Books

Get help with today’s social dilemmas, such as whether to friend your boss on Facebook, which airplane armrest is yours, appropriate texting, and how to generally not be a rude person.

Zach Golden’s smart-ass website is now a smart-ass cookbook, providing tips and insights into what you should cook for any occasion – with the occasional swear word thrown in for spice.

Batman must use his detective skills to unravel a series of brutal murders in Gotham City in the first of two stories in what Batman junkies are calling an instant classic in the series.

Among the many talents of Guy Laramee is sculpting. His projects Biblios and The Great Wall are made of thick tomes carved into landscapes, from mountains to canyons to ancient temples.

A gorgeous hardcover book chronicling 10 years of environments, weapons, characters, vehicles and enemies from the Halo universe. A video game book that actually belongs on your coffee table.

The voluminous Modernist Cuisine hides the secret to making the Ultimate Hamburger. We stopped paying attention to the video halfway through because BRAIN WANTS BURGER NOW.

In the new book, 100 Facts About Sharks, you’ll learn dozens of things you never knew about sharks – all of which are completely fabricated. Wonder if their book about pandas is any more accurate.

A choose your own adventure book for puzzle geeks. The Tic Tac Tome has over 1,400 pages and even gives you the option of going first or letting the book go first. You can only play as the X though.

The man who brought us Michael Jackson’s Thriller chronicles 320 pages of the grossest, creepiest, most evil and awesome monsters and baddies in the history of the cinema in this hardcover book.

The first trailer for the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ sci-fi novel The Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class) plays the heroine, teen-turned-gladiator Katniss Everdeen.

While tablets are all the rage for reading books these days, there’s still something nice about having actual books on your shelf. Art Ori’s clever bookends turn your books into a tiny action scene.

Take down your office enemies with a new bunch of evil weapons you can make from office supplies and common household items. The pushpin darts and paper throwing stars sound painful.

An instruction manual for unleashing your inner Dennis the Menace, Bart King’s book helps you pull off practical jokes of all shapes and sizes, and chronicles some of the greatest hoaxes of all time.

Celebrating 25 years of Pixar, Amid Amidi and John Lasseter compile over 300 pages of Pixar’s color scripts and inspirational art behind the revered digital animation studio.

Stories (most of them probably bollocks) about the identity of the mysterious artist and the effect his fame had on the people around him. Maybe the closest we’ll ever get to a biography of Banksy.

Using actual zombie sounds, learn how to blend in and avoid being eaten while carrying on with our everyday activities like ordering a latte from a zombarista and shopping at a zombie-infested mall.

A collection of photographs by Pat Graham featuring the instruments of famous bands and musicians, from New Order to Sonic Youth. With foreword by guitarist Johnny Marr.

A coffee table book by Pulitzer Prize-winning auto columnist Dan Neil featuring 100 of the most beautiful cars of the 20th century. This may be the closest you can get to owning these works of art.

Help Fido learn some new tricks by teaching him the math and physics behind chasing mailmen, squirrels, counter-surfing, playing fetch and even “strategic” pooping, whatever that means.