MyLibrarian: Andrea

I love a story with witty characters, dry humor, satire, or inventive new worlds. It's all about great world building—whether textured and elaborate like Tolkien, or absurd like Douglas Adams.

My favorite genres are sci-fi, comedy, biographies (especially comedians!) and plus whatever non-fiction catches my eye.

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    Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda

    Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
    And Other Things I've Learned

    Alan Alda

    "My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six," begins Alda’s irresistible story. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession.

    I love everything Alan Alda has written. He's incredibly engaging, kind, humble—and he's lived an unbelievably interesting life!

    Andrea

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    Bossypants by Tina Fey

    Bossypants

    Tina Fey

    From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you’re no one until someone calls you bossy.

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    The Actor's Life by Jenna Fischer

    The Actor's Life
    A Survival Guide

    Jenna Fischer

    Fischer’s Hollywood journey began when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. With a theater degree in hand, she was certain everything would fall easily into place. She was determined, she was confident, she was ready to work hard. What could go wrong?

    Part biography, part actor's guide—but you don't need to be an aspiring actor to enjoy!

    Andrea

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    Naturally Tan by Tan France

    Naturally Tan

    Tan France

    The Queer Eye star and designer recounts his complicated early life as a closeted gay youth from a traditional South Asian family in Yorkshire, sharing insights into his coming of age, emergence as an artist and happy marriage.

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    Neil Patrick Harris by Neil Patrick Harris

    Neil Patrick Harris
    Choose Your Own Autobiography

    Neil Patrick Harris

    The Emmy Award-winning star of How I Met Your Mother shares his experiences as a child star, Broadway performer and father in an over-the-top, humorous account creatively designed in the style of the popular interactive adventure series.

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    Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness

    Over The Top
    A Raw Journey To Self-Love

    Jonathan Van Ness

    Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix’s hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a small Midwestern town that didn’t understand why he was so… over the top.

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    The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman

    The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
    An Oral History

    Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman

    At last, the full story behind Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman's epic romance, including stories, portraits, and the occasional puzzle, all telling the smoldering tale that has fascinated Hollywood for over a decade.

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    Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman

    Paddle Your Own Canoe
    One Man's Fundamentals For Delicious Living

    Nick Offerman

    A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.

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    Yes Please by Amy Poehler

    Yes Please

    Amy Poehler

    Poehler offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious.

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    Behind The Scenes

    Welcome to Dunder Mifflin by Brian Baumgartner

    Welcome To Dunder Mifflin
    The Ultimate Oral History Of The Office

    Brian Baumgartner

    The official oral history book of The Office, featuring exclusive interviews with every major player and never-before-seen photos, pulling back the curtain on the absurdity and genius that went in to creating this unstoppable force in American popular culture and why it continues to resonate with audiences today.

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    The Office by Andy Greene

    The Office
    The Untold Story Of The Greatest Sitcom Of The 2000s: An Oral History

    Andy Greene

    Rolling Stone writer Andy Greene takes readers behind the scenes of their favorite moments and characters. Greene gives us the true inside story behind the entire show, from its origins on the BBC through its impressive nine-season run in America, with in-depth research and exclusive interviews. Fans will get the inside scoop on key episodes from "The Dundies" to "Threat Level Midnight" and "Goodbye, Michael," including behind-the-scenes details like the battle to keep it on the air when NBC wanted to pull the plug after just six episodes and the failed attempt to bring in James Gandolfini as the new boss after Steve Carell left.

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    Best Wishes, Warmest Regards by Daniel Levy, Eugene Levy

    Best Wishes, Warmest Regards
    The Story Of Schitt's Creek

    Daniel Levy, Eugene Levy

    This beautifully produced, keepsake coffee-table book is the ultimate celebration of the series, the town, the characters, and the state of mind that is Schitt's Creek. Capturing the essence and alchemy of all six seasons of what is now considered to be one of the most groundbreaking comedy television series of the last decade, Best Wishes, Warmest Regards is a gift to fans everywhere who have made the show their own.

