9 Top humor books like Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13) by Lynn Johnston

Cover of Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13) by Lynn Johnston

Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

By: Lynn Johnston

4.36

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Pattersons face the daily challenges of raising three growing kids, an aging sheepdog named Far…

If you liked the humor plot in Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13) by Lynn Johnston , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Arabian Nights by Anonymous, Richard Francis Burton, A.S. Byatt

1. The Arabian Nights

By: Anonymous , Richard Francis Burton , A.S. Byatt

4.03

Format: 1049 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most fa… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's The Arabian Nights book and Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

"Experience shapes perception."

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

"It is amazing what women in love will do"

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

"If you need a hug, give it to someone else."

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

"Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!"

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

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2. So You've Been Publicly Shamed

By: Jon Ronson

3.93

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more

Similar categories in Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed book and Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

  • humor
"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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3. A Thousand Acres

By: Jane Smiley

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more

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"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

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4. A Town Like Alice

By: Nevil Shute

4.15

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the… read more

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"It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback."

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

"Men's souls are naturally inclined to covetousness; but if ye be kind towards women and fear to wrong them, God is well acquainted with what ye do."

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

"People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp."

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

"It was so beautiful', he said. 'the Three Pagodas Pass must be one of the loveliest places in the world. you've got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the mo…"

-Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

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5. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)

By: Judy Blume

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether … read more

Similar categories in Judy Blume's Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1) book and Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

  • humor
Cover of Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1) by Jacqueline Winspear

6. Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.59

Format: 320 pages,

Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence--and the patronag… read more

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7. No Yelling!: A Baby Blues Collection

By: Jerry Scott , Rick Kirkman

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Still crazy after all these years! Behold Wanda and Darryl MacPherson as they navigate the chaos of… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Scott's No Yelling!: A Baby Blues Collection book and Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
  • comic strips
Cover of A Suitable Vengeance (Inspector Lynley, #4) by Elizabeth  George

8. A Suitable Vengeance (Inspector Lynley, #4)

By: Elizabeth George

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspec… read more

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9. Homer Price

By: Robert McCloskey

4.09

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more

Similar categories in Robert McCloskey's Homer Price book and Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

  • humor
"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"

-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price

10. Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)

By: Donna Leon

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, h… read more

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11. Payment in Blood (Inspector Lynley, #2)

By: Elizabeth George

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish … read more

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12. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

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  • humor
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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13. The White Lady

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more

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"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

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14. Solutions and Other Problems

By: Allie Brosh

4.21

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

Allie Brosh returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. … read more

Similar categories in Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems book and Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comedy
  • comics
"If you can't win, start playing a different game and score just as many points."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"Death can take away your friends and pets, but it can't take away the weird shit they did."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"That's the scary thing about decisions: you don't know what they are when you're making them."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"Woah there, Scooter...looks like you might be starting to veer towards nihilism...anyway, it's sand time now."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

Cover of Teacher's Pet (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels, #2) by Nicole Andelfinger

15. Teacher's Pet (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels, #2)

By: Nicole Andelfinger

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Library Binding

It's Elizabeth's turn in the spotlight... but does Jessica deserve it more? The Wakefield twins ret… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Andelfinger's Teacher's Pet (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels, #2) book and Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

  • graphic novels
  • comics
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16. The House Is on Fire

By: Rachel Beanland

4.10

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction abou… read more

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"If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you."

-Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

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17. Deliciously FoxTrot (Volume 43)

By: Bill Amend

4.10

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The first FoxTrot book collection in two years includes two-and-a-half years of full color FoxTrot … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • humor
  • comics
  • comic strips
  • cartoon
Cover of Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper

18. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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19. When We Had Wings

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses station… read more

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20. Midnight Snack (Zits)

By: Jerry Scott

4.42

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Featuring the entire run of Zits comics from 2021, this treasury by award-winning duo Jerry Scott a… read more

Similar categories in Jerry Scott's Midnight Snack (Zits) book and Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

  • comics
Cover of Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13) by Lynn Johnston

21. Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

By: Lynn Johnston

4.36

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Pattersons face the daily challenges of raising three growing kids, an aging sheepdog named Far… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13) book and Lynn Johnston's Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

  • comedy
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
  • comic strips
  • cartoon
Cover of Stink Eye: A Baby Blues Collection by Rick Kirkman

22. Stink Eye: A Baby Blues Collection

By: Rick Kirkman

4.51

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

In the newest Baby Blues scrapbook, cartoonists Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman have returned with ano… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics

5 best-selling graphic novels books like Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13) by Lynn Johnston

Transform Your Habits

No Yelling!: A Baby Blues Collection

Jerry Scott , Rick Kirkman

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Solutions and Other Problems

Allie Brosh

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Teacher's Pet (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels, #2)

Nicole Andelfinger

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Starting from Scratch (For Better or For Worse, #13)

Lynn Johnston

4.36

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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