Absurdist
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Mood Swings
$17.00 Add to cart“Yes, Mood Swings is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it’s an ‘internet novel.’ But it’s also so much more than that. And isn’t that lovely, to find a book that transc… [more below]
- Author: Barnet, Frankie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603126
- Language: English
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Endling
$28.00 Add to cartIn the absurdist literary tradition of George Saunders and Percival Everett comes a brilliant debut about a biologist in Ukraine battling to save the country’s snail species from the brink of extincti… [more below]
- Author: Reva, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0385545312
- Language: English
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Vanishing World
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couple
- Author: Murata, Sayaka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164668
- Language: English
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True Failure
$18.00 Add to cartA twisting examination of life under late capitalism and the deceptions we inhabit to invent our own success stories.
Ben just lost his job, but he won’t fess up to his wife Tara. Instead, while he cl- Author: Higley, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1566897130
- Language: English
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Tartufo
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Hollow Kingdom, a fantastically funny story featuring a cast of colorful characters in a dying Italian village and a giant truffle that changes their fate forever in this “delicious… [more below]
- Author: Buxton, Kira Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1538770814
- Language: English
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The Castle: Introduction by Irving Howe
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of … [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0679417354
- Language: English
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Berg
$17.95 Add to cart‘A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father . . .’
So begins Ann Quin’s madcap frolic with sinister undertones, a debut ‘so staggeringly superi
- Author: Quin, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1911508547
- Language: English
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Vhs
$18.95 Add to cartPushcart Prize-winning author Chris Campanioni tells a story about the silences of generational trauma and the tenuous conditions in which stories get passed down in migration, a surface flimsy enough… [more below]
- Author: Campanioni, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1960988387
- Language: English
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Dwelling
$28.00 Add to cartA dazzling, surrealist fairy tale of a young woman’s quest for house and home–from New York to the Texas hinterlands and, maybe, back again.
The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. Wh- Author: Hunt Kivel, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 037461606X
- Language: English
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Not Another 80s Horror Novel
$14.99 Add to cartRuby King believed that the move would be a good thing. She thought the quiet mountain town would be the perfect place to live with her husband, her children, and her absolutely massive knockers. But
- Author: McDonough, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218488710
- 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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Weepers
$28.00 Add to cartA messianic tale about a group of professional mourners–a darkly funny novel of grief, mystery and redemption from the author of The Delivery.
Ed is a weeper. A professional weeper. He’s a card-carry- Author: Mendelsund, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 374619077
- Language: English
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I Love Shopping
$15.95 Add to cartLauren Cook’s I Love Shopping–beloved on the Internet and IRL–is back in print.
Chickens have a collective soul. Heaven is full of the skateboarders you kissed in middle school. If the algorithm is
- Author: Cook, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622862
- Language: English
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The Stone Door
$15.95 Add to cartAncient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story–Leonora Carrington’s revolutionary second novel, long out of print.
The Stone Door is an- Author: Carrington, Leonora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378949
- Language: English
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Only Smoke
$17.99 Add to cartA son follows the breadcrumbs through a volume of Grimms’ Fairy Tales in search of his estranged father
On his eighteenth birthday, Carlos receives a strange gift: his father, whom he never knew, has d
- Author: Mill?s, Juan Jos?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1954276443
- Language: English
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Realistic Fiction
$19.95 Add to cart“Outrageously funny.”
–Paul Harding“There is nobody doing it like Anton.”
–Tuck WoodstockFinally, a book for men!
Have you ever engaged in totally normal male behavior like:
Stealing porn magazines?
Hoo- Author: Solomonik, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1736716883
- Language: English
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Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
$16.00 Read more“Disturbing and darkly funny, McGhee’s surrealist debut is sure to keep readers up at night.” —People
Now in paperback, an Electric Literature and Chicago Review of Books best book of the year, the d- Author: McGhee, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602707
- Language: English
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Autocorrect: Stories
$28.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most acclaimed masters of the short story form whom the New York Times calls “Genius,” a darkly funny collection of stories explores themes of identity, reality, and meaning.
Etgar Ker- Author: Keret, Etgar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 593717236
- Language: English
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Plastic
$18.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental dest… [more below]
- Author: Guild, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593467671
- Language: English
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Piglet
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women’s ambitions and appetites–and the truth about having it all Outside of a childhood nickname she can’
A Belletrist Book Club Pick- Author: Hazell, Lottie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250289815
- Language: English
