Why Not Me?

#101 in Biography & memoir

Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling

First published 2015Original language EN

7.87.8 / 10
Score out of 10213 ratingsConfidence 59%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#101 of 117 in Biography & memoir ahead of 14% of the category
240
Pages
about 4.5 h
Reading time
  • NYT bestseller · 16 weeks on the list, peaked at #1

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About the book

Why Not Me? is a 2015 humor book by actress and writer Mindy Kaling. The book consists mostly of humorous observational essays based on Kaling's life, and it also includes one chapter of fiction.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.5 across 213 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 59% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Biography & memoir average of 8.1. That is how 7.8 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.85 2%
Hardcover7.5208 98%

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It has 240 pages — shorter than 76% of the ranked books in Biography & memoir.

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