15 Best comedy books like You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein

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Similar categories in Lindy West's Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• comedy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rachel Dratch's Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• comedy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Al Franken's The Truth with Jokes book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's We Are Never Meeting In Real Life book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

Similar categories in Cherie Carter-Scott's If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules: 10 Rules for Finding Love and Creating Long-Lasting, Authentic Relationships book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

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"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

Similar categories in Merlin Franco's Saint Richard Parker book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• humor
• comedy

"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

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• nonfiction
• biography
• memoir
• audiobook

Similar categories in Nancy Omeara's The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far] book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• 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]

Similar categories in Britney Spears's The Woman in Me book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• nonfiction
• biography
• memoir
• audiobook

"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• audiobook

"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• humor
• comedy
• audiobook

"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

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 Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• comedy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Leslie Jones's Leslie F*cking Jones book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• comedy
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in David Sedaris's Happy-Go-Lucky book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• comedy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"

-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

Similar categories in Molly Shannon's Hello, Molly!: A Memoir book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• comedy
• audiobook

"But I thought, I can do whatever I want. I can be friends with whoever I want. I'm going to be friends with the freaks and the geeks and I don't have to fit into any clique. And I'm Free! And I like …"

-Molly Shannon, Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

Similar categories in Casey Wilson's The Wreckage of My Presence book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• comedy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Colin Jost's A Very Punchable Face book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• comedy
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"As Lorne says, 'Careers are made by choices."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"Every public golf course on Staten Island has a secret alter ego."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"When you go to auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.' -Paula Abdul"

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"I now hate the phrase ‘That will work.’ It’s such a mediocre goal to set for yourself."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

Similar categories in Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• comedy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Kate Kennedy's One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• audiobook

"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Similar categories in Minka Kelly's Tell Me Everything book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• nonfiction
• biography
• memoir
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• audiobook

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• comedy
• 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

Similar categories in Gary Janetti's Do You Mind If I Cancel?: Things That Still Annoy Me book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• comedy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Danny Pellegrino's How Do I Un-Remember This?: Unfortunately True Stories book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• comedy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Gary Janetti's Start Without Me (I'll Be There in a Minute) book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• comedy
• audiobook

Similar categories in Stephanie McNeal's Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers book and Jessi Klein's You'll Grow Out of It

• nonfiction
• memoir
• audiobook