Amanda Palmer's Book Recommendations

"Amanda Palmer mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast."

"and while we're here....here's a book about ONE SONG, and yes, it's really good. and i'm in it. but i'm not saying it's good because i'm in it. i'm saying it because alan light is a great writer."

"@jennynirmala that book also changed my life."

"i’m also just about to send a post to all patrons with a free excerpt from clare’s incredible memoir “your own kind of girl”. if you’ve ever battled anxiety, self-image darkness, eat disorder stuff, loss of a sibling or just general fraud police syndrome...you’ll love her book."

"@nehedar my favorite book of @neilhimself’s is the ocean at the end of the land. he will have to speak for himself on the song. i’d imagine he’d say “the bed song” but sometimes he surprises me."

"Siddhartha changed my life. i named my first cat govinda when i was 15 because of that damn book. steppenwolf changed me more, though. there is nothing in the world like that book, nothing."

"Siddhartha changed my life. i named my first cat govinda when i was 15 because of that damn book. steppenwolf changed me more, though. there is nothing in the world like that book, nothing."

"p.p.s. here’s the source of this figure, this book is absolutely magnificent and will totally change your understanding of and relationship to sleep (and other substances):"

"“And did you get what / you wanted from this life, even so ... And what did you want? / To call myself beloved, to feel myself / beloved on theearth” -Raymond Carver, as quoted by @lsjamison in her stunning book The Recovering"

"THIS > RT @flipzagging Liked @amandapalmer's TED Talk? I recommend The Gift by Lewis Hyde - talks about commerce and art like no other book"

"Dark as fuck. And not what you think."

"One of those life-changing books that finally popped the light off in my little brain, when I read this at 24."

"When I found A Collaboration with Nature, I fell in love. Just open it, I'll shut up."

"The new feminist manifesto."

"About what love is. A classic, but oh man. As I age, every time I read this aloud I cry a little harder."

"[The author] didn't have to find these images and compile this book; but he did."

"Made me want to write, to write more honestly than I had ever written before."

"The first book I ever read that made me jump up and down in bed and pump my fist while reading."

"Amanda Palmer mentioned this book in the "Tools of Titans" book."

"Amanda Palmer mentioned this book in the "Tools of Titans" book."

"I only read one comic when I was young. It was this. It changed everything."

"@toast_mmmm i’ve read it!! amazing book."

"Has a fantastical realism that pierces to the bottom of the psyche. I've re-read and re-read this sucker every five years."