Best Humorous Non-Fiction

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Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops 3.74 avg rating — 30,072 ratings
2.
Moms Are Nuts
Moms Are Nuts 3.41 avg rating — 297 ratings
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F in Exams: The Best Test Paper Blunders
F in Exams: The Best Test Paper Blunders 3.77 avg rating — 8,940 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating — 436,076 ratings
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Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong
Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong
by: Jen Yates
3.92 avg rating — 5,808 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
In a Sunburned Country 4.07 avg rating — 119,143 ratings
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Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,901 ratings
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day 4.01 avg rating — 714,069 ratings
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir 3.90 avg rating — 198,651 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,795 ratings
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible 3.76 avg rating — 68,667 ratings
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As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride 4.18 avg rating — 73,021 ratings
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini 3.40 avg rating — 9,337 ratings
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Yes Please
Yes Please 3.85 avg rating — 548,501 ratings
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank 4.06 avg rating — 11,853 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
Notes from a Small Island 3.92 avg rating — 117,832 ratings
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away 3.90 avg rating — 68,627 ratings
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Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor
Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor 3.51 avg rating — 336 ratings
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The Customer Is Not Always Right: Hilarious and Horrific Tales of Customers Gone Wrong
The Customer Is Not Always Right: Hilarious and Horrific Tales of Customers Gone Wrong 3.94 avg rating — 464 ratings
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How to Be a Woman
How to Be a Woman 3.71 avg rating — 109,843 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions 4.14 avg rating — 191,190 ratings
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One Summer: America, 1927
One Summer: America, 1927 4.10 avg rating — 53,981 ratings
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The Gallery of Regrettable Food
The Gallery of Regrettable Food 4.12 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 3.94 avg rating — 67,455 ratings
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A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots
A Compassionate Guide For Social Robots 3.96 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Life Among the Savages
Life Among the Savages 3.97 avg rating — 9,052 ratings
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Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,412 ratings
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Broken
Broken 4.02 avg rating — 45,008 ratings
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation 3.87 avg rating — 106,063 ratings
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More Anguished English: An Exposé of Embarrassing Excruciating, and Egregious Errors in English
More Anguished English: An Exposé of Embarrassing Excruciating, and Egregious Errors in English 4.13 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember 3.67 avg rating — 33,728 ratings
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Overheard in New York: Conversations from the Streets, Stores, and Subways
Overheard in New York: Conversations from the Streets, Stores, and Subways 3.43 avg rating — 261 ratings
33.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 4.11 avg rating — 286,475 ratings
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life 3.99 avg rating — 97,411 ratings
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? 3.86 avg rating — 509,660 ratings
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My Mother Was Nuts
My Mother Was Nuts 3.84 avg rating — 14,044 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The World as Stage 3.82 avg rating — 48,079 ratings
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe 3.85 avg rating — 78,053 ratings
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Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?"
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny about This?" 3.92 avg rating — 3,968 ratings
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way 3.91 avg rating — 43,551 ratings
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Three hundred & Thirty-Three Twisted Tongue Twisters
Three hundred & Thirty-Three Twisted Tongue Twisters 4.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Two Week Traveller
The Two Week Traveller 4.03 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions 4.19 avg rating — 5,031 ratings
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Awkward Family Photos
Awkward Family Photos 3.88 avg rating — 3,929 ratings
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Raising Demons
Raising Demons 4.15 avg rating — 2,961 ratings
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Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs 3.97 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 4.49 avg rating — 778,648 ratings
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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes 3.76 avg rating — 17,174 ratings
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Look Me in the Eye
Look Me in the Eye 3.92 avg rating — 69,098 ratings
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The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong
The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong 3.91 avg rating — 2,681 ratings
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America 3.81 avg rating — 63,773 ratings
51.
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 3.85 avg rating — 59,576 ratings
53.
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper by the Dozen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44,226 ratings
54.
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman 3.74 avg rating — 84,656 ratings
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities 3.82 avg rating — 10,909 ratings
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If You Ask Me
If You Ask Me 3.78 avg rating — 48,796 ratings
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened 4.17 avg rating — 213,849 ratings
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? 4.03 avg rating — 14,676 ratings
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
by: Jean Kerr
3.91 avg rating — 4,318 ratings
60.
