Hilarious Memoirs (that read like fiction)

Discover the funniest memoirs that read like fiction! Dive into these hilarious, page-turning books packed with wit, humor, and unforgettable true stories.

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My Fair Lazy

by Jen Lancaster

Lancaster attempts to achieve cultural enlightenment, and bears witness to the hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration she encounters along the way.
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Someday My Prince Will Come

by Jerramy Fine

Traces the author's haphazard fairy-tale journey during which she rose from her small-town American origins to fulfill a dream of marrying into the British royal …
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Pretty in Plaid

by Jen Lancaster

The newest memoir from the New York Times best-selling author of Such a Pretty Fat offers an humorous, inside look at the scribe's childhood. Original.
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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People [movie tie-in]

by Toby Young

With a major motion picture of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People about to be released (starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, and Jeff Bridges), …
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Bitter is the New Black

by Jen Lancaster

New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster takes you from sorority house to penthouse to poorhouse in her hilarious memoir of living the sweet life—until …
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The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER …
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Eat Pray Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

One of the most iconic, beloved, and bestselling books of our time from the bestselling author of City of Girls and Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert. …
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Such a Pretty Fat

by Jen Lancaster

A NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER: "To whom the fat rolls…I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves …
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Someday My Prince Will Come

by Jerramy Fine

Chronicles the author's journey from her youth in Colorado, where she wrote love letters to a relative of Elizabeth II, to her move to London …
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How To Lose Friends And Alienate People

by Toby Young

In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan--Alistair …
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Bright Lights, Big Ass

by Jen Lancaster

Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what …
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake

by Sloane Crosley

Hailed by David Sedaris as "perfectly, relentlessly funny" and by Colson Whitehead as "sardonic without being cruel, tender without being sentimental," from the author of …
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Straight Up and Dirty

by Stephanie Klein

Marriage fit Stephanie Klein like a glove . . . but unfortunately it fit her husband like a noose. She thought she had the perfect …
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Life Itself!

by Elaine Dundy

Elaine Dundy, a New Yorker born in the 1930s, is the author of The Dud Avocado, based on a year she spent in Paris. Here …
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Hons and Rebels

by Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set …
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Shakespeare

by Bill Bryson

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a …
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Notes From a Small Island

 

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Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress

by Susan Jane Gilman

From the author of "Kiss My Tiara" comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn't …
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There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell

by Laurie Notaro

The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, …
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Kiss My Tiara

by Susan Jane Gilman

Irreverent, provocative, hip - this guide to power and attitude offers women an intelligent alternative to the negative messages we hear every day from magazines, …
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Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about …
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Petite Anglaise

by Catherine Sanderson

A young expat Englishwoman in Paris, juggling a dying romance and the demands of motherhood, discovers escape, excitement, and--possibly--true love when she reinvents herself with …
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In Jupiter's Shadow

by Gregory Gerard

In Jupiter's Shadow relates the true story of a religious, teenage "detective" who confronts Heaven and Hell as he struggles through adolescence. Set against the …