Captain Awkward 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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Educated: A Memoir
Tara WestoverCaptain Awkward@emilyfmaloney Educated by Tara Westover, Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood are the ones that immediately come to mind.
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cost of Living: Essays
Emily MaloneyCaptain AwkwardI’m reading Emily Mahoney’s Cost Of Living essay collection which I bought *before* my household’s recent cascade of hospital time and bills, and it’s taking a lot of effort *not* to keep running down the hall to read whole passages aloud to @jeremydnichols. #excessivelyrelatable
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Merciful Crow
Margaret OwenCaptain Awkward@swordsjew The Merciful Crow & The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owen are some of my favorite reads from the last few years. Spite! Justice! More spite!
Paperback, 2020
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of A B Movie Actor
Bruce CampbellCaptain Awkward@jbouie Love that book! 🥰🥰 Have you read Jerry Zeismer’s book about being a first assistant director by chance? It’s a delight. Other favorites: Walter Murch’s In The Blink of an Eye, Ellen Burstyn’s memoir, Bruce Campell’s If Chins Could Kill.
Paperback, 2002
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text
DanteCaptain Awkward@nothingsmonstrd The best high school teacher ever gave us a final exam on Dante's Inferno: 1. Create your own hell. It must have at least 5 levels. 2. Describe who is in each level, and why. 3. You have one hour.
Paperback, 2021
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
Michael OndaatjeCaptain Awkward@jbouie “Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe” is the title. See also: Judith Weston’s Directing Actors Walter Murch & Michael Ondaatje’s The Conversations (about the art of film editing) All of William Goldman’s stuff “You’ll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again”
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Elie WieselCaptain AwkwardMy 6th grade teacher assigned “Night” by Elie Wiesel. Some parents complained about “appropriateness.” Mrs. Gussky stared down the whole PTA. “The author was 12 when these things happened to him. Such things happen to 12-year-olds every day.”
Paperback, 2006
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Enough: Poetry Judged by Robin Davidson, Roy G. Guzmán, Patricia Spears Jones, and Carmen Jiménez Smith
Public PoetryCaptain Awkward@Blackamazon “I can’t change any of it” is right in the text. Granny’s brave enough for public acts of slam poetry, but has not a single idea about what to actually do right now and I for one would like her to grow some fucking shame. https://t.co/Qw2qKIe670
Paperback, 2019
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Faithless Hawk
Margaret OwenCaptain Awkward@swordsjew The Merciful Crow & The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owen are some of my favorite reads from the last few years. Spite! Justice! More spite!
Paperback, 2021
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Patricia LockwoodCaptain Awkward@emilyfmaloney Educated by Tara Westover, Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood are the ones that immediately come to mind.
Paperback, 2018
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book