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography 3.83 avg rating — 35,832 ratings
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A Very British Christmas: Twelve Days of Discomfort and Joy
A Very British Christmas: Twelve Days of Discomfort and Joy 3.71 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures
Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures 4.14 avg rating — 2,415 ratings
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A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors
A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors 3.83 avg rating — 4,547 ratings
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Celebrity sTalker
Celebrity sTalker
by: Suzy Soro
4.35 avg rating — 93 ratings
65.
All My Friends Are Dead
All My Friends Are Dead 4.14 avg rating — 32,680 ratings
65.
Snapshots (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books)
Snapshots (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books) 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood - The Good, The Bad, and the Scary
Confessions of a Scary Mommy: An Honest and Irreverent Look at Motherhood - The Good, The Bad, and the Scary 3.75 avg rating — 3,181 ratings
67.
Go the Fuck to Sleep
Go the Fuck to Sleep 4.28 avg rating — 89,608 ratings
69.
Naked
Naked 4.10 avg rating — 271,049 ratings
70.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
When You Are Engulfed in Flames 4.08 avg rating — 215,523 ratings
71.
Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How To Get From Monday to Friday... in 12 Days
Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How To Get From Monday to Friday... in 12 Days 4.12 avg rating — 2,451 ratings
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Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other 4.04 avg rating — 18,406 ratings
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Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr (2008-10-28)
Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr (2008-10-28) 3.77 avg rating — 2,282 ratings
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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England 3.92 avg rating — 3,428 ratings
75.
Pecked to Death by Ducks
Pecked to Death by Ducks 3.83 avg rating — 1,558 ratings
76.
An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington 3.84 avg rating — 9,798 ratings
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things 3.89 avg rating — 171,410 ratings
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,184 ratings
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First World Problems: 101 Reasons Why The Terrorists Hate Us
First World Problems: 101 Reasons Why The Terrorists Hate Us 3.33 avg rating — 535 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled 3.92 avg rating — 2,611 ratings
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Mental Floss presents In the Beginning: From Big Hair to the Big Bang, mental_floss presents a Mouthwatering Guide to the Origins of Everything
Mental Floss presents In the Beginning: From Big Hair to the Big Bang, mental_floss presents a Mouthwatering Guide to the Origins of Everything 3.91 avg rating — 277 ratings
82.
Don't Stand too close to a Naked Man
Don't Stand too close to a Naked Man
by: Tim Allen
3.55 avg rating — 3,614 ratings
82.
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls 3.94 avg rating — 156,069 ratings
84.
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be 4.17 avg rating — 4,831 ratings
84.
Scrappy Little Nobody
Scrappy Little Nobody 3.85 avg rating — 102,436 ratings
86.
1,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You: The Ultimate Bathroom Reader
1,001 Facts that Will Scare the S#*t Out of You: The Ultimate Bathroom Reader 3.53 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
87.
P.S. I Hate It Here!: Kids' Letters from Camp
P.S. I Hate It Here!: Kids' Letters from Camp 3.54 avg rating — 735 ratings
87.
Calypso
Calypso 4.11 avg rating — 142,978 ratings
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Awkward Family Pet Photos
Awkward Family Pet Photos 3.72 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
90.
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government 4.01 avg rating — 3,852 ratings
90.
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor 3.95 avg rating — 18,643 ratings
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Sh*t My Kids Ruined: An A-Z Celebration of Kid-Destruction
Sh*t My Kids Ruined: An A-Z Celebration of Kid-Destruction 3.98 avg rating — 929 ratings
92.
Bill Bryson's African Diary
Bill Bryson's African Diary 3.49 avg rating — 10,348 ratings
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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music 4.44 avg rating — 162,502 ratings
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I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
I Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated 3.45 avg rating — 6,203 ratings
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The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee 3.53 avg rating — 40,209 ratings
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Sh*t My Dad Says
Sh*t My Dad Says 3.98 avg rating — 159,565 ratings
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Dave Barry Talks Back
Dave Barry Talks Back 3.91 avg rating — 2,099 ratings
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Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States 3.95 avg rating — 5,817 ratings
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Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People 3.74 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
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