Cover of Yes Please

Yes Please

by Amy Poehler · 2014

+ Want to read

In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy's charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Pleaseis a book full of words to live by.

Subject
biographymemoir
Genre
humorwomen’s fiction
Themes
feminismwomencelebrity
Setting
2010s
Mood
funnylightinspirationalthought provoking
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 329 pages
Form
essays

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked Yes Please? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Yes Please. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling · 2015 Shares memoir, nonfiction, humor
  2. You're Never Weird on the Internet Felicia Day · 2015 Shares nonfiction, memoir, humor
  3. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography Neil Patrick Harris, David Javerbaum · 2014 Shares memoir, nonfiction, humor
  4. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Mindy Kaling · 2011 Shares memoir, nonfiction, humor
See more recommendations →

“People who read Yes Please tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Moranthology Caitlin Moran · 2012
  2. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman Lindy West · 2016
  3. Displacement: A Travelogue Lucy Knisley · 2015
  4. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend Martin Short · 2014

“If you want more of the same (biography about feminism), start with these.”

  1. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir Jenny Lawson · 2012
  2. Bossypants Tina Fey · 2011
  3. How to be Champion: My Autobiography Sarah Millican
  4. We Have a Good Time, Don't We? Maeve Higgins · 2012

“If it was the memoir that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo Amy Schumer · 2016
  2. Yes, My Accent Is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You Kunal Nayyar · 2015
  3. Scrappy Little Nobody Anna Kendrick · 2016
  4. Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation Aisha Tyler · 2013

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Trouble with Cauliflower Jane Sutton
  2. According to Yes Dawn French · 2015
  3. When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments Kelly Oxford · 2016
  4. Last Night's Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors Kate Gavino · 2015

Report a problem