Sunday, July 26, 2020
Funny Family Memoirs A Reading List
Funny Family Memoirs A Reading List This round of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Biographile. Love true stories about fascinating people? So do the folks at Biographile, a website dedicated to helping readers discover a rich mix of real lives through author interviews, news updates, reviews, essays, contests, and more. One of their latest QAs is an exclusive interview with the hilarious comedian and actor Jim Gaffigan, whose explosively funny memoir recounting the joys and horrors of raising five kids (in a two-bedroom apartment) is just out from Crown. _________________________ We asked Riot readers to share their favorite side-splitting family memoirs. Who knew there were so many people writing about their freakishly funny families? Take a look: Sharp Knives, Boiling Oil; My Year of Dangerous Cooking with 4 Year Olds by Kim Foster One Birds Choice by Iain Reid My Family and other Animals by Gerald Durrell Oh the Glory of it All by Sean Wilsey Angelas Ashes by Frank McCourt Lets Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden by William Alexander Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster Naked and Me Talk Pretty Some Day by David Sedaris This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper Black Swan Green by David Mitchell The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas Bossypants by Tina Fey The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall ____________________ Sign up for our newsletter to have the best of Book Riot delivered straight to your inbox every two weeks. No spam. We promise. To keep up with Book Riot on a daily basis, follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook. So much bookish goodnessall day, every day.
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