Fiction - Satire

H.G. Wells's "Tono Bungay" offers a sharp social satire set in early 20th century England. This literary classic explores the rise and fall of a family whose fortune is built on the questionable success of a patent medicine. More than just a commentary on...

Samantha Bennett dreams of marriage. But, before she can find her Mr Right, she needs to love herself first. Easy, right?Sam's life is perfect until she finds out her boss wants to bed her and her fiancé is sleeping with someone else. Willing to...

David's business is a shambles. The trade in indulgences is dead and the bones of heretics smolder on the auto-da-fe'. All because of that mad monk, Martin Luther. What a prigg.David is a merchant of deceit, a poet of lies. A dwarf, he claims...

"The Award begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition, but it quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl's addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller."--Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author...

Author: Halle ButlerISBN-10: 0593730364ISBN-13: 9780593730362Publisher: Random House TradeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2025Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.69d

Author: Gregg SappISBN-13: 9798890252210Publisher: Evolved PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2025Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d

Author: AmerieISBN-13: 9798228474437Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Format: CD

"Revenge is best served cold..." Especially when two large, canvas, cargo bags are filled with cash and locked in a vault. Apparently, crime lord Tubby Gustafson has a habit of not paying small contractors. But everyone deserves legal representation, and Hubert Holly, Tubby's lawyer,...

A sharp yet honest caricature of the neocolonial, uncritical right on American college campuses.Let me go ahead and say it upfront: I wrote that goddamn novel. An unsympathetic, self-concerned young professor at a small university in Appalachia is on the verge of a breakthrough....

She only wanted to find a testicle bra for her boss. But when she's dragged into an international conspiracy, will she still get to clock out at five?Post-Flood America. Alice is ready to dig in when they come for her mother's condo. After returning...

A short political satire in which a President Trump nationalizes the Girl Scouts, privatizes the Supreme Court, and sells the state of California--his way of paying off the Federal debt. Nine brief chapters, each one resolving a real national issue with an excess of...

Aldous Huxley's "Mortal Coils" offers a sharp and satirical glimpse into British society during the 20th century. This collection of short stories showcases Huxley's signature wit and keen observational skills, delivering insightful social commentary through cleverly crafted narratives. With a focus on the absurdities...

"School Board is a total joy to read, as full of sass and subversive brass as its 18-year-old hero, the political neophyte and Houston school board candidate Tucker 'Catfish' Davis ... I hope School Board is the first of many more to come from...

Cody Redman was supposed to be set for life. As the childhood star of his own viral YouTube channel, fame and fortune should have been a given. Instead, he's broke, directionless, and living off takeout while partying with his equally aimless friends. Turns out,...

Populated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans--as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and generals--this novel started life as a pseudonymous blog written "live" by "Shalash" during and after the Second Iraq War. Shalash the Iraqi...

"An urgent mirror to today's technological crossroads -- that doesn't pull any punches." -- Ana SunLaid-off, disgruntled, and ready for revenge. Can he strike back without being caught by his ex, her boyfriend, or the FBI? Ryan Archaki's wake-up call has left him reeling....

The literary classic that inspired the iconic Marilyn Monroe film--a brilliant satire of the Roaring Twenties that follows a wide-eyed blonde and her cynical brunette friend as they take Europe by storm. Some might call Lorelei Lee lucky. Others, names she would not even...

Why would a successful psychologist in excellent mental health suddenly want to take her own life?When psychologist Emma Parkland stumbles and falls onto the letter opener she's carrying, stabbing herself in the chest, she realizes that waiting out the suicidal urge she woke up...

"Gulliver's Travels: Into Several Remote Regions of the World" by Jonathan Swift is a timeless classic of satirical fantasy and adventure. This enduring work recounts a series of extraordinary imaginary voyages to fantastical lands. A masterpiece of early travel literature, Swift's narrative transports readers...

***Extended and Revised Edition*** One Last Shindig-the new novella from the author of The Sound of Suffering, Nana, Crows, and Chasing the Dragon. The world as we know it is coming to an end, but this group of geriatrics on one last shindig have...

Author: Jesse BallISBN-10: 1646222997ISBN-13: 9781646222995Publisher: CatapultLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs

A 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, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and...

Unnerving, hilarious, grotesque, and emotionally gripping, this collection of social, psychological, and suburban horror expresses what disturbs us most about our experiences internally and interactions with the world around us-including with the HOA, our landlords, live-ins (human or otherwise), neighbors, or, in the end,...

Inaugural Week, 2029. The War for Priority has begun It is a new year. As the political scandals that rocked the nation slowly die down, the president plots a daring new course for her second term.The diverse ensemble cast strives for control in their...

British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies--he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" or "conservative," for instance--across a wide variety of avenues: he was a literary critic, historian, playwright, novelist, columnist, and poet. His witty, humorous style earned him...

Poor pregnant Egha is the victim of a repugnant tradition in an age when society idolizes culture. Persecution snarls all around. Is she doomed? But all is not what it seems.Author: Philip BeghoISBN-10: 1492783463ISBN-13: 9781492783466Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2013Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize:...

