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Am I Overthinking This?: Over-answering life’s questions in 101 charts Hardcover – Illustrated, August 13, 2019

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"Michelle Rial's illustrated book explores life's big questions (Am I eating too much cheese? Has anyone seen my sunglasses?) through a series of charts, graphs, and diagrams. Her delightful visuals dissect modern anxieties with real-life objects." --WIRED
"Michelle Rial creates dazzling and insightful infographics...peppered with clever insights and coy observations" --Vulture
"If decisions feel daunting, refer to this book of amusingly overwrought charts and diagrams." --Real Simple
"I love this book: it's creative, witty, pretty, and insightful." --Book Riot
This is a book of questions with answers, over-answers, and charts: Did I screw up? How do I achieve work-life balance? Do I have too many plants? Like a conversation with your non-judgmental best friend, Michelle Rial delivers a playful take on the little dilemmas that loom large in the mind of every adult through artful charts and funny, insightful questions.

This book serves as a reminder that there isn't always one right answer--and that, sometimes, the only answer is to pick a path and keep moving.

* A perfect coffee table, bathroom or bar top conversation-starting book
* Makes a great gift for a friend who tends to think about the big and small questions a bit too much

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Where Are My Hair Ties?

graphs; tables; existential questions; overanalyzing; infographics; thisamericanchart;

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This is a book of questions.

Questions the author will attempt to answer and over-answer with the help of charts, graphs, and physical objects. Questions like: Which wine should I bring? How should I start this email? Do I really need more plants?

It's also a book of charts.

This book has dreams of being on your coffee table, but hopefully never as a coaster. It hopes to be a reminder that there isn’t always one right answer—and that, sometimes, the only answer is to pick a path and keep moving.

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"Beautiful and moving work." - Adam Savage

"A must for all would-be artists and creators." - Patton Oswalt

"Gorgeous and smart and it will make you feel all the flavors of happy! SO GOOD!" - Jessica Hagy

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Michelle Rial is a graphic designer who makes charts. Named by Vulture as one of "9 of the Funniest Cartoonists and Illustrators on Instagram," her work has been featured by The New Yorker, Fast Company, USA Today, WIRED and more. She's the author and illustrator of "Am I Overthinking This? Over-answering Life's Questions in 101 Charts," and a former senior designer at BuzzFeed News.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 13, 2019
Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1452175861
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1452175867
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.3 x 0.7 x 7.3 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #56,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #27 in Internet & Social Media Humor (Books)
- #41 in Computers & Internet Humor
- #72 in Self-Help & Psychology Humor
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Michelle Rial is a graphic designer who makes charts. Named by Vulture as one of “9 of the Funniest Cartoonists and Illustrators on Instagram,” her work has been featured by The New Yorker, Fast Company, USA Today, WIRED, and more. She’s the author and illustrator of “Am I Overthinking This? Over-answering Life’s Questions in 101 Charts,” and a former senior designer at BuzzFeed News.

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Customers find this book wonderfully entertaining, with creative visualizations explaining common situations in a neat way. They appreciate its beautiful design and colorful presentation, and one customer notes how it captures life in 101 diagrams. Customers describe the book as uplifting, making them feel less alone in their quirks, and one review highlights how it balances sincere self-improvement.

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52 customers mention "Fun"52 positive0 negative

Customers find the book entertaining and witty, with many noting that the charts are good for a giggle.

"This book is great! It's funny and cute and really helps me not take everything so seriously." Read more

"...This book is witty, smart and hilarious and is a no-brainer addition to your coffee table or work desk...." Read more

"Funny, fun, thoughtful and clever. I have bought 7 copies so far. Beautifully printed...." Read more

"...with a unique, unpretentious drawing style that is capturing, fun, humorous, intelligent, brilliant...." Read more

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Customers find the book thought-provoking, describing it as clever and insightful, with one customer noting how it presents everyday situations in a neat way.

