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- "My teenage son's goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old" : and other thoughts on parenting
- #IMomSoHard
- #Newsfail : climate change, feminism, gun control, and other fun stuff we talk about because nobody else will
- #SAD! : Doonesbury in the time of Trump
- #lovemutts : a Mutts treasury
- #veryfat #verybrave : the fat girl's guide to being #brave and not a dejected, melancholy, down-in-the-dumps weeping fat girl in a bikini
- 100 of the worst ideas in history : humanity's thundering brainstorms turned blundering brain farts
- 1001 jokes for kids : laughs for all ages!
- 101 damnations : the humorists' tour of personal hells
- 101 funny things about global warming
- 101 two-letter words
- 2400 jokes to brighten your speeches
- 30 before 30 : how I made a mess of my 20s, and you can too
- 400 things cops know : street-smart lessons from a veteran patrolman
- 50 dates worse than yours
- 97 ways to make a baby laugh
- A French affair : the Paris beat, 1965-1998
- A carnival of snackery : diaries 2003-2020
- A cry from the far middle : dispatches from a divided land
- A cry from the far middle : dispatches from a divided land
- A field guide to the Jewish people : ... who they are, where they come from, what to feed them, what they have against foreskins, how come they carry each other around on chairs, why they fled Egypt by running straight into a large body of water, and much more, maybe too much more
- A fine and pleasant misery
- A garden of marvels : how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, and other secrets of plants
- A history of underwear with Professor Chicken
- A modern man : the best of George Carlin
- A prairie home companion pretty good joke book
- A right to be hostile : the Boondocks treasury
- A salad only the devil would eat : the joys of ugly nature
- A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again : essays and arguments
- A user's guide to democracy : how America works
- A year in Van Nuys
- Aches & pains
- Act natural : a cultural history of parenting
- Adolf Hitler; my part in his downfall
- Adult stuff : things you need to know to win at real life
- Adulthood for beginners : all the life secrets nobody bothered to tell you
- Adultolescence
- African American humor : the best Black comedy from slavery to today
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- All I know about animal behavior I learned in Loehmann's dressing room
- All things aside : (absolutely correct opinions)
- All wound up : the yarn harlot writes for a spin
- Almost completely Baxter : new and selected blurtings
- Alphabet juice : the energies, gists and spirits of letters, words and combinations thereof
- Alphabet soup : a book of riddles about letters
- Always a bridesmaid (for hire) : stories on growing up, looking for love, and walking down the aisle for complete strangers
- Amateur hour : motherhood in essays and swear words
- Amazing cows : a book of bovinely inspired misinformation
- Amelia and the other side of yuletide
- Amelia vs. the sneeze barf
- America again : re-becoming the greatness we never weren't
- American satire : an anthology of writings from Colonial times to the present
- Amphigorey : fifteen books
- And I quote : the definitive collection of quotes, sayings, and jokes for the contemporary speechmaker
- And then God created the Middle East and said "Let there be breaking news"
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Animal jokes
- Animal jokes
- Animal joy : a book of laughter and resuscitation
- Animal quack-ups : foolish and funny jokes about animals
- Animaux rigolos
- Approval junkie : adventures in caring too much
- Approval junkie : adventures in caring too much
- Are we there yet? : perfect family vacations and other fantasies
- Are you there, vodka? It's me, Chelsea
- Aristotle and an aardvark go to Washington : understanding political doublespeak through philosophy and jokes
- Around the world in 80 rounds : chasing a golf ball from Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun
- Ask a Mexican!
- Assume the worst : the graduation speech you'll never hear
- Astronuts : space jokes and riddles
- At knit's end : meditations for women who knit too much
- Autobiography of a fat bride : true tales of a pretend adulthood
- Away with words : an irreverent tour through the world of pun competitions
- Babies don't make small talk (so why should I?) : the introvert's guide to surviving parenthood
- Baby laughs : the naked truth about the first year of mommyhood
- Baby's first hashtag
- Babyhood
- Backward ran sentences : the best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker
- Bad fat black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bad habits : confessions of a recovering Catholic
- Bad vibes only (and other things I bring to the table) : essays
- Baking with Kafka : comics
- Barely functional adult : it'll all make sense eventually
- Barrel fever : stories and essays
- Baseball jokes
- Baseball jokes and riddles
- Be ready when the sh*t goes down : a survival guide to the apocalypse
- Beastly laughs : a book of monster jokes
- Beastly riddles : fishy, flighty, and buggy, too
- Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
- Beds I have known : confessions of a passionate amateur gardener
- Beethoven's skull : dark, strange, and fascinating tales from the world of classical music and beyond
- Being dead is no excuse : the official southern ladies guide to hosting the perfect funeral
- Benjamin Franklin's Way to wealth as clearly shown in the preface of an old Pennsylvania almanac, : entitled Poor Richard improved ..