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    The Daily Show (the book) by Chris Smith

    The Daily Show (The Book)
    An Oral History As Told By Jon Stewart, The Correspondents, Staff And Guests

    Chris Smith

    The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host.

    A must-read for anyone who likes the Daily Show. I had no idea how much thought Jon Stewart put into restructuring the show when he first joined.

    Andrea

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    Language And Communication

    If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? by Alan Alda

    If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face?
    My Adventures In The Art And Science Of Relating And Communicating

    Alan Alda

    The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.

    Fun and informative. This should be required reading for scientists and anyone who needs to communicate important information.

    Andrea

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    Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

    Because Internet
    Understanding The New Rules Of Language

    Gretchen Mcculloch

    Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

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    Cultish by Amanda Montell

    Cultish
    The Language Of Fanaticism

    Amanda Montell

    What makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has…

    A light read about the power of language. Is SoulCycle a cult?

    Andrea

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    Between You & Me by Mary Norris

    Between You & Me
    Confessions Of A Comma Queen

    Mary Norris

    Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice.

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    Radical Candor by Kim Scott

    Radical Candor
    Be A Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

    Kim Scott

    A high-profile business manager describes her development of an optimal management course designed to help business leaders become balanced and effective without resorting to insensitive aggression or overt permissiveness.

    Want to be a better boss? Read this.

    Andrea

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    Math And Science

    Flavor by Bob Holmes

    Flavor
    The Science Of Our Most Neglected Sense

    Bob Holmes

    A journey into the science of the sense of taste outlines principles in neurobiology and modern food production to reveal the broad range of factors that can affect one's appreciation of what is consumed.

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    The Man Who Knew Too Much by David Leavitt

    The Man Who Knew Too Much
    Alan Turing And The Invention Of The Computer

    David Leavitt

    A biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory.

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    Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe

    Thing Explainer
    Complicated Stuff In Simple Words

    Randall Munroe

    XKCD webcomic author Randall Munroe explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. Explore the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls), and the little bags of water you're made of (cells).

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    Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

    Packing For Mars
    The Curious Science Of Life In The Void

    Mary Roach

    From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

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    Soonish by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

    Soonish
    Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And-Or Ruin Everything

    Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

    A snapshot of the transformative technologies that are coming next–from robot swarms to nuclear fusion powered-toasters–and explain how they will change our world in astonishing ways.

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    Politics, Society, And History

    Thanks, Obama by David Litt

    Thanks, Obama
    My Hopey, Changey White House Years

    David Litt

    With a humorists’ eye for detail, Litt describes what it’s like to accidentally trigger an international incident or nearly set a president’s hair aflame. He makes clear that politics is completely, hopelessly absurd—while also reminding us that people who love this country can change it.

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    Gumption by Nick Offerman

    Gumption
    Relighting The Torch Of Freedom With America's Gutsiest Troublemakers

    Nick Offerman

    Combinging serious history with light-hearted humor, Nick Offerman focuses on the lives of those who inspired him. From George Washington to Willie Nelson, he describes twenty-one heroic figures and why they inspire in him such great meaning.

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    Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper

    Unfollow
    A Memoir Of Loving And Leaving The Westboro Baptist Church

    Megan Phelps-Roper

    At the age of five, Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church. She became the church’s Twitter spokeswoman, but dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message. Here she relates her moral awakening, her departure from the church, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community.

    Phelps-Roper strikes a perfect balance, presenting her estranged family as human, not incomprehensible monsters, without excusing any of their beliefs or actions.

    Andrea

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    America (the book) by Jon Stewart

    America (The Book)
    A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction

    Jon Stewart

    The host of the award-winning humorous news program offers tongue-in-cheek insight into American democracy with coverage of such topics as the republican qualities of ancient Rome, the antics of our nation’s founders, and the ludicrous nature of today’s media.