"Clever and thoughtful and beautiful to boot...." Read more

"...The little messages embedded in each page are funny, thought provoking, sometimes pointed, and always super artistic...." Read more

"...Michelle is so clever and creative and insightful, and her charts pop into my head during random daily moments, like friendly little illustrated..." Read more

"This little collection of charts is creative and thought-provoking...." Read more

33 customers mention "Visual content"33 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the visual content of the book, praising its creative and genius charts that explain common concepts in a delightful way, particularly appealing to data visualization enthusiasts.

"...once they trust that the information is silly, interesting, and/or relatable, I've had several students ask to keep thumbing through the book who..." Read more

"Some graphs/charts are pure genius. Some are just filler. Great concept whose finer points might have just gone over my head." Read more

"The book I received was in great quality! The pictures were so vivid and extremely well drawn...." Read more

"...But it’s also a book of realistic (and sometimes exaggerated) observations that can be applied to all aspects of your life...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's beautiful design and colorful illustrations, describing it as a coffee table book of art.

"This book is great! It's funny and cute and really helps me not take everything so seriously." Read more

"...This book is filled with beautiful, playful and very smart illustrations that are often laugh aloud funny...." Read more

"Cute and fun book for overthinkers and datageeks..." Read more

"...The book is as colorful as it was advertised. The charts are a clever combination of household items and watercolors...." Read more

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Customers find the book makes a great gift.

"These charts are perfect. Smart, funny, thoughtful--makes a great gift!" Read more

"Great gift, great coffee table book—touching and funny...." Read more

"...It's also a slam dunk gift, as everyone should be able to find things in here that they can relate to...." Read more

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Customers find the book uplifting, noting it makes them feel less alone in their quirks. One customer mentions it captures an optimism and possibility, while another appreciates how it nicely balances sincere self-improvement.

"This book is so many things at once... hilarious, insanely clever, inspiring, delightful, thought-provoking... the list goes on...." Read more

"...She is an over thinker and has high anxiety. She loves it and it helped her relate." Read more

"...The book captures an optimism and possibility that kept me turning pages...." Read more

"Thoroughly charming book. Great graphics. Nicely balances sincere self-improvement and humor." Read more

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"Several lol moments because they are funny, real and insightful all at once!" Read more

"...They’re funny because they’re SO relatable and true! Michelle really is a genius and each chart is so thoughtful...." Read more

"This book is brilliant! It's honest and funny. Sharing it with others is a joy! It gets you saying things like "oh yeah, that's right!"..." Read more

"A nice break from reality into surreality. Truth, well-handled. Smart, and well-executed, but, most of all, enjoyable. Just bought more as gifts." Read more

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Randa M Stephan
Clever, visual book that will make you and your friends LOL
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2019
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I have been following the author for a few years on social media and was so excited when she announced she was publishing a collection of her work. This book is witty, smart and hilarious and is a no-brainer addition to your coffee table or work desk. It's also a slam dunk gift, as everyone should be able to find things in here that they can relate to. Everyone who comes into my office and picks it up ends up laughing and jotting down the name & author to buy a copy for themselves or an over thinker they know. Great buy!

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Cute and funny
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2024
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This book is great! It's funny and cute and really helps me not take everything so seriously.

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Clever, faux-charts using common items to make humorous points
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2019
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I pre-ordered this book as soon as it was announced. It promised to be funny and insightful. The book was delayed a few months, but ultimately it showed up.

I tore into the package as soon as it arrived.

The book is as colorful as it was advertised. The charts are a clever combination of household items and watercolors. They are quite creative.

(I will upload some pictures in the next couple of weeks.)

Funny and insightful, …, well, your mileage may vary.

Michelle Rial, the author, is a middle-aged, female, parent, from California (LA area), who is on the progressive side of the political spectrum, a smidgen OCD, and a mild germ-o-phobe. (She lets us know through her humor in the book.)

The more of those characteristics you share with her, the more likely the book is going to be funny to you.

