Satire
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The Rebel Angels
$21.99 Add to cartThe first book in the acclaimed Cornish Trilogy. “[A] darkly funny scuttle through academe’s more covert passageway . . . saucy stuff indeed.”–Kirkus Reviews
Davies weaves together the destinies of- Series: Cornish Trilogy #1
- Author: Davies, Robertson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 467
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0795352557
- Language: English
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The Best of the Bonnet
$21.95 Read moreSince its debut, the internet’s most trusted source for Mennonite satire has drawn the attention of everyone from the Canadian Prairies to the high-rises of New York, keeping readers laughing with hun
- Author: Unger, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0888017391
- Language: English
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
$15.99 Read moreNOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE
Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful o
WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 WOMEN’S PRIZE
- Author: Braithwaite, Oyinkan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1432873040
- Language: English
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Juice!
$14.95 Add to cartA lament for the death of print media, the growth of the corporation, and the process of growing old, Juice! serves as a tragi-comedy chronicling the increased anxieties of “post-race” America.
In 201
- Series: American Literature
- Author: Reed, Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1564786374
- Language: English
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Holy Cow
$18.00 Add to cartA rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won’t soon forget
Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that–her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, a- Author: Duchovny, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535906
- Language: English
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Generosity: An Enhancement
$23.99 Add to cartWhat will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both s… [more below]
- Author: Powers, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429754
- Language: English
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Make Russia Great Again
$17.00 Add to cartIn “the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for” (The Washington Post), award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman–Dona… [more below]
- Author: Buckley, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 198215747X
- Language: English
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Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet
$15.00 Add to cartAn Italian journalist gets wrapped up in the criminality and cultural controversies of modern Turin in this “very funny” satirical novel (The New York Times).
It’s October 2006. The northern Italian t- Author: Lakhous, Amara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1609451880
- Language: English
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Ryder
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.
Told as through a kaleidoscope, t
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barnes, Djuna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1628974982
- Language: English
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The Girl in Green
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before.
1991: One hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border,
- Author: Miller, Derek B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745503
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s the History of England: Writings from Her Youth
$9.95 Read moreThe author of one of the greatest romance novels of all time, Pride and Prejudice, takes her readers on a satiric tour through England’s history, mercilessly exploiting the comedic potential of human … [more below]
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851400
- Language: English
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Red Pyramid: Selected Stories
$18.95 Add to cartExtended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorok… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378205
- Language: English
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The Nihilist’s Pocket Survival Guide to Modern Society
$14.98 Add to cartThe perfect antidote for Boomer, Millennial, and GenXYZ angst!
Rectum Leviticus is an avowed nihilist. His name and unusual backstory propelled him to adopt an approach to life best characterized as,
- Author: Cheque, Tungyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Western Alliances
$29.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt’s Western Alliances is a vivid portrait of a wealthy family set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis. Th
- Author: Barnhardt, Wilton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1250090008
- Language: English
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award
“Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book Review
From the PEN/He
- Author: Fountain, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0060885610
- Language: English
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Vile Bodies
$18.99 Add to cart“A wickedly witty and iridescent novel” (Time) from one of England’s greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s.
In the yea- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216348
- Language: English
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Main Street
$7.95 Add to cartThe first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy c… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Lewis, Sinclair
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0451530985
- Language: English
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The Plague Dogs
$19.00 Add to cartThis modern-day classic is an unforgettable tale of fantasy and adventure, a powerful exploration of the limits of human cruelty and kindness. A “gripping … compelling tale of emotional force and hi… [more below]
- Author: Adams, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1101970693
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$7.99 Add to cartOf all Dickens’s novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of … [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0553211897
- Language: English
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Reboot
$28.00 Add to cartA raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture, following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV show that catapulted him to teenage f… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0553387626
- Language: English
