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What Solutions and Other Problems is like to read

A tumble through absurdist childhood anecdotes and crude, expressive illustrations that suddenly drops into raw essays on depression and grief — funny and disarming, then quietly gutting. Best for: readers who loved Hyperbole and a Half's mix of crude cartoon humor and unflinching honesty about mental health.

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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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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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It's all absolutely fine
Ruby Elliot · 2016
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STRIPPED DOWN
Bunnie Xo · 2025
A brash, funny, tell-all celebrity memoir that swings from trailer-park hardship to Nashville success, told in an intimate, unfiltered voice with plenty of self-aware humor.
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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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Selp-helf
Miranda Sings · 2015
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We are Never Meeting in Real Life
Samantha Irby · 2017
Reading this feels like your funniest, most self-deprecating friend narrating her worst dating stories and family grief in the same breath, veering from raunchy comedy to sudden gut-punch honesty.
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Hark! A Vargrant
Kate Beaton · 2011
A rapid-fire romp of gag comics skewering history and literature with a deadpan, irreverent sense of the absurd, drawn in a loose, excitable style.
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My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
Kabi Nagata · 2016
A raw, confessional autobiographical manga that alternates painful self-examination with wry self-deprecation, using simple expressive art to render loneliness, sexuality, and mental illness with disarming honesty.
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THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE
David Sedaris · 2025
Sedaris does his signature thing: short, wry autobiographical essays that swerve from the absurd (a train passenger vomiting in his face) to the quietly aching (dead friends in his address book).
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Southern Lady Code
Helen Ellis · 2019
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Kasher in the rye
Moshe Kasher · 2012
A stand-up comic's memoir of a childhood spent careening through rehab, mental wards, and Oakland schools, told with self-lacerating irreverence that turns horror into punchlines.
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About Solutions and Other Problems — what the genome says

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Who is Solutions and Other Problems for?

readers who loved Hyperbole and a Half's mix of crude cartoon humor and unflinching honesty about mental health

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