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  • Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Main Street

    The first of Sinclair Lewis's great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in...
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  • Skipping Christmas by Grisham, John
    John Grisham

    Skipping Christmas

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A classic tale for modern times from a beloved storyteller, John Grisham offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition.Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny...
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  • My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel by Curran, Kitty
    Kitty Curran

    My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel

    The romance novel that lets you pick your path, follow your heart, and find happily ever after You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of eighteenth-century society, courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand. Will you flip forward...
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  • Day of the Oprichnik by Sorokin, Vladimir
    Vladimir Sorokin

    Day of the Oprichnik

    One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of 2011 "Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's greatest writers, and this novel is one of his best . . . A joy to read--more entertaining, dynamic, engaging, and deeply hilarious than a dystopian novel has any...
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  • Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Palahniuk, Chuck
    Chuck Palahniuk

    Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

    Buster "Rant" Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant...
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  • Demons by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Demons

    A superb new translation of Dostoyevsky's chilling and prophetic novel of revolutionary fanaticism Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society, and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are...
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  • Happy and You Know It by Hankin, Laura
    Laura Hankin

    Happy & You Know It

    "For fans of Sex and the City and The Nanny Diaries comes this juicy story...that would make even the most meticulously Drybar-ed hair curl."--Good Housekeeping As seen in The Washington Post - Good Housekeeping - theSkimm - Good Morning America - ABC News -...
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  • Prison Minyan by Stone, Jonathan
    Stone Jonathan

    The Prison Minyan

    Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatter the peaceThe scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew of fraudsters, tax evaders, trigamists and forgers discuss matters of right and wrong in a Talmudic study and...
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  • Hits and Misses: Stories by Rich, Simon
    Simon Rich

    Hits and Misses: Stories

    A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer's real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social media influencers and reality TV stars. Simon Rich is "one of the funniest...
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  • Dear Committee Members by Schumacher, Julie
    Julie Schumacher

    Dear Committee Members

    "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 THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe Finally a novel that...
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  • Survivor by Palahniuk, Chuck
    Chuck Palahniuk

    Survivor

    Tender Branson--last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult--is dictating his life story into the recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast...
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  • Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (Loa #216): Cat's Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut, Kurt
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (Loa #216): Cat's Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions

    Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can be. His cunningly relaxed delivery was so original,...
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  • To Be or Not to Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by North, Ryan
    Ryan North

    To Be or Not to Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure

    From the bestelling author of Romeo and/or Juliet and How to Invent Everything, the greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet he gave the world just one possible storyline, drawn from...
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  • Woodcutters by Bernhard, Thomas
    Thomas Bernhard

    Woodcutters

    Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and "reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg" (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author's homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna's bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an...
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  • Bad Monkey by Hiaasen, Carl
    Carl Hiaasen

    Bad Monkey

    Coming as an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn, here is a gleefully zany and incisively sharp tale from "the funniest important writer in America" (Miami Herald). Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the...
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  • White Noise by Delillo, Don
    Don Delillo

    White Noise

    The 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 technology--now a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta GerwigWhite Noise tells the story...
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  • The Rules of Attraction by Ellis, Bret Easton
    Bret Easton Ellis

    The Rules of Attraction

    From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho--a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a romantic...
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  • Oliver Twist by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Oliver Twist

    This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens's novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist. One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Dickens's great novels, Oliver Twist is also famous for its re-creation--through...
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  • Dante's Indiana by Boyagoda, Randy
    Randy Boyagoda

    Dante's Indiana

    "A Divine Comedy of our times."--John Irving, author of The World According to Garp"This book is a miracle."--Junot D?z, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoA 2022 ReLit Award Finalist - A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021Following Original...
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  • Bad Monkey by Hiaasen, Carl
    Carl Hiaasen

    Bad Monkey

    Coming as an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso co-creator Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn, here is a gleefully zany and incisively sharp tale from "the funniest important writer in America" (Miami Herald). Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the...
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  • Gothic Violence by Ma, Mike
    Mike Ma

