If you loved
Books like Naked
A sharply funny and candid exploration of an eccentric upbringing and a restless, chaotic youth. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Naked.
- nostalgic
- irreverent
- restless
- 01
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris · 2004
A hilarious, sharp-tongued exploration of the inescapable, absurd, and ultimately endearing trap of family.
- 02
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.
- 03
Naked Pictures of Famous People
Jon Stewart · 1998
A sharp, irreverent collection of comedic essays that bends history and biography into deadpan absurdity.
- 04
The girl with the lower back tattoo
Amy Schumer
A raucous, surprisingly vulnerable late-night conversation with your funniest, messiest friend.
- 05
I was told there'd be cake
Sloane Crosley
A wry and hilarious celebration of well-intentioned haplessness in the modern city.
- 06
Don't Get Too Comfortable
David Rakoff
A bitingly funny, Wildean grand tour through the absurdities of American overconsumption and the special circle of gilded-age hell we've built for ourselves.
- 07
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs · 2001
A hallucinatory, fragmented descent into the grotesque underbelly of addiction and societal control.
- 08
Notes from a Big Country
Bill Bryson
A hilarious, slightly cranky re-acclimation to American life through the eyes of a returning expat.
- 09
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
David Foster Wallace · 1997
A hyper-articulate, deeply neurotic plunge into the surreal and exhausting landscape of American leisure.
- 10
Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson
A wildly tangential, laugh-out-loud manifesto on fighting crippling depression with weaponized absurdity.
- 11
Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
A hilariously horrifying plunge into a childhood where the adults are the lunatics and survival requires a razor-sharp sense of irony.
- 12
Vacationland
John Hodgman
A hilarious, painfully self-aware stroll through the haunted forest of middle age and the unforgiving beaches of New England.
