When I first started this blog, I was interested in tracking the growing number of books inspired by scrap writing websites. That project soon extended into books inspired by websites in general. And in the past year, that category of books seems to have grown considerably. Every time I go to Borders or Barnes and Noble and browse the displays, I come across another: Sh*t My Dad Says, Awkward Family Photos, Regretsy. Is Wikipedia next? (Ha)

Earlier today, while compiling a list of examples of compilations, I wanted a few ready-made examples of these books — compilations of viewers’ submissions to websites. Amazon helped, but what I really needed was a bibliography. Here’s an attempt. I’ll try to update it when possible (though I fear I can’t quite keep up), so if you’re interested, be sure to check back periodically. A few additional books, which represent the spirit of scrap writing websites but are not necessarily derived from them, may sneak in here, too.

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Amason, Jessica and Richard Blakeley. This Is Why You’re Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks. 2009. Based on This Is Why You’re Fat.

Bender, Mike and Doug Chernack. Awkward Family Photos. 2010. Based on Awkward Family Photos.

Birmingham, Duncan. Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves: Featuring over 150 Suicidal Pets! 2009. Based on Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves.

Davis, Jim. Garfield Minus Garfield. 2008. Based on Garfield Minus Garfield.

Failblog.org Community. Fail Nation: A Visual Romp through the World of Epic Fails. 2009. Based on FAIL Blog.

Garza, Mario. Stuff on My Cat: The Book. 2006. Based on Stuff on My Cat.

Garza, Mario. More Stuff on My Cat: 2x the Stuff + 2x the Cats =  4x the Awesome. 2008.

Graphjam.com. Graph Out Loud: Music. Movies. Graphs. Awesome. 2009. Based on Graphjam.com.

Halpern, Justin. Sh*t My Dad Says. 2010. Based on Shitmydadsays on Twitter. This shit has been especially successful: apparently it has inspired a sitcom on CBS.

Keaggy, Bill. Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found. 2007. Based on Grocerylists.org.

Lander, Christian. Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions. 2008. Based on Stuff White People Like.

Leto, Lauren and Ben Bator. Texts from Last Night: All the Texts No One Remembers Sending. 2010. Based on Texts from Last Night.

Lindsay, John. Emails from an Asshole: Real People Being Stupid. 2010. Based on DontEvenReply.com.

Mande, Joe. Look at This F*cking Hipster. 2010. Based on Look at This Fucking Hipster.

Miller, Kerry. Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings. 2008. Based on Passive Aggressive Notes.

Nadelberg, David. Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic. 2006. Based on Mortified: Angst Written.

Nichols, Sharon Eliza. I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups. 2009. Based on the Facebook group I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar.

O’Hagan, Oonagh. I Lick My Cheese: And Other Real Notes from the Roommate Frontlines. 2009. I’m not sure about the origins of this one. Does anyone know if it’s inspired by a website?

Pasricha, Neil. The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and Other Simple, Brilliant Things. 2010. Based on 100 Awesome Things.

Professor Happycat. I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Collekshun. 2008. Based on I Can Has Cheezburger? This is the only one of these books that I actually own — it was a gift.

Rothbart, Davy. Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World. 2004. Based on the original Found magazine, plus its website.

Rothbart, Davy. Found II. 2006.

Shafrir, Doree and Jessica Grose. Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home. 2009. Based on Postcards from Yo Momma.

Shapiro, Bill. Other People’s Rejection Letters: Relationship Enders, Career Killers, and 150 Other Letters You’ll Be Glad You Didn’t Receive. 2010. I don’t think this book has a website partner, but it’s an interesting new scrap book nonetheless.

Valette, Maxime, Guillaume Passaglia, Didier Guedj, and Missbean. F My Life. 2009. Based on FML.

Winchell, April. Regretsy: Where DIY Meets WTF. 2010. Based on Regretsy.

Yates, Jen. Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong. 2009. Based on Cake Wrecks.

After all my searching and copying and pasting, I came across this list on Amazon. It’s not complete, but it presents the best of “Funny Photo Blogs that Got Themselves Book Deals.”