Books

I could not draw for a shit when I was a kid. For some reason, I thought I needed a signature sketch that I could just pull out at any time. So I learned to draw Snoopy. I worked tirelessly, perfecting the shape of the...

Ha! I like how the first image I happened to look at from the Dadskills: How to Be an Awesome Father and Impress All the Other Parents - From Baby Wrangling - To Taming Teenagers book was one of a section called "Hire...

Author Chris Guillebeau's 100 Side Hustles: Unexpected Ideas for Making Extra Money Without Quitting Your Day Job was released in June 2019. Come June 2020, a more fitting title might be 100 Hustles: Unexpected Ideas...

Star Trek: Kirk Fu Manual: A Guide to Starfleet's Most Feared Martial Art drops on March 3, 2020, just in time to cannon punch the stock market back into shape, and tornado kick the coronavirus to Mars. Oh wait, we need...

If you're messin' with "the Devil's lettuce," better do it right. And, according to How to Smoke Pot (Properly): A Highbrow Guide to Getting High, better do it classy too. Author David Bienenstock explores the best and...the...

Are you bold enough to go to Vulcan Side Planks and Cardassian Neck Tricks? Star Trek: Body by Starfleet: A Fitness Guide is probably the most fun parody book of a popular franchise I've seen since Darth Vader and Son.

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When it comes to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary, I hope a picture, meaning one single picture, is worth a thousand words to you, because that's all I got. Released on December 20, 2019, the latest...

What is Speaking American? I'll answer the question with more questions. What do you call the shoes you wear to work out in? What's the name for when people put a bunch of their old, unwanted crap on their lawn and try...

Empire, the Rebels are coming for you...again...and this time in "a beautiful slipcase with illuminating lights and sound effects of igniting lightsabers when the case opens!" The Art of Star Wars Rebels is a forthcoming...

Audiophiles, if you don't feel geeked out enough listening to your extensive vinyl collection on a vintage B&O record player every night, Hi-Fi: The History of High-end Audio Design will help round out your analog sound...

Star Wars may never be able to teach us everything it knows, but with How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills it's at least going to help us navigate the galaxy's myriad dangers without ending...

Lair poses a most pensive question: "Why do bad guys live in good houses?" Then, over the next 290 pages of its exploration of the Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains, the book makes no attempt to answer it...

The name of the book is I Need a New Butt! And the refrain of the book is I Need a New Butt! Because the one I have is defective. It has a crack...

What's inside The I'm-So-Hungover Cookbook? Carbs. Author Jack Campbell believes the only cure for a night of a couple beers leading to a few more bad decisions leading to an alarming blood alcohol content is hundreds...

Yes, The Fart That Got Away is a book about farts. But at its heart, at the heart of its fart, it's a book about friendship. The camaraderie, the respect, and the admiration between a man (OK, pubescent boy) and the gas...

Imagine the sick pleasure Tyler Vendetti and Rebecca Pry took in writing and illustrating The Illustrated Compendium of Ugly English Words: Including Phlegm, Chunky, Moist, and More. Just knowing the sick pleasure we...

At printing, The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious was coming very soon, and if you can get a handle on your Dendrophilia and Macrophilia and Emetophilia (oh...

Lars Mytting's Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way has sold over 200,000 copies in Norway and Sweden. The book is both a rustic's and manly man's guide to using your 2 hands to generate...

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems is the latest satirical (but also funny-'cause-it's-true) release from webcomic xkcd cartoonist and author Randall Munroe...

Mister Rogers. Saint Fred. In You Are Special: Neighborly Words of Wisdom from Mister Rogers, the man proves once again how brilliance, success, and happiness can be the product of compassion and understanding, interacting...

Sure, the Fart Dictionary is partly just another yuk, yuk, yuk book and novelty gift best used as a stocking stuffer or white elephant contribution. But after reading a few of author Scott Sorensen's well-worded and highly...

When Tristan Gooley talks about The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs, he doesn't mean the ones that say, "Stay on trail," "Pack it in, pack it out," and "No camping," but based on human idiocy, ignorance, and obsession...

Roger Hargreaves' Little Miss and Mr. Men books get the Doctor Who mashup treatment with this line of storybooks giving each of the 13 Doctors new adventures and foes - more kid-friendly adventures and foes - to conquer...