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Everything Explained Through Flowcharts

Everything Explained Through Flowcharts by Doogie Horner illuminates the minute connections between everything in the universe including which religions offer the best afterlife for you, the salad dressing that pairs with micro greens or how heavy metal rock groups get their names. Hundreds of meaningless charts with no scientific validity whatsoever add to the fun. $16.99

Do-It-Yourself Therapy

More affordable than your analyst, and more fun than webMD, Do-It-Yourself Therapy is full of games, home remedies, and therapeutic activities for the obsessive, depressive, and passive-aggressive will help you diagnose your neurosis! With Neurosis Bingo, Rohrshach Ink Blots from Hell and dozens of other activities even your most neurotic friends will be pleased. $16.99

We Wish You a Merry Mad Lib

We Wish You a Merry Mad Libs features 21 hilarious fill-in-the-blank stories about Christmastime: like an entry from Santa's blog, a Mad Libs rendition of The Nutcracker, and a travel ad for the North Pole. It's the perfect way to get in the Christmas spirit. $3.99

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, a new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales, is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. $21.99

Audio version, read by the author and others including Elaine Stritch, $24.98

I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas by Lewis Black

For most people, Christmas is a time of peace and goodwill. But most people are not Lewis Black—comedian, commentator and Daily Show regular. Like Dickens's most famous curmudgeon, Black says Humbug! to carols, holiday dinners, Christmas trees, decked halls, and boughs of holly. In I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas, he dares to celebrate the holiday season the only way he knows how: by letting loose on all things Yule. $19.95