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Mark O’Brien Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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 🌸

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Book Cover for: Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture, Matt Baume

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

Matt Baume
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

@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
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Book Cover for: Love, Hate & Clickbait, Liz Bowery

Love, Hate & Clickbait

Liz Bowery
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

@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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Book Cover for: Kate in Waiting, Becky Albertalli

Kate in Waiting

Becky Albertalli
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

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
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Book Cover for: Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult

Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

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
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Book Cover for: The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics), Ellen Raskin

The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)

Ellen Raskin
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

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
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Book Cover for: We Could Be So Good, Cat Sebastian

We Could Be So Good

Cat Sebastian
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

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
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Book Cover for: Stand Up, Yumi Chung!, Jessica Kim

Stand Up, Yumi Chung!

Jessica Kim
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

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
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Book Cover for: Book Boyfriend, Kris Ripper

Book Boyfriend

Kris Ripper
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

@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
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Book Cover for: Imogen, Obviously, Becky Albertalli

Imogen, Obviously

Becky Albertalli
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

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
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Book Cover for: Fearless: Psychic Self-Defense: Transcend the Fear of Spiritual Warfare, Jai

Fearless: Psychic Self-Defense: Transcend the Fear of Spiritual Warfare

Jai
Mark O’BrienMark O’Brien

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
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