6 Top short stories books like Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem by Laurie Notaro

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Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

By: Laurie Notaro

3.97

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife. L…

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1. There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble

By: Laurie Notaro , laurie-notaro

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Clu… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Notaro's There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • humor
  • comedy
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2. Blank

By: Zibby Owens

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a… read more

Similar categories in Zibby Owens's Blank book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • humor
  • audiobook
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3. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's The Amish Wife book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Penelope in Retrograde

By: Brooke Abrams

4.09

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

In this witty and heartfelt debut from author Brooke Abrams, a romance writer with a passion for as… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Abrams's Penelope in Retrograde book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • humor
  • audiobook
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5. Housemoms

By: Jen Lancaster

3.52

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Three grown women find escape and camaraderie on sorority row in a delightfully exhilarating novel … read more

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  • humor
  • audiobook
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6. Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

By: Laurie Notaro

3.97

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife. L… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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7. I Choose Darkness

By: Jenny Lawson

3.97

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

From cheap costumes to creepy dolls to questionable candy, number one New York Times bestselling au… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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8. There's No Coming Back from This

By: Ann Garvin

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

“The show must go on” takes on a whole new meaning for one single mom in a witty and emotional nove… read more

Similar categories in Ann Garvin's There's No Coming Back from This book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • humor
  • audiobook
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9. Don’t Forget to Write

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and … read more

Similar categories in Sara Goodman Confino's Don’t Forget to Write book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • humor
  • audiobook
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10. The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan

By: Beth Merlin

3.86

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

When a young woman hits rock bottom, she embarks on a positively Dickensian adventure in a witty an… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Cut and Thirst

By: Margaret Atwood

3.15

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, a… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
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12. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

By: Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more

Similar categories in Farah Naz Rishi's Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time

By: Angela Brown

3.66

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman has no choice left but to enjoy the adventure of life—and its surprises—in a funny and emot… read more

Similar categories in Angela Brown's Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • audiobook
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14. Two Women Walk into a Bar

By: Cheryl Strayed

4.06

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more

Similar categories in Cheryl Strayed's Two Women Walk into a Bar book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Vibrant Years

By: Sonali Dev

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desa… read more

Similar categories in Sonali Dev's The Vibrant Years book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • humor
  • audiobook
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16. Well Behaved Wives

By: Amy Sue Nathan

3.99

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect wives, imperfect lives, and upending the rules of behavior in 1960s America. Law school … read more

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  • audiobook
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17. Let's Pretend This Will Work

By: Maddie Dawson

4.06

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

The search for happiness turns a woman’s life upside down in a warm, quirky, and bighearted novel a… read more

Similar categories in Maddie Dawson's Let's Pretend This Will Work book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • audiobook
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18. The Bookstore Sisters

By: Alice Hoffman

4.02

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, in… read more

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  • short stories
  • audiobook
"Oh, you're moonlight," he'd said. "Harder to see, but there for those who look."

-Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

"A lot of people don’t know what to do about grief. I don’t blame you for a thing."

-Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

"I don't think I'm the smart sister," Isabel said. "You are," Sophie told her. "You just have a lot to learn."

-Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

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19. The Amy Binegar-Kimmes-Lyle Book of Failures: A funny memoir of missteps, inadequacies and faux pas

By: Amy Lyle

3.58

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

THE AMY BINEGAR-KIMMES-LYLE BOOK OF FAILURES is a humor memoir. If you have ever failed at love, fi… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lyle's The Amy Binegar-Kimmes-Lyle Book of Failures: A funny memoir of missteps, inadequacies and faux pas book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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20. Friends with Secrets

By: Christine Gunderson

4.16

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In a funny and suspenseful debut, Christine Gunderson explores the myth of the perfect mother, the … read more

Similar categories in Christine Gunderson's Friends with Secrets book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • audiobook
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21. Natural Selection

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.69

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

When her boyfriend bails at the last minute, a New York woman embarks on their couples’ cruise alon… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Natural Selection book and Laurie Notaro's Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem

  • short stories
  • audiobook

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