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  • 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
  • Graham St John The best books on psychedelics and culture Book cover of Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond Book cover of The Yage Letters Redux Book cover of True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise Book cover of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies Book cover of PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
  • Taylor Markarian The best books about journalism and alternative culture Book cover of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Book cover of American Hardcore: A Tribal History Book cover of The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band Book cover of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Book cover of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
  • 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
  • Robyn Griggs Lawrence The best books for people who are curious about cannabis Book cover of The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy Book cover of The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis: Its Role in Medicine, Politics, Science, and Culture Book cover of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana - Medical, Recreational and Scientific Book cover of Marijuana Grower's Handbook: Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation Book cover of The Lotus and the Bud: Cannabis, Consciousness, and Yoga Practice
  • Steve A. Wiggins The best books that bring horror and religion into conversation Book cover of Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen Book cover of Religion and Its Monsters Book cover of Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions that Haunt Us Book cover of Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen King Book cover of Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism
  • Margot Mifflin The best books for understanding how the Miss America pageant was born, what it means, and why it matters Book cover of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity Book cover of Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain Book cover of "There She Is, Miss America": The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America's Most Famous Pageant Book cover of Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageantry, Student Bodies, and College Life Book cover of Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground
  • Stephen Silver The best books to inspire you to sketch Book cover of Marc Davis: Walt Disney's Renaissance Man Book cover of How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way Book cover of Cartoon Animation with Preston Blair: Learn Techniques for Drawing and Animating Cartoon Characters Book cover of The Illusion of Life Book cover of Drawing the Head and Hands
  • Joseph Laycock The best books about the history of fantasy role-playing games Book cover of Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures, from Chess to Role-Playing Games Book cover of Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds Book cover of The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange Book cover of Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It Book cover of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms
  • Dashka Slater The best books about facing down extremism, online and off Book cover of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist Book cover of How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say about Human Difference Book cover of Humankind: A Hopeful History Book cover of How to Win the War on Truth: An Illustrated Guide to How Mistruths Are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim Reality Book cover of So You've Been Publicly Shamed
  • Tyler Fisher The best books for unleashing your creative potential Book cover of Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative Book cover of Ways of Seeing Book cover of You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation Book cover of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art Book cover of Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
  • Nick Prior The best books on popular music, technology, and society Book cover of How Music Works Book cover of Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music Book cover of Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer Book cover of Why Music Matters Book cover of K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher from 2004 - 2016
  • Nicholas Tochka The best books to make you rethink everything you thought you knew about rock ’n’ roll Book cover of How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music Book cover of Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination Book cover of Music in America's Cold War Diplomacy Book cover of Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music Book cover of A Women's History of the Beatles
  • Michael Burgan The best books that helped me rekindle my love of Batman Book cover of The Essential Batman Encyclopedia Book cover of Batman Unmasked: Analysing a Cultural Icon Book cover of Batman & Me: An Autobiography Book cover of Batman: The Complete History Book cover of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
  • Jilly Traganou The best books on travel in premodern and modern Japan Book cover of Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan Book cover of Tokyo, Form and Spirit Book cover of Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology Book cover of Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan Book cover of Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan
  • Matthew Bowman The best books if you want to understand the UFO phenomenon Book cover of Communion Book cover of Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers Book cover of The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny Book cover of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology Book cover of The Myth and Mystery of UFOs
  • Robin Esrock The best books to inspire your bucket list travels Book cover of On the Road Book cover of Endurance Book cover of Magicians of the Gods Book cover of Jitterbug Perfume Book cover of Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
  • Christopher A. Paul The best books to understand games Book cover of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames Book cover of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming Book cover of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Book cover of Replay: the History of Video Games Book cover of Video Games Have Always Been Queer
  • Jonathan Grotenstein The best books about high-stakes poker for people who hate math Book cover of The Biggest Game in Town Book cover of Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker Book cover of The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death Book cover of The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win Book cover of The Moneymaker Effect: The Inside Story of the Tournament That Forever Changed Poker
  • Katherine Giuffre The best books about maverick creativity Book cover of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Book cover of Subculture: The Meaning of Style Book cover of Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 Book cover of Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work Book cover of Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation
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