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  • I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Everett, Percival
    Percival Everett

    I Am Not Sidney Poitier

    I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in AmericaI was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and...
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  • The Swells by Aitken, Will
    Will Aitken

    The Swells

    In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship. A boatload of white privilege, The Emerald Tranquility is the most luxurious cruise liner afloat, its passengers some of the richest people in the world. Meanwhile...
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  • The Blazing World by Hustvedt, Siri
    Siri Hustvedt

    The Blazing World

    Named one of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction...
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  • The Story of a Goat by Murugan, Perumal
    Perumal Murugan

    The Story of a Goat

    LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE From one of India's best-known writers and the author of the National Book Award-longlisted One Part Woman comes a charming and surprising tale of an orphaned goat and the family that decides to take care...
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  • Vernon Subutex 2 by Despentes, Virginie
    Virginie Despentes

    Vernon Subutex 2

    Part social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop clerk's celebrity fortunes and misfortunes. The basis for the TV show of the same name available on streaming. Rock...
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  • Lightning Rods by DeWitt, Helen
    Helen DeWitt

    Lightning Rods

    Described as "the most well-executed literary sex comedy" of our time by Salon.com, and "a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic" by Bookforum, Helen DeWitt's Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave you laughing for more. Follow one steady rise...
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  • Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, Francois
    Francois Rabelais

    Gargantua and Pantagruel

    Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature.Author: Francois RabelaisISBN-10: 0393308065ISBN-13: 9780393308068Publisher: W. W. Norton...
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  • Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov, Mikhail
    Mikhail Bulgakov

    Heart of a Dog

    Heart of a Dog (Sobachye serdtse) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. It is generally...
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  • The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K.
    G. K. Chesterton

    The Ball and the Cross

    Like much of G. K. Chesterton's fiction, The Ball and the Cross is both witty and profound, cloaking serious religious and philosophical inquiry in sparkling humor and whimsy. Serialized in the British publication The Commonwealth in 1905-06, Chesterton's second novel first appeared in book...
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  • Cakes and Ale by Maugham, W. Somerset
    W. Somerset Maugham

    Cakes and Ale

    Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller....
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  • The Spirits Up by Babiak, Todd
    Todd Babiak

    The Spirits Up

    Warm, witty, and unsettling all at once, here is an unforgettable story of a family desperate for something to believe in. Benedict is an inventor whose life's work is a clean energy machine. It has just made him an overnight sensation and his family...
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  • The Terrible Fours by Reed, Ishmael
    Ishmael Reed

    The Terrible Fours

    When Ishmael Reed wrote The Terrible Twos about the American infantile need for instant gratification, he could not have realized that in June 2020, journalist Nicole Wallace would be referring to a president as a "toddler." Reed had parodied other genres, the gothic novel,...
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  • Little Dorrit: With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Little Dorrit: With Appreciations and Criticisms By G. K. Chesterton

    Originally published as a serial from 1855 to 1857, Dickens's novel "Little Dorrit" tells the story of Amy Dorrit, the youngest child of her family born and raised in a debtors prison whose life is changed when she meets Arthur Clennam, returning home from...
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  • Nature Girl by Hiaasen, Carl
    Carl Hiaasen

    Nature Girl

    From "the funniest important writer in America" (Miami Herald) comes a tale that is gleefully zany and incisively sharp.Beware! Honey Santana is off her meds, reacting rapidly to the bad behavior of others. This time, the annoyer is a telemarketer from Texas. Honey's revenge?...
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  • A House and Its Head by Compton-Burnett, Ivy
    Ivy Compton-Burnett

    A House and Its Head

    A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The long, endlessly surprising conversational duels at the center of Compton-Burnett's works...
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  • Shame by Rushdie, Salman
    Salman Rushdie

    Shame

    The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is "not quite Pakistan." In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men-one a celebrated...
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  • A Cut Above by Barillier, Thomas
    Thomas Barillier

    A Cut Above

    Barry's dream was perfect. The house was sold, the money safely stashed away, and all that was left was to move onto his sailboat and begin writing the memoirs of his days as a barber. But God had a different plan for him. Barry's...
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  • Perfectly Imperfect by Dinkins, Courtney
    Courtney Dinkins