    Gothic Violence

    GOTHIC VIOLENCE follows a gang of jihadist surfers who use insider trading profit to disable the national power grid and capture Florida amid total panic. GOTHIC VIOLENCE is a fictional dark comedy by author, Mike Ma. Though it's a continuation of the Harassment Architecture,...
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  • Timequake by Vonnegut, Kurt
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Timequake

    A New York Times Notable Book from the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat's Cradle. At 2:27pm on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in self-confidence. Should it go on expanding indefinitely? What was the point?...
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  • Black No More by Schuyler, George S.
    George S. Schuyler

    Black No More

    The 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 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has...
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  • The Messiah by Vidal, Gore
    Gore Vidal

    The Messiah

    When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in...
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  • Strip Tease by Hiaasen, Carl
    Carl Hiaasen

    Strip Tease

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From "Florida's most entertainingly indignant social critic" (New York Times Book Review)--an inventive tale yet of savage appetites and sweet justice. Only in America could an innocent, if drunken, guest of honor at a strip joint bachelor party become a mortal...
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  • A Dirty Job by Moore, Christopher
    Christopher Moore

    A Dirty Job

    Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay--until people start dropping dead around him, and...
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  • A Handful of Dust by Waugh, Evelyn
    Evelyn Waugh

    A Handful of Dust

    Selected 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 disintegration of English society in the years after World War I. After...
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  • The Emperor's Woke Clothes and the Elite Wokes Effect by Corbin, Jamie
    Jamie Corbin

    The Emperor's Woke Clothes and the Elite Wokes Effect

    "Once, many years ago;" how so many fairy tales begin. The Elite Woke Class parodied in the "Emperor's Woke Clothes and the Elite Wokes Effect" have tried to rewrite their utopian Marxist fairy tale over and over again for more than a century. But...
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  • Vile Bodies by Waugh, Evelyn
    Evelyn Waugh

    Vile Bodies

    "A wickedly witty and iridescent novel" (Time) from one of England's greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and...
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  • Everything Abridged: Stories by Dayle, Dennard
    Dennard Dayle

    Everything Abridged: Stories

    "Incredibly entertaining and so damn illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly), Dennard Dayle's electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and politics. A New Yorker Best Book of the Year "Slyly defiant and blazingly imaginative . ....
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  • Vernon Subutex 3 by Despentes, Virginie
    Virginie Despentes

    Vernon Subutex 3

    Paris may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! --The final installment of writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes's Man Booker International Prize shortlisted punk-rock trilogy. The basis for the TV series of the same name available on streaming. As storm clouds gather,...
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  • Dirty Birds by Murray, Morgan
    Morgan Murray

    Dirty Birds

    ***IPPY: INDEPENDENT VOICE AWARD - WINNER*** ***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021*** ***APMA BEST ATLANTIC PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD: WINNER*** ***STEPHEN LEACOCK MEADAL FOR HUMOUR: SHORTLIST*** ***THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD: SHORTLIST*** ***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: SHORTLIST*** ***FOREWORD INDIES HUMOUR AWARD:...
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  • Sick Puppy by Hiaasen, Carl
    Carl Hiaasen

    Sick Puppy

    The New York Times bestselling novel in which an eco-terrorist with anger-management issues takes on environmental irresponsibility - now reissued with a new author's note.An eco-terrorist with a trust fund, Twilly Spree is tailing a litterbug in a purple Range Rover with plates that...
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  • The Plague Dogs by Adams, Richard
    Richard Adams

    The Plague Dogs

    This modern-day classic is an unforgettable tale of fantasy and adventure, a powerful exploration of the limits of human cruelty and kindness. A "gripping ... compelling tale of emotional force and high suspense" (The Wall Street Journal). Rowf, a shaggy black mongrel, and Snitter,...
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  • The Great Cyprus Think Tank by Lockridge, Larry
    Larry Lockridge

    The Great Cyprus Think Tank

    The Great Cyprus Think Tank is narrated by Bart Beasley, a dejected Canadian author of cultural memoirs who yearns to return to Cyprus, where he spent his youth and where he might shake off his ennui. He forms a think tank of renowned but...
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  • Animals, Inc. by Arne, Catherine
    Catherine Arne

    Animals, Inc.

