Mark O’Brien 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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author, artist, autistic, and alliteration advocate • sales coordinatin’ in book publishin’ • gay • queer • cherry blossom tree in human person drag • he/him 🌸

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
Matt Baume
@BethanyRobison This book is nonfiction! “Hi Honey, I’m Homo!” by Matt Baume, which comes out (hehe) on the 23rd. I do indeed work with both fiction and nonfiction! (I resisted reading nonfiction for so long—and it turns out I often LOVE nonfiction?! Who knew! Not me!)
Paperback, 2023
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love, Hate & Clickbait
Liz Bowery
@BethanyRobison OH, and do yourself a favor and check out Love, Hate & Clickbait by Liz Bowery when it’s out on April 26 (my 25th birthday!)—DELIGHTFUL. I happy-cried! I also want to read Book Boyfriend by Kris Ripper with a desperation I haven’t felt toward a book in a veryyyy long time…
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Kate in Waiting
Becky Albertalli
I got my copy of KATE IN WAITING in the mail today, and I’m in the acknowledgments section twice, and if you know me you know how much I love Becky Albertalli, so anyway this is supposed to be my birthday but I think I just died of bliss.
Hardcover, 2021
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
Thinking about when I was in elementary school and borrowed my older brother’s copy of a Jodi Picoult book, stuffed it into my backpack, and waltzed into fourth-grade language arts class, where my teacher had the same exact book (Nineteen Minutes) on her desk
Paperback, 2008
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Ellen Raskin
I just found out that my old agency represents the estate of the author of one of my favorite books (The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin). If you think I’m not going to be prancing around telling people I was represented by the same agency as Ellen Raskin, you mustn’t know about me.
Paperback, 2004
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Could Be So Good
Cat Sebastian
this is just to say We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian https://t.co/kyBjEAD3ed
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
Jessica Kim
Short middle grade you need in your life: Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim. When Jessica sent me her query and pages for a pre-DVpit critique, many moons ago, here’s what I had to say… https://t.co/vrlYdehWA0
Paperback, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Boyfriend
Kris Ripper
@BethanyRobison OH, and do yourself a favor and check out Love, Hate & Clickbait by Liz Bowery when it’s out on April 26 (my 25th birthday!)—DELIGHTFUL. I happy-cried! I also want to read Book Boyfriend by Kris Ripper with a desperation I haven’t felt toward a book in a veryyyy long time…
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Imogen, Obviously
Becky Albertalli
If there’s one thing about me, it is that I am large, I contain multitudes, I am so happy to see Becky Albertalli’s excellent new book Imogen, Obviously on best sellers lists, I am gay, I love cherry blossom trees, I’m bad at math, and I don’t proofread my tweets
Paperback, 2024
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fearless: Psychic Self-Defense: Transcend the Fear of Spiritual Warfare
Jai
This same guy I won’t shut my gay mouth about told me he hasn’t listened to Fearless (Taylor’s Version) yet, and I do actually believe him this time, but also I can’t stop thinking about this LIE, https://t.co/gK1aJ1ZsEG
Paperback, 2018
$14.75$7.38 + Free shipping50% off your first book