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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSh*t My Dad Says
Justin Halpern · 176 pages
After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair," has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him: > *"That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? So
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe · 312 pages
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a
The Truth About Chuck Norris: 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human
Ian Spector · 176 pages
The lowdown on the toughest, sexiest, and beardiest man to ever stalk the earthSince its emergence from the bowels of the internet, the Chuck Norris Fact has roundhouse kicked its way into the world's consciousness with all the vim and verve of its namesake. Singing the praises of his unequaled toughness, his mighty kicking feet, his indestructible beard, his frightening virility, and his ability
Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg · 288 pages
From NYU Wagner: At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. Wit
When Parents Text: So Much Said...So Little Understood
Lauren Kaelin, Sophia Fraioli · 266 pages
Delete This at your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers
Neil Forsyth
Determined to give spammers a taste of their own medicine, Servant responded to the offers of African fortunes, Russian brides, and get-rich-quick scams by offering some outlandish schemes of his own--and almost getting his way.
You're Never Weird on the Internet
Felicia Day · 272 pages
The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day -- violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world... or at least semi-influential in the world of Internet Geeks and Goodreads book clubs. After growing up in the south where she was "homeschooled f
I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun
Professor Happycat, Kari Unebasami, Eric Nakagawa
The Amazing Book is Not on Fire
Dan Howell, Phil Lester · 224 pages
Oh Myyy!
George Takei · 244 pages
"How did a 75-year old Star Trek actor become a social media juggernaut with nearly four million fans on Facebook? Why does everything he posts spread like wildfire across the ether, with tens to hundreds of thousands of likes and shares? And what can other sites, celebrities, brands and companies do to attain his stratospheric engagement levels, which hover near 100 percent while most languish in
Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World
Anne Jamison · 418 pages
Explores the history and culture of fanwriting and how it has transformed popular culture as well as reading, writing, and authorship, and includes discussions from both professional and fan writers.
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino · 303 pages
Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants
Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal · 162 pages
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson · 313 pages
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most overlooked forces. For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming-meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter-a radicall
Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture
N.K. Jemisin, Eric San Juan, Genevieve Valentine, Zaki Hasan · 223 pages
Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know something about life in the 21st century that other folks don't something we all can learn from.
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Henry Jenkins · 322 pages
Outstanding Academic Title Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of the media producer and the power of the consumer interact in unpredictable ways.Henry Jenkins, one of America's most respected media analysts, delves beneath the new media hype to uncover the important cultural transformations that
Whiter Shades of Pale: The Stuff White People Like, Coast to Coast, from Seattle's Sweaters to Maine's Microbrews
Christian Lander · 232 pages
Author and veteran white person Lander is back with fascinating new information and advice for dealing with the Caucasian population. He explores the stuff white people like, coast to coast, from Seattle's sweaters to Maine's microbrews.
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
Bill Bryson · 381 pages
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss
Assassination Vacation
Sarah Vowell
A tour of key historic sites in America where incidents of political violence have occurred reveals lesser-known points of interest pertaining to each and shares information about how history has been shaped by popular culture and tourism.
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
David Mitchell · 336 pages
Brain Droppings
George Carlin · 258 pages
The thinking person's comic who uses words as weapons, George Carlin shares all-new, cutting-edge opinion and observational humor in Brain Droppings. Filled with thoughts, musings, questions, lists, beliefs, curiosities, monologues, assertions, assumptions, and other verbal ordeals, Brain Droppings is infectiously funny. Carlin unleashes his opinions on "People Who Should Be Phased Out" (guys with
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Lindy West · 272 pages
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jo