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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Naked
Sedaris, David.
Ebook
In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me. Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating...
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.
Paper Book
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...
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). ...
Chelsea Chelsea bang bang
Handler, Chelsea.
Paper Book
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 essays, the #1 bestselling author of...
This is a book
Martin, Demetri.
Ebook
From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book. Demetri's first literary foray features longer-form essays and...
Only dead on the inside : a parent's guide to the zombie apocalypse
Breakwell, James
Audiobook
Wow, no thank you : essays
Irby, Samantha
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner * A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. "Stay-up...

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