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    A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind

    A World Without Work
    Technology, Automation, And How We Should Respond

    Daniel Susskind

    Drawing on almost a decade of research in the field, Susskind argues that machines no longer need to think like us in order to outperform us, as was once widely believed. As a result, more and more tasks that used to be far beyond the capability of computers are coming within their reach. The threat of technological unemployment is now real.

    This book changed the way I think about the concept of work!

    Andrea

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    How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter

    How Civil Wars Start
    And How To Stop Them

    Barbara F. Walter

    A leading political scientist examines the recent rise in political violence in the U.S and discusses the increasingly likelihood of a second civil war in the United States and what can be done to stop it.

    I feel like this gave me a good perspective on modern politics. It's actually very light on U.S. politics until the very end.

    Andrea

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    Self Improvement

    The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

    The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up
    The Japanese Art Of Decluttering And Organizing

    Marie Kondo

    This best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.

    Kondo has tips and tricks, but what really stuck with me was how she approached the emotions behind clutter.

    Andrea

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    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a fuck by Mark Manson

    The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck
    A Counterintuitive Approach To Living A Good Life

    Mark Manson

    This book is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better.

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    Help Me! by Marianne Power

    Help Me!
    One Woman's Quest To Find Out If Self-Help Really Can Change Your Life

    Marianne Power

    Journalist Marianne Power decides to finally find out if her elusive "perfect existence" really did lie in the pages of a self help book, vowing to test a book a month for one year, following its advice to the letter, taking what she hoped would be the surest path to a flawless new her.

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    The Curated Closet by Anuschka Rees

    The Curated Closet
    A Simple System For Discovering Your Personal Style And Building Your Dream Wardrobe

    Anuschka Rees

    A strategic, prescriptive approach to identifying, refining, and expressing personal style and building the perfect wardrobe to match it, as well as addressing style and shopping strategies that can be used every day.

    I'm not a fashionista, but this helped me figure out what I wanted out of my wardrobe… and how to stop buying stuff I never actually wear.

    Andrea

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    Science Fiction

    Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

    Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

    Douglas Adams

    Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: We solve the whole crime. We find the whole person. Phone today for the whole solution to your problem (Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty).

    Still quirky, but much more down-to-earth than the Hitchhiker's Guide series.

    Andrea

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    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

    Douglas Adams

    Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’.

    A contender for my absolute favorite book.

    Andrea

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    Ready player one by Ernest Cline

    Ready Player One

    Ernest Cline

    Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.

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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

    The Hunger Games

    Suzanne Collins

    In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and once girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

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    This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    This Is How You Lose The Time War

    Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions.

    This book is like poetry. Beautiful—but don't expect a reliable narrator, or a linear plot.

    Andrea

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    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley

    Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming and media–has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future?

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    Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

    Several People Are Typing

    Calvin Kasulke

    When his consciousness is uploaded into his company’s internal Slack channels, boosting his productivity, Gerald, who works for a PR firm, as his reality becomes more absurd, enlists the help of a co-worker to help him escape—and to find out what happened to his body.

    A fast, fun, crazy read, told epistolary-style through messages and emails. I really enjoyed this.

    Andrea

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    Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by Jason Pargin

    Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits

    Jason Pargin

    Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move. Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes. A young woman from the trailer park. And her very smelly cat. Together, they will decide the future of mankind.

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    The Kaiju Preservation Society  by John Scalzi

    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    John Scalzi

    When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.� Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on.

    The author calls this a "pop song" of a book, and I agree! Good for fans of Stargate SG-1.

    Andrea

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    The Martian by Andy Weir

    The Martian

    Andy Weir

    Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive–and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet.

    Probably my favorite "hard sci-fi" novel. I found it much more engaging than the movie adaptation.

