Self-Helpless: The Greatest Self-Help Books You'll Never Read (1999)

They rule the best-seller chart, but self-help books are still wide open to ribbing. In this wickedly droll parody, Self-Helpless: The Greatest Self-Help Books You'll Never Read, stand-up comics Bines and Greenberg skewer familiar advice tomes and the people who love them. Our favorite titles: Life's Little Insurrection Book (''Sticks and stones may break their bones, so aim for the extremities'') and The Complete and Utter Idiot's Guide to Life (''Take heart, cretin!''). There's also a Further Reading section containing such guffaw-inducing suggestions as Buns of Steely Dan; Eat Bait, Lose Weight; and Martha Stewart Prison Living. Cheaper (and much more fun) than therapy. A-