10 must-read biography books like Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke by London Hughes

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Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

By: London Hughes

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From stand-up comedian, actress, and host of  The Netflix Afterparty,  London Hughes, comes an upli…

If you liked the biography plot in Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke by London Hughes , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Freshwater

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.02

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more

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"It wasn’t me,"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

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2. The Pumpkin Eater

By: Penelope Mortimer

4.02

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The unnamed narrator of this story is married to her fourth and excessively well-paid husband. This… read more

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3. Under the Net

By: Iris Murdoch

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more

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4. In Watermelon Sugar

By: Richard Brautigan

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the … read more

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5. Beyond Black

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more

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6. Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

By: Nina Stibbe

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and tr… read more

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7. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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8. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

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  • audiobook
"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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9. 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 London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more

Similar categories in Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • audiobook
Cover of Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla

11. 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 London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

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  • audiobook
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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13. My Phantoms

By: Gwendoline Riley

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Bridget's mother is dying. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong place… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Mrs. Caliban

By: Rachel Ingalls

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and “… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • audiobook
"Drugs,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Why do you call him a monster?"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"I can’t imagine living in a different time,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig."

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

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15. Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life

By: Daniel Sloss

3.94

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

From one of today’s hottest young comedians, a transgressive and hilarious deep-dive into his favor… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Sloss's Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Focus on the now...Life is a series of infinite Nows."

-Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life

"My point is that life is long, and parts of it can be immensely shitty. You shouldn't focus on the future because you've got little control over it. All you can do is make sure the steps you take now…"

-Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life

"A lot of people like to listen to people talk about death because we don't do it enough...We make it taboo, and I think that gives it too much power...I hope that for some of you, this made sense. Th…"

-Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life

"I'm thirty years old, and I have signed five separate divorce papers. None of them were mine. Don't worry. I was merely autographing the papers of people whose divorces I've caused. They lined up, in…"

-Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life

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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 London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • audiobook
"...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. 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 London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • humor
  • audiobook
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18. Rebel Rising

By: Rebel Wilson

3.91

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more

Similar categories in Rebel Wilson's Rebel Rising book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

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19. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

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  • audiobook
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21. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

Similar categories in Paul Scheer's Joyful Recollections of Trauma book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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22. Homebodies

By: Tembe Denton-Hurst

3.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young … read more

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  • audiobook
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23. The Kellerby Code

By: Jonny Sweet

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of I Curse You With Joy by Tiffany Haddish

24. I Curse You With Joy

By: Tiffany Haddish

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Tiffany Haddish is back with her highly anticipated new essay collection, I Curse You With Joy … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Representation isn’t just checking off boxes, it’s validating experience."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"What I was learning was, in its own fucked up way, no feelings was as bad as too many."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"I wish that men got endometriosis. If it was painful when they ejaculated, you know they would find a cure immediately and every doctor would know what to do to make it less painful, even a foot doct…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"Going through all that, taught me that you get to choose your response when you are afraid. You might not be able to control everything that happens to you but you do get to control how you respond t…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

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25. Survival of the Thickest: Essays

By: Michelle Buteau

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the stand-up comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and una… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Buteau's Survival of the Thickest: Essays book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation by Sarah  Cooper

26. Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation

By: Sarah Cooper

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Cooper's Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend by M.J. Wassmer

27. Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend

By: M.J. Wassmer

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapp… read more

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  • humor
  • audiobook
Cover of Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke by London Hughes

28. Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

By: London Hughes

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From stand-up comedian, actress, and host of  The Netflix Afterparty,  London Hughes, comes an upli… read more

Similar categories in London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke book and London Hughes's Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak

29. The Banned Books Club

By: Brenda Novak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

She left her hometown following a scandal—but family loyalty is dragging her back… Despite their… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of This Might Be Too Personal by Alyssa Shelasky

30. This Might Be Too Personal

By: Alyssa Shelasky

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A frisky, feminine, funny, and profoundly genuine essay collection on relationships, sex, motherhoo… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

24 must-read audiobook books like Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke by London Hughes

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Y/N

Esther Yi

2.95

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Bookseller

Alice Slater

3.48

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Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

Janice Hallett

3.95

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