Books like Adulthood Is A Myth

Adulthood Is A Myth by Sarah Andersen reads as humorous, relatable. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What Adulthood Is A Myth is like to read

A breezy, highly relatable flip-through of single-page comics about millennial anxieties, awkwardness, and small daily indignities. Reads in one sitting and lands its laughs through self-deprecating recognition rather than punchlines. Best for: readers who loved Allie Brosh or Gemma Correll and want a quick, warmly funny comic on modern adult life.

Hyperbole and a Half

Allie Brosh · 2015

A rapid-fire, illustrated tour through absurd childhood memories and unflinching depression essays — laugh-out-loud one page, gutting the next, all in a confiding first-person voice.

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Big Mushy Happy Lump

Sarah Andersen · 2017

A witty, intimate graphic collection that mines everyday introvert and anxiety struggles for gentle humor and relatable validation.

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Quiet girl in a noisy world

Debbie Tung · 2017

A gentle, relatable comic-memoir that feels like flipping through a friend's diary — warm, self-deprecating, and quietly validating for introverts navigating love and work.

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It's all absolutely fine

Ruby Elliot · 2016

Both explore anxiety & self-acceptance

Furiously Happy

Jenny Lawson · 2015

Reading this feels like being told outrageous, funny anecdotes by a friend who then, without warning, cracks open raw honesty about depression and anxiety before swinging back to absurdist humor.

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Heart and Brain

The Awkward The Awkward Yeti · 2015

Same graphic feel

How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You

Matthew Inman · 2012

A quick, laugh-out-loud flip through comic-strip observations about cat behavior, playing the 'is my cat a killer' bit for absurdist comedy panel after panel.

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