A Book of Humorous Stories or Essays

A selection of books that fulfills the 2025 UBN category of a book o humorous stories or essays.

Updated January 4, 2025
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One more thing : stories and other stories
Novak, B. J.
Paper Book
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to...
American housewife : stories
Ellis, Helen.
CD
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line. Meet the women of American Housewife: ...
Birds of America
Moore, Lorrie.
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs: A collection of twelve stories that's "one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" (The New York Times Book Review). ...
Shrill : notes from a loud woman
West, Lindy
Paper Book
Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible -- like a porcelain...
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
Handler, Chelsea.
Ebook
In these personal essays, the hilarious comedian and Chelsea Lately host reflects on family, love life, and the absurdities of adulthood with "cheeky candor" and signature wit (Philadelphia Inquirer). Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea...
Only dead on the inside : a parent's guide to the zombie apocalypse
Breakwell, James
Ebook
It's not easy being a parent these days. There are bills to pay. Kids to feed. And hordes of undead monsters to keep at bay. There are plenty of guides out there about how to survive the zombie apocalypse. All of them assume readers are young, fit, and unencumbered by children....

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