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My Life as Eva: The Struggle Is Real

Eva Gutowski

From the popular YouTube tastemaker Eva Gutowski comes her nationally bestselling lifestyle and advice book on the ups and downs of life, told in her hilarious, charming, and genuine voice.What's up guys? It's me, Eva!You may know me ...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2019

Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang

Chelsea Handler

WHAT . . . A RIOT! Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2013

Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending ...

Grace Helbig

"One of the sharpest, funniest voices on YouTube" (Forbes), comedian Grace Helbig offers an irreverent and illustrated guide to life for anyone faced with the challenge of growing up.Face it—being a young adult in the digi...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Areas of My Expertise

John Hodgman

Hot on the heels of the #1 bestsellers The Onion's Our Dumb Century and Jon Stewart's America comes The Areas of My Expertise, the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon in its own right-no, seriously)-a l...

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Published: Sep 2006

In Heaven There's No Money, No Stuffâ...

Mary Ann Hoyt

Mary Ann Hoyt's collection of humorous essays are tongue-in-cheek views of her everyday observations and quirky experiences. The pages are filled with anecdotes about her fear of hummingbirds, the burial of the family cat in a cardboa...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2019

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

Samantha Irby

A Vintage Paperback Original.A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspiration...

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Published: Apr 2020

NPR More Funniest Driveway Moments: R...

Robert Krulwich

Most NPR listeners have experienced at least one "driveway moment": You're so captivated by a story, interview, or essay you're hearing on the radio that you sit in your driveway, motor running, to hear it all the way throug...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

I Just Want to Be Perfect (I Just Wan...

Jen Mann

I Just Want to Be Perfect is the fourth book in the bestselling I Just Want to Pee Alone series. It brings together 37 hilarious and relatable essays that showcase the foibles of ordinary women trying to be perfect. The cult of perfe...

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Published: May 2016

You'll Never Blue Ball in This Town A...

Heather McDonald

You'll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again is the laugh-out-loud story of an attractive Los Angeles woman who found herself in the predicament of being an unwilling virgin. As an actress, writer, and stand-up comedienne, Heather McDona...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2011

Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, S...

Jane Morris

Teacher Misery perfectly encapsulates the comical misery that has become the teaching profession. Morris' strange, funny, and sometimes unbelievable teaching experiences are told through a collection of short stories, essays and artif...

Paperback
Published: May 2016

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming-of-age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2016

NPR Classic Driveway Moments: Radio S...

Michele Norris

Presented together for the first time, here are the very first, and very best, definitive listener favorites that came to be known as Driveway Moments: the classic, spellbinding stories that keep getting better with repeated listening...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2010

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twent...

Alida Nugent

Alida Nugent graduated college with a degree in one hand and a drink in the other, eager to trade in parties and all-nighters for "the real world." But post-grad wasn't the glam life she imagined. Soon buried under a pile ...

Paperback
Published: May 2013

The CEO of the Sofa

P. J. O'Rourke

New York Times bestselling author P.J. O'Rourke has toured the fighting in Bosnia, visited the West Bank disguised as P.J. of Arabia, lobbed one-liners on the battlefields of the Gulf War, and traded quips with Communist rebels in the...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2010

A Load of Hooey (Odenkirk Memorial Li...

Bob Odenkirk

Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal TV shows. This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omni...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2017

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Gi...

Issa Rae

In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae—"a singular voice with the verve and vivacity of uncorked champagne" (Kirkus Reviews)—waxes humorously on what it...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2016

Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing...

David Remnick

The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years it's also been a hoot. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found i...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2010

Diary of a Mad Diva

Joan Rivers

Now in paperback, following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Ch...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2015

You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Th...

Phoebe Robinson

A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from upcoming comedy superstar and 2 Dope Queens podcaster Phoebe RobinsonBeing a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absur...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2016

My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays

Davy Rothbart

Named a Best Book of the Year by Vanity Fair, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, and NPR In My Heart Is an Idiot, Davy Rothbart is looking for love in all the wrong places. Constantly. He falls helplessly in love with pretty much e...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2013

Calypso

David Sedaris

David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2019

Happy-Go-Lucky

David Sedaris

David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2022

The Best of Me

David Sedaris

“Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book ReviewDavid Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable c...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2020

Lacks Self-Control: True Stories I Wa...

Roy Sekoff

If David Sedaris, Chelsea Handler, Larry David, and Caitlin Moran had the unlikeliest orgy in history, the resulting love child might one day write a book like this one."Although he's generally agreeable, Roy Sekoff lacks self-co...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2018

The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an...

A. J. Jacobs

A book of essays on all of A.J.'s hilarious adventures as a human guinea pig, including 'My Outsourced Life' and 'My Life as a Hot Woman.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

I Don't Want to Die Poor

Michael Arceneaux

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can't Date Jesus, which Vogue called "a piece of personal and cultural storytelling that is as fun as it is illuminating," comes a wry and insightful essay collection that expl...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2020

How to Be Alone: Essays

Lane Moore

The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.Lane Moore is best known as an award-winning sex ...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2018

Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of V...

P. J. O'Rourke

A New York Times bestselling author and America's most preeminent political satirist PJ O'Rourke has a past that some of his listeners may not know about — he's a longtime gearhead. The son of a car dealer from Ohio, O'Rourke has be...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2009

Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Lov...

Jennifer Weiner

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and columnist comes a "fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave" (Cheryl Strayed) collection of heartwarming personal essays "as wonderful as her fiction"...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2017
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