Books like Yes Please
If you liked Yes Please by Amy Poehler, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Bossypants
Because shares tags: memoir, essays, comedy.
Tina Fey moves from Pennsylvania childhood through improv and SNL to 30 Rock in this funny 2011 memoir. Expect backstage stories, jokes…
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Greenlights
Because shares tags: memoir, hollywood.
McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.
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Untamed
Because shares tags: memoir, feminism.
Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Because shares tags: memoir, essays.
Mindy Kaling recalls Boston childhood, Dartmouth comedy, New York hustle, and The Office writers room.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Because shares tags: essays, memoir.
Sedaris on French classes, family chaos, and learning to speak badly in two languages.
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Born a Crime
Because shares tags: memoir, comedy.
Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid, raised by a fearless mother in Soweto.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
Because shares tags: memoir, hollywood.
Jennette McCurdy recalls child acting, her mother's control, eating disorders, and the slow work of getting free.
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Because shares tag: memoir.
Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.
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The Testaments
Because shares tag: feminism.
Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later.
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the sun and her flowers
Because shares tag: feminism.
Kaur follows love and loss through wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming in short illustrated poems.
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The Last Lecture
Because shares tag: memoir.
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Because shares tag: comedy.
Jack and Algernon invent Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily until fiction collapses.
