Satire
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The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
$18.99 Add to cart#1 International Bestseller
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg’s witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group
- Series: League of Pensioners
- Author: Ingelman-Sundberg, Catharina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 12, 2016
- ISBN10: 0062447971
- Language: English
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Too Loud a Solitude
$12.99 Add to cartA short novel by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, called “our very best writer today” by Milan Kundera, this eccentric romp celebrates the indestructability–against censorship and political oppression–o
- Series: Harvest in Translation
- Author: Hrabal, Bohumil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 27, 1992
- ISBN10: 0156904586
- Language: English
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Thud!
$0.00 Read more“Start with Douglas Adams’s comic science fiction (A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and J.R.R. Tolkien’s alternative worlds, mix in James Ellroy’s gritty realism and Jonathan Swift’s unflinching sa
- Series: Discworld #34
- Author: Pratchett, Terry
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 28, 2014
- ISBN10: 0062334980
- Language: English
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This Won’t Help: Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse
$25.95 Add to cartThere’s a lot going on, all the time. It may feel overwhelming. Don’t worry. It will end. This Won’t Help is here for you in the meantime–with 100 short, sharp, satirical essays that skewer a world r
- Author: Grober, Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199993
- Language: English
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White Noise
$18.00 Add to cartThe National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra—an “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technol… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary American Fiction
- Author: Delillo, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 07, 1986
- ISBN10: 0140077022
- Language: English
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The Little Old Lady Strikes Back
$18.99 Read moreThe Little Old Lady Strikes Back is a socially engaged, feelgood novel with a riotous plot from the author of The Little Old Lady Who Broke the Rules
- Author: Ingelman-Sundberg, Catharina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1035005565
- Language: English
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Meddling Kids
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A mad scientist’s concoction of teen detectives, H. P. Lovecraft, and a love of Americana, this is a story filled with rich horror, thrilling twists, outright hilarity, and… [more below]
- Series: Blumhouse Books
- Author: Cantero, Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 29, 2018
- ISBN10: 1101974443
- Language: English
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The Feast
$19.00 Add to cart“Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist.” –Anita Brookner
Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The- Author: Kennedy, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1946022500
- Language: English
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The Survivalists
$27.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
“A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understa
A Phenomenal Book Club Pick- Author: Cauley, Kashana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767277
- Language: English
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Fight Club
$27.99 Add to cartTHE FIRST RULE about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.
Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with whitecollar jobs and failed lives take of
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393039765
- Language: English
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
$27.00 Add to cartA special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introdu
- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0385312083
- Language: English
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Nocturno de Chile / By Night in Chile
$15.95 Add to cartUna imprescindible y escalofriante novela donde el talento del autor de 2666 y Los detectives salvajes brilla en todo su esplendor.
Sebasti?n Urrutia Lacroix, sacerdote y cr?tico literario, miembro d… [more below]- Author: Bola?o, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0307476138
- Language: Spanish
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The Academy
$8.99 Read more“Master of the macabre” Bentley Little offers a new lesson in fear with this terrifying horror novel.
With a promise of more freedom and a chance to get out from under the thumb of a reactionary schoo- Author: Little, Bentley
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0451224671
- Language: English
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Bookworm
$18.99 Read more“Imagine if Patricia Highsmith had written The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and instead of heroic daydreams she gave her protagonist murderous ones–that would be Bookworm. Robin Yeatman’s story is sub
- Author: Yeatman, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063273004
- Language: English
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La Escuela de Las Buenas Madres / The School of Good Mothers
$20.95 Read moreRECOMENDADO POR JENNA BUSH EN SU CLUB DE LECTURA DEL TODAY SHOW
Preseleccionada para la Medalla Carnegie de Excelencia del 2023.
Seleccionado como uno de los libros favoritos de la Lista de Lectura de- Author: Chan, Jessamine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 8419449156
- Language: Spanish
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Severance
$19.00 Add to cartMaybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic sat
- Author: Ma, Ling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07, 2019
- ISBN10: 1250214998
- Language: English
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
$18.95 Add to cartColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida–war photographer, gambler, and closet queen–has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he
- Author: Karunatilaka, Shehan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 132406482X
- Language: English
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Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$17.00 Add to cartWith its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaire’s masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human be… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039423
- Language: English
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Less
$17.99 Add to cartA struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of “arresting lyricism and beauty” (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF TH
- Series: The Arthur Less Books #1
- Author: Greer, Andrew Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 22, 2018
- ISBN10: 031631613X
- Language: English
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Doomed
$20.00 Read moreWelcome to Purgatory. Chuck Palahniuk style.
After a botched Halloween ritual, Madison Spencer, the snarkiest dead girl in the universe, finds herself trapped in Purgatory, otherwise known as Earth.- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0307476545
- Language: English
