Awesome Books

Postertext creates book posters that you can admire and actually read. Each poster has an image silhouetted against the actual text of a book or story. Check back weekly for new posters.

TASCHEN’s beautiful 320-page hardcover book chronicles some of the most original and creative graffiti and urban art around the world. Get a sneak preview of the book here.

According to the description, this “official U.S. Army field manual” provides hundreds of illustrations and techniques for tracking and exterminating those pesky werewolves. Uh, yeah.

(NSFW) Remember those stupid “Choose Your Own Adventure” books? Something Awful has dusted off a number of rare books from the series that we don’t remember reading when we were kids.

This blog comes up with more appropriate titles for popular books, all in the name of fun. The irony is that you actually have to have read half of the books on the blog in order to get the jokes.

Jeff Potter’s tattered cookbook features recipes and lessons from the world of food science, and interviews with geeks, chefs and scientists. We also think it’s the first O’Reilly Cookbook with food.

The new 6-inch Kindles are 21% smaller than prior models, get to 1-month battery life, along with image quality and other improvements. Choose 3G/Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi only versions in white or grey.

If you’re looking forward to BioWare’s and LucasArt’s latest MMORPG, you might want to give this book a read, which is based on the plot-lines in the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic.

It’s our hero’s finest hour in Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, the last volume of an epic tale of love, music and video games. Will he and Ramona end up together, or will he get killed trying?

Not only does the updated version of Amazon’s 9.7-inch Kindle DX book reader have a new case color, they’ve improved display contrast by 50%, and cut the price by $110 bucks. Ships 7/7.

This unabridged edition of Anthony Burgess’ dystopian masterpiece is now available in Audiobook format. Including a controversial extra chapter, it’s a must-listen for fans of the original.

The Society of Sinister Simians from Dallas illustrator Chet Phillips is a part Victorian, part steampunk and all evil book and card collection of vicious, mysterious and power hungry primates.

Craig Damrauer breaks life down into simple equations infused with wit and humor. You don’t need a degree in mathematics to appreciate New Math. Also available in book form.

Valentina Trimani’s brilliantly simple concept design combines the utility of a bookmark with low-voltage OLED illumination, so you can read your books while lying in the darkness of your bedroom.

The Sneaker Coloring Book is exactly what it says it is, containing 100 black and white drawings of the most popular sneakers from 1916 to the present. Get out your box of Crayolas now.

If you’re into science fiction, you might want to swing by this brand new online magazine which features free original fiction each week, along with monthly ePub and Kindle editions for a small price.

Macedonian designer Dragan Trencevski has created the eRoll, a concept that could be the future of e-reading. The rollable, flexible screen in effect reduces the size of a book to a mere baton.

Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver’s graphic novel re-imagining of The Green Lantern is now available in this 224-page slipcased hardcover edition with all the juicy green bits in one place.

Why read a bunch of letters that no one ever wants to receive? To remind us that everyone deals with rejection, and we shouldn’t let it stop us from succeeding. Also some of the letters are funny.

Alan Goldsher’s Paul is Undead weaves a tale of zombie Beatles, zombie-killer Mick Jagger, vampire Pete Best and ninja(?) Yoko Ono. McCartney is looking a little green around the gills these days.

How can you resist a book where the plot centers on bloggers ruling the world in a zombie-infested post-apocalyptic 2039? You’ve got to love the bloody RSS feed icon on the book cover.

The hilarious, profane rants of Sam Halpern, aka “Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair”, first seen in his son Justin’s Twitter account Sh*t My Dad Says are now immortalized in book form.

Lost or stranded in a crevasse alone in inclement weather? First thing we’d do is write about it in an all weather journal made from patented 100% recyclable paper. Actually, we’d shout for help first.