5 must-read humor books like How to Be Human The Manual by Ruby Wax

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How to Be Human The Manual

By: Ruby Wax

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Upgrade je brein met Ruby Wax.Wat krijg je als je een monnik, een neurowetenschapper en comédienne …

"唯有寬恕自己,才能寬恕他人。與其總是為了人生的種種不滿找個人來怪罪,我們也許可以透過將「不像我們」的人們視為「如同我們」的人,而最終與所有人產生連結並和解。"

-Ruby Wax, How to Be Human The Manual

"唯有寬恕自己,才能寬恕他人。與其總是為了人生的種種不滿找個人來怪罪,我們也許可以透過將「不像我們」的人們視為「如同我們」的人,而最終與所有人產生連結並和解。"

-Ruby Wax, How to Be Human The Manual

"唯有寬恕自己,才能寬恕他人。與其總是為了人生的種種不滿找個人來怪罪,我們也許可以透過將「不像我們」的人們視為「如同我們」的人,而最終與所有人產生連結並和解。"

-Ruby Wax, How to Be Human The Manual

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1. Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

By: Russell Brand

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, fo… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The condition in extreme is identifiable but the less obvious version of addiction is still painful and arguably worse because we simply adapt to living in pain."

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

"The reason I continue to is because they have awakened me to the impossibility of happiness based on my previous world view: that I am the centre of the world and that what I want is important."

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

"The feeling you have that 'there's something else' is real. What happens when you don't follow the compulsion? What is on the other side of my need [...]? The only way to find out is to not do it, an…"

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

"The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately 'being human' in an environment that i…"

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

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2. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor book and Ruby Wax's How to Be Human The Manual

  • science
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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3. Why Mummy Drinks

By: Gill Sims

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why Mummy Drinks is the brilliant novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter an… read more

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  • humor
  • audiobook
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4. Happy: Finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect

By: Fearne Cotton

2.62

Format: 224 pages,

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Blind Eye (Logan McRae, #5)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

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  • audiobook

6. The Descent of Man

By: Grayson Perry

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys ar… read more

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7. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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8. Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

By: Scarlett Curtis

4.01

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

An urgent and inspirational collection of essays by a diverse group of celebrities, activists, and … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"because Beyoncé"

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

"No one gains when a culture exploits itself."

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

"Feminism is layered and its power comes from its diversity."

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

"She has a voice. If you can't hear it, maybe it's because you're too busy talking."

-Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them

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9. 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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  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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

-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

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10. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

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  • mental health
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

Cover of Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television by Louis Theroux

12. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

By: Louis Theroux

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, pr… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. My Name Is Why

By: Lemn Sissay

4.29

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy by Joshua Fletcher

14. And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy

By: Joshua Fletcher

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of the therapist's office? Psychotherapi… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter by Angela Hui

15. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

By: Angela Hui

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring

By: Davina McCall

4.31

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or sile… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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17. My Thoughts Exactly

By: Lily Allen

3.97

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I … read more

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Shagged, Married Annoyed

By: Chris Ramsey

4.00

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite

By: Andrew Jenkinson

4.22

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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20. The Other Ones

By: Fran Hart

3.85

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Sal lives in a haunted house. He longs to be ordinary, but when the strangest of strangers arrives… read more

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21. How to Fail

By: Elizabeth Day

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

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22. Delicacy

By: Katy Wix

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-one snapshots of a life - some staccato, raw and shocking, some expansive, meditative, and p… read more

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Everyone has the right to own a doll that looks like them."

-Katy Wix, Delicacy

"If I lived in a village now, which I don't, I'd probably be the witch."

-Katy Wix, Delicacy

"My mother's hopes for me were that I would always be happy and thin. My hope for her was that she would never leave me."

-Katy Wix, Delicacy

"I find myself absorbing your traits. I eat the foods you like and I use your favourite words. I say our jokes to myself. And I've come up with some new ones for us too."

-Katy Wix, Delicacy

Cover of A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st Century by Gelong Thubten

23. A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st Century

By: Gelong Thubten

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness for the Modern Day In our never-ending search for happines… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Is there a difference between meditation and mindfulness? In modern times, meditation has in some way been rebranded as mindfulness to make it more accessible from a deeper perspective when, in fact,…"

-Gelong Thubten, A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st Century

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24. Speak Your Truth: Connecting With Your Inner Truth and Learning to Find Your Voice

By: Fearne Cotton

3.77

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

Fearne Cotton's voice is familiar to millions, whether that's through television, radio or on her h… read more

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  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings by Susie Dent

25. Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings

By: Susie Dent

3.51

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you know that... STEALING SOMEONE'S THUNDER is based on a real event; The original FREELA… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer by Evie King

26. Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

By: Evie King

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

‘I’ve a body out the back for you...' Imagine having that sentence said to you. And then imagine… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Happy

By: Ferne Cotton

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Advice on how to deal with Mental health issues read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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28. Wisdom from a Humble Jellyfish: And Other Self-Care Rituals from Nature

By: Rani Shah

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A delightfully illustrated guide to harnessing the rhythms of nature for self-care.We could all lea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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29. Life, Death and Biscuits

By: Anthea Allen

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life by Tom Templeton

30. 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life

By: Tom Templeton

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

We ask so much of our doctors. To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. To tell a man he'll die tomor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
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31. How to Be Human The Manual

By: Ruby Wax

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Upgrade je brein met Ruby Wax.Wat krijg je als je een monnik, een neurowetenschapper en comédienne … read more

Similar categories in Ruby Wax's How to Be Human The Manual book and Ruby Wax's How to Be Human The Manual

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • health
  • humor
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
"唯有寬恕自己,才能寬恕他人。與其總是為了人生的種種不滿找個人來怪罪,我們也許可以透過將「不像我們」的人們視為「如同我們」的人,而最終與所有人產生連結並和解。"

-Ruby Wax, How to Be Human The Manual

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Russell Brand

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Adam Kay

4.40

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Why Mummy Drinks

Gill Sims

3.85

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Happy: Finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect

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