Books

I know one recipe for good luck and it contains shredded pork, tomatillo salsa, Cotija cheese, and a corn tortilla. Mmmm, Taco Tuesday is always a good luck day. Ellen Weinstein's compilation of Recipes for Good Luck...

Mario never dies inside the pages of the forthcoming Super Mario Encyclopedia. And I just read Nintendo has made 17 - 17! - Super Mario games, so for fans of the franchise, an encyclopedia is definitely overdue just for...

On behalf of Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence I'd like to ask: is Pulitzer taking entries for 2018 yet? Or is there at least some sort of illustration award we can add Ethan Kocak's name...

Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions sounds like a fascinating, even thrilling piece to read...if you know Spanish. And cursive. Yes, of course the acclaimed director's...

The Star Wars Cookbook: BB-Ate follows many, many previous Star Wars cookbooks, but author Lara Starr and photographer Matthew Carden - themselves responsible for Wookiee Pies, Clone Scones, and Other Galactic Goodies...

"Toddlers are a**holes. It's not your fault." I'm having a sudden flashback to my childhood, a resurgent memory of those words. Being spoken to my mama. Over and over again. Weird...

Craniometer for your coffee table? Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre caters to those fascinated by the macabre. By the occult. By death. And I'm not talking the cartoonish, whimsical, Beetlejuice...

Who knew The New York Times has chronicled the Star Wars saga as hard as the rest of us fanboys and girls out here? The only difference, as you might notice in their In a Galaxy Far, Far Away coffee table book, is that...

Grimoires are books of magic. Recipes for cooking up spells, crafting talismans, and calling forth angels and demons. The pages of a grimoire can protect the secrets of witches and wizards, binding them in leather and...

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World author, Tim Ferriss, has made quite the name for himself since writing The 4-Hour Workweek. He's a public speaker, podcast host, angel investor, advisor to...

Ain't Got Time to Bleed is a compilation of medical reports on 29 of Hollywood's greatest action heroes. A detailed analysis of how well the likes of Die Hard's John McClane, Predator's Dutch Schaefer, and Kill Bill's...

Mac 'n' Cheese Nachos, Loaded Avocado Fries, dude. It's time to bro-down. The Culinary Bro-Down Cookbook, despite incorporating a word most men do not want to be associated with, has a respectable goal, one most of us...

"Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see." Know who said that? It wasn't Christopher Columbus, or Mark Twain, or Rick...

In addition to stirring artwork and hand-scribed text, Remarkable Books: The World's Most Beautiful and Historic Works also has Gift for Dad written all over the pages it has extracted from the tomes of history. A permanent...

Mmmm, I could sure go for some lamb shank tonight. According to She-Ra: Princess of Power, a little redemption wouldn't hurt me either. Fitting, then, that in my search for dinner and ways to un-piss off my fiancee I...

The best part about Watch Your Junk and Other Advice for Expectant Fathers isn't that the irreverent guide to dadhood is as fun of a read as it is informative. It's not that it covers topics other baby books ignore, or...

Stranger Fillings: A Parody Cookbook continues the cookbook trend started by recipe collections like Baking Bad and The Snacking Dead. Released during the lead-up to Stranger Things' second season, the spoof provides...

Random Illustrated Facts isn't just a book of trivia. Mike Lowery's Collection of Curious, Weird, and Totally Not Boring Things to Know is a book of trivia with pictures! Four gatefolds and hundreds of infographics' worth!...

Man Up!: 367 Classic Skills for the Modern Guy gives you tips for mastering your career, relationships, grooming routine, and adult life in general. A whole year's worth! On a leap year! With one more to grow on! Yeah...what's...

In The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains Jon Morris scours the brilliant colors and artwork of comic books past and present to compile a compendium of evil villains. But not all, and not just any evil villains. The...

If Breaking Bad didn't provide enough of an education, How to Be a Drug Dealer should fill in any gaps left in your study to achieve proficiency and realize success in your pursuit of the street pharmacist profession...

And I think to myself, what a wonder-ful world. At least for now. While we still have the wonders, and while they're still wonderful. Natural Wonders of the World is a new photography collection of jaw-dropping scenery...

Yoda in a Venn diagram. Nicely done, Star Wars Super Graphic. I'll bet the left slice is those who "Do" and the right those who "Do Not," with the Yoda center representing the young Jedis who tell their master, "Alright...

...Without Actually Improving Yourself. As a self-help book, Faking It adds a delightful twist: you don't have to journal or meditate or talk about your feelings or change at all to help yourself. You just have to perfect...