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Books like Carsick
A wickedly funny, subversive road trip that blurs the line between outrageous fantasy and the astonishing generosity of everyday strangers. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Carsick.
- adventurous
- bizarre
- unpredictable
- affectionate
- 01
Role Models
John Waters
A gleefully subversive self-portrait painted through intimate, amusing, and happily horrifying profiles of eccentric inspirations.
- 02
Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson
A wildly tangential, laugh-out-loud manifesto on fighting crippling depression with weaponized absurdity.
- 03
The disaster artist
Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
A hilarious, jaw-dropping, and surprisingly tender exploration of a spectacularly bizarre friendship and the making of a cinematic disaster.
- 04
Vacationland
John Hodgman
A hilarious, painfully self-aware stroll through the haunted forest of middle age and the unforgiving beaches of New England.
- 05
The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson
A darkly funny, slightly paranoid plunge into the blurry line between eccentricity and clinical madness.
- 06
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One
David Sedaris
A voyeuristic, darkly funny peek into the messy, unvarnished notebooks of a master observer finding his voice.
- 07
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
A laugh-out-loud, sunlit stroll through the absurdities and wonders of a mid-century American childhood.
- 08
Shrill
Lindy West
A hilarious, battle-tested manifesto for taking up space and refusing to apologize for it.
- 09
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
David Sedaris
A globe-trotting masterclass in finding the hilarious, grotesque, and surprisingly tender details hidden in everyday life.
- 10
I'm a stranger here myself
Bill Bryson
A hilarious, bewildered love letter to the absurdities of American life, seen through the eyes of a returning native.
- 11
Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2006
A tender, poetic elegy to a transformative friendship and the gritty, magical crucible of 1970s bohemian New York.
- 12
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe · 1968
A kaleidoscopic, hyperkinetic road trip through the birth of the 1960s counterculture that reads like a literary hallucination.
