Go the Fuck to Sleep is a satirical book written by American author Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Ricardo Cortés.

1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list a month before its release, thanks to an unintended viral marketing campaign during which booksellers forwarded PDF copies of the book by e-mail.

Exhausted and exasperated, one night Mansbach posted a note on Facebook, "Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, Go the Fuck to Sleep".

[7] The CD's total running time is just over 7 minutes, which includes an unabridged reading of the book by Jackson, a brief introductory monologue by Jackson explaining why he decided to record the book, and approximately 2 minutes' worth of introductory and legal matter (spoken copyright notice, etc.).

"[5] Macy Halford said this frustration elicited a response peculiar to modern parents: Whatever the cause, it is definitely the case that, when faced with a kid who refuses to go to sleep, we get annoyed, like all parents before us, but, rather than just abandoning the child to the dark and telling it that it can go to sleep or stay awake as it likes but it is staying in the bed until morning (remember Proust at the opening of Swann’s Way?

[4] Some of the reviewers chimed in from experience, as did Sarah Western Balzer, writing for Here Is the City: "It goes on a bit too long, and by the end, he's kind of in a rage.

[12] In July 2011, Men's Health published a retort to the book: a parody poem written from the child's perspective titled "Get the Fuck Out of My Room" and containing parenting advice.

[13] In its February 2012 issue, MAD Magazine parodied the book in "Stay The Fuck Awake", a reference to reports of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job.

[14][15][16] In September 2012, Samuel L. Jackson parodied his own audio narration of the book by appearing in a TV commercial for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign that was entitled "Wake the Fuck Up", also written by Mansbach.

[19] As part of a rapidly growing internet meme, the publisher of the book in Australia, Text Publishing, posted a video of Australian actress Noni Hazlehurst reading the book to camera in the style she formerly used on the children's television program Play School.

[22] LeVar Burton (known as the former host of the children's television show Reading Rainbow; as Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation; and as Kunta Kinte on Roots) read the book during a 2014 charity live stream event held by the Rooster Teeth podcast.

[27] His book Stay the Fuck at Home (2020) was written to support awareness of COVID-19 self-isolation measures; it has yet to be formally published.

[30] Whereas the original was a parody of a children's book written expressly for adults, Seriously, Just Go To Sleep is a real children's book for a parent to read to their child, and the word "fuck" was replaced by the parent in the story expressing frustration with the stubborn child in a more G-rated way.