    Perfectly Imperfect

    Life can really come at you like a ton of bricks. One minute you are enjoying your twenties, and the next you get a bunch of life lessons in the course of three months. But at least you have your best friend by your...
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  • Fables of the Deconstruction by Dressick, Damian
    Damian Dressick

    Fables of the Deconstruction

    Not unlike his literary forebearers Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover, Damian Dressick brings us a crackling series of dispatches fresh from the postmodernist front. This daring gathering of brief, innovative stories tantalizes the intellect nearly as much as it illuminates the human heart. Drawing...
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  • Man's 4th Best Hospital by Shem, Samuel
    Samuel Shem

    Man's 4th Best Hospital

    The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed The House of God Years after the events of The House of God, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital,...
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  • Processed Cheese by Wright, Stephen
    Stephen Wright

    Processed Cheese

    From an "astonishing" writer (Toni Morrison), the savagely funny story of a couple who unexpectedly come into some money in a wealth-obsessed America deranged by Mammon. A bag of money drops out of the sky, literally, into the path of a cash-starved citizen named...
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  • David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    David Copperfield

    Of all Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of a gently orphan discovering life and love in an indifferent adult world....
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  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Moore, Christopher
    Christopher Moore

    Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

    Everyone knows about the immaculate conception and the crucifixion. But what happened to Jesus between the manger and the Sermon on the Mount? In this hilarious and bold novel, the acclaimed Christopher Moore shares the greatest story never told: the life of Christ as...
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  • Zone 23 by Hopkins, C. J.
    C. J. Hopkins

    Zone 23

    ZONE 23 ... a darkly comic dystopian satire about being human, all-too-human, featuring two of the most endearing Anti-Social anti-heroes that ever rebelled against the forces of Normality. Set in the post-catastrophic future, in a peaceful, prosperous, corporate-controlled society where all dissent and non-conformity...
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  • Glamorama by Ellis, Bret Easton
    Bret Easton Ellis

    Glamorama

    The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero delivers a gripping and brilliant dissection of our celebrity obsessed culture. - "Arguably the novel of the 1990's...Should establish Ellis as the most ambitious and fearless writer of his generation...a must...
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  • God of War: B Is for Boy: An Illustrated Storybook by Robinson, Andrea
    Andrea Robinson

    God of War: B Is for Boy: An Illustrated Storybook

    "God of War B is for Boy is a hilarious retelling of the game's story. With adorable art, witty writing, and a heartwarming story it's a great addition to anyone's library even if you're not familiar with the game." - Gaming Trend An ABC...
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  • All about H. Hatterr by Desani, G. V.
    G. V. Desani

    All about H. Hatterr

    Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and...
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  • The Weight of Things by Fritz, Marianne
    Marianne Fritz

    The Weight of Things

    "A harrowing book about the horrors of motherhood, jealousy, and war trauma." --Kirkus Reviews The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). For after winning acclaim with...
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  • The Iron Heel by London, Jack
    Jack London

    The Iron Heel

    The Iron Heel treads upon the faces of the poor. Determined to crush the working class at any cost, the brutal dictatorship incites a paranoid atmosphere of witch-hunting hysteria, employing gangs of thugs to stifle free speech. Avis Everhard, wife of a labor leader,...
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  • Sellevision by Burroughs, Augusten
    Augusten Burroughs

    Sellevision

    The hilarious first novel by the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Dry, A Wolf at the Table, and You Better Not Cry, Sellevision is Augusten Burrough's darkly funny and vastly entertaining skewering of a very troubled home-shopping channel. Welcome to the world...
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  • Scoop by Waugh, Evelyn
    Evelyn Waugh

    Scoop

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a "thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny" satire of the journalism business (New York Times). Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself...
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  • The Devil's Dictionary Illustrated by Bierce, Ambrose
    Ambrose Bierce

    The Devil's Dictionary Illustrated

    The Wall Street Journal wrote that The Devil's Dictionary is "probably the most brilliant work of satire written in America. And maybe one of the greatest in all of world literature." The New York Times reviewed: "It is a tour de force of no...
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  • Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash by Croshaw, Yahtzee
    Yahtzee Croshaw

    Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash

    Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash is the follow up tale to Will Save the Galaxy for Food from the mind of writer Yahtzee Croshaw (Mogworld, Jam, Differently Morphous). With the age of heroic star pilots and galactic villains completely killed by quantum teleportation,...
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  • The Mouse That Roared by Wibberley, Leonard
    Leonard Wibberley

