Satire

  • The American Senator

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    Arabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of this novel, inspired Trollope to write of her, “I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women who run down husbands.” Arabella’s determination to … [more below]

  • The Book of Dave

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    One of Will Self’s best-loved novels, newly reissued by Grove, The Book of Dave begins when East End cabdriver Dave Rudman’s wife takes from him his only son. In response, Dave pens a savage jeremiad … [more below]

    • Author: Self, Will
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: January 22 2019
    • ISBN10: 802129269
    • Language: English
  • The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

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    Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair a… [more below]

    • Series: Nyrb Classics
    • Author: Merwin, W. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: December 31 2004
    • ISBN10: 1590171322
    • Language: English
  • Moo

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes “an uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy portrait of a college community in the Midwest”[more below]

    • Author: Smiley, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: February 24 2009
    • ISBN10: 0307472760
    • Language: English
  • Up the Down Staircase

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    Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of … [more below]

    • Author: Kaufman, Bel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: April 30 2019
    • ISBN10: 525565655
    • Language: English
  • Myra Breckinridge

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    The 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
  • Cyclopedia Exotica

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    Dhaliwal created a fictitious community facing xenophobia, fetishization, and media misrepresentation. It’s resonating with her thousands of Instagram followers.–Robert Ito, The New York Times

    “The ch

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    • Author: Dhaliwal, Aminder
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 268
    • Publish Date: May 11 2021
    • ISBN10: 1770464379
    • Language: English
  • Teenager

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    AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king [more below]

    • Author: Smith, Bud
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593315227
    • Language: English
  • The Man Who Hunted Ice

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    Lorne Lorch is an ice cleaner: each night he snakes through the ducts of an office tower peeling “ice rats”–bioluminescent blooms that cause their surroundings to freeze–one of the dirtiest, most un

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    • Author: Mahon, Trevor
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 279
    • Publish Date: October 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1989689558
    • Language: English
  • Forgotten Work

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    A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book – Strange and affectionate, like Almost Famous penned by Shakespeare. A love letter to music in all its myriad iterations.–Kirkus Reviews – This book has no bus

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    • Author: Guriel, Jason
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: October 13 2020
    • ISBN10: 1771963824
    • Language: English
  • Bitch Planet: Triple Feature Volume 1

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    DECONNICK & DE LANDRO PRESENT: The Triple Feature!
    Ripped directly from the world of BITCH PLANET, a crack team of creators spin fifteen teeth-clenching tales of rage, revolution and ridicule.
    Patriar… [more below]

    • Series: Bitch Planet
    • Author: Deconnick, Kelly Sue
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: December 19 2017
    • ISBN10: 1534305297
    • Language: English
  • The Foundation Pit

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    Translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson
    With notes and an afterword by Robert Chandler and Olga Meerson

    In Andrey Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, a team of workers ha

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    • Series: New York Review Books Classics
    • Author: Platonov, Andrey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: April 21 2009
    • ISBN10: 1590173058
    • Language: English
  • Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; Or, the Origin of the World

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    This New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, is “hilarious . . . a riotous success. Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely[more below]

    • Author: Ives, Lucy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 07 2019
    • ISBN10: 1593763905
    • Language: English
  • Death and the Penguin

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    “No summary can do justice to the strange appeal of this unusual, short book, which is at once a crime novel, a comic novel and a serious political satire on contemporary Ukraine.” –Anne Applebaum, T[more below]

    • Series: Melville International Crime
    • Author: Kurkov, Andrey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 07 2011
    • ISBN10: 1935554557
    • Language: English
  • The Portrait of a Mirror

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    A. Natasha Joukovsky’s The Portrait of a Mirror is a stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives converge and [more below]

    • Author: Joukovsky, A. Natasha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1419752170
    • Language: English
  • Living

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    A 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

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    • Series: Nyrb Classics
    • Author: Green, Henry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 1681370689
    • Language: English
  • Dawn Powell Novels, 1944-1962: My Home is Far Away, the Locusts Have No King, the Wicked Pavilion, the Golden Spur

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    American literature has known few writers capable of the comic lan and full-bodied portraiture that abound in the novels of Dawn Powell. Yet for decades after her death, Powell’s work was out of prin… [more below]

    • Series: Library of America #2
    • Author: Powell, Dawn
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 969
    • Publish Date: September 10 2001
    • ISBN10: 1931082022
    • Language: English
  • Vernon Subutex 3

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    Paris may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! –The final installment of writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s Man Booker International Prize shortlisted punk-rock tri

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    • Series: Vernon Subutex #3
    • Author: Despentes, Virginie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 11 2021
    • ISBN10: 0374283265
    • Language: English
  • The Informers

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.’s gorge[more below]

    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 01 1995
    • ISBN10: 0679743243
    • Language: English
  • Apex Hides the Hurt

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    This “wickedly funny” (The Boston Globe) New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a brisk, comic tour de force abo[more below]

    • Author: Whitehead, Colson
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 09 2007
    • ISBN10: 1400031265
    • Language: English
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