Satire
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
$17.00 Add to cartThe Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable
- Series: Burroughs, William S.
- Author: Burroughs, William S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: January 12, 1994
- ISBN10: 0802133312
- Language: English
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A Handful of Dust
$19.99 Add to cartSelected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this “absolutely delightful” novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disin… [more below]
- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216267
- Language: English
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Empire of Lies
$18.99 Add to cartSustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has built a stable family and become a pillar of principle and patriotism in the Midwest. Then the phone rings, and his past is on the other end of th
- Author: Klavan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033569
- Language: English
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The N-Word of God
$29.99 Add to cartThe N-Word of God is a literary graphic novel of interconnected illustrated stories of social insight, cognitive surprise, wry mirth, and Black existential wonder. Artist Mark Doox transports readers … [more below]
- Author: Doox, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1683969391
- Language: English
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QAnon A thru Z: My Baby’s First Conspiracy Theories
$12.99 Add to cartThe early 2020s were a heck of a ride. QAnon A thru Z illustrates some of the more exciting conspiracy theories and the best alternative facts from our alt friends and family all in alphabetical order… [more below]
- Author: Bernardi, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: August 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1088063152
- Language: English
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Dear Cyborgs
$16.00 Add to cartOne of Vol. 1 Brooklyn‘s Favorite Fiction Books of 2017, a Literary Hub Staff Favorite Book of 2017, and one of BOMB Magazine’s Looking Back on 2017: Literature Selections.
Wondrous . . . [A] sense of- Author: Lim, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537119
- Language: English
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Imaginary Magnitude
$16.95 Add to cartThese wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create “pornograms,” and analyzing computer-generated liter… [more below]
- Author: Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 28 1985
- ISBN10: 0156441802
- Language: English
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Coming Up for Air
$18.99 Add to cartFrom George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel about the everyday struggles of the common man and a satiric look at the trappings of middle-class… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0156196255
- Language: English
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The Jesus Cow
$17.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling humorist Michael Perry makes his fiction debut with this hilarious and big-hearted tale, a comic yet sincere exploration of faith and the foibles of modern life that blends
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062289985
- Language: English
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Mulligan Stew
$18.95 Read moreWidely regarded as Sorrentino’s finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to wr… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Sorrentino, Gilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974486
- Language: English
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Gulliver’s Travels
$9.95 Read moreGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly “modern” protagonist, Swift exposes many of the f… [more below]
- Series: Ignatius Critical Editions
- Author: Swift, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: April 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1586173952
- Language: English
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The Threat
$17.99 Add to cartDripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein’s story explores what happens when the only way you can live is b… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429706
- Language: English
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Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction
$17.00 Add to cart“Relentlessly fun to read.”–Dave Eggers – A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction
In this series of perfectly re- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0385343728
- Language: English
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Scoop
$18.99 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a “thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny” satire of the journalism business (New York Times).
Lord Copper, new- Author: Waugh, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0316216372
- Language: English
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture
$9.95 Add to cartFrom one of the great voices in the history of American literature, a witty and fantastical satire about aging, and the inspiration for the 2008 blockbuster film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
F- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 1416556052
- Language: English
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The Instructions: 13th Anniversary Bar Mitzvah Edition
$32.00 Add to cartBeginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lo… [more below]
- Author: Levin, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1026
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1952119731
- Language: English
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Jameela Green Ruins Everything
$18.99 Read more- Author: Nawaz, Zarqa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0063271605
- Language: English
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Native Tongue
$19.99 Read moreNow reissued–one of the most beloved novels by the New York Times bestselling author in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Ke… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 09 2005
- ISBN10: 044669570X
- Language: English
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The Story of a Goat
$16.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
From one of India’s best-known writers and the author of the National Book Award-longlisted One Part Woman comes a charming and surpris
- Author: Murugan, Perumal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147518
- Language: English
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Martin Chuzzlewit: Introduction by William Boyd
$30.00 Add to cartAt the center of Martin Chuzzlewit–the novel Angus Wilson called “one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories”–is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he sus
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 988
- Publish Date: March 20 1995
- ISBN10: 067943884X
- Language: English