    An Animal Farm for the 21st Century, the slyly subversive political satire, Animals, Inc. takes aim at corporations, consumerism, and "predatory" capitalism gone awry, exploring the relatively harmless inanities of the contemporary business world, but also its darker side. The plot follows a lively...
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  • Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli
    Multatuli

    Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

    A fierce indictment of colonialism, Max Havelaar is a masterpiece of Dutch literature based on the author's own experience as an adminstrator in the Dutch East Indies in the 1850s. A brilliantly inventive fiction that is also a work of burning political outrage, Max...
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  • Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel by Keillor, Garrison
    Garrison Keillor

    Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel

    Return to America's most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship--AuntMildred's.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals...
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  • The Game by Abrahami, Izzy
    Izzy Abrahami

    The Game

    This satiric fable about a fad that captures the nation begins one evening in a housing development, when an idle man happens to notice that the hundreds of windows he can see from his balcony form patterns of light and darkness. To escape boredom...
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  • Should We Stay or Should We Go by Shriver, Lionel
    Lionel Shriver

    Should We Stay or Should We Go

    When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief.Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too...
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  • Mermaids in Paradise by Millet, Lydia
    Lydia Millet

    Mermaids in Paradise

    In this "comic masterpiece" (Salon), honeymooners Deb and Chip--our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband--befriend a marine biologist who discovers mermaids in a coral reef. As a resort chain swoops in to exploit the shy creatures, the newlyweds unite with other adventurous...
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  • Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22 by Heller, Joseph
    Joseph Heller

    Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22

    A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II:...
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  • Damned by Palahniuk, Chuck
    Chuck Palahniuk

    Damned

    "As gleefully, vividly, hilariously obscene as you'd expect. . . . Irreverent and hugely entertaining." --NPR From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil. Madison is the thirteen-year-old daughter of a narcissistic film...
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  • Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane
    Jane Austen

    Northanger Abbey

    Northanger Abbey is the story of na?e but sweetly appealing Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the 19th-century craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance. Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed...
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  • We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works by Vonnegut, Kurt
    Kurt Vonnegut

    We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works

    Called "our finest black-humorist" by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase,...
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  • The Ardent Swarm by Manai, Yamen
    Yamen Manai

    The Ardent Swarm

    From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest.Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to his beloved "girls" on the outskirts of the desolate North...
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  • House of Trelawney by Rothschild, Hannah
    Hannah Rothschild

    House of Trelawney

    From the author of The Improbability of Love comes a dazzling novel both satirical and moving, about an eccentric, dysfunctional family of English aristocrats and their crumbling stately home, demonstrating how the lives and hopes of women can be shaped by the ties of...
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  • Lake Success by Shteyngart, Gary
    Gary Shteyngart

    Lake Success

    "Spectacular."--NPR - "Uproariously funny."--The Boston Globe - "An artistic triumph."--San Francisco Chronicle - "A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced."--The Washington Post - "Shteyngart's best book."--The Seattle Times The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting,...
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  • Trio by Boyd, William
    William Boyd

    Trio

    It's summer 1968, and the world is reeling from war and assassinations, protests and riots. In a sunny British seaside town, a producer, a novelist, and an actress are enduring their own more private crises on the set of a disaster-plagued movie. All are...
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  • Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street by Melville, Herman
    Herman Melville

    Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street

    Bartleby is a kind of clerk, a copyist, "who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him." During the spring of 1851, Melville felt similarly about his work on Moby Dick. Thus, Bartleby can be seen to represent Melville's...
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