Satire
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Deadpan
$16.95 Read moreDeadpan follows the misadventures of a vaguely antisemitic West Virginia Buick dealer who wakes up one day transformed into the world’s most popular Jewish comedian. Steeped in magical realism, the na
- Author: Walter, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: February 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Living and the Rest
$22.00 Add to cart“Cross J.M. Coetzee with Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez and you’ve got Jos? Eduardo Agualusa, Portugal’s next candidate for the Nobel Prize” — Alan Kaufman, author of Matches
A thrilling tale that considers- Author: Agualusa, Jose Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1962770206
- Language: English
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Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Miller, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0063348705
- Language: English
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The Namaste Club
$30.00 Add to cart“This smart, suspenseful tale with an I-didn’t-see-that-coming ending is an irresistible page turner, as if White Lotus collided with Nine Perfect Strangers. A summer must-read.” — Rochelle B. Weinst
- Author: Elias, Asha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063425211
- Language: English
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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
$17.95 Add to cartAt once a bittersweet comedy and a drama of racial identity, this book brings to life the hilarious imbroglios of the modern metropolis.
Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglot community of immigrants w
- Author: Lakhous, Amara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889661191
- Language: English
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The Whyte Python World Tour
$30.00 Add to cartRikki Thunder, twenty-two-year-old drummer for the scorching new ’80s metal band Whyte Python, is about to have it all: absurd wealth, global fame, and a dream girlfriend. But an unwitting role as an … [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0385551339
- Language: English
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Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory
$27.00 Add to cartA comic novel for fans of Adelle Waldman about a tech startup that turns sand into rain clouds from Sami Rohr prize winner Iddo Gefen.
Our story opens with Mrs. Lilienblum discovered drinking a martin- Author: Gefen, Iddo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1662600879
- Language: English
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Perfection
$15.95 Add to cartA scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature.
“One of Europe’s most talented young writers, Latronico has written the great Berlin novel we’ve all- Author: Latronico, Vincenzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378728
- Language: English
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Bad Monkey
$28.00 Read moreNow an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso Executive Producer Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn – A wickedly funny novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me in which the gr… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0307272591
- Language: English
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Obvious in Hindsight
$28.99 Read moreA tech start-up and their cutthroat consultants will stop at nothing to realize their dream of filling the skies of America’s cities with flying cars…and their opposition is equally determined to br… [more below]
- Author: Tusk, Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888452202
- Language: English
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The Children of Jocasta
$30.00 Add to cart“Reinterprets two of Sophocles’ Theban plays, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. . . . the alternating structure proves powerful.”–The New Yorker
“A passionate and gripping account of a famously dysfuncti
- Author: Haynes, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0063418304
- Language: English
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Beautiful You
$18.00 Add to cartPenny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm. She has an apartment, but no love life. When C. Linus Maxwell, a mega-billionaire and international playboy, invites her to dinner
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0345807111
- Language: English
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Resentment: A Comedy
$17.95 Add to cartIn a novel capturing an era that seems at once familiar and grotesque, a New York writer lands in Los Angeles in 1994.
Originally published in 1997, Resentment was the first in Gary Indiana’s now-class
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Indiana, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1584351721
- Language: English
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Myra Breckinridge
$18.00 Read moreThe outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book Award… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Vidal, Gore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0525566503
- Language: English
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Living
$14.00 Read moreA timeless work of social satire, set in the 1920s and considered one of the most insightful Modernist depictions of England’s working class
Living is a book about life in a factory town and the opera- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Green, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1681370689
- Language: English
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Nature Girl
$19.00 Add to cartPassionate and willful Honey Santana is taking rude, gullible telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less than enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie Fonda, into the mangroves of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0593082370
- Language: English
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Gunk Baby
$17.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“[Lau’s] gift for writing accumulative insanities creates the same dizzying effect as a good cleaning.” –Alexandra Tanner, The New York Times Book Review- Author: Lau, Jamie Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 166260145X
- Language: English
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Existentially Challenged
$12.99 Read moreIn Existentially Challenged, the sequel to Differently Morphous, the men and women of the Department of Extradimensional Affairs continue their struggle to uncover the motives of the Ancients under th… [more below]
- Author: Croshaw, Yahtzee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 150673359X
- Language: English
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The Ardent Swarm
$14.95 Add to cartFrom an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest.
Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to
- Author: Manai, Yamen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 154202045X
- Language: English
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The Lemon
$27.00 Read more“[T]his poised and playful debut novel is a sly satire on foodie culture and the modern hype machine. . . . As tart as ‘artisanal citrus, ‘ as sharp as a chef’s knife, The Lemon is both a gleeful food… [more below]
- Author: Boyd, S. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0593490444
- Language: English
