books in order

Patricia Marx Books In Order

Novels

  1. Blockbuster (1988)
  2. Him Her Him Again the End of Him (2007)
  3. Starting from Happy (2011)

Picture Books

  1. Now Everybody Really Hates Me (1993)
  2. Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table (1996)
  3. Joey T. and the Missing Cookie (1997)
  4. Meet My Staff (1998)
  5. Dot in Larryland (2008)

Non fiction

  1. How to Regain Your Virginity (1983)
  2. You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying (1985)
  3. You Know You’re a Workaholic When… (1993)
  4. 1,003 Great Things About Getting Older (1997)
  5. 1,003 Great Things About Kids (1998)
  6. The Skinny (1999)
  7. 1,003 Great Things about Friends (1999)
  8. 1,003 Great Things About Teachers (2000)
  9. 1,003 Great Things about Moms (2002)
  10. 1,003 Great Things About America (2002)
  11. 1,003 Great Things to Smile About (2004)
  12. You Know You’re 40 When… (2005)
  13. 40% Off Is the New Black (2009)
  14. Home Colleging (2014)
  15. Let’s Be Less Stupid (2015)
  16. You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time (2020)

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Patricia Marx Books Overview

Him Her Him Again the End of Him

Patricia Marx is one of the finest comic writers of her time, as readers of The New Yorker and fans of Saturday Night Live already know. Her fiction debut is an endlessly entertaining comic novel about one woman’s romantic fixation on her first boyfriend. Marx’s unabashedly neurotic hero*ine falls for philosopher Eugene Obello during her graduate school days in Cambridge, England. Why would anyone fall for a man who receives a grant to pursue Ego Studies? Why would that person remain obsessed, even after this guy marries and becomes a father? By ‘obsessed,’ we mean, well…
sex and lu*sting and longing and hoping and waiting for this cad who is spread too thin. Her friends loathe him. Why can’t she drop him? Is it because she was the only virgin on campus before she bumped into Eugene a man who was hardly a virgin? Is it because he kept a copy of the Magna Carta in his pocket? ‘You know what I think it really was?’ she reflects. ‘He was a narcissist. I love narcissists…
you don’t have to buoy them up.’ When things get unbearable, our girl gives up trying to write her thesis and tries to give up on Eugene. She says good bye to her dormitory room, decorated in a color she calls veal, and becomes a TV writer in New York on the hit sketch comedy show Taped But Proud. Coincidentally, Eugene moves to New York as well to teach a seminar called ‘Toward a Philosophy of the Number Two’ ‘And if that goes well,’ he says, ‘they might let me have a go at the number three’. More years of lu*sting and longing, hoping and waiting. Until a spectacular event changes everything.

Now Everybody Really Hates Me

Patty Jane’s parents say she is in her room because she hit her brother on the head. She says she only touched him hard. Either way, now Patty Jane is in her room maybe forever. Her elaborate plan for life from this moment on is hilaariously depicted in full color cartoons.

Meet My Staff

Meet Walter. And better yet, turn the pages and meet his staff. The Gum Guy, who archives his chewed up gum. His Homework Helper who does…
well, you know. A complete Dream Team, to do his sleeping for him…
And thats only the beginning!This laugh out loud picture book is a dream come true for any kid who has ever wanted someone else to kiss Aunt Winnie or eat their lima beans. Author Patricia Marx and illustrator Roz Chast prove with hilarity that anyone can have the staff they need, if they have enough imagination.

Dot in Larryland

He may be huge and she may be tiny, but Dot and Larry are destined to become best friends. Dot, a teeny tiny little gal who’s no bigger than a dust mite, is very lonely and would love to find a friend. Larry, a guy who s so big his head is always in the clouds, doesn t think anyone understands him. But a chance meeting at a diner just after Larry s fifteenth burger leads Dot right to the most humongous man in the world, and they discover that their differences actually make them pretty similar. Featuring Roz Chast s distinctive and hilarious illustrations, Dot in Larryland will have readers looking very high and very low for their next best friend.

