Calypso
By: David Sedaris
4.11
Format: 272 pages, ebook
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever la…
Want to Read $ 11.99"In France the most often used word is “connerie,"-David Sedaris, Calypso
"A young couple strolls by, the adoration of one bouncing off the tolerance of the other."-David Sedaris, Calypso
"We’re like a pair of bad trapeze artists, reaching for each other’s hands and missing every time"-David Sedaris, Calypso
"We're not pessimists, exactly, but in late middle age, when you envision your life ten years down the line, you're more likely to see a bedpan than a Tony Award."-David Sedaris, Calypso
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1. 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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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
2. Understanding Troubled Minds: A Guide to Mental Illness and Its Treatment
By: Sidney Bloch , Bruce S. Singh
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
Most of us take our mental health for granted. But when confronted by mental illness in our family,… read more
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- nonfiction
3. 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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4. 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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5. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- audiobook
"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
6. 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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- 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
7. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- audiobook
8. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- audiobook
- humor
- lgbt
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
9. Calypso
By: David Sedaris
4.11
Format: 272 pages, ebook
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever la… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in David Sedaris's Calypso book and David Sedaris's Calypso
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- humor
- biography memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- comedy
- audiobook
"In France the most often used word is “connerie,"-David Sedaris, Calypso
"A young couple strolls by, the adoration of one bouncing off the tolerance of the other."-David Sedaris, Calypso
"We’re like a pair of bad trapeze artists, reaching for each other’s hands and missing every time"-David Sedaris, Calypso
"We're not pessimists, exactly, but in late middle age, when you envision your life ten years down the line, you're more likely to see a bedpan than a Tony Award."-David Sedaris, Calypso
10. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- audiobook
11. Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more
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- audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
12. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By: Gabrielle Zevin
4.15
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative p… read more
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- audiobook
"Friendship,"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"How I will miss the horses."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"You try again. You fail better."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"There are no ghosts, but up here"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
13. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
14. 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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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- comedy
- audiobook
15. The Dutch House
By: Ann Patchett
4.10
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to beg… read more
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- audiobook
"You don't have to like your work to be good at it."-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
"We had stepped into the river that takes you forward."-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
"Even the stupidest ideas have resonance once they’ve happened"-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
"We were all so young, you know. We were still our best selves."-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
16. Demon Copperhead
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more
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- audiobook
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
17. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
18. Crying in H Mart
By: Michelle Zauner
4.26
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unfli… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound"-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"It felt wrong to talk to anyone, to smile or laugh or eat again knowing that she was dead."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
"Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind."-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
19. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
20. 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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- memoir
- lgbt
- humor
- short stories
- 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
21. Less (Arthur Less, #1)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
3.63
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
PROBLEM: You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail:… read more
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- audiobook
- humor
- lgbt
"Maybe I’m a bad writer."-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)
"Fuck love and just get fat."-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)
"You should kiss me like it’s goodbye."-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)
"Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit."-Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Arthur Less, #1)
