These are the ones that worked. I wish I could tell you it's because of some brilliant marketing strategy, but honestly it's mostly a coin flip and a good title. I write dozens of these things a year and most of them quietly exist on a shelf being fine. These ones did not stay fine. These ones took off, and now I get to point at them and pretend I knew what I was doing the whole time.

This is the best selling humor book collection, the one I'd hand you if you walked up and said "just give me the good one." Adult comedy books dressed up like children's picture books, dark humor gift books for people who've clearly given up on being nice, and a couple of parody books that somehow keep outselling stuff I was actually proud of. There's no accounting for taste, mine included.

If you're new here, start with whatever's at the top of this page. It's popular for a reason, even if that reason is just "enough people have terrible enough friends to keep buying it as a gift." If you're a repeat customer, thank you, genuinely, you're the reason I still have a basement studio and not a cubicle.

Buy one for someone you love. Buy one for someone you're obligated to buy something for. Either way, I already spent the royalties.