What to Read After The straight dope
Readers who loved The straight dope by Cecil Adams keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The straight dope is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The straight dope
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An Incomplete Education
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Get even
Panati's extraordinary endings of practically everything and everybody
Learned pigs & fireproof women
Uncle John's biggest ever bathroom reader
Joy of Cooking
Our Dumb Century
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Arabian Nights
The Professor and the Madman CD
Fragile Things