36) Bossypants-Tina Fey

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

If you don't know who Tina Fey is, you've been living under a rock for quite some time now. She was the first female head writer at Saturday Night Live until Lorne Michaels suggested she be used in a sketch. She kills it as Liz Lemon on 30 Rock. She's one of the handful of women to win the Mark Twain award for American Humor.

The woman wrote Mean Girls. What else do you need to know?

But how did Tina Fey get to be the women who brings the humor and gave us Cady Heron? Was she always this funny? Did she always make the people around her keel over with laughter from awkward observations? That's what this book is about. She starts from the time she was born through her local theater days to her awkward adolescence to studying improv at Second City in Chicago while working at the local YMCA to getting the job at SNL to creating 30 Rock, all the way up to what she hopes for her daughter in the future and addressing all of the haters. 

It's hysterical.

I absolutely loved this book. She shows no mercy and proves that women aren't fragile, porcelain dolls that need to be rescued by a much more powerful man. Tina Fey proves that you can be feminine but be a powerhouse as well. That is what more women need to know. If you don't know that yet, read this damn book. It's hilarious and relatable and sweet and wonderful. I can't recommend this one enough.