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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Night Shift
Stephen KingPatton OswaltMy 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
Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires
Ben AckerPatton OswaltI 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
Bright Young Women
Jessica KnollPatton OswaltKnoll 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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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Mehdi HasanPatton OswaltJust 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
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
Daniel StashowerPatton OswaltStashower 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
We're Not Gonna Take It: A Children's Picture Book
Margaret McCartneyPatton OswaltA 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
Conjure Wife: Terror, Evil, Witchcraft and Violence
Fritz LeiberPatton OswaltNIGHT 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
The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family from Music City, USA - The Ormonds
Jimmy McDonoughPatton OswaltJimmy 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)
Middlemarch
George EliotPatton 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
Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera
Jena FriedmanPatton OswaltHey! @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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