9 Best comedy books like Every Day is an Atheist Holiday by Penn Jillette

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Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

By: Penn Jillette

4.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The larger, louder half of legendary magic act Penn & Teller, and New York Times bestselling author…

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1. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

By: Anne Fadiman

4.10

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Anne Fadiman is (by her own admission) the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
  • memoir
"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

"I have never been able to resist a book about books."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

"Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

"I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions."

-Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

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2. The Colorado Kid

By: Stephen King

3.38

Format: 178 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. On… read more

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"Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see."

-Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging hi…"

-Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

"Todos cayeron del árbol y se rompieron el brazo alguna vez, todos recuerdan lo travieso que fueron cuando eran niños, lo que no recuerdan, es a sus madres levantándose en medio de la noche para darle…"

-Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

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3. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.96

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more

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  • atheism
  • nonfiction
  • religion
"Actually, the “leap of faith"

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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4. The Know-It-All

By: None , A.J. Jacobs

3.76

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

33,000 Pages 44 Million Words 10 Billion Years Of History 1 Obsessed Man Part memoir and part… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
  • memoir
"I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know."

-None, The Know-It-All

"My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life."

-None, The Know-It-All

"Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system."

-None, The Know-It-All

"One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations."

-None, The Know-It-All

Cover of Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

5. Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

4.29

Format: None pages,

The hilarious behind-the-scenes story of two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld--… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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6. Little Brother

By: Cory Doctorow

3.57

Format: None pages,

Marcus aka "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system w… read more

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7. Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

By: Penn Jillette

4.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The larger, louder half of legendary magic act Penn & Teller, and New York Times bestselling author… read more

Similar categories in Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • atheism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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8. A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today

By: Kate Bornstein

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twe… read more

Similar categories in Kate Bornstein's A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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9. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.70

Format: 339 pages,

Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

10. The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

"McGee has become part of our national fabric."SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER Beautiful girls always gr… read more

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11. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

By: Sarah Silverman

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne Sarah Silverman comes a memoir--her firs… read more

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12. Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer--America's Deadliest Serial Murderer

By: Ann Rule

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

In her most personal and provocative book to date, the #1 bestselling master of true crime presents… read more

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13. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s

By: Gary Gulman

4.14

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth gr… read more

Similar categories in Gary Gulman's Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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14. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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15. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jones's Leslie F*cking Jones book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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16. 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

Similar categories in Jimmy Carr's Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
"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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17. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

By: John McWhorter

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

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18. Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

By: Kevin Kelly

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The end is almost always the beginning of something better."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"The very best thing you can do for your kids is to love your spouse."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"Don’t treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

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19. My Vagina Smells Like Sulfur: Extreme Horror

By: Sea Caummisar

3.11

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

Title: My Vagina Smells Like Sulfur: Description... The dark web has convinced people that the se… read more

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20. Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)

By: John Scalzi

4.04

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

In the world of the Dispatchers, a natural or accidental death is an endpoint; a murder pushes the … read more

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"John Scalzi “I want you to know there was some discussion about whether to make the pizza." "Because it's a Hawaiian pizza?" "Yeah. We have a new employee who makes the pizzas. He considers pineapple…"

-John Scalzi, Murder by Other Means (The Dispatcher, #2)

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21. Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy

By: Judd Apatow

3.79

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An all-new collection of honest, hilarious, and enlightening conversati… read more

Similar categories in Judd Apatow's Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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22. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

By: Coleman Hughes

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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23. A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

By: Mike Rinder

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • memoir
"The fear of psychiatry is one of the hardest ideas to shake when you escape from the mind-prison."

-Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

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24. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

By: Kenan Thompson

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When I Was Your Age  is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more

Similar categories in Kenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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25. The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime

By: Renee Dudley

3.88

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersec… read more

Similar categories in Renee Dudley's The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • nonfiction
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26. The Final Case

By: David Guterson

3.12

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son… read more

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27. Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.82

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children i… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
Cover of Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at Happy Hour by Ross Mathews

28. Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at Happy Hour

By: Ross Mathews

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

In Name Drop, Ross dishes about being an unlikely insider in the alternate reality that is showbiz,… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
Cover of You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult by Lane Moore

29. You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult

By: Lane Moore

3.29

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From Lane Moore, the critically acclaimed author of How to Be Alone, comes a searingly intimate, ye… read more

Similar categories in Lane Moore's You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult book and Penn Jillette's Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire: True Tales from the ER by Dr. McAnonymous

30. The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire: True Tales from the ER

By: Dr. McAnonymous

3.84

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire: True Tales from the ER is a collection of amazing, bizarre, but… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Dogma of Rufus: A Canine Guide to Eating, Sleeping, Digging, Slobbering, Scratching, and Surviving with Humans by Rufus

31. The Dogma of Rufus: A Canine Guide to Eating, Sleeping, Digging, Slobbering, Scratching, and Surviving with Humans

By: Rufus

3.63

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

So, you’ve been ripped out from your mother’s paws and taken in by a strange family of humans that … read more

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  • humor

14 best-selling humor books like Every Day is an Atheist Holiday by Penn Jillette

Transform Your Habits

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Anne Fadiman

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Know-It-All

None , A.J. Jacobs

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

Penn Jillette

4.38

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7 Best humor books like The Dogma of Rufus: A Canine Guide to Eating, Sleeping, Digging, Slobbering, Scratching, and Surviving with Humans by Rufus

Transform Your Habits

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Jenny Lawson

3.84

You Are Dead.

Andrew Stanek

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

Penn Jillette

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

Laurie Notaro

3.97

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