Amanda Palmer Book Recommendations

Not the End of the World

by Kate Atkinson

"Dark as fuck. And not what you think." - Amanda Palmer (Source)

Dropping Ashes on the Buddha

The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

by Seung Sahn

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

A Collaboration with Nature

by Andy Goldsworthy

"When I found [this book], I fell in love. Just open it, I'll shut up." - Amanda Palmer (Source)

How to Be a Woman

by Caitlin Moran

"The new feminist manifesto." - Amanda Palmer (Source)

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams

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

Voluptuous Panic

The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin

by Mel Gordon

"[The author] didn't have to find these images and compile this book; but he did." - Amanda Palmer (Source)

Blood and Guts in High School

by Kathy Acker

"Made me want to write, to write more honestly than I had ever written before." - Amanda Palmer (Source)

The Hotel New Hampshire

by John Irving

"The first book I ever read that made me jump up and down in bed and pump my fist while reading." - Amanda Palmer (Source)

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

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

Only Don't Know

Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn

by Seung Sahn

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

Death

by Neil Gaiman

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

Dirty Plotte

The Complete Julie Doucet

by Julie Doucet

"I only read one comic when I was young. It was this. It changed everything." - Amanda Palmer (Source)

Steppenwolf

A Novel

by Hermann Hesse

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