    Andrea

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    Fantasy & Supernatural

    Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

    Artemis Fowl

    Eoin Colfer

    When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

    This was simple fun. Great for all ages (yes, including adult readers.)

    Andrea

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    Good Omens by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

    Good Omens

    Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

    The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems—the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.

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    Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

    Neverwhere

    Neil Gaiman

    Richard Mayhew a good hearted man. He's a young businessman when he discovers a young bleeding woman on a London sidewalk. But after this happens he's plunge into a world of horror.

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    Eleanor by Jason Gurley

    Eleanor

    Jason Gurley

    Eleanor is fourteen years old when it happens for the first time… when she walks through an ordinary door at school and finds herself in another world. It happens again and again, but it's only a curiosity until that day at the cliffs. The day when Eleanor dives… and something rips her out of time itself.

    The plot has a few supernatural elements, but this was really a domestic drama about mothers and daughters.

    Andrea

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    Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby

    Shit Cassandra Saw

    Gwen E. Kirby

    From Hellenic times to today, these hilarious, heartwarming and hotheaded stories of women at their breaking points introduces an unforgettable cast of characters, including virgins who escape from being sacrificed, witches who refuse to be burned, whores who aren’t ashamed and many others.

    These short stories were all over the place! My favorite was probably the radioactive cockroach women, but the more down-to-earth stories were also engaging.

    Andrea

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    The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

    The Book Of Form And Emptiness

    Ruth Ozeki

    When he begins hearing voices one year after his father’s death, 13-year-old Benny Oh, seeking refuge in the library, meets a colorful cast of characters, including his very own Book, a talking thing, who narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.

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    The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

    The Lord Of The Rings

    J. R. R. Tolkien

    The future of Middle Earth rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins, who inherits the Ring and steps into legend. A daunting task lies ahead for Frodo when he becomes the Ringbearer — to destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged.

    Another contender for my absolute favorite book!

    Andrea

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    The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

    The Silmarillion

    J. R. R. Tolkien

    Published posthumously by J.R.R. Tolkien’s son, The Silmarillion forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes Tolkien’s universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth, within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place.

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    Iron widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

    Iron Widow

    Xiran Jay Zhao

    The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare kind of female pilot who can sacrifice males to power up Chrysalises instead.

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    Horror

    The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey

    The Girl With All The Gifts

    Mike Carey

    Not every gift is a blessing. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl. Emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end, The girl with all the gifts is the most powerful and affecting thriller you will read this year.

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    John Dies at the End by Jason Pargin

    John Dies At The End

    Jason Pargin

    This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

    Douglas Adams meets B-movie horror!

    Andrea

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    The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

    The Family Plot

    Cherie Priest

    Withrow mansion is in unusually great shape for a condemned building. It’s empty, but Dahlia and the Music City Salvage crew quickly learn it is far from abandoned. There is still something in the mansion, something angry and lost, and this is its last chance to raise hell before the house is gone forever.

    A classic ghost story. The house felt like its own character!

    Andrea

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    Graphic Novels

    A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman, Rafael Albuquerque

    A Study In Emerald

    Neil Gaiman, Rafael Albuquerque

    This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Queen's Palace as they attempt to find the answers to this bizarre murder of cosmic horror!

    I first read this as a short story, and it blew. my. mind.

    Andrea

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    The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba

    The Umbrella Academy

    Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba

    In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who had previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, 'To save the world.' These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers.

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    The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

    The Sandman

    Neil Gaiman

    An occultist attempting to capture the physical embodiment of Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his seventy-year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power to reclaim his reign.

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    The Wicked + the Divine by Kieron Gillen

    The Wicked + The Divine

    Kieron Gillen

    Every ninety years, twelve gods return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again.

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    Locke & Key by Joe Hill

    Locke & Key

    Joe Hill

    The story of the Keyhouse, a New England mansion, with doors that transform all who walk through them … and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it opens the most terrible door of all.

