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Brian Boone Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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.

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Book Cover for: How to Be an Old Person: Everything to Know for the Newly Old, Retiring, Elderly, or Considering, Brian Boone

How to Be an Old Person: Everything to Know for the Newly Old, Retiring, Elderly, or Considering

Brian Boone
Brian BooneBrian 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
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Book Cover for: Black Friend: Essays, Ziwe

Black Friend: Essays

Ziwe
Brian BooneBrian Boone

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
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Book Cover for: Tracy Flick Can't Win, Tom Perrotta

Tracy Flick Can't Win

Tom Perrotta
Brian BooneBrian Boone

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
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Book Cover for: Griefstrike! the Ultimate Guide to Mourning, Jason Roeder

Griefstrike! the Ultimate Guide to Mourning

Jason Roeder
Brian BooneBrian Boone

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
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Book Cover for: The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass, Aug Stone

The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass

Aug Stone
Brian BooneBrian Boone

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
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Book Cover for: Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials, Jennifer Caplan

Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials

Jennifer Caplan
Brian BooneBrian Boone

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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Book Cover for: How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, Michael Schur

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

Michael Schur
Brian BooneBrian Boone

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
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Book Cover for: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir, Bob Odenkirk

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir

Bob Odenkirk
Brian BooneBrian Boone

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
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Book Cover for: Asteroid City, Wes Anderson

Asteroid City

Wes Anderson
Brian BooneBrian Boone

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
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Book Cover for: Start Without Me: (I'll Be There in a Minute), Gary Janetti

Start Without Me: (I'll Be There in a Minute)

Gary Janetti
Brian BooneBrian Boone

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
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