Awesome Books

Learn everything from how to build a snow globe to how to identify mustache styles, all in a single book. Pick up the sequel too, and you’ll find out how to free yourself from an anaconda attack.

(Kinda NSFW) “You own a Snuggie. You have sex. It was inevitable.” So goes the tag line for the hilarious website The Snuggie Sutra. The book includes positions not shown in the website.

The perfect gift for the guy who can’t get any, co-written by the man who can get anyone, Barney Stinson. The Playbook is filled with tips and tricks to help you understand and love women better.

This book offers an auditory history of Ben Burtt’s famed sound design from the classic films, along with a digital player which lets you hear over 250 samples of the sounds referenced in the book.

Ever wanted to draw Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk or X-Men? Learn from the master himself, Stan Lee. We recommend the limited-edition hardcover, or the paperback if you’re on a budget.

Moleskine’s Extra Small Planners measure just 2.5″ w x 4″ h, come in daily and weekly formats and are compact enough to throw in a bike bag, or even your pocket with the skinny weekly version.

Just looking at this epic tome (pictured with author Paul Levitz), we’re convinced that it chronicles the history of the famous comics publisher and its creations, from 1935 up to the present.

Not much to say about these, except they’re awesome. Oh, and as ThinkGeek says, these bookends are being sold on a pseudo-promotional basis: buy one half, get the other half free.

Show your love for Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Patty and Woodstock with these limited-edition Peanuts journals in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Charles Schultz’s classic comic.

We first thought this was a joke or a parody, so imagine our surprise when we found out that this is a real (and rare) children’s book, written by Kerry Milliron and wonderfully illustrated by Bob Eggleton.

Malagana Design’s Equilibrium Bookcase consists of 5 separate cantilevered modules that can be configured at single angled points. It holds more than 120 lbs and disassembles without tools.

Simpsons World: The Ultimate Episode Guide has synopses of all episodes from seasons 1 to 20. Also lists things like Bart’s chalkboard phrases, the family couch gags and celebrity guests.

…thanks to the awful costumes their owners make them wear. We’re only disappointed that the book went to press after Halloween Cat’s recent humiliation. Based on the equally funny website.

Gregory Benford and the editors of Popular Mechanics take on flying cars, aluminum clothes, glass cities, and other amazing visions from the future that never quite was in this fascinating read.

Ice Cream & Sadness is the second collection of strips from the popular webcomic Cyanide & Happiness. The book has 120 comic strips as well as 30 more that are exclusive to the book.

A no-nonsense aggregator of new media, When It Drops uses websites like Amazon and iTunes for info and buy links. You won’t find any hidden gems here, but we all have our guilty pleasures.

Let’s salute Threadless for the last 10 years of fun sidewalk brightening, thanks to their clever crowd-sourced tees. If you’re late to the party, jump in: it’s all chronicled in this truly entertaining book.

Looking for something besides today’s fou-fou martinis to pipe down your manly gullet? This guide offers recipes for 60+ old-school cocktails, plus pics and quotes from the old men who drink them.

Designed as a digital replacement for textbooks and notepads, the Kno tablet will feature two large touchscreens, accept pen input, and a full-featured web browser supporting HTML5 and Flash.

Knock Knock’s self-diagnosis manual is a hypochondriacs’ dream checklist, with hundreds of diseases linked to the most general of symptoms. Does your head hurt? It’s encephalitis! It has to be!

Contains over 700 famous lines from movies. Use it as a perfect bathroom reader, coffee table book, a quick icebreaker, or you know, find out where that one line is from. Not everyone’s a film buff.

Click on the image above to see the animated trailer for the wickedly irreverent It’s A Book, an all ages picture book that addresses the print vs. digital debate, from the talented Lane Smith.

Chewbacca plays Winnie in James Hance’s mash-up of Winnie the Pooh and Star Wars. Han Solo is Christopher Robin and R2D2 is Piglet. Guess who (or what) plays Eeyore. More art here.