Lovinia lives in a high-rise luxury apartment far from the Maroko shantytown of her origins, but she wakes up one morning to discover she is in chains. She must escape her chains or be doomed to the fate of her father who was ruined...

Tosan Tetsola, a young university lecturer, sets out to research the topic "Literature in the City." He almost loses his life in the process but comes away with the conviction that all things work together for good. Is this true? His friend Capont doesn't...

A modern Huck Finn hits the road when a young actor stumbles into a fascist plot against America in the age of Nixon. A plot to murder Ronald Reagan. Hoover in drag. Kissinger high on hash. Jim Jones. Ted Kaczynski. Fascists, bikers, bombers, snake...

Hemmed In Hollow is the story of a teen-aged brother and sister trying to survive amidst regular abuse by their step mother and step brother. Their father is a boot-legger and is gone most of the time. Living in deep poverty and suffering abuse,...

What do you get when you mix nosy neighbors, sharp-tongued spouses, curious kids, and other surprise conditions?You get Laugh Lines-a wildly entertaining collection of short jokes and witty dialogues that prove life is much funnier when you don't take it too seriously.This book is...

Author: Katharina VolckmerISBN-10: 1953387942ISBN-13: 9781953387943Publisher: Two Dollar RadioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2025Pages: 166Format: PaperbackSize: 7.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d

Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket Imagine living in a world where everything is flat-where you, your neighbors, and even the sun itself exist in just two dimensions. In this rigid society of shapes, a lowly square's life is upended when he encounters the...

To Thomas, archaeology was time travel...little did he know how literal that would turn out to be.Thomas Wharton, an archaeology graduate, becomes drawn into the problems of a series of anachronistic characters who exist in the fractions of a second behind our own time....

In the eccentric world of 'Pussy Productions, ' a London-based porn production company, a motley crew of individuals find themselves inexplicably thrown together. How this incendiary mix of people came to converge is a curious tale in itself. Sir Stott, a knighted Etonian, longs...

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom. As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirty-something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother's...

Maxwell Sim can't seem to make a single meaningful connection. He maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife, though under a false identity; his incomprehensible teenage daughter prefers her BlackBerry to his conversation; and his childhood best friend refuses to return his calls....

When you travel the galaxy, you find that society's issues span the cosmos. Mars is for Millennials satirizes what's happening today, and this futuristic, shared-universe short story collection focuses on politics, relationships, technology, and more.Author: Alex CsedrikISBN-13: 9798231574773Publisher: Manuscris EfemerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2025Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Author: Lida PrypchanISBN-13: 9798227741295Publisher: Psychiatry, Philosophy & ArtsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2025Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d

"An effin good story!" -- Thomas Cole, author of Collaborative Crisis Management: Prepare, Execute, Recover, Repeat"The stories in Capers and Switcheroos are wistful, idiosyncratic and nostalgic and an excellent antidote to a mad world." -- David Ellis, author of Resolution and Other Stories---A delightfully...

Author: Eleanor ThorneISBN-13: 9798998550003Publisher: Longshore Rebel PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2025Pages: 358Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Author: Thomas Love PeacockISBN-10: 191693708XISBN-13: 9781916937086Publisher: P-Wave ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2025Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.37w x 0.60d

From the award-winning author of the Best Military Fiction of 2018."Dead or Alive? London's approach to this question thrusts the reader into their own vision of immortality and an immensely entertaining story of the life/death struggle of a character that dramatically makes you want...

Siddhartha, a tale of self-discovery, is one of great novels of the early twentieth century.Author: Hermann HesseISBN-10: 1781393915ISBN-13: 9781781393918Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2013Pages: 118Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.1Point Value: 6Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8672 / Siddhartha (English)

Lulu Bett lives in a small town with her sister Ina and Ina's husband Dwight-a dentist who rules his household with self-righteous smugness. The unmarried Lulu has learned that she cannot question her role as chief cook, housekeeper, and gracious presence. But when Dwight's...

Author: C. J. FarleyISBN-10: 0063418630ISBN-13: 9780063418639Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2025Pages: 288Format: Hardcover

An unlikely celebrity with a self-help book becomes a reluctant spiritual guru to the Hollywood elite, spawning a cult he wants nothing to do with."...a unique attempt, using an unusual style and format, to pinpoint and highlight both the light and dark sides of...

THEY'RE OFF TO THE PUB.WELL, WHERE ELSE ARE 2 ENGLISHMEN WHO'VE JUST LOST THEIR JOBS MEANT TO GO?When AI steals away their careers in advertising, two desperate creatives, Darlington and Waverley, steal a van full of gardening equipment from the scene of their final...

Bojack Horseman meets Joan Didion in this smart, sly, and irresistibly stylish debut novel about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit. An aging, A-list movie star lotteries off the entirety of his mega-million blockbuster salary to a...

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a "dark satire about the inhuman condition" (The Toronto Star) about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future....