    The Mouse That Roared

    NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE AND NEW EDITION PAPERBACK In Leonard Wibberley's classic political satire, a tiny backwards country decides the only way to survive a sudden economic downturn is to declare war on the United States and lose to get foreign aid - but...
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  • Nova Express: The Restored Text by Burroughs, William S.
    William S. Burroughs

    Nova Express: The Restored Text

    The most ferociously political and prophetic book of Burroughs's cut-up trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space the better to see our burning planet and the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As the new edition demonstrates,...
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  • Candide: Or Optimism by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Candide: Or Optimism

    "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural...
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  • Alien Stories by Osondu, E. C.
    E. C. Osondu

    Alien Stories

    "A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity." -George Saunders Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling stories, each...
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  • One Potato by McMahon, Tyler
    Tyler McMahon

    One Potato

    An awkward but well-intentioned food scientist is forced to walk a crooked line between nature and technology when he is dispatched to South America to investigate his company's possible role in a mysterious medical crisis involving genetically modified potatoes. Author: Tyler McMahonISBN-10: 1684427835ISBN-13: 9781684427833Publisher:...
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  • Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1987-1997 (Loa #273): Bluebeard / Hocus Pocus / Timequake by Vonnegut, Kurt
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1987-1997 (Loa #273): Bluebeard / Hocus Pocus / Timequake

    The definitive edition of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction concludes with three brilliantly satirical novels of the 1980s and '90s collected in one volume for the first time. Here are the final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the...
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  • Red Birds by Hanif, Mohammed
    Mohammed Hanif

    Red Birds

    An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp's residents, a teenager named...
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  • David Copperfield: Introduction by Michael Slater by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    David Copperfield: Introduction by Michael Slater

    When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventure, David meets an array of...
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  • Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Main Street

    In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and the 1920 publication of Main Street brought him his first serious critical recognition. Born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis knew the American heartland as few other...
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  • The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, Tobias
    Tobias Smollett

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

    William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began." As a group of travellers visit places in England and Scotland, they provide through satire and wit a vivid and detailed picture of the...
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  • The Jesus Cow by Perry, Michael
    Michael Perry

    The Jesus Cow

    New York Times bestselling humorist Michael Perry makes his fiction debut with this hilarious and big-hearted tale, a comic yet sincere exploration of faith and the foibles of modern life that blends the barbed charm of Garrison Keillor, the irreverent humor of Christopher Moore,...
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  • Mallory's Manly Methods by Keech, Thomas
    Thomas Keech

    Mallory's Manly Methods

    Mallory's Manly Methods is a comic adventure story about a Customer Service Representative for a cable company who hates customers, looks down on women, and fears Blacks. When his actual life experiences conflict with his prejudices, he makes his own unique attempts at self-improvement,...
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  • The Hellgate Chronicles by L'Estrange, Hugo C. Stj
    Hugo C. Stj L'Estrange

    The Hellgate Chronicles

    The complete collected works of The Hon. Hugo C StJ l'Estrange. His satirical spoof "The Satanist's Diary" was published as a regular column in The Aquarian Arrow between 1978 and 1992. It won many friends and admirers for its wry comments on human nature,...
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  • Black Buck by Askaripour, Mateo
    Mateo Askaripour

    Black Buck

    "An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown...
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  • Candide by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Candide

    Young Candide is ejected from his idyllic life in a protected castle and finds himself encountering wild adventures and harsh trials that put to the test his teacher's claim that we live in the best of all possible worlds.Honest and simple to a fault,...
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  • Ring On Deli by Giroux, Eric
    Eric Giroux

    Ring On Deli

    A novel about supermarkets and democracy.Brothers Ray and Patrick Markham live in Pennacook, Massachusetts, a despairing former mill town plagued by feral boars. It's the type of place where streets are named for scoundrel governors and lesser Monopoly properties, where even Dr. Chong, the...
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  • Happy Utopia Day, Joe McCarthy by Lundy, J. T.
    J. T. Lundy

    Happy Utopia Day, Joe McCarthy

    Chris Thompson thought his youthful dreams of being a secret agent had long ago been put to rest. He has a wife and child, a stable job with the US Customs Department, and--aside from a minor incident involving outsourcing American apple pie production to...
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