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Nonfiction / Satire Best Sellers

New York Time Best sellers of Nonfiction / Satire: Fahrenheit-182 (2025), Everything Trump Touches Dies (2018), Ship Of Fools (2018), Whose Boat Is This Boat? (2018), How I Saved The World (2015) and other 12 books.

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Fahrenheit-182

released in: 2025
Fahrenheit-182
***The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!*** A smart, funny, and refreshing memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. This is the story of an angst-filled kid from the desert, navigating the chaos of his parents' bitter divorce and searching for his place in the world. Each move across the country was a chance to reinvent himself, switching identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and eventually meeting his best friend who just so happens to be his musical soulmate. With sharp humor and raw honesty, Fahrenheit-182 takes readers through Mark's formative years as a latchkey kid in the 1980s, hooked on punk rock, skateboards, and MTV. Along the way, Mark reflects on his lifelong battle with anxiety, his celebrated career with blink-182, and his public fight with cancer, in a voice that’s both relatable and unmistakably his own. Threaded with sharp humor and heartfelt grit, Fahrenheit-182 is more than just a memoir for blink-182 fans. It’s a funny, smart, and deeply human story for anyone who’s struggled, reinvented themselves, wanted to quit but kept going.

Everything Trump Touches Dies

released in: 2018
Everything Trump Touches Dies
The Republican political campaign strategist gives his take on the current president and offers a way forward for conservatives.

Ship Of Fools

released in: 2018
Ship Of Fools
The #1 New York Times bestseller from FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers “a targeted snipe at the Democrats and Republicans and their elite enablers” (New York Journal of Books) in a funny political commentary on how America’s ruling class has failed everyday Americans. “Informal and often humorous…an entertainingly told narrative of elite malfeasance” (Publishers Weekly), Tucker Carlson’s Ship of Fools tells the truth about the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. They have total contempt for you. In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords and answers the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course? Traditional liberals are gone, he writes. The patchouli-scented hand-wringers who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by globalists who hide their hard-edged economic agenda behind the smokescreen of identity politics. They’ll outsource your job while lecturing you about transgender bathrooms. Left and right, Carlson says, are no longer meaningful categories in America. “The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t.” Our leaders are fools, Carlson concludes, “unaware that they are captains of a sinking ship.” But in the signature and witty style that viewers of Tucker Carlson Tonight enjoy so much, Ship of Fools is “bulging with big and interesting ideas, presented succinctly with wit and precision, each chapter a potential book in itself” (The Washington Times).

Whose Boat Is This Boat?

How I Saved The World

released in: 2015
How I Saved The World
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future. In How I Saved the World, Jesse Watters takes readers on a tour of his life from basement-dwelling Fox minion to pampered champion of right-thinking Americans. He has divined great truths about the nature of our country while stumbling across beaches asking oblivious college students basic political questions and while stumbling out of Air Force One with the President. Interspersed are his thoughtful suggestions for overcoming left-wing radicalism, maintaining American democracy, moving beyond aging hippies (like his long-suffering, loving parents), saving the world from social justice warriors and the deep state--all while smirking his way through life in only the nicest way. Watters outlines the stark choice ahead of us between all-American hamburgers and leftist Green New Deal breadlines (okay, maybe that one is a no-brainer) and shows the way for order and fairness to be restored. A manifesto and a call-to-arms from a man for all seasons, How I Saved the World is a hilarious, enlightening, entertaining book with a reasonable chance of winning a Nobel Prize in every category, even chemistry.

This Book Loves You

released in: 2015
This Book Loves You
This Book Loves You by PewDiePie is a collection of beautifully illustrated inspirational sayings by which you should live your life. If you follow each and every one, your life will become easier, more fabulous, more rewarding. Imagine what a chilled-out and wonderful human being people would think you were if you lived by the simple principle "You can never fail if you never try." Your wasted life would be an inspiration to others. Think of all the pointless, unhappy striving you could simply give up. Throw away that guitar! Give up on your dreams! Embrace your astounding mediocrity. This Book Loves You has something for everyone--or at least everyone willing to give up and stop caring. If all else fails, remember: "Don’t be yourself. Be a pizza. Everyone loves pizza."

