Fiction - Satire

A witty, fast-paced ride up and down the social ladder with a determined woman wronged by a cheating husband who rights herself with a vengeance, now in mass market. Murder was never my goal in life. I'm a very sentimental person at heart. I...

The holidays are when we go. To grandmas house right through the snow. We love her turkey cannot lie. Until gran gets that look in her eye. One drink. Two drink. Three drink. Four. Grandma suddenly remembers the war. Remember why to keep a...

"Fried's stories are laugh-out-loud hilarious and wonderfully weird, yet his many strange worlds also have the power to haunt." --Dan Chaon In "Loeka Discovered," a buzz flows throughout a lab when scientists unearth a perfectly preserved prehistoric man who suggests to them the hopefulness...

Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel in which very little happens; its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero, who...

If you've ever struggled with a health insurance claim, you'll love Haywood Smith's witty send-up of the health insurance industry, the drug companies, the medical profession, and falling apart ten years before Medicare. From the beloved author of The Red Hat Club and Wife-in-Law,...

Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author of...

Bridget Jones, beloved Singleton and global phenomenon, is back--with a bump This gloriously funny story tells us what happened between The Edge of Reason and Mad About the Boy, revealing how our heroine came to be a mum. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with...

THE MANDARIN pretends to be an ordinary novel. But it is set in places that no longer exist. The plot develops recursively rather than progressively. It is written almost entirely in dialogue: consciousness tends to be communal rather than personal. At any moment, the...

First time in Paperback The Family Mashber is a protean work: a tale of a divided family and divided souls, a panoramic picture of an Eastern European town, a social satire, a kabbalistic allegory, an innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling, a...

Originally published in 1836. Sheppard Lee, Written By Himself is a work of dark satire from the early years of the American Republic. Published as an autobiography and praised by Edgar Allan Poe, this is the story of a young idler who goes in...

Living on a diet of fried Spam, vodka, sardines, cupcakes, and Southern Comfort, Andrew Whittaker is slowly being sucked into the morass of middle age. A negligent landlord, small-time literary journal editor, and aspiring novelist, he is--quite literally-- authoring his own downfall. From his...

Contemporary short stories about edgy, urban, obsessive characters by one of America's best writers of experimental fiction.Author: Stephen DixonISBN-10: 1566890810ISBN-13: 9781566890816Publisher: Coffee House PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.55w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/15/1999 pg. 102Publishers Weekly 02/01/1999 pg. 74Booklist...

Preston Waddington well understood that corporate survival in the auto industry meant finding a way to make himself indispensable. That objective, however, did not include becoming involved in a product defect cover up, having an affair with the CEO's wife, finding himself in the...

"Cries in the New Wilderness presents a completely new view of the spiritual life of Russian society...The book is full of tragicomic tension and brings to mind the multivoiced novels of Dostoevsky."--Ilya KabakovInside the disintegrating Soviet Union, a professor compiles "The New Sectarianism," a...

Transplanted to Toronto from his native Baffin Island, Atuk the poet is an unlikely overnight success. Eagerly adapting to a society steeped in pretension, bigotry, and greed, Atuk soon abandons the literary life in favour of more lucrative - and hazardous - schemes. Richler's...

Before Bridget Jones, Carrie Bradshaw, and the Shopaholic, it was a world of Fabulous NobodiesNow, back in print after fifteen years, it's your chance to experience this hysterically wild cult-status novel for the first time.Get ready to meet: Reality Nirvana TuttleA self-described "doorwhore" at...

Here it is finally, Jack in Pemberland, the extraordinary story of the hidden city of 100,000 people in the Cayoosh Range in British Columbia. Follow Jack as he gets to know what makes the city tick. Discover how Pemberland provides housing at so low...

A compelling comedy of polyamorous romance and nonbinary adventure, this reissue of The Giddy Death of the Gays and the Strange Demise of Straights--includes a Foreword by the author and an Afterword by noted queer writer Meg-John Barker.Caroline and her Dom live out their...

Bruce Wagner weaves together tales of desperation and depravity of the modern age in Dead Stars, his uproarious and sharply critical take on the obsessions of Hollywood. Telma, the world's youngest breast cancer survivor, is threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old that's undergone a...

An epic novel that brings together a motley crew of characters, including porn stars in love, celebrity chore-whores, plotting dermatologists, masseurs, and shrinks, among many others cast in the debauchery of Hollywood. I'm Losing You follows the rich and famous and the down and...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR - PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE WEEK - Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University's annual "Experience: Abroad" to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow - The hilarious and heartfelt conclusion to the Dear Committee...

John had already been dead for several hours and his expected heavenly chariot was nowhere in sight. As his hours expanded into days, he searched desperately for his chariot or, at least, road signs pointing the way to heaven. Along the way, he relived...

First published in 1771, this satirical novel is set in the year 2500, and provides a glimpse into a fictional future world. With observations on politics, society, and culture, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in eighteenth-century French literature.This work has been...

Donovan lives an uneventful life in his bedroom in an uneventful town. Masturbation and watching porn are daily highlights in his sad life. He hates his boring life. He's depressed but in denial. Donovan decides to go outside one summer day after suffering a...

