When You Are Engulfed in Flames
By: David Sedaris
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them retur…
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1. Summary & Study Guide Naked by David Sedaris
By: BookRags
4.42
Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition
Naked Study Guide consists of approx. 29 pages of summaries and analysis on Naked by David Sedaris.… read more
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2. How Did You Get This Number
By: Sloane Crosley
3.94
Format: None pages,
A brand-new book of hilarious and insightful personal essays by the iconic, irresistible Sloane Cro… read more
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- memoir
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- essays
- audiobook
3. Yes Please
By: Amy Poehler
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of perso… read more
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- memoir
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4. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
By: Jenny Lawson
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, Jenny Lawson baffled readers with stories about growing up th… read more
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- audiobook
5. America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
By: Stephen Colbert , Tom Johnson , David Javerbaum , Jon Stewart , Steve Bodow , Samantha Bee , Ben Karlin , Brendan Hay , None , Tim Carvell , None , None , Scott Jacobson , None , Chris Regan , None , Jason Ross , None , None
2.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots… read more
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- humor
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- audiobook
6. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
By: David Sedaris
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them retur… read more
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7. Possible Side Effects
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.90
Format: 144 pages,
National Bestseller From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Running with Scissorscomes Augu… read more
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- memoir
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8. Bossypants
By: Tina Fey
2.74
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl wit… read more
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9. Magical Thinking: True Stories
By: Augusten Burroughs
4.26
Format: 192 pages,
From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming… read more
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10. Dry
By: Augusten Burroughs
4.03
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on … read more
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"I was drunk from the attention"-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade."-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"It's amazing how drunk you can be without alcohol."-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all."-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
11. Why Not Me?
By: Mindy Kaling
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of the beloved New York Timesbestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? a… read more
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- memoir
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12. A Wolf at the Table
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead bod… read more
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- humor
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- memoir
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13. You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed S… read more
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14. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
By: Allie Brosh
4.17
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to ex… read more
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- nonfiction
- comedy
"I couldn't even muster the enthusiasm to hate myself anymore."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"On a fundamental level, I am someone who would throw sand at children."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"I don't just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"We're going to play a different game now. It's called "who can yell 'help' the loudest and the most."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
15. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
By: Christopher Moore
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Paperback
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacri… read more
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16. Running With Scissors
By: Augusten Burroughs
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
17. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
By: Anthony Bourdain
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more
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18. Sellevision
By: Augusten Burroughs
4.40
Format: None pages,
The hilarious first novel by the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Dry, A Wolf at the… read more
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19. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
By: Samantha Irby
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in R… read more
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20. A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
By: Christopher Moore
4.03
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who a… read more
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"So Now You're Death: Here's What You'll Need"-Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
"He wanted her to experience all the glorious cheese of life."-Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
"Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate."-Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
"What the hell good was it to be the Lord of the Underworld if there was fuzz on your underdone toast."-Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
21. I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
By: Amy Sedaris
4.15
Format: None pages,
Are you lacking direction in how to whip up a swanky soiree for lumberjacks? A dinner party for whi… read more
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22. I Am America
By: Stephen Colbert , Glenn Eichler , Tom Purcell , Paul Dinello , Frank Lesser , Allison Silverman , None , None , Michael Brumm , None , None , None , None , None
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Congratulations--just by opening the cover of this book you became 25% more patriotic. From Stephen… read more
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23. Sh*t My Dad Says
By: Justin Halpern
3.90
Format: None pages, Hardcover
After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself l… read more
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24. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
By: Jenny Lawson
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris--Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her lit… read more
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25. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
By: Chelsea Handler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power - vodka… read more
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26. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
By: Mindy Kaling
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster … read more
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27. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
By: Steven Lomazow
4.33
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more
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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
28. Saint Richard Parker
By: Merlin Franco
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...… read more
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"See you later, tailgater."-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
"Dark is beautiful, brother."-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
"Tell me, son, what do you seek?"-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
"A saint has control over his anger and itches."-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
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29. The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
By: Nancy Omeara
4.33
Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition
Tired of the "them or us" politics that the Democrats and Republicans are pushing down our throats?… read more
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- humor
"It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant “Criminal Trials, Not Missiles"-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
"Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place. Maybe we can learn from history before it happens."-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
"I wheeled and dealed with leaders from all over the world on behalf of the American people. In fact, my favorite headline from Washington Speaks magazine was “She Walks, She Talks, She Negotiates"-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
"Educate not Legislate Refusing to pass unnecessary laws requires a converse – encouraging education and understanding. We started by slashing the salaries of legislators (Dubbed “Bloodbath on the Bel…"-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
30. 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
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- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
31. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- humor
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
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- audiobook
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
