Satire
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A Feeding Frenzy in Washington
$14.95 Add to cartA rollicking tale of Washington lobbying that will have you in stitches and make you think twice about our government.
Filled with a cast of characters only found in our nation’s capital, A Feeding Fre
- Author: Franlkin, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1733444440
- Language: English
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The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories
$27.99 Read more“From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes–for the better, for the worse, for the … [more below]
- Author: Walter, Jess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 006286811X
- Language: English
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The Ten Percent Thief
$16.99 Add to cartThe paperback edition of the bold, bitingly satirical near-future 2023 mosaic novel.
Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin. Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, wher- Author: Lakshminarayan, Lavanya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1837860777
- Language: English
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The Maltese Iguana
$18.99 Add to cartSerge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the “wickedly funny” (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey.
After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully
- Series: Serge Storms #26
- Author: Dorsey, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063240637
- Language: English
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Old Masters: A Comedy
$21.00 Add to cartIn this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher–who fears Reger’… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0226043916
- Language: English
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Back to Blood
$30.99 Add to cartA big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.
As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay — with officer Nestor Camacho on board — To- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0316036331
- Language: English
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Candide: Or Optimism
$13.00 Read more“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this “optimism” concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the “all for the best” app- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 30 1950
- ISBN10: 0140440046
- Language: English
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Vanity Fair: Introduction by Catherine Peters
$32.00 Add to cartA panoramic satire of English society during the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair is William Makepeace Thackeray’s masterpiece. At its center is one of the most unforgettable characters in nineteenth-cent
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0679405666
- Language: English
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Oliver Twist
$17.00 Add to cartDickens’s classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England’s Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgetta… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0375757848
- Language: English
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Victor in Trouble
$15.99 Add to cartWhen case officer Victor Caro arrives in Rome for his retirement tour, he and his family anticipate a three-year joy ride filled with good food, even better wine, and all the cultural wonders the Eter
- Author: Finley, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: March 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0997251042
- Language: English
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I Was the President’s Mistress!!
$26.99 Add to cart“Brilliant . . . Miguel Syjuco is his country’s most original and unflinching literary voice.” —Salman Rushdie
“It’s a rare novel that leaves you reeling simultaneously with admiration, exhaustion, a- Author: Syjuco, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863139
- Language: English
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Blue Lard
$18.95 Add to cartBlue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what’s left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebr… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378183
- Language: English
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Shalash the Iraqi
$17.95 Add to cartDon Quixote, Tristram Shandy, Catch-22 . . . and Shalash the Iraqi. A samizdat success, this madcap serial novel started life as a pseudonymous blog written ‘live’ by ‘Shalash’ during and after the S
- Author: Shalash
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1913505642
- Language: English
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Mount Chicago
$20.00 Read moreFrom the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship.
“Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our fu- Author: Levin, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0593466721
- Language: English
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Point Counter Point
$17.95 Add to cartAldous Huxley’s lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a visio… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Huxley, Aldous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974494
- Language: English
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Has Anyone Seen My Toes?
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking and Make Russia Great Again comes a comic tour de force, the story of one man’s “lively and funny” (New York Journal of Books) journey through lock… [more below]
- Author: Buckley, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1982198052
- Language: English
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The Warden: And the Two Heroines of Plumplington
$12.95 Add to cart‘You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.’
John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a politi- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0199665443
- Language: English
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Several People Are Typing: A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)
$18.00 Add to cartA Good Morning America Book Club Pick! – A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. – “An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism.” –Carmen Maria Machado, author o… [more below]
- Author: Kasulke, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0593313534
- Language: English
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In Persuasion Nation
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
T- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2007
- ISBN10: 159448242X
- Language: English
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Randy: The Full and Complete Unedited Biography and Memoir of the Amazing Life and Times of Randy S.!
$16.95 Read more“This book is fucking awesome. It’s my life’s story. I’m thirty-four but look twenty-one. Maybe twenty-two at the most. I live in Maryland. Please read it. I’m a writer, a songwriter, an artist. I do … [more below]
- Author: Sacks, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1576879720
- Language: English