- Bennett Cerf's The sound of laughter
- Best thought, worst thought : on art, sex, work and death : aphorisms
- Best. State. Ever. : a Florida man defends his homeland
- Best. state. ever. : a Florida man defends his homeland
- Between heaven and mirth : why joy, humor, and laughter are at the heart of the spiritual life
- Big Nate : game on!
- Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow, right!
- Billy Crystal, 700 Sundays : an HBO comedy special
- Binge
- Bit rot : stories + essays
- Black man, White House : an oral history of the Obama years
- Black privilege : opportunity comes to those who create it
- Black widow : a sad-funny journey through grief for people who normally avoid books with words like "journey" in the title
- Blitt
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Book
- Borges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage : secret histories
- Bossypants
- Bossypants
- Brain droppings
- Breakfast with Einstein : the exotic physics of everyday objects
- Breaking cat news : cats reporting on the news that matters to cats
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Bryan Callen : man class
- Bubble girl : an irreverent journey of faith
- Bug jokes
- Bury my heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
- But you seemed so happy : a marriage, in pieces and bits
- Buzz : a year of paying attention: [a memoir]
- Calm the h*ck down : how to let go and lighten up about parenting
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Can a fox wear polka-dotted socks?
- Canada
- Car talk : why you should never listen to your father when it comes to cars
- Carry this book
- Carsick
- Carsick : John Waters hitchhikes across America
- Cat people
- Chalkboard chuckles : a book of classroom jokes
- Chelsea Chelsea bang bang
- Chicago's public wits : a chapter in the American comic spirit
- Chickie riddles
- Chips off the old Benchley;
- Chonda Pierce : did I say that out loud?
- Chonda Pierce : this ain't Prettyville
- Chonda Pierce : unashamed
- Chonda Pierce presents stand-up for families, Home is where the heart is
- Chosen tales : stories told by Jewish storytellers
- Cinderella story : my life in golf
- Colin Quinn : unconstitutional
- Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays
- Comedy sex god
- Comedy warriors : healing through humor
- Confessions of a teen sleuth : a parody
- Couplehood
- Cranial fracking
- Crazy criss-cross : a book of mixed-up riddles
- Created in darkness by troubled Americans : the best of McSweeney's, humor category
- Creativity : a short and cheerful guide
- Creepy crawlers : a book of bug jokes
- Critter chat : what if animals used social media?
- Cruel shoes
- Dad is fat
- Daffynitions
- Dance of the reptiles : [selected columns]
- Dave Barry hits below the Beltway
- Dave Barry hits below the Beltway : a vicious and unprovoked attack on our most cherished political institutions
- Dave Barry in cyberspace
- Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus
- Dave Barry is not making this up
- Dave Barry is not taking this sitting down!
- Dave Barry is not taking this sitting down!
- Dave Barry talks back
- Dave Barry's book of bad songs
- Dave Barry's book of bad songs
- Dave Barry's gift guide to end all gift guides
- Dave Barry's greatest hits
- Dave Barry's history of the millennium (so far)
- Dave Barry's money secrets : like, why is there a giant eyeball on the dollar?
- Dave Chappelle, For what it's worth
- David Letterman's book of top ten lists and zesty lo-cal chicken recipes
- Dear Dad : letters from an adult child
- Dear Fahrenheit 451 : love and heartbreak in the stacks : a librarian's love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life
- Dear girls : intimate tales, untold secrets & advice for living your best life
- Dear white people : a guide to inter-racial harmony in "post-racial" America
- Declassified : a low-key guide to the high-strung world of classical music
- Desperately seeking self-improvement : a year inside the optimization movement
- Dibuja una casa
- Dilbert gives you the business
- Dino rib-ticklers : hugely funny jokes about dinosaurs
- Dinosaur jokes
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Disgraceland : musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly
- Dispatches from the Gilded Age : a few more thoughts on interesting people, far-flung places, and the joys of Southern comforts
- Disquiet, please! : more humor writing from the New Yorker
- Do you mind if I cancel? : (things that still annoy me)
- Dogfight : the 2012 presidential campaign in verse
- Dogtology : live. bark. believe.
