14 must-read biography memoir books like Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla

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Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

By: Aparna Nancherla

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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2. 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 Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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3. 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

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 Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • 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

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5. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"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

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6. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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7. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

By: Aparna Nancherla

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou… read more

Similar categories in Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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8. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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9. 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
  • 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

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10. Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera

By: Jena Friedman

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award–… read more

Similar categories in Jena Friedman's Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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11. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

By: Moshe Kasher

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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13. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

Similar categories in Jane Marie's Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Devantez's I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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15. Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again

By: Reggie Watts

4.02

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shares his story of growing up in Montana as a biracial oddball … read more

Similar categories in Reggie Watts's Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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16. Congratulations, the Best is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more

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  • 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!

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17. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

Similar categories in Paul Scheer's Joyful Recollections of Trauma book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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18. Black Friend: Essays

By: Ziwe

4.30

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."

-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays

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19. Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture―and the Magic That Makes It Work

By: Jesse David Fox

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture , Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions , and Lit Hub " C… read more

Similar categories in Jesse David Fox's Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture―and the Magic That Makes It Work book and Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
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20. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation

By: Sarah Cooper

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching… read more

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

20 Best audiobook books like Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s

Gary Gulman

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

4.11

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Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Transform Your Habits

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

Kate Kennedy

3.78

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