Keeping it Light with Funny Reads

By BookPeople

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

$18.00 $16.56

Several of our booksellers appreciate the comedian’s insightful and funny memoir about his life as the son of a black woman and white man in South Africa during apartheid. He talks about a very serious subject but his well known clever wit keeps you turning the pages and chuckling along!

Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

Phoebe Robinson

$16.00 $14.72

We love Phoebe Robinson, but this comes directly from one of our Community Recommendation cards in-store! Lexi from Indiana says, “Phoebe dishes out deeply personal experiences to give readers an honest and hilarious perspective on a wide range of topics, like body image, interracial dating, workaholism, feminism, and of course, her undying love for Bono. This collection is as thoughtful as it is humorous– Phoebe’s endless charm and skillful criticism will have you laughing the whole way through.” Thanks for sharing, Lexi!

Little Weirds

Jenny Slate

$27.00 $24.84

This collection comes recommended by a couple of our booksellers, including Molly, who says, “Are you a buttery croissant on a bright Parisian morning? Perhaps you’re a seashell, just delighted to dazzle. Or maybe, even, you’re a turtle neck of a person? This is for you.” SOLD! Thanks, Molly.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

$8.99 $8.27

Rachel R. loves this story about an angel and a demon who realize the apocalypse is happening, but they like living on earth so much that they come together to stop it! And they become best friends… Hmmm friendship during the end of the world? We’re here for it.

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays

Samantha Irby

$15.95 $14.67

Our booksellers LOVE anything written by Samantha Irby, and you’re in luck! Her third book, Wow, No Thank You is coming at the end of the month and you can pre-order it here. Eugenia is a huge fan and says, “I challenge you to read Sam Irby’s essays and not immediately want to drop everything, move in with Sam, spend countless hours watching make-up videos while eating massive amounts of junk food. Sam, can we be friends?”

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

Jenny Lawson

$18.00 $16.56

We love this recommendation, because it comes from former BookPeople CEO, Elizabeth, who is now the General Manager at Jenny Lawson’s bookstore, Nowhere Bookshop. Ah! Years ago, EJ made a staff card for this book, where she noted: “READ THIS BOOK! Just… Don’t read it in public because you will inevitably find yourself laughing out loud and then you’ll be embarrassed about all the people on the bus/in the cafe/in the doctor’s office staring at you so you’ll try to stifle the laughter but you won’t be successful so you’ll just end up making this weird panting/hissing noise and that’s just not attractive.” Well, fortunately for us, we’re not going to be reading this book in public right now. So no need to stifle the laughter at home!

Made for Love

Alissa Nutting

$16.99 $15.63

Another Molly M rec coming your way! About Nutting’s novel, she says, “I don’t think I’ve gotten this much sheer pleasure from a book in a long while. It’s freaking off the wall bonkers in the best way. We follow Hazel, a woman on the edge recently escaped from her top of the tech world psycho of a husband (whom, she fears, desires to place a chip in her brain so that they may ‘meld’ consciousnesses), as she battles through hyper-surveillance for a life off the grid. Along the way, she meets a truly delightful cast of characters, gets into some absurd hi-jinks, and works through the piles of garbage the world has tossed her way so far.”

Beauty Queens

Libba Bray

$10.99 $10.11

Here’s another great pick, courtesy of Merrilee! She describes Beauty Queens as a YA book that both teens & adult readers would love, and says, “if Miss Congeniality met James Bond on the set of a reality TV show sponsored by a big box chain store and they had an evil love child, it would be this book.” Uh… we’re hooked.