Satire
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Queen Bess: A Tudor Comes to Save America
$19.99 Add to cartSelf-made billionaire Dakota Wynfred is convinced that the only way to save American democracy is by putting the last Tudor Queen in the Oval Office.
Dakota Wynfred will stop at nothing to prevent the- Author: Vetrano, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888456897
- Language: English
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Help Wanted
$17.99 Add to cartEvery day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, th
- Author: Waldman, Adelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105178
- Language: English
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
$25.00 Add to cartReissued for today’s reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast and an introduction by the critically acclaimed author Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Bonfire of the Vanities is vintage Tom
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250352657
- Language: English
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A House and Its Head
$17.95 Add to cartA radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Compton-Burnett, Ivy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322641
- Language: English
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The Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Ron Powers
Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that explod
Includes Newly Commissioned Endnotes- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0812973569
- Language: English
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Democracy
$18.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean—a gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 679754857
- Language: English
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Unskilled
$15.99 Add to cartBased on true events, Unskilled is a story about a neighborhood grocery store employee, Lennox. She finds herself in bizarre and over-the-top situations that she must overcome. Through satire, she is
- Author: Skoda, A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988697701
- Language: English
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Woodcutters
$16.00 Add to cartFiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland.
A se- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1400077591
- Language: English
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Bad Monkey
$19.99 Add to cartComing as an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn, here is a gleefully zany and incisively sharp tale from “the funniest important writer in America”… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0446556149
- Language: English
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Being There
$17.00 Add to cartA modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner – Chance, an … [more below]
- Series: Kosinski, Jerzy
- Author: Kosinski, Jerzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0802136346
- Language: English
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The White Boy Shuffle
$19.00 Add to cart“A bombastic coming-of-age novel….The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.”–Los Angeles Times
The first novel from National Book Critics- Author: Beatty, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808235
- Language: English
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Great Granny Webster
$16.95 Read moreShortlisted for the Booker Prize
The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this “masterful . . . macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family port- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Blackwood, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 30 2002
- ISBN10: 1590170075
- Language: English
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Girlfriend on Mars
$19.99 Add to cartAmber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world–including attractive Israeli soldier
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324087005
- Language: English
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Goddess Complex
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Gold Diggers, a biting examination of millennial adulthood, the often fraught conversations around fertility and reproduction, and the painful quest to forge an identity
Sanjana Sat- Author: Sathian, Sanjena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 593489772
- Language: English
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Dog’s Breakfast
$19.99 Add to cartDog’s Breakfast takes the reader behind the scenes as intrigue erupts in a backwater U.S. Embassy when Andy Pulano, the second-in-command, becomes fed up with being treated with less respect than the
- Author: Navratil, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 196505904X
- Language: English
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Out of Oz LP
$26.99 Add to cart“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.”
—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewBestselling author Gregor
- Series: Wicked Years #4
- Author: Maguire, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0062088688
- Language: English
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The Book of Ayn
$17.95 Read moreAn original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn follows a writer from New York to Los Angeles to Lesbos as she searches for artistic and s… [more below]
- Author: Freiman, Lexi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222407
- Language: English
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Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy: A Goodreads Reader’s Choice
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of the bestselling Bridget Jones’s Diary comes a hilarious and heartwarming novel. Join Bridget as she embarks on a new chapter filled with romantic mishaps, tech… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Fielding, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0345806344
- Language: English
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Lesser Ruins
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Reinhardt’s Garden and Saint Sebastian’s Abyss comes a breathless new novel of delirious obsession.
Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his l- Author: Haber, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 156689719X
- Language: English
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The Author’s Guide to Murder
$30.00 Add to cart“A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart.” —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The New Couple i
- Author: Williams, Beatriz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0063259869
- Language: English
