It Gets Worse: A Collection of Essays is a book by American YouTuber Shane Dawson released on July 19, 2016. Dawson released a short film of the same name along with the book. In Bustle, Alex Weiss describes the collection as narrating a range of events in Dawson's life "from his most bizarre moments of childhood to dressing in drag for the first time, from clashes with celebs to coming to terms with his bisexuality and how he comes out to people." The book made the New York Times Bestseller list at number one in the paperback nonfiction category. and was the number three best-selling book in the United States for the week of August 1, 2016.

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2016 non-fiction books

American essay collections

Books by YouTubers

Shane Dawson

Simon & Schuster books

It Gets Worse: A Collection of Essays