Mother Land
Paul Theroux
Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
Daniel De Visé
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
Jeremy Dauber
Dangerously Funny
David Bianculli
Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?
Bill Heavey
I’ll Have What She’s Having: How Nora Ephron’s Three Iconic Films Saved the Romantic Comedy
Erin Carlson
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
The Dog’s Last Walk (And Other Pieces)
Howard Jacobson
Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
David Litt
Waiting for the Punch
Marc Maron and Brendan McDonald
Penguins of America
James & Jack Patterson
The Book of Leon
Leon Black
What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror
David Wong
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
Martha Batalha
The Girl in the Show
Anna Fields
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Scaachi Koul
Broken River
J. Robert Lennon
And Then You’re Dead
Cody Cassidy and Paul Doherty, PhD
Adulthood for Beginners
Andy Boyle
You Can’t Spell America Without Me
Alec Baldwin
Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy
Saul Austerlitz
The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History
Chris Smith
Ten Dead Comedians
Fred Van Lente
Stephen Colbert’s Midnight Confessions
The Staff of the Late Show
The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II
compiled and edited by Karen Dolby
The United States of Absurdity
Dave Anthony
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Blitt
Barry Blitt
Homey Don’t Play That! The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
David Peisner
Cruel is the Night
Karo Hamalainen
The Creeps: A Deep Dark Fears Collection
Fran Krause
Why We Don’t Suck
Dr. Denis Leary
I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool
Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella