22. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

Similar categories in Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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23. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's One of Our Kind book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. Sleep Tight

By: J.H. Markert

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this … read more

Similar categories in J.H. Markert's Sleep Tight book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. No One Asked for This: Essays

By: Cazzie David

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From writer Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about misanthropy, social m… read more

Similar categories in Cazzie David's No One Asked for This: Essays book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • short stories
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"I was so depressed last night that I read my horoscope"

-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays

"People who aren’t foreign who greet people by kissing them on the cheek cannot be trusted"

-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays

"Shit-talking, like improv or tennis, is most gratifying when you have someone to bounce things off of."

-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays

"I live every day like I’m dying, but not in the fun way where you live life to the fullest; in the miserable way where you live it to the emptiest."

-Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays

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26. Well, This Is Exhausting

By: Sophia Benoit

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Bustle columnist and Twitter sensation Sophia Benoit, this “charming and often laugh-out-loud … read more

Similar categories in Sophia Benoit's Well, This Is Exhausting book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • short stories
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. An Unlikely Spy

By: Rebecca Starford

3.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A beguiling tale of espionage." -- Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphans Tale and The Lost Girls of Pa… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Starford's An Unlikely Spy book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. If You See Me, Don't Say Hi

By: Neel Patel

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In these eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotyp… read more

Similar categories in Neel Patel's If You See Me, Don't Say Hi book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I wasn't always this way. But the friction of life has a way of turning sharp edges into smooth ones, smooth edges into sharp ones, until you've become a duller, slightly misshapen version of your fo…"

-Neel Patel, If You See Me, Don't Say Hi

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29. Big Time

By: Jen Spyra

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The debut collection of raucous, dark, strange, satirical stories from the former Late Show with St… read more

Similar categories in Jen Spyra's Big Time book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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30. We Love Anderson Cooper

By: R.L. Maizes

3.76

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In this quirky, humorous, and deeply human short story collection, Pushcart Prize-nominated author … read more

Similar categories in R.L. Maizes's We Love Anderson Cooper book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. Glory Days: Stories

By: Simon Rich

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Audiobook

The new collection of stories capturing the travails of aging Millennials from “one of the funniest… read more

Similar categories in Simon Rich's Glory Days: Stories book and Jen Spyra's Big Time

  • humor
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook

27 Top audiobook books like Big Time by Jen Spyra

Transform Your Habits

Spoiled Brats

Simon Rich

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Secondhand Souls (Grim Reaper, #2)

Christopher Moore

3.75

Transform Your Habits

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

4.38

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11 must-read audiobook books like People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

Transform Your Habits

Jews Don't Count

David Baddiel

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)

Sarah Hurwitz

4.44

Transform Your Habits

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Noa Tishby

4.34

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