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.