- Don't get too comfortable
- Don't make a black woman take off her earrings : Madea's uninhibited commentaries on love and life
- Dot.con : the art of scamming a scammer
- Drop dead healthy : one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
- Drop dead healthy : one man's humble quest for bodily perfection
- Dumpty : the age of Trump in verse
- Dung for dinner : a stomach-churning look at the animal poop, pee, vomit, and secretions that people have eaten (and often still do!)
- Earth (the book) : a visitor's guide to the human race
- Earth friend forever
- Easter crack-ups : knock-knock jokes funny-side up
- Easy crafts for the insane : a mostly funny memoir of mental illness and making things
- Eat the rich
- El Capitán Calzoncillos y la feroz batalla contra el niño mocobiónico 1a parte : la noche de los mocos vivientes : la sexta novela épica
- El Capitán Calzoncillos y la feroz batalla contra el niño mocobiónico, 2a parte : la venganza de los ridículos mocorobots : la séptima novela ́epica
- Embroideries
- Encore?
- Escape into meaning : essays on Superman, public benches, and other obsessions
- Everything I know about love : a memoir
- Expecting : one man's uncensored memoir of pregnancy
- F for effort! : more of the very best totally wrong test answers
- F you very much : understanding the culture of rudeness and what we can do about it
- F**k, now there are two of you
- F**k, now there are two of you
- F*ck your diet : and other things my thighs tell me
- F*ck your diet : and other things my thighs tell me
- Fables for our time : and famous poems illustrated
- Fake science 101 : a less-than-factual guide to our amazing world
- Family : the ties that bind-- and gag!
- Family man
- Feminasty : the complicated woman's guide to surviving the patriarchy without drinking herself to death
- Fierce pajamas : an anthology of humor writing from the New Yorker
- Fifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the grown-up years
- Fifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the grown-up years
- Fishy riddles
- Flapdoodle, pure nonsense from American folklore
- Flirting with French : how a language charmed me, seduced me & nearly broke my heart
- Folksongs of Illinois, #1
- Foodheim : a culinary adventure
- Forever, Erma
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Foreverland : on the divine tedium of marriage
- Four of a kind : a treasury of favorite works by America's best-loved humorist
- Fraud : essays
- Free-range chickens
- FreeDarko presents the undisputed guide to pro basketball history
- Friends to keep in art and life
- Fuck yeah menswear : bespoke knowledge for the crispy gentleman
- Fugitive from the cubicle police : a Dilbert book
- Funny bone jokes and riddles
- Funny talk : a book of silly riddles
- Funny you should say that : amusing remarks from Cicero to the Simpsons
- Funny! : twenty-five years of laughter from the Pixar story room
- Funny-bone dramatics.
- Furiously happy : [a funny book about horrible things]
- Furiously happy : a funny book about horrible things
- Furiously happy : {a funny book about horrible things}
- Future man : how to evolve and thrive in the age of Trump, mansplaining, and #MeToo
- Galactic giggles : far out and funny jokes about outer space
- Garrison Keillor's comedy theater : more songs and sketches from A prairie home companion
- Geek physics : surprising answers to the planet's most interesting questions
- Geese find the missing piece : school time riddle rhymes
- Get your sh*t together : how to stop worrying about what you should do so you can finish what you need to do and start doing what you want to do
- Get your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye
- Ghoulish giggles and monster riddles
- Girls can kiss now : essays
- Go the f**k to sleep
- Go the f**k to sleep
- Go the fuck to sleep
- God said, "Ha!"
- God-level knowledge darts : life lessons from the Bronx
- Going bananas
- Going buggy! : jokes about insects
- Good talk, Dad : the birds and the bees ... and other conversations we forgot to have
- Good talk, Dad : the birds and the bees--and other conversations we forgot to have
- Goodnight Darth Vader
- Goodnight iPad : a parody for the next generation
- Grace and Frankie : a guide to best-friendship and not giving a damn
- Grammar snobs are great big meanies : a guide to language for fun and spite
- Great big joke & riddle book.
- Great philosophers who failed at love
- Gross anatomy : dispatches from the front (and back)
- Grumpy cat : a grumpy book
- Gummi Bears should not be organic, and other opinions I can't back up with facts
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Half empty
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Has anyone seen my pants?
- Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
- Heads in beds : a reckless memoir of hotels, hustles, and so-called hospitality
- Heidegger and a hippo walk through those pearly gates : using philosophy (and jokes!) to explore life, death, the afterlife, and everything in between
- Hello goodbye hello : a circle of 101 remarkable meetings
- Hexes for the modern age : contemporary curses for people who irritate you the most
- High dive : and other things that could have happened--
- Hold on, but don't hold still : hope and humor from my seriously flawed life
- Holidays on ice
- Honey badger don't care : Randall's guide to crazy, nastyass animals
- Honey, hush! : an anthology of African American women's humor
- Hoop-la : riddles about basketball
- Hot dog taste test
- Housebroken : admissions of an untidy life
- How 2 be awsum : a LOLcat guide 2 life
- How I broke up with my colon : fascinating, bizarre, and true health stories
- How did you get this number : essays
- How may I offend you today? : rants and revelations from a not-so-proper southern lady
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How not to read : harnessing the power of a literature-free life
- How not to write : the essential misrules of grammar
- How the hell did this happen? : the election of 2016
- How this book was made : based on a true story
- How to American : an immigrant's guide to disappointing your parents
- How to avoid making art (or anything else you enjoy)
- How to be a perfect Christian : your comprehensive guide to flawless spiritual living
- How to be a woman
- How to be a woman
- How to be alone : if you want to, and even if you don't
- How to be black
- How to be perfect : the correct answer to every moral question
- How to be perfectly unhappy
- How to be successful without hurting men's feelings : non-threatening leadership strategies for women
- How to be successful without hurting men's feelings : non-threatening leadership strategies for women
- How to become a federal criminal : an illustrated handbook for the aspiring offender
- How to cheat your friends at poker : the wisdom of Dickie Richard
- How to cuss in western : and other missives from the high desert
- How to date men when you hate men
- How to fail at almost everything and still win big : kind of the story of my life
- How to keep dinosaurs
- How to make white people laugh
- How to succeed in business without really trying
- How to survive America
- How to take over the world : practical schemes and scientific solutions for the aspiring supervillain
- How to teach philosophy to your dog : exploring the big questions in life
- How to teach physics to your dog
- How to weep in public : feeble offerings on depression from one who knows
- How to win a fight with a liberal
- How y'all doing? : misadventures and mischief from a life well lived
- Humor me : an anthology of funny contemporary writing (plus some great old stuff too)
- Hungry heart
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hyperbole and a half : unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened
- Hysterical jokes for Minecrafters : blocks, boxes, blasts & blow-outs
- I ain't scared of you : Bernie Mac on how life is
- I am Pusheen the cat
- I can barely take care of myself : tales from a happy life without kids
- I can't do what? : strange laws and rules from around the world
- I can't remember if we're cheap or smart : Dilbert
- I can't remember if we're cheap or smart : Dilbert
- I didn't ask to be born (but I'm glad I was)
- I don't know what you know me from : confessions of a co-star
- I feel bad about my neck : and other thoughts on being a woman
- I had a nice time and other lies... : how to find love & sh*t like that
- I have chosen to stay and fight
- I heart my little a-holes : a bunch of holy-crap moments no one ever told you about parenting
- I know I am, but what are you?
- I love you more than my phone : a "Slothilda & Peanut" comic collection
- I love you, nice to meet you : a guy and a girl give the lowdown on coupling up
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- I miss you when I blink : essays
- I need a lifeguard everywhere but the pool
- I remember nothing : and other reflections
- I remember nothing : and other reflections
- I see life through rosé-colored glasses
- I see you made an effort : compliments, indignities, and survival stories from the edge of 50
- I should have gone home : tripping up around the world
- I started out as a child
- I suck at girls
- I think there's a terrorist in my soup : [how to survive personal and world problems with laughter-seriously]
- I want to be where the normal people are
- I want you to shut the f#ck up : how the audacity of dopes is ruining America
- I was told there'd be cake : essays
- I was told there'd be cake : essays
- I work at a public library : a collection of crazy stories from the stacks
- I wouldn't do that if I were me : modern blunders and modest triumphs (but mostly blunders)
- I wrote this book because I love you : essays
- I'll have what she's having : my adventures in celebrity dieting
- I'll mature when I'm dead : Dave Barry's amazing tales of adulthood
- I'm dreaming of a black Christmas
- I'm fine ...and other lies
- I'm judging you : the do-better manual
- I'm no philosopher, but I got thoughts : mini-meditations for saints, sinners, and the rest of us
- I'm not really here
- I'm not the biggest bitch in this relationship : hilarious, heartwarming tales about man's best friend from America's favorite humorists
- I'm special : and other lies we tell ourselves
- I'm telling you for the last time
- I've got sand in all the wrong places
- If at birth you don't succeed : my adventures with disaster and destiny
- If it's not funny it's art
- If it's not one thing, it's your mother
- If life is a bowl of cherries--what am I doing in the pits?