Since the 1922 publication of "Babbitt," its eponymous antihero a prosperous real estate broker and relentless social climber inhabiting a Midwestern town called Zenith has become a symbol of stultifying values and middle-class hypocrisy. At once a conformist and a rebel, George F. Babbitt...

On a sunny beach on the Italian Riviera, two thirtysomething women, Yvonne and Huda, relax by the sparkling sea. But despite the setting, as their vacation unfolds, their complicated pasts seep through to the idyllic present. Both women spent their childhoods in Lebanon--Yvonne raised...

"Solana's excellent novel, set in the streets and parlors of Barcelona, offers probing social commentary and an excellent crime story."--BooklistTwo detectives, brothers Borja and Eduard, are contracted by best-selling author Teresa Solana to research the world of so-called alternative therapies. They enroll for a...

In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers--one white, one Black--living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning. De'Andrea...

Morty Shallman's War and Sex is the provocative, transgressive, and audaciously irreverent follow-up to his #1 Best-selling Absurdist Novel, The Tyranny of Desire, hailed as "a comedic masterpiece" by Readers' Favorite and as a "ribald and incisive provocation" by Booklife.Part raunchy action comedy, part...

In the book 'HOW TO EXPLAIN TIME TRAVEL TO YOUR GRANDKIDS?', the author has explained the intriguing concept of time travel in a very understandable manner such that it can easily be grasped by a wide variety of readers, including kids. The author, with...

Point Counter Point is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1928. It is Huxley's longest novel and was notably more complex and serious than his earlier fiction.Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree...

Do you wonder where your little angel went? Have you had your fill of conventional parenting guides that don't seem to get you anywhere? Don't wander through the nightmare of puberty alone! I Love You, You Little Sh!t is a no-holds-barred entry into being...

In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal's satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the second-century Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the satirist's art. The enduring attraction...

When Christ appears on an Adelaide beach in the middle of a long hot winter, Pete's as surprised as anyone. Moments later they're having a fistfight ...It's the Second Coming - faked by a political party to boost polls - and if there's one...

Shyton, a northern town and former industrial powerhouse that once rivalled Oldham, is now more well-known for its poverty, its abandoned houses and its thriving amateur porn industry. But it's not all doom and gloom. Shyton United have been promoted to the Premier League...

Only Uncle Wonder can save us from the death beam of... THE DIABOLICAL LOBSTERS FROM OUTER SPACE! New York City, 1953. The golden age of television, when most programs were broadcast live. Young Kurt Jastrow, a full-time TV writer and occasional actor, is about...

The Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. The titular and sometimes exasperating hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a middle-aged...

This book is about those whose interest is in their own wealth and power at the expense of all else. They are members of all political parties; they are secular and religious. They have infiltrated all human organizations and institutions. They have risen to...

City streets break the weak. The vice and violence compel men and women to swear an oath to protect the most vulnerable in society.To swim amidst the criminal tide, a police officer needs courage and conviction. To thrive in a department corrupt to the...

In this sequel to The House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital, Dr. Roy Basch returns to his economically depressed hometown in upstate New York to help the struggling hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic and the money-driven bureaucracy. After the tragic climax of...

The Twelve Chairs is a classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928. Its plot follows characters attempting to obtain jewelry hidden in a chair. A sequel was published in 1931. The novel has been adapted to other...

"The HOA" is a sharp, thoughtful, and biting satire of life within a dysfunctional homeowners' association.Through a satirical and comedic take on the internal goings-on of a fictional HOA, readers will enjoy stories of the strange and absurd situations, miscommunications, and side-splitting absurdity of...

"The HOA" is a sharp, thoughtful, and biting satire of life within a dysfunctional homeowners' association.Through a satirical and comedic take on the internal goings-on of a fictional HOA, readers will enjoy stories of the strange and absurd situations, miscommunications, and side-splitting absurdity of...

ONE DAY, YOU'RE A VALUED EMPLOYEE OF THE COMPANY ... THE NEXT DAY, YOU'RE BEING PUSHED OUT THE DOOR.What happens when your secure corporate job suddenly becomes precarious? Book editor Sarah Morris finds herself in this predicament when the company she has served for...

A reading festival for children and former children.A family's celebration of the Dog Moon is prolonged indefinitely by a deadly Evil Cloud. To pass the time, they decide to tell stories each evening. The denizens' travails, the stories, and the lavish meals will have...

A delusional memoir of the author's unrelenting investigation into the erotic, which many would consider absurdist satire but the few recognize as the deepest truth. Follow along with N. Nosirrah as he finds the flow of love in every encounter with the farcical characters...

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again--whatever that means.A whip-smart, absurdly funny debut novel for fans of Patricia Lockwood and Marlowe...

Welcome to Coors State University, a cash-strapped college that sold naming rights, academic programs, and, ultimately, its soul to a beer company just to keep the lights on. At Coors, the engineering professors are expanding the stadium, criminal justice faculty are the campus cops,...

2024 Reprint of the 1947 Edition. Decline and Fall is Waugh's first novel published in 1928. It is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north...

Professor Veracity's Politically Incorrect Dictionary is an illustrated depiction of the destructive current era of linguistic deception which puts the adjective 'political' in front of the word 'correct' to promote ... and mandate ... social deceit. It is a combination of sarcasm, humor, insights,...