Awesome Books

Based on the popular blog from the Cheezburger Network, this book picks 200+ of the best of the worst MacGyver jobs out there. Our personal favorite: the half car. Makes a great door stop, too.

Illustrator A.J. Hateley’s ongoing series Thirty Days of Videogames features beautiful vintage-style fake book covers inspired by videogames. You can get some of them as prints here.

Cartoonist Dan Hipp created a these Adventures of Tintin-inspired book covers as tributes to classic science fiction films lie Star Wars, Alien and Tron. We only wish these books were real.

From the publishing house that gave us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Android Karenina comes another posthumous collaboration, this time between Franz Kafka and Cook Coleridge.

The Ultimate Driving Composition: renowned graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister created Culture, a limited edition book for BMW that also serves as a remote control car. (Thanks Brad!)

David Thorne has documented his sometimes unsettling, but hysterical digital mischief on his website, 27bslash6.com. His new book catalogs his most memorable exploits – no Internet required.

My First Dictionary: Corrupting Young Minds One Word at a Time is a book (based on the blog) by Ross Horsley that combines vintage children’s book illustrations with wickedly twisted word definitions.

Go the F**k To Sleep is a subversive (and really not to be read aloud) bedtime book for parents who know that snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a child sailing off to dreamland.

These World War II monuments built throughout Yugoslavia now stand neglected and forgotten. Photographer Jan Kempenaers captured these hollow symbols in his book Spomenik.

A set of posters inspired by classic novels, made by various artists for Required Reading exhibit at Gallery 1988. There’s some seriously sweet artwork to be had for very reasonable prices.

250 of the funniest incorrect test answers by clueless or wisecracking British and American students. We’re not sure if teachers will love this or have horrific flashbacks while reading it.

This like an old photograph from the 1950s, but it’s actually a detailed model from artist Michael Paul Smith, who’s compiled his scenes into Elgin Park, a book about a fictitious retro-style town.

If you’re feeling excessively bored – or angry – check out this activity book for adults by Keri Smith. Each page contains simple but therapeutic and fun things you can do to destroy the journal.

If BlendTec blenders gadgets, the folks behind short fiction anthology Electric Literature shoot books. Watch the video to find out which big book published in 2010 can literally save your life.

A limited-edition art book by DB Burkeman & Monica LoCascio, showcasing approximately 4,000 stickers with themes ranging from music to brands to street art. Includes 23 designer die-cut stickers.

For those times when you put down the e-Reader and pick up a real book, this softly-glowing glass lamp is the perfect place to rest your book between chapters. Just don’t try to set your Kindle on top.