Larry In Wonderland

released in: 2012
Larry In Wonderland
This collection of almost a year\'s worth of newspaper strips (about a pig, a rat, a goat, a zebra and a bunch of crocodiles) includes the revelation, \"in Wonderland, crocodiles taste a lot like chicken.\"

The Obama Diaries

released in: 2010
The Obama Diaries
Purports to contain the secret thoughts of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, and Rahm Emanuel during the first year of the Obama administration.

Earth (The Book)

released in: 2010
Earth (The Book)
In this classic hard science fiction-thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Startide Rising, a man-made black hole threatens the future of Earth. Scientist Alex Lustig has created a tiny, yet very destructive, problem—a microscopic black hole that he accidentally dropped into Earth's core. Now, racing to keep it from consuming the planet, he begins to suspect something even stranger is going on. Something linked to civilization's expanding information web. And with the planet overpopulated and neglect taking its toll on the environment, there are those who demand a harsh solution: that Mother Earth would be better off without humanity at all . . . A Finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel "The Moby-Dick of the whole Earth movement." — Locus "A powerful, cautionary tale." — San Francisco Chronicle "Brin has conceived his story on a supremely ambitious scale, and executed it with all of the skills at his command." — Chicago Sun-Times "It is indeed a book that anyone interested in the survival of our terrifying species should read." —Interzone

I Am America (And So Can You!)

released in: 2007
I Am America (And So Can You!)
An unrelenting fighter for the soul of America, Stephen Colbert offers up truthiness, untold insight, and the only correct opinions in America in his hilarious political satire book based on the hit series, The Colbert Report. Congratulations -- just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic. From Stephen Colbert, the former host of television''s highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes a book to fill all twenty-four hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen didn''t have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast. Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen''s most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on: The American Family Race Religion Sex Sports and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Always controversial and outspoken, Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones. You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but with this book, at the very least, you''ll understand that your differing opinion is wrong.

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

released in: 2004
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his new book David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim finds one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today at the peak of his form.

America: The Book

released in: 2004
America: The Book
"America: The Book" by Jon Stewart is a satirical book that parodies American history textbooks. The book provides humorous commentary on various aspects of U.S. history, politics, and culture, employing satire and comedy to entertain and inform readers.

Stupid White Men

released in: 2001
Stupid White Men
"Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore is a political satire that critiques various aspects of American society, including politics, corporate power, and media. Moore employs humor and sharp commentary to address systemic issues and challenges prevailing norms. The book challenges readers to question the status quo and consider alternative perspectives on contemporary issues.

The Dilbert Principle

released in: 1996
The Dilbert Principle
"The Dilbert Principle" by Scott Adams is a humorous exploration of corporate culture, management, and the workplace. Adams uses his iconic comic strip character, Dilbert, to satirize the absurdities and challenges of the business world. The book offers comedic insights into office dynamics, decision-making, and the idiosyncrasies of corporate life.

You're Only Old Once!

You're Only Old Once!
You're Only Old Once! is a 1986 picture book by Dr. Seuss. The book follows an old man as he visits the doctor's office and undergoes various tests. The book satirizes the experience of growing old and the medical profession.

Cruel Shoes

Cruel Shoes
In this collection of short stories, Steve Martin satirizes the fashion industry. In "Cruel Shoes," a woman goes to extremes to find the perfect pair of shoes. In "The Perfect Fit," a man is obsessed with finding the perfect pair of jeans. And in "The Great White Hope," a woman tries to find the perfect wedding dress.

More Merry-Go-Round

More Merry-Go-Round
Satirical novel exploring political and social issues in Washington, D.C.
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