Recommended by 4 notable people, including Meghan Markle and Mindy Kaling
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Yes Please reads like a stand-up set folded into a scrapbook: Amy Poehler moves between backstage anecdotes, short lists, and conversational riffs with a punchline-first sensibility. The useful part is immediate entertainment—laugh lines, candid glimpses of career and family, and a breezy, improvisational voice that feels intimate. The limiting part is unevenness: abrupt tonal shifts, throwaway asides, and chapters that read like sketch drafts rather than polished essays, so expect variety over cohesion.
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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 Please is a b...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Memoirs, Humor, and Most Recommended Books.
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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