6 Top humor books like The Hungover Games: A True Story by Sophie Heawood

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The Hungover Games: A True Story

By: Sophie Heawood

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This "funny, dark, and true" (Caitlin Moran) memoir is Bridget Jones's Diary for the Fleabag What …

"A single mother! I’ll put you on the watchlist for post-natal depression then!’."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

"A single mother! I’ll put you on the watchlist for post-natal depression then!’."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

"She is the smallest person I have ever held and the biggest thing I have ever seen."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

"She is the smallest person I have ever held and the biggest thing I have ever seen."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

If you liked the humor plot in The Hungover Games: A True Story by Sophie Heawood , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Promising Young Women

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's Promising Young Women book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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2. Scenes of a Graphic Nature

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'Do you know what céad mile fáilte means?' 'A hundred thousand welcomes.' 'Not a hundred thousand… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's Scenes of a Graphic Nature book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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3. The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

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4. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • parenting
  • contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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5. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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6. What a Shame

By: Abigail Bergstrom

3.49

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The idea of a curse was divisive, but the assertion that I had, for some time now, been 'laden with… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Bergstrom's What a Shame book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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7. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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8. Mad Woman

By: Bryony Gordon

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years o… read more

Similar categories in Bryony Gordon's Mad Woman book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Milk Teeth book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • contemporary
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10. Good Material

By: Dolly Alderton

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • contemporary
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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11. Cleopatra and Frankenstein

By: Coco Mellors

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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12. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Gray's Green Dot book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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13. As Young as This

By: Roxy Dunn

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men M… read more

Similar categories in Roxy Dunn's As Young as This book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • contemporary
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14. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • contemporary
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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15. Adults

By: Emma Jane Unsworth

3.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool mag… read more

Similar categories in Emma Jane Unsworth's Adults book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • humor
  • british literature
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16. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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17. The Mess We’re In

By: Annie Macmanus

3.40

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more

Similar categories in Annie Macmanus's The Mess We’re In book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
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18. The Second Chance Store

By: Lauren Bravo

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Bravo's The Second Chance Store book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • humor
  • british literature
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19. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. Dear Dolly

By: Dolly Alderton

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Dear Dolly book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • contemporary
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

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21. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Weirdo book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • humor
  • british literature
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22. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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23. Limelight

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Limelight book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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24. Notes on Heartbreak

By: Annie Lord

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lord's Notes on Heartbreak book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • contemporary
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

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25. Lost Dog

By: Kate Spicer

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times top ten bestseller'Lost Dog is already one of my books of the year. Spicer writes … read more

Similar categories in Kate Spicer's Lost Dog book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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26. The Hungover Games: A True Story

By: Sophie Heawood

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This "funny, dark, and true" (Caitlin Moran) memoir is Bridget Jones's Diary for the Fleabag What … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"A single mother! I’ll put you on the watchlist for post-natal depression then!’."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

"She is the smallest person I have ever held and the biggest thing I have ever seen."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

"I am so used to being a rebel, or is it a narcissist, that I don’t know how to have a partner."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

"Meanwhile, I felt a strong urge to be honest everywhere and about everything, which is probably why I drank."

-Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

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27. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's The Amendments book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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28. Everyone I Know is Dying

By: Emily Slapper

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A razor-sharp, bleakly funny exploration of mental health crises, the societal pressures on young w… read more

Similar categories in Emily Slapper's Everyone I Know is Dying book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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29. Disturbance

By: Jenna Clake

3.15

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spellbinding, genre-bending debut that follows a woman’s attempt to heal from an abusive relation… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Clake's Disturbance book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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30. Versions of a Girl

By: Catherine Gray

4.01

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Do we become who we are because of our parents, or in spite of them?Fern's mother is a social climb… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Gray's Versions of a Girl book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • contemporary
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31. Pity Party

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Pity Party book and Sophie Heawood's The Hungover Games: A True Story

  • contemporary

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Caroline O'Donoghue

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Scenes of a Graphic Nature

Caroline O'Donoghue

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Transform Your Habits

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Claire Kilroy

4.10

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Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Mongrel

Hanako Footman

4.38

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Annie Macmanus

3.40

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Fearne Cotton

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