How to Regain Your Virginity

Revealing 100 recent discoveries, this is the first book to clear up every confusion that men and women have about sex.

You Know You’re a Workaholic When…

You live for Monday mornings. You go to the health club to get a stock tip on the Stairmaster. You dread the day in spring when clocks are set forward, robbing you of an hour. You think an ulcer is a badge of courage. You know who you are. You can’t help yourself. You’re a workaholic, and proud of it. Expanding on the kindly, humorous, self effacing tone of their first collaboration, You Know You’re a Grown Up When…
. Jeanne Hanson and New Yorker cartoonist Lee Lorenz now focus on that particular personality disorder familiar to nearly all of us. This book is a tribute to those beleaguered people whose stomachs cramp up at the idea of a 40 hour workweek, who have never done a jigsaw puzzle, and who refer to a noon love tryst as a meeting. 63,000 copies in print

1,003 Great Things About Getting Older

The ”chances grow smaller every year that you will die in childbirth” is only one of many amusing reasons why people should look on the bright side of getting older in this amusing book about aging and the later years in one’s life.’

1,003 Great Things About Kids

1,003 Great Things About Kids hilariously convinces readers that they did the right thing when they decided to let these expensive, chocolate smeared noisemakers into their homes. With sly one liners and unspoken thoughts put into words, this trio of inventive writers pays tribute to the advantages of offspring. For example, kids are great because they give you an excuse to leave boring parties!

The Skinny

Ever wonder how skinny women stay skinny? Hint: it’s not their metabolism. Forget diet books. You’ve read them. You’ve tried them. You’ve lost five pounds…
and gained back six. It’s time you learned the truth about weight loss from those who know The Skinny women who have successfully and secretly dropped pounds and stayed slim. Do skinny women skip breakfast? Taint half their portions with salt, pepper or Clorox to make sure they don’t eat it? You bet they do. You’ll get the inside story on the dieting tricks, shortcuts, and closely guarded secrets of women who stay a perfect size 6…
forever. From using depression to lose weight God makes you miserable for a reason to the calories you unintentionally consume in cough syrup…
or by licking a stamp, everything you really need to know about losing weight is right here in the first anti diet diet book. So put on a pair of tight jeans you’ll find out why, say no to bagels, sprinkle sweetener and cinnamon on just about anything, and start reading.

1,003 Great Things about Friends

Friends are great. They won’t tell anyone that you color your hair, you always have someone to complain to, and a friendship is less likely to break up than a marriage. So say Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patricia Marx. The trio has teamed up once again for the newest addition to the highly successful 1,003 series, 1,003 Great Things about Friends. This hilariously funny book includes tidbits such as: Her clothes are your clothes. In a real emergency, she’ll lend you her spouse. Someone to stalk your ex for you. Someone to glop on your henna paste/hair color/sunless suntan lotion. Someone who pretends she doesn’t notice your ‘Gucci’ bag was manufactured in the Ivory Coast. At your wedding, your friend will talk to your great uncle about his cataract operation so no one else has to. You can call a friend up on a Saturday night and ask her to the movies that very same night.

1,003 Great Things About Teachers

Teachers are simply the best. They’re the special breed of people who strive to infuse us with an appreciation for the miraculous world in which we live and a sincere passion for learning. What better way to sing their praises than by declaring more than a thousand great things about them? That’s what the successful author trio of Birnbach, Hodgman, and Marx does in this fourth book of their highly successful 1,003 Great Things series. This wonderfully humorous book features entries such as: o They are as happy about Friday as you are.o They tend to have highly legible handwriting.o Who else knows how important it is to be line leader?o They are excellent spellers.o Teachers know about Roman numerals.o They are more afraid of the principal than you are.o They lend you milk money when you forget yours.o They’re not in it for the money.

1,003 Great Things about Moms

What makes a mom? It’s the little things…
When you’re sick in bed, she’ll let you watch horrible soap operas and infomercials; She’s not offended when you pour ketchup all over the dinner she makes for you; At the peak of your ugly phase, she still thinks you’re cute; She can load the dishwasher fuller than anyone else on the planet. In delightfully droll bullet points and wacky boxed lists, this tribute to mothers everywhere provides a thousand make that a thousand and three reasons to acknowledge and appreciate that all important female parent in our lives. How did these three talented authors find so many truisms about motherhood? Everyone who has a mother will understand completely once they get their hands on 1,003 Great Things about Moms. It’s a sweet and sassy look at what makes moms so special.