The less you share …

There are 134 topics covered. Sixteen are middle-aged lady specific. At least twelve, are riffs on progressive values (not as in making fun of, but as in "do I need to worry about climate change?" showing a graph with a burnt out match implying that she must and "am I using too much plastic?")

About a third could be described as "first world problems," e.g., "still or sparkling?", "should we get ice cream?", and "how do I make small talk?"

The book is lovely, but I am going to be giving my copy to a colleague who has much more in common with the author.

She will likely appreciate the book and find it quite funny.

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Peter C. Kirwan Jr.
A brilliant, hilarious book that captures life in 101 diagrams. Did I mention brilliant?
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2019
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I have had this book in my hands exactly 29 hours. I've managed to show it to several people and each one says, "This is me!", and then after seeing a few more pages, "she is brilliant". I kid you not, this is verbatim what each person says over and over again. So it's fun to read, fun to show people, and I've already ordered a few as gifts. Just another bit of entertainment; right? Well, there might be more to it. I thought about it and realized this is a lot more than just a fun book. These 101 pages capture what life is like in 2019; at least in most western countries with people of a certain age range. Most of it is timeless, but when to look it in entirety, it will be looked at decades from now at a snapshot of our time and how we all view the world, and . . . well, maybe overthink things sometimes ;-)

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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2025
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Wonderful mothers day gift

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Some thought went into this
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Some graphs/charts are pure genius. Some are just filler. Great concept whose finer points might have just gone over my head.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2024
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My daughter saw this at the store and wanted it. It was cheaper on Amazon. She is an over thinker and has high anxiety. She loves it and it helped her relate.

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A Fun Way to Look at the World
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2020
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This little collection of charts is creative and thought-provoking. I actually use it in my classroom to have conversations about ways to present data, and it's helpful to get students to stop stressing out about their previous experiences with charts. Since it's so different from the conventional XY graphs, they are more open to engaging with it. And once they trust that the information is silly, interesting, and/or relatable, I've had several students ask to keep thumbing through the book who ended up pouring over it for the duration of class. The bobby pin chart is my favorite, but the secret math literacy of the charts that I can use is really helpful!

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Simple and fun
Reviewed in Brazil on September 19, 2019
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A fun way to look over the things you overthink in your everyday life that other people do too.

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Alex
A Book That Makes Both Overthinking and Charts Fun.
Reviewed in Canada on November 18, 2019
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I'm an over-thinker. So much so that I often overthink whether I'm overthinking things. Naturally, when I found out about this wonderful book by Michelle Rial, I KNEW it was going to be for me. From food decisions to work decisions to life and love decisions, so many of these charts spoke to me. They made me laugh, they made me think, they're just awesome. I even showed this book to my grandparents and they LOVED it, and bought themselves a copy. There's truly something in here for everyone. And though a lot of the topics are lighthearted and fun, the last section had me surprisingly moved - dealing with deep topics and giving great insights (while matching seamlessly with the rest of the book). 10/10, would recommend.

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A Book That Makes Both Overthinking and Charts Fun.

Reviewed in Canada on November 18, 2019
I'm an over-thinker. So much so that I often overthink whether I'm overthinking things. Naturally, when I found out about this wonderful book by Michelle Rial, I KNEW it was going to be for me. From food decisions to work decisions to life and love decisions, so many of these charts spoke to me. They made me laugh, they made me think, they're just awesome. I even showed this book to my grandparents and they LOVED it, and bought themselves a copy. There's truly something in here for everyone. And though a lot of the topics are lighthearted and fun, the last section had me surprisingly moved - dealing with deep topics and giving great insights (while matching seamlessly with the rest of the book). 10/10, would recommend.

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Drôle et sensible à la fois. Un petit bijou !
Reviewed in France on October 7, 2019
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Reviewed in Germany on June 12, 2020
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Portraits of one's brain - certainly the author's, definitely mine, probably yours too. Michelle Rial depicts anxiety at its most charming, colourful, and painfully accurate.

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Ideas originales para pasar el rato.
Reviewed in Spain on April 7, 2020
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curioso. Para ojear en un par de ratos

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