- If my dogs were a pair of middle-aged men
- In defense of elitism : why I'm better than you and you're better than someone who didn't buy this book
- In fifty years we'll all be chicks : and other complaints from an angry, middle-aged white guy
- In our humble opinion : Car talk's Click and Clack rant and rave
- In the night kitchen
- Interior desecrations : hideous homes from the horrible '70s
- Is God a Cubs fan?
- Is God still a Cubs fan?
- Is everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns)
- Is sex necessary? : or, Why you feel the way you do
- Is this anything?
- Is this anything?
- It ended badly : thirteen of the worst breakups in history
- It gets worse : a collection of essays
- It itches : [a stash of knitting cartoons]
- It looked different on the model : [epic tales of impending shame and infamy]
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- It's been said before : a guide to the use and abuse of clich?s
- It's her wedding, but I'll cry if I want to : a survival guide for the mother of the bride
- It's not all flowers and sausages : my adventures in second grade
- It's obvious you won't survive by your wits alone : a Dilbert book
- Italy out of hand : a capricious tour
- James Acaster's classic scrapes
- Je parler francais
- Jeneration X : one reluctant adult's attempt to unarrest her arrested development, or, why it's never too late for her dumb ass to learn why Froot Loops are not for dinner
- Jewish humor : what the best Jewish jokes say about the Jews
- Jokes to read in the dark
- Jokes to tell your worst enemy
- Joy in Mudville : the big book of baseball humor
- Just joking 3 : 300 hilarious jokes about everything, including tongue twisters, riddles, and more!
- Just joking : 300 hilarious jokes about everything, including tongue twisters, riddles, and more!, 7
- Just joking : 300 hilarious jokes, tricky tongue twisters, and ridiculous riddles
- Just joking : animal riddles
- Just joking dogs
- Just joking science
- Just peachy : comics about depression, anxiety, love, and finding the humor in being sad
- Kay's anatomy : a complete (and completely disgusting) guide to the human body
- Keeping up with the Johnsons : Bow's guide to Black-ish parenting
- Kid confidential : an insider's guide to grown-ups
- Knockout knock knocks
- LOL: : a load of laughs and jokes for kids
- Lady secrets : real, raw & ridiculous confessions of womanhood
- Larry the Cable Guy, Remain seated
- Last laughs : prehistoric epitaphs
- Laugh-out-loud : the 1,001 funniest LOL jokes of all time
- Laugh-out-loud A+ jokes for kids
- Laugh-out-loud ultimate jokes for kids : 2-in-1 collection of awesome jokes and road trip jokes
- Laughing all the way to the Mosque
- Laughter really is the best medicine : Reader's Digest's funniest jokes, quotes, and cartoons
- Lawyer boy : a case study on growing up
- Leisureville : adventures in America's retirement utopias
- Lesbianism Made Easy
- Lessons from Lucy : the simple joys of an old, happy dog
- Lessons from Lucy : the simple joys of an old, happy dog
- Let me be frank : a book about women who dressed like men to do shit they weren't supposed to do
- Let me off at the top! : my classy life & other musings
- Let's explore diabetes with owls
- Let's explore diabetes with owls
- Let's explore diabetes with owls : essays, etc.
- Letters from the earth
- Library mascot cage match: : an Unshelved collection
- Lies (and the lying liars who tell them) : a fair and balanced look at the right
- Lies and the lying liars who tell them : a fair and balanced look at the right
- Lies that Chelsea Handler told me
- Lies, sissies, and fiascoes : the best of "This American Life."
- Life among the savages
- Life happens : and other unavoidable truths
- Life will be the death of me : and you, too!
- Life would be perfect if I lived in that house
- Lily Tomlin
- Little victories : perfect rules for imperfect living
- Live right and find happiness (although beer is much faster) : life lessons and other ravings from Dave Barry
- Live right and find happiness (although beer is much faster) : life lessons and other ravings from Dave Barry
- Living large : from SUVs to double Ds, why going bigger isn't going better
- Llama beans
- Long story short : turning famous books into cartoons
- Look alive out there : essays
- Lord Sandwich and the Pants Man
- Lost in suburbia : how I got pregnant, lost myself, and got my cool back in the New Jersey suburbs
- Lost on planet China : the strange and true story of one man's attempt to understand the world's most mystifying nation, or how he became comfortable eating live squid
- Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life
- MAD about Trump : a brilliant look at our brainless president
- MAD about super heroes
- MAD about superheroes
- MAD about the Trump error
- MAD about the sixties : the best of the decade
- MAD spoofs movie classics
- MAD spoofs the 90's
- Macho nacho and other rhyming riddles
- Mad about the fifties
- Mad magazine (2018- ), Issue 7
- Mad magazine (2018-), Issue 1