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A hilarious, immersive dive into the exhausting and contradictory world of modern wellness. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Drop dead healthy.
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The Year of Living Biblically
Jacobs, A. J.
A hilarious, surprisingly tender experiment in taking ancient rules entirely too literally in the modern world.
- 02
How not to die
Jan Garavaglia · 2008
A morbidly fascinating, tough-love guide to staying alive, delivered straight from the autopsy table.
- 03
The Know-It-All
Jacobs, A. J. · 2004
A hilarious, trivia-stuffed romp through the alphabet that accidentally discovers the difference between being smart and being wise.
- 04
How Not to Die
Michael Greger and Gene Stone
An empowering, science-backed roadmap to reclaiming your health and outsmarting chronic disease through the power of your plate.
- 05
Food
Jim Gaffigan
A hilarious, unapologetic love letter to the worst foods in the American diet, delivered with the timing of a master stand-up.
- 06
The 4-Hour Body
Timothy Ferriss
A hyper-caffeinated deep dive into the extremes of human optimization and biological life-hacking.
- 07
What doesn't kill us
Scott Carney
An invigorating exploration of how pushing our physical limits can unlock the hidden resilience of our evolutionary past.
- 08
Fitness for dummies
Suzanne Schlosberg and Liz Neporent · 1996
A friendly, no-nonsense personal trainer in book form, ready to cut through the noise and get you moving.
- 09
The man who ate everything
Jeffrey Steingarten · 1997
An outrageously funny, mouth-watering journey fueled by gluttonous curiosity and offbeat erudition.
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It must've been something I ate
Jeffrey Steingarten · 2002
A side-splitting and mouth-watering plunge into the extreme lengths one man will go to for the perfect bite.
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Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson
A wildly tangential, laugh-out-loud manifesto on fighting crippling depression with weaponized absurdity.
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Exercised
Daniel Lieberman
A liberating, science-backed exploration that replaces gym guilt with a fascinating evolutionary understanding of how our bodies are meant to move.
