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Patton Oswalt 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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Patton Oswalt is a writer and comedian. New tour — EFFERVESCENT — just announced! MINOR THREATS from @darkhorsecomics out now! I like making stuff. IG & Blue Sky: @pattonoswalt

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Book Cover for: Night Shift, Stephen King

Night Shift

Stephen King
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My daughter is now a Stephen King nut. A few years later than her old man but still a nut. About to give her his first short story collection, NIGHT SHIFT. Couldn’t help flagging the ones that stayed with me. https://t.co/MMwSBEomCc

Paperback, Mass Market, 2011

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires, Ben Acker

Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires

Ben Acker
Patton OswaltPatton Oswalt

I got to read a preview of this and it is BEYOND wonderful and hilarious. Pre-order a copy NOW if you can! #StoriesToKeepYouAliveDespiteVampires

Hardcover, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bright Young Women, Jessica Knoll

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll
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Knoll doesn’t make Pamela’s journey (or ours) an easy one, but it ends in a cathartic, long-bottled-up scream that more people need to hear. And, one hopes, the telling of this tale (and more like it) will shred the myth of the 'murderer/genius' one cut at a time.

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Book Cover for: Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking, Mehdi Hasan

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

Mehdi Hasan
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Just got my copy of ⁦@mehdirhasan’s WIN EVERY ARGUMENT. The next time they short me on burrito rice at Chipotle — sparks are gonna fly! Order yours here:

Hardcover, 2023

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper, Daniel Stashower

American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

Daniel Stashower
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Stashower demonstrates an ear for the vivid poetry of the era’s tabloid journalism … Reading about the push-pull of Cleveland’s news media’s need to trumpet violence while veiling sex…is one of the head-shaking pleasures of American Demon.

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: We're Not Gonna Take It: A Children's Picture Book, Margaret McCartney

We're Not Gonna Take It: A Children's Picture Book

Margaret McCartney
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A 15 year-old Dee Snider stands in the middle of a boisterous, passionate Earth Day crowd. A tall, gorgeous, flaxen-haired drag queen pumps a fist at the sky, yelling, “We’re not gonna TAKE it!” A light bulb goes off over Dee’s head. https://t.co/E5mI1S2b2M

Hardcover, 2020

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Conjure Wife: Terror, Evil, Witchcraft and Violence, Fritz Leiber

Conjure Wife: Terror, Evil, Witchcraft and Violence

Fritz Leiber
Patton OswaltPatton Oswalt

NIGHT OF THE EAGLE (aka “Burn, Witch Burn,” 1962). Cool little British horror flick based on Fritz Leiber’s “Conjure Wife.” Also BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW (1971). https://t.co/A2c9WTYw2D

Paperback, 2022

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family from Music City, USA - The Ormonds, Jimmy McDonough

The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family from Music City, USA - The Ormonds

Jimmy McDonough
Patton OswaltPatton Oswalt

Jimmy McDonough’s new book THE EXOTIC ONES is out and it is FANTASTIC! https://t.co/K8L5obwaHy

Hardcover, 2023

$129.95$104.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: Middlemarch, George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot
Patton OswaltPatton Oswalt

"...that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who have lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." -- George Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH (1872)

Paperback, 2003

$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera, Jena Friedman

Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera

Jena Friedman
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Hey! @JenaFriedman’s new book NOT FUNNY comes out tomorrow and it’s hilarious! Especially the chapter where she asks male comics every cringey question female comics get asked!

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