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    Webcomics In Print

    Sarah's Scribbles by Sarah Andersen

    Sarah's Scribbles

    Sarah Andersen

    Sarah's Scribbles follows Andersen's experiences as a millennial and focuses on themes such as adulthood and maturity. Collections include Adulthood is a Myth; Big Mushy Happy Lump; Herding Cats; and Oddball.

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    Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

    Hyperbole And A Half

    Allie Brosh

    This hilarious webcomic explores the author’s quirks and idiosyncrasies — her strange, candy-fueled childhood; her neurotic dogs; her battles with adulthood; and even a candid look at her battle with depression.

    This book will have you laughing until you cry.

    Andrea

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    Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu

    Check, Please!

    Ngozi Ukazu

    Y'all… I might not be ready for this. I may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It's nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking. And then, there is Jack… You see the problem.

    A fun, light-hearted romcom with fantastic side characters.

    Andrea

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    Classics

    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    Pride And Prejudice

    Jane Austen

    While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.

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    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Bronte

    Adopted by the kind Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated after Earnshaw’s death by the new master of the house, Hindley. But Heathcliff’s passionate and ferocious nature finds its completement in Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine.

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    Movies & Television

    Arrival by Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner

    Arrival

    Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner

    When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

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    Contact by Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughy

    Contact

    Jodie Foster, Matthew Mcconaughy

    After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.

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    Edge of Tomorrow by Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt

    Edge Of Tomorrow

    Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt

    In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time.

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    The Fifth Element by Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker

    The Fifth Element

    Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker

    250 years in the future–and what a bright, noisy and vigorously colorful future it is–a beleaguered taxi hack, more accustomed to combating mechanical failures and bothersome creditors, finds himself pitted against Evil with a capital "E." It seems dubious he's up to the challenge.

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    Interstellar by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine

    Interstellar

    Matthew Mcconaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine

    With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.

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    Interview With The Vampire by Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas

    Interview With The Vampire

    Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas

    Louis de Pointe du Lac, a nearly two-century-old vampire, recounts the unbelievable story of his eternal life to a sceptical reporter, including his transformation at the hands of his aristocratic maker, Lestat de Lioncourt, and the creation of a vampire child, Claudia.

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    Last Night in Soho by Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Matt Smith

    Last Night In Soho

    Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin Mckenzie, Diana Rigg, Matt Smith

    Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.

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    The Lord of the Rings by Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Andy Serkis

    The Lord Of The Rings
    Trilogy

    Elijah Wood, Ian Mckellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Andy Serkis

    In the land of Middle Earth, young Hobbit Frodo Baggins is entrusted with the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron and with a fellowship of eight others, embarks on a quest to destroy it.

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    The Office by Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson

    The Office

    Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson

    Based on the popular British series of the same name, the American version follows the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees at the Scranton, Pa. office of the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company via a documentary film crew's cameras

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    Pride and Prejudice by Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth

    Pride And Prejudice

    Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth

    The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.

    My favorite Elizabeth Bennet!

    Andrea

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    Schitt$ Creek by Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Levy, Annie Murphy

    Schitt$ Creek

    Eugene Levy, Catherine O'hara, Daniel Levy, Annie Murphy

    When a filthy-rich video store magnate, his soap star wife, and their two kids suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup and rebuild their empire from within the rural city limits of their only remaining asset: Schitt's Creek, an armpit of a town they once bought as a joke.

    It takes about three episodes to really get good, but it's worth it.

    Andrea

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    The Silence of the Lambs by Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins

    The Silence Of The Lambs

    Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins

    A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer.

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    Twin Peaks by Kyle MacLachlan

    Twin Peaks

    Kyle Maclachlan

    Follow FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry S. Truman as they try to hunt down just who killed Laura Palmer in the sleepy town of Twin Peaks, Washington.

    Bizzare (affectionate).

    Andrea

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    What We Do in the Shadows by Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh

    What We Do In The Shadows

    Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh

    Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.

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