25 Best nonfiction books like Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Similar categories in Nora McInerny Purmort's It's Okay to Laugh book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• self help

Similar categories in Harrison Scott Key's How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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

"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

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• self help

"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

Similar categories in Elise Loehnen's On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• audiobook
• adult
• nonfiction
• self help

"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• humor
• adult
• audiobook

"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• humor
• adult
• 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 Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• humor
• adult
• audiobook

"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

Similar categories in Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• humor
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• adult
• self help

"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 Rob Delaney's A Heart That Works book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• audiobook
• memoir
• mental health
• nonfiction
• essays
• adult
• self help

"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Similar categories in Jessi Klein's I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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

"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"

-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

Similar categories in Elizabeth Passarella's It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• adult
• self help

"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Emily Lynn Paulson's Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Kate Kennedy's One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• memoir
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• adult
• 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 Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• adult
• 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 Kate Baer's And Yet: Poems book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• adult
• nonfiction
• memoir
• audiobook

"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

Similar categories in Lauren Graham's Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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

"Do every job as if you’re being well paid."

-Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

"When life gives you lemons, you can make lemonade, but you don't have to."

-Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

"When does the mastery end? How many things do I need to be good at to feel good about myself? Could Dan Brown really teach me how to write a thriller as well as he does? Do I even want to try? Or has…"

-Lauren Graham, Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember

Similar categories in Samantha Irby's Quietly Hostile: Essays book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• essays
• adult
• 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 Iliza Shlesinger's All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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

"I feel like the 3D and vampire obsessions are two things in entertainment that keep coming back around. Like every ten years, executives are like “ All right, new group of horny weirdos, let’s revive…"

-Iliza Shlesinger, All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions

"My biggest argument to the "we don't know what's in the vaccine" folks (who have hopefully decided to go along with science by the time this book comes out) is "remember what you were okay with drink…"

-Iliza Shlesinger, All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions

"I looked into their new mom gift baskets. The basket included... a scarf. A fucking scarf. My first thought was that this company bulk ordered them for something else, and couldn't get rid of them, s…"

-Iliza Shlesinger, All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• adult
• audiobook

"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Similar categories in R. Eric Thomas's Congratulations, the Best is Over! book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

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

"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."

-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!

Similar categories in Kristi Coulter's Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's We All Want Impossible Things book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• adult
• audiobook

"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."

-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

Similar categories in Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• self help

Similar categories in Stephanie McNeal's Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• nonfiction
• memoir
• audiobook

Similar categories in Nora McInerny Purmort's No Happy Endings book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• humor
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• self help

Similar categories in Nora McInerny Purmort's The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief (TED Books) book and Nora McInerny's Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• self help