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Books like Pure Drivel

12 books with a reading profile close to Pure Drivel by Steve Martin. Practical, outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

All My Friends Are Dead

by Avery Monsen

Also practical and growth-minded · entertainment, accessible

This small-format picture book uses dark humor to illustrate the inevitability of mortality through various solitary characters.
2

The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister

by George R. R. Martin

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, accessible

This volume compiles the most cynical and sharp-tongued observations from Tyrion Lannister, the stunted nobleman from the A Song of Ice and Fire series.
3

Goodnight Bush

by Erich Origen

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, accessible

Goodnight Bush is a political parody that reimagines the classic children’s bedtime story as a critique of George W.
4

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

by Dr. Seuss

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, accessible

This 1958 collection contains three rhyming tales centered on pride and vanity.
5

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

by Dr. Seuss

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, accessible

The Cat in the Hat returns to lead Young Cat through a series of increasingly absurd reading challenges.
6

Seriously... I'm Kidding

by Ellen DeGeneres

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, accessible

Ellen DeGeneres uses a series of conversational essays to examine the trivialities of modern living, ranging from the logistics of meditation to the absurdity of beauty standards and the mechanics of award ceremonies.
7

How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You

by Matthew Inman

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, accessible

This collection of comics and infographics interprets feline behaviors as calculated attempts at assassination.
8

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

by Simms Taback

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, accessible

Simms Taback’s interpretation of this classic cumulative folk song follows an elderly woman who accidentally gulps down a fly.
9

If You Give a Pig a Pancake

by Laura Joffe Numeroff

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, accessible

When a young girl offers a pancake to a small pig, she initiates a circular chain of demands.
10

If You Give a Moose a Muffin

by Laura Numeroff

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, accessible

When a young boy offers a moose a muffin, he unknowingly triggers a sequence of escalating domestic demands.
11

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

by Kate DiCamillo

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, accessible

Flora Belle Buckman is a cynical ten-year-old girl who finds herself responsible for a squirrel named Ulysses after he is sucked into a high-powered vacuum cleaner.
12

Dad Is Fat

by Jim Gaffigan

Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, accessible

Jim Gaffigan chronicles the chaotic reality of raising five children in a cramped two-bedroom Manhattan apartment.

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