Brian Boone Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Brian Boone is a writer. I write things for Looper, Grunge, Vulture, and Cloud10, and make books at Humorist Books, but on here it's mostly jokes about Mortdecai and Fonzie.

How to Be an Old Person: Everything to Know for the Newly Old, Retiring, Elderly, or Considering
Brian Boone
Pleased to announce my forthcoming book, "How to Be an Old Person," published by my comedy compatriots at @HumoristBooks_. It'll teach you all you need to know to be the very best geezer or coot you can be! https://www.weeklyhumorist.com/oldperson/ https://t.co/h7iYlrNzNP
Paperback, 2021
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Friend: Essays
Ziwe
Perhaps this is the ideal gift for the coolest person you know or a primer for yourself on how to be a little bit cooler and agitate others in an entertaining way. Because as funny as Ziwe is, she’s just so effortlessly cool.
Paperback, 2024
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tracy Flick Can't Win
Tom Perrotta
Such an indelible character deserved an update, and Perrotta has crafted one just as funny and shockingly honest about the general horribleness of human beings with Tracy Flick Can’t Win.
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Griefstrike! the Ultimate Guide to Mourning
Jason Roeder
While earnestly offering legitimately helpful advice, Roeder shows readers that there’s a way to grieve beyond weeping one’s way through self-help manuals ... Here, the reader laughs with the dead and grief-stricken, never at them.
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass
Aug Stone
The ’90s-set book reads like a silly version of a Nick Hornby novel, but with more jokes and riffing on the absurdities of masculinity.
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials
Jennifer Caplan
Caplan’s history of comedy as it relates to the 20th-century Jewish experience is as entertaining as its subjects, examining how the last few generations of Jewish Americans have held humor in high esteem and use its tools to express cultural identity.
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How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur
Schur uses humor to invite in the reader and disarm them into what feels like a conversation about ethics, and they leave feeling pretty good about themselves and the inherent goodness of humanity, as you do watching an episode of Parks and Rec with a Good Place chaser.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir
Bob Odenkirk
Finally, one of the greatest comedy minds and comic actors of his generation wrote his memoir... Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama offers rare insight into the mind of a next-level genius who is usually inscrutable and lets his work speak for itself.
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Asteroid City
Wes Anderson
I think Wes Anderson would like how when I saw Asteroid City I sat in the exact middle of the theater.
Hardcover, 2023
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Start Without Me: (I'll Be There in a Minute)
Gary Janetti
Janetti is truly and honestly open... Start Without Me is a series of loosely connected stories about an excruciatingly lonely little boy who can also be quite rude. Janetti’s flaws are on display and he doesn’t care, and therein lies the comedy.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book