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About B. J. Novak

Benjamin Joseph Manaly Novak (born July 31, 1979) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, author, and producer. He gained traction as a comedian during the early 2000s before becoming an actor for the MTV reality prank show Punk'd (2003).

Novak had his breakout with a main role as Ryan Howard on seasons 1–8 of the NBC mockumentary sitcom The Office (2005–2013). His acting, writing and producing for the show earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Writers Guild of America Award, alongside five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.

In the late 2000s, Novak had supporting roles in the films Reign Over Me (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). In the 2010s, he portrayed musician Robert B. Sherman in Saving Mr. Banks (2013) and Marvel Comics character Alistair Smythe in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He had a starring role as Harry J. Sonneborn in the biographical film The Founder (2016) and voiced Baker Smurf in The Smurfs (2011) and The Smurfs 2 (2013). In television, he had a recurring role as Lucas Pruit on the HBO series The Newsroom (2014).

B. J. Novak writes about Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, humorous, Humorous stories, Fiction, Récits humoristiques, and New York Times reviewed. Their best-known work is The Book with No Pictures.

On FindMyTBR we track 3 books by B. J. Novak, 3 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, The Book With No Pictures (Unabridged), and Una cosa ancora: Storie e altre storie. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.