13 must-read humor books like Very British Problems: The Most Awkward One Yet by Rob Temple

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Very British Problems: The Most Awkward One Yet

By: Rob Temple

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever . . . *Watched in horror as someone helps themselves to the last roast potato? …

If you liked the humor plot in Very British Problems: The Most Awkward One Yet by Rob Temple , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Mack the Life: The Autobiography

By: Lee Mack

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, heartfelt and hilarious insight into the life of one of our most popular comedians.   … read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction

2. Brit-Think, Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guide

By: Jane Walmsley

4.11

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

When it comes to understanding the great cultural ocean that divides Brits and Yanks, it's not just… read more

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3. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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5. Murder Mystery Book Club (Florida Keys Bed & Breakfast Cozy Mystery, #1)

By: Danielle Collins

3.98

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

Eva Stewart runs a charming bed and breakfast in the Florida Keys with her talkative parrot. One of… read more

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6. The Mother

By: T.M. Logan

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Framed for murder. Now she's free . . . A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and w… read more

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7. Notes on a Nervous Planet

By: Matt Haig

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader loo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Be kind to yourself."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Don’t worry about things you can’t control."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Don’t let anyone or anything make you feel you aren’t enough."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Accept feelings and accept that they are just that: feelings."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

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8. The Echo Chamber

By: John Boyne

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Ra… read more

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  • humor
"They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

"I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

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9. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

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10. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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11. The Guilty Couple

By: C.L. Taylor

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Five years ago, Olivia Sutherland was wrongfully convicted of plotting to murder her husband. No… read more

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12. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

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13. Best of Luck

By: Jason Mott

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you ever hear the one about the man with a string of bad luck? The worst is still to come in a … read more

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14. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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15. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

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  • humor
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16. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
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17. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

By: Jimmy Carr

4.06

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians* In his mid-twen… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
"Here’s my advice for dealing with family trauma: accept the apology you’re never going to get and move on. There, I just saved you £25,000 in therapy. You’re welcome."

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

"Have you ever been to the Parthenon in Athens? If you’ve seen a photo, it’s nice, right? The photo is nice, but the real thing is fucking amazing. That’s like you. The best photo of you is nothing li…"

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

"But here’s the thing about being human: if we put off doing anything risky for long enough, fear will attach itself. Then what happens is that fear will attract even more fear until the fear becomes …"

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

"If you can be with a loved one when they die, you should. Her hands getting cold as the circulation shuts down, her breathing getting heavy, the death rattle. Bearing witness to a death is an incredi…"

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

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19. A Tidy Ending

By: Joanna Cannon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A delightfully sinister novel about a married woman living a nice, quiet suburban life—but things a… read more

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20. 1989 (Allie Burns, #2)

By: Val McDermid

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestsel… read more

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21. The Ark Files (Eden Black Archaeological Thrillers #1)

By: Luke Richardson

4.11

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine a secret manuscript that could change the world, and you’re the only person who knows where… read more

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22. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

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  • humor
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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23. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

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  • humor
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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24. The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age

By: Claudia Hammond

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we fee… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

By: Shaun Bythell

3.48

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and throu… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
"It should go without saying that anyone who introduces themselves as 'a bit weird' is almost certainly not."

-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

"This group derives an alternate sort of gratification from the fact that their niche obsession somehow differentiates them from other people, mistakenly assuming that it makes them more interesting."

-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

"It's not as though there is anything wrong with being American, although perhaps in a land of immigrants the only way to differentiate yourself is to cling onto a piece of the land you left, even if …"

-Shaun Bythell, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

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26. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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  • nonfiction
"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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27. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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28. The Book That No One Wanted to Read

By: Richard Ayoade

3.74

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From actor-author-broadcaster-comedian-filmmaker Richard Ayoade comes a book narrated by . . . a bo… read more

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  • humor
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29. Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)

By: Claudia Gray

4.17

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected offer threatens the bond between Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi as the two Jedi navi… read more

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"Many paths can lead to the dark side."

-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)

"There was no Jedi so wise that he could not be undone by his own assumptions."

-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)

"What action could not do, diplomacy might accomplish. Or, failing that, money."

-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)

"His shifted his voice into an imitation of Yoda's. 'Up the hell he should shut."

-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)

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30. Did Anyone Else See That Coming...?

By: Iain Hollingshead

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned w… read more

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  • humor
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31. Very British Problems: The Most Awkward One Yet

By: Rob Temple

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever . . . *Watched in horror as someone helps themselves to the last roast potato? … read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction

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Mack the Life: The Autobiography

Lee Mack

3.75

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Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley

4.20

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Matt Haig

3.96

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Bob Mortimer

4.33

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4.10

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Sebastian Barry

3.85

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