Satire
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Black No More
$16.00 Add to cartThe landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”–for fans of the Oscar-nominated film American Fiction
A Penguin Classic It’s New Year’s Day 1933- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0143131885
- Language: English
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Mistletoe Malice
$15.95 Read moreA dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.
“Literary comfort and- Author: Farrell, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0571378269
- Language: English
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The Shakespeare Requirement
$18.00 Add to cartA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly aw… [more below]
- Series: The Dear Committee Trilogy
- Author: Schumacher, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0525432612
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$14.99 Read moreA young woman comes of age and realizes that life is not a Gothic novel.
A timeless classic, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is both a coming-of-age story and a parody of the Gothic novels of the ninet- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 1, 2017
- ISBN10: 162686974X
- Language: English
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A Touch of Jen
$19.99 Add to cartA young couple’s toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, “bananas good” story (Carmen Maria Machado).
“Um, holy shit…This novel
- Author: Morgan, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670427X
- Language: English
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The Crying of Lot 49
$16.99 Add to cartOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels
“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco Examiner
The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon’s highly original classic s
- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 006091307X
- Language: English
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The Short End of the Sonnenallee
$16.00 Add to cartThomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of
- Author: Brussig, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250878993
- Language: English
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David Copperfield
$14.00 Add to cartCharles Dickens’s most famous novel was also his own favorite, and the one that drew most on his own life story.
David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turn- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: January 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0307947173
- Language: English
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Standing Heavy
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize – Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize – One of The Walrus‘ Best Fall Books of 2023
A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #42
- Author: Gauz’
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 3, 2023
- ISBN10: 1771966009
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs
$26.95 Add to cartOver twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as “a writer without limits” (Karen Russell) and “a stone-cold genius” (Jenny Offill), Millet makes
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021462
- Language: English
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The Duke of D.C.: The American Dream
$24.95 Add to cartIn this comic parody, Ray Almaviva is minding his own business when the FBI wrongly accuses him of fomenting insurrection. Before they can nab him, he and Ilsa Guilford-Schlitz, an avid researcher, ar
- Author: Moseley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 1936487527
- Language: English
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Noir
$18.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
The absurdly outrageous, sarcastically satiric, and always entertaining New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns in finest madcap form with this za
- Author: Moore, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 62433997
- Language: English
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Dear Committee Members
$17.00 Add to cart“Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.” –Tom Perrotta, New York Post
A BEST BOOK OF- Series: The Dear Committee Trilogy
- Author: Schumacher, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0345807332
- Language: English
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of a counterculture classic, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched, with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk
One of The Atlantic‘s Great American N… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kesey, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143105027
- Language: English
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST – “A masterpiece” (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition
Now an Emmy Award-nominated FX limited series on Hulu- Author: Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 7, 2020
- ISBN10: 0525510893
- Language: English
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Sucker
$27.00 Read moreSuccession meets Bad Blood in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent – The black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who’s running a biomedical s
- Author: Hornsby, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593469674
- Language: English
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Don Quixote
$10.95 Add to cartComplete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the ba
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: April 05, 2011
- ISBN10: 0451531817
- Language: English
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Liberation Day: Stories
$28.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite w
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0525509593
- Language: English
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The Counting House
$18.95 Add to cartThe Chief Investment Officer of a prestigious university sits at the center of modern finance: hundreds of hedge funds, venture capitalists, stock pickers, bond traders, and private equity managers vi
- Author: Sernovitz, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1608012530
- Language: English
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High Time
$0.00 Read moreA PEOPLE BEST NEW BOOK – An outlandish comedy of morals and manners about a highborn British family of outrageous characters, by the acclaimed author of The Improbability of Love and House of Trelawne… [more below]
- Author: Rothschild, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593536584
- Language: English
