Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic | 1996 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 2 | Kinky Friedman’s Guide to Texas Etiquette | 2001 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 3 | ‘Scuse Me While I Whip This Out | 2004 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 4 | Texas Hold ‘Em | 2005 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 5 | Cowboy Logic | 2006 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 6 | You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can’t Make Him Think | 2007 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 7 | What Would Kinky Do? | 2008 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 8 | Heroes of a Texas Childhood | 2009 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 9 | Kinky’s Celebrity Pet Files | 2009 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 10 | Drinker With a Writing Problem | 2011 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
| 11 | The Billy Bob Tapes | 2012 | Kinky Friedman | Buy |
Kinky Friedman published eleven non-fiction books between 1996 and 2012. The subject matter ranges from Texas travel guides (The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic) to political commentary (You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can’t Make Him Think) to personal memoir (Drinker With a Writing Problem). All of it is filtered through Friedman’s distinctive comic sensibility.
Several of these books draw on Friedman’s public life beyond writing. He ran for Governor of Texas in 2006, founded an animal rescue ranch, and spent decades as a touring musician. Titles like Heroes of a Texas Childhood and What Would Kinky Do? blend autobiography with humor in a way that reads more like extended monologues than traditional non-fiction.