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  • Maureen Callahan The best books on American pop culture Book cover of The National Enquirer: Thirty Years of Unforgettable Images Book cover of Careless Love Book cover of The Official Preppy Handbook Book cover of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again Book cover of The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade
  • Bridget Thoreson The best pop culture cookbooks for fans of just about anything Book cover of Forking Good: An Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of The Good Place Book cover of The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook: From Delicious Dole Whip to Tasty Mickey Pretzels, 100 Magical Disney-Inspired Recipes Book cover of The Unofficial Hogwarts For The Holidays Cookbook: Pumpkin Pasties, Treacle Tart, and Many More Spellbinding Treats Book cover of The Christmas Movie Cookbook: Recipes from Your Favorite Holiday Films Book cover of The Horror Movie Night Cookbook: 60 Deliciously Deadly Recipes Inspired by Iconic Slashers, Zombie Films, Psychological Thrillers, Sci-Fi Spooks, and More
  • Abraham Chang The best books that incorporate pop culture in unexpected ways Book cover of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Book cover of High Fidelity Book cover of Ready Player One Book cover of Wolves of the Calla Book cover of Me Talk Pretty One Day
  • Jill Sherwin The best behind the scenes of TV series books Book cover of The Twilight Zone Companion Book cover of The Making of Star Trek Book cover of The Trouble with Tribbles: The Story Behind Star Trek's Most Popular Episode Book cover of The World of Star Trek Book cover of Deep Space Nine Companion
  • T. Torrest The best romance books that flash back to the 1980s and 90s Book cover of Seduction and Snacks Book cover of The Good Life Book cover of Melt With You Book cover of Oona Out of Order Book cover of Virgins
  • John Wills The best books about video games and popular culture Book cover of Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 Book cover of Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames Book cover of Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America Book cover of Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity Book cover of Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
  • Martin Edwards The best books about crime fiction, the world’s most popular genre Book cover of Bloody Murder Book cover of Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story Book cover of Locked Room Murders Book cover of Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers Book cover of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
  • Elyssa Goodman The best books about living a glittering life in New York City Book cover of Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress Book cover of St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street Book cover of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever Book cover of Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern Book cover of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
  • Marcus Gorman The best books to use as pop culture primers Book cover of The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway Book cover of Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community Book cover of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Book cover of Mike Nichols: A Life Book cover of Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live
  • Roy Schwartz The best comic book history books Book cover of A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee Book cover of Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero Book cover of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Book cover of 75 Years of DC Comics. the Art of Modern Mythmaking Book cover of The Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 1
  • Daniel Robert McClure The best books to understand the history of information-knowledge Book cover of World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge Book cover of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Book cover of The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America Book cover of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Book cover of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
  • Landon Y. Jones The best books about how celebrity culture works and what it is doing to America today Book cover of The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America Book cover of His Picture in the Papers: A Speculation on Celebrity in America Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Book cover of Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality Book cover of Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America Book cover of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
  • A.G.A. Wilmot The best books to manage your mental health while getting your spooky on Book cover of Tear Book cover of Motherthing Book cover of And Then She Fell Book cover of The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Essays Book cover of The Monster and the Mirror: Mental Illness, Magic, and the Stories We Tell
  • Simone C. Drake The best books on Black popular culture Book cover of Black Popular Culture Book cover of Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film Book cover of Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic Book cover of Technicolored: Reflections on Race in the Time of TV Book cover of The Black Interior: Essays
  • Lio Min The best stories about the transformative power of art Book cover of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Book cover of Y/N Book cover of Never Let Me Go Book cover of Stay True: A Memoir Book cover of Blue Period 1
  • Jean Kilbourne The best books critiquing advertising and the popular culture Book cover of Ways of Seeing Book cover of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Book cover of The Hidden Persuaders Book cover of The Ladykillers: Why Smoking is a Feminist Issue Book cover of Consuming Passions: The Dynamics of Popular Culture
  • Mark D. Steinberg The best books on the modern history of cities Book cover of Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-De-Siècle Paris Book cover of City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London Book cover of Reading Berlin 1900 Book cover of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Book cover of High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
  • Susan Bordo The best books about popular culture Book cover of The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael Book cover of Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media Book cover of The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America Book cover of On Photography Book cover of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
  • Joel Stein The best books on saving democracy from populism Book cover of The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography Book cover of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Book cover of Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Book cover of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters Book cover of The Age of American Unreason
  • Brett Dakin The best books on the history of golden age comics Book cover of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Book cover of The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America Book cover of Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code Book cover of Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America Book cover of The Great Comic Book Heroes
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