1,003 Great Things About America

Being American has always been a wonderful thing. But after September 11, 2001, patriotism soared. Not since the 1940s had America been attacked with such unexpected and horrible decisiveness. From sea to shining sea, the response was deafening. Americans raised their flags, raised their voices, and vowed to stand united. Of course, we’re still bound by our sense of humor, a cornerstone of our country’s proud past and present. In 1,003 Great Things About America, authors Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patricia Marx perfectly sum up that combination of humor and hope, wit and wonder, that makes America so magnificent. What are some of the best things about America? As this talented trio of authors remind us:o Apple pieo John Wayneo Mount Rushmoreo Elviso BaseballThe list goes on and on. From beginning to end, 1,003 Great Things About America serves as a keen and admiring look at those elements that give our nation its indefatigable character. From Frank Sinatra to the Super Bowl, from hamburgers to the Hamptons, 1,003 Great Things About America rings true and timeless. Our other 1,003 Great Things books have focused on everything from kids to moms to teachers. Most recently, 1,003 Great Things About Getting Older sold more than 150,000 copies. 1,003 Great Things About America is certain to become a best seller, as citizens from coast to coast yearn to remind themselves about the best parts of the place they call home.

1,003 Great Things to Smile About

Love is not the only thing that blossoms with a smile. Your entire life can be transformed by the simple act of turning up the corners of your mouth. And psychologists have proven that you benefit by smiling even when you’re convinced you have nothing to smile about!Now the power of the smile gets a boost from three grinning fools: Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patty Marx, the threesome who thought up the deceptively simple yet highly effective 1,003 Great Things to Smile About. This latest volume in the 1,003 Great Things humor series takes the effort out of smiling by providing just the thoughts needed to produce that all enhancing smile. Consider the following examples:o Your son remembers your birthday…
and doesn’t reverse the charges!o Luggage on wheelso Your extra large, threadbare sweatpantso Snow day!o Your sister will do Thanksgiving this year.o Spellchecko The way Play doh smellso Sunless tanning creamsSmiles can indeed work magic, and these witty writers have concocted enough ideas to keep readers grinning day after day. This is the perfect make somebody feel good book, a semiserious way to bring perspective to your own life and a great tool to help readers smile more at themselves and those around them. A book that offers a warm perspective on feeling right with the world…
now that’s something to smile about!

You Know You’re 40 When…

Are you almost over the hill? Know someone who is?Getting older is no fun, but it sure can be funny. How do you know when you re approaching the big 4 0? Here are a few clues: Comb overs are starting to make a certain kind of sense. A kid you once babysat for is now your lawyer. At your checkups, the doctor has begun to ask if you re still sexually active. Midnight seems awfully late. You re more interested in websites that will calculate your Body Mass Index than in Internet po*rn. You receive two phone calls in a single week from people who want to sell you life insurance. Whether you ve just found your first gray hair or you re peering around the corner to your mid life crisis, You Know You re 40 When will tickle your funny bone while you can still remember where to find it.

40% Off Is the New Black

In 40 Off Is the New Black, best selling authors Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patricia Marx offer hundreds of recession proof reasons why less is more. This funny, inspiring, and uplifting collection reminds us that most of the best things in life are still free. Insights include: Hedges are prettier to look at than hedge funds. Manicures are probably bad for you anyway all those fumes. Your pets wouldn’t like you more if you were rich. There might still be time to teach your kids that money isn’t everything. Seashells are amazingly beautiful for something that costs nothing. Buying items in bulk makes you feel like a stalwart pioneer woman. So invest in this little piece of wisdom that is certain to do more for you than your 401k has lately. And, while you’re bicycling to work and growing your own food, you can think about all that really matters in life family, friends, and early bird specials, of course.

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