Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?Modern · Graphic Novels, Memoir, Nonfiction
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
2014 · 228 pages · Nonfiction
56
Modern
★ 4.16 on Goodreads · 33K ratings
≈ 6 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Memoir) winner (2014). 4.16★ from 33K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
56Must-Read Score
- Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
- Readers61 out of 100 · counts 50%+35
- Buzz2 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #58 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #121 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #363 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- NBCC Award (Memoir) winner (2014)
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (2014)
Reads as
Funny, True story, Moving
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