First of all; I've been the worst reader since I was 12 but I'll get back to it. Second; a checkmark means I own it
English:
Written about, for or by comedy stuff:
- The Believer (Sarah Silverman etc.) - You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You
- Judd Apatow - Sick In The Head
- ✔ Judd Apatow - I Found This Funny
- ✔ Bill Carter - The War For Late Night
- Rachel Dratch - Girl Walks Into A Bar
- Jimmy & Gloria Fallon - I Hate This Place
- Craig Ferguson - American on Purpose
- Chris Gethard - A Bad Idea I'm About To Do
- Darrell Hammond - God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked
- ✔ Chris Hardwick - The Nerdist Way
- Abbi Jacobson - Carry This Book
- ✔ Mindy Kaling - Is Everyone Hanging Out With Me?
- Mindy Kaling - Why Not Me
- Jessi Klein - You'll Grow Out Of It
- Leslie Knope - Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America
- Yael Kohen - We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy
- ✔ Tracy Morgan - I Am The New Black
- Tig Notaro - I'm Just A Person
- Kelly Oxford - Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar
- Gilda Radner - It's Always Something
- Issa Rae - Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl
- ✔ Simon Rich - Ant Farm
- ✔ Simon Rich - Elliot Allagash
- ✔ Simon Rich - What in God's Name
- ✔ Phoebe Robinson - You Can't Touch My Hair
- Amy Schumer - The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo
- ✔ David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Tom Shales - Live From New York
Slavery or other African (American) studies:
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
- Hilton Als - White Girls
- Edward E. Baptist - The Half Has Never Been Told
- Charles M. Blow - Fire Shut Up In My Bones
- Jeff Chang - Who We Be
- Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Baptist Edward - The Half Has Never Been Told
- Toyin Falola - The African Diaspora
- Eric Foner - Gateway to Freedom
- Rita Williams-Garcia - P.S. Be Eleven
- Marcus Garvey - Life and Lessons
- Henry Louis Gates - The Classic Slave Narratives
- Alice Goffman - On The Run
- Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
- Jeff Hobbs - The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
- Marilyn Nelson and Hadley Hooper - How I Discovered Poetry
- Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Mitchell S. Jackson - The Residue Years
- Laila Lalami - Moors Account
- Kiese Laymon - How To Slowely Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Jill Leovy - Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
- Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon - X: A Novel
- Toni Morrison - Home
- John Lewis and Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell - March: Book One
- John Lewis and Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell - March: Book Two
- Claudia Rankine - Citizen: An American Lyric
- Ed Piskor - Hip Hop Family Tree Book 1
- Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson - Josephine
- Anita Reynolds - American Cocktail
- Shaka Senghor - Writing My Wrongs
- Tavis Smiley - Death of A King
- Asali Solomon - Disgruntled
- Gregor Vincent - Congo
- Jesmyn Ward - Men We Reaped
- Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery
- Time Wise - Dear White America
- Jacqueline Woodson - Brown Girl Dreaming
- Toni Morrison
Feminism and feminists:
- Roxane Gay - Bad Feminist
- Pippa Norris - Women, Media and Politics
- Gloria Steinem - My Life On The Road
- Jessica Valenti - Full Frontal Feminism
- ✔ Naomi Wolf - Vagina
Random:
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
- John Bemelmans - Whatever Happened To The Metric System
- Po Bronson - What Should I Do With My Life?
- Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Augusten Burroughs - Lust & Wonder
- ✔ Susan Cain - Quiet
- Grace Dent - How To Leave Twitter
- ✔ Dave Eggers - The Circle
- Jordan Ellenberg - How Not To Be Wrong
- Roxane Gay - An Untamed State
- ✔ Emily V. Gordon - Super You
- Todd Henry - The Accidental Creative
- Sheila Heti - How Should A Person Be
- M. Scott Peck - The Road Less Traveled
- Cynthia D'Aprir Sweeney - The Nest
- Jonathan Tropper - How To Talk To A Widower
- Eric Weiner - Geography of Genius
- ✔ Gabriel Wyner - Fluent Forever
Cooking:
- Crissy Teigen - Cravings
- Laura Prepon & Elizabeth Troy - The Stash Plan
Dutch:
- Isabel Allende - Het eiland onder de zee
- Edgar Cairo - De Smaak van Sranan Libre
- Frank Krake - Menthol
- Gerard Unger - Terwijl Je Leest
- ✔ Ewald Vanvugt - Roofstaat
- Joost Zwagerman - Alles Is Gekleurd