10 best-selling humor books like I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders) by Jason Gay

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I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders)

By: Jason Gay

3.81

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author of Little Victories takes a humorous and i…

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1. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ Bestselling author Bernard Co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. The CEO of the Sofa

By: P.J. O'Rourke

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Barnes & Noble ReviewIn his bestselling Eat the Rich, smart-mouthed Republican commentator P. J… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays

3. Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty

By: None

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From comedian and writer (Parks and Recreation, Eastbound & Down)Harris Wittels comes a hysterical … read more

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4. Holidays in Heck

By: P.J. O'Rourke

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Hardcover

P.J. O'Rourke is one of today's most celebrated political humorists, and has been hailed as "the fu… read more

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5. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

By: Buzz Bissinger

3.81

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us

By: Kristin Chenoweth

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Aristotle. Socrates. Descartes. And now, Chenoweth. (How about some women, am I right?) From tel… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"I actually find questions a lot more interesting than answers. Questions are usually honest while answers are frequently BS. A question is a starting point, a door that swings open and invites a host…"

-Kristin Chenoweth, I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us

"There’s a difference between humiliation and humility. Humiliation lies. Humility speaks truth. Humiliation silences you. Humility empowers you. Humiliation is a byproduct of conflict with someone el…"

-Kristin Chenoweth, I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us

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7. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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8. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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9. Got Your Number: The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own

By: Mike Greenberg

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

ESPN personality ( Get Up and #Greeny ) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partne… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light

By: Helen Ellis

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny,… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"but there were ceiling fans, which is my idea of nature."

-Helen Ellis, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light

"first choice had been to rent a cabin in the woods, but that is too much nature. I don't do cabins in the woods because I have seen too many movies about cabins in the woods. If someone wants to murd…"

-Helen Ellis, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light

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11. The Incomplete Book of Running

By: Peter Sagal

3.86

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s beloved show Wait Wait..Don’t Tell Me and a popular columnist for Ru… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Perhaps you would like to start running. You never have tried before, or you did and you hated it, and now you wonder how to begin moving in a way that will keep you going. Get up. Start. Go. Move. T…"

-Peter Sagal, The Incomplete Book of Running

"If there is any true value in running as a sport, it is that it is a great leveler. Runners don't gear up, armoring ourselves like football players; we strip down to the minimum and empty our hands a…"

-Peter Sagal, The Incomplete Book of Running

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12. Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)

By: Alexandra Petri

3.67

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri’s US History is the fake textbook … read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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13. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live by Dan Ahdoot

14. 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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15. Tom Seaver: A Terrific Life

By: Bill Madden

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative, “must-read” (Keith Hernandez) biography of Hall of Fame pitching legend Tom Seave… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Laugh Lines: Forty Years Trying to Make Funny People Funnier by Alan Zweibel

16. Laugh Lines: Forty Years Trying to Make Funny People Funnier

By: Alan Zweibel

4.09

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

WITH THIS TENDER, FUNNY MEMOIR OF FOUR DECADES IN THE BUSINESS ALAN ZWEIBEL TRACES THE HISTORY OF A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It by Mark Bowden

18. The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It

By: Mark Bowden

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies foug… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. True Facts that Sound Like Bulls#*t: 500 Insane-But-True Facts That Will Shock And Impress Your Friends

By: Shane Carley

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Prove your awesomeness—or bolster your stockpile of conversation starters! Either way, prove you’re… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders)

By: Jason Gay

3.81

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author of Little Victories takes a humorous and i… read more

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  • humor
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  • essays
  • audiobook
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21. Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays

By: Joseph Epstein

4.26

Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein. America’… read more

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16 best-selling audiobook books like I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders) by Jason Gay

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Bernard Cornwell

4.23

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3.52

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4.22

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3.60

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Henry Winkler

4.14

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Maria Bamford

3.77

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