Fiction - Satire

Written before the events of Jan. 6, 2021, the action in this satirical slant on American politics begins when a small, balding man is mistaken for eccentric cybersecurity genius Jason Oglethorpe. Both quickly become embroiled in conflicting plots by the Russians and Chinese to...

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner masterfully captures post-Civil War America, exposing the greed, corruption, and ambition beneath its glittering surface. Thissatirical classic blends humor and sharp critique, offering a vivid portrait of an era marked by rapid growth and...

America, 2046. The youngest of Millennials will be middle-aged. Their children, Generation Alpha (disparagingly referred to as the "Children of COVID"), will be just getting out of college. Twenty-two years of perpetual cynicism and emotional numbness will create a generation of timid, antisocial brainiacs....

Every day counts when you're chasing love, life, and a little bit of madness...Luke Milvaine is a drifting 30-something stuck in a dead-end job with an even deader love life. Then the sudden death of a school friend leaves him with a cockapoo puppy...

Deadpan follows the misadventures of a vaguely anti-semitic West Virginia Buick dealer who wakes up one day transformed into the world's most popular Jewish comedian. Steeped in magical realism, the narrative confronts pivotal issues of our day: identity, intolerance, tribalism and the redemptive force...

Author: Michelle MillerISBN-10: 0143108239ISBN-13: 9780143108238Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/27/2016Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Newly reissued for the modern reader, Martin Amis's Success is "a terrifying, painfully funny, Swiftian exercise in moral disgust" (The Observer). Foster brothers Terrance Service and Gregory Riding could not be more different from one another--Terry "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude" and...

Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921.The title uses a phrase from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: ... To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub, For in that sleep...

The Butchers Apprentice is the story of 'life' unfolding pensively in the abattoir through the eyes of the old Butcher and his children and their experiences in the selfish world of needs.Author: Yashica MishraISBN-10: 8668117521ISBN-13: 9798668117529Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2020Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 8.00h...

Holy Water is a work of humorous fiction, suitable for all readers due to its tasteful use of innuendo over crude language. A satirical tale of religion, business and family ties, we meet Alphonso when he is at the peak of his career as...

Imagine the look on your brother's face when they see you reading this book. If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill your brother, stop what you are doing and seek psychiatric help immediately For the rest of you, bring some...

No one in the forgotten town of Colmera Springs has paid taxes in 160 years. Clarice's new employer is determined to change that. Armed with rubber stamp and ballpoint pen, Ryan Conner, Tax Collector, drags Clarice up to the sleepy locale for a few...

Charles Tremayne is a spy out of his time. After a long career spent rescuing prisoners from the KGB or helping defectors across the Berlin Wall the world has changed. The Wall has gone and no longer is there a need for a Russian...

The sunny Florida Keys, early 1980s. Catch of the day, square groupers. A true paradise where every hour is happy-until it goes to pot.A chartered snorkel trip to see the John Pennekamp Park's underwater Christ of the Abyss statue delivers something unexpected-four bales of...

The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life's story. Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a "far...

A book about sleeping, static electricity, and blind fish that live in caves by the New York Times Bestselling author of The Internet is a Playground and creator of 27B/6. "Unapologetically absurd." Reader's Digest "Showcases Thorne's signature wit and biting satire." Sydney Morning Herald...

Author: John B. KeaneISBN-10: 1781178917ISBN-13: 9781781178911Publisher: Mercier PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2025Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.37w x 0.20d

An unabridged, unaltered edition, to include the Prologue and all Letters written from the perspective of the archangel Satan who is briefly banished from heaven and decides to visit Earth. A series of commentaries in essay and short story form, it was written during...

In a groundbreaking theatrical experience gone horribly wrong, a deadly night reveals the dark consequences of blurring the lines between performance and reality. When Come Knocking came to Los Angeles, the interactive theater production that took over six floors of an abandoned building was...

Originally published in 1809, Knickerbocker's History of New York is a satirical review of the city's colonial history. Written by renowned author Washington Irving under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, the book is a humorous and incisive critique of the myths and legends that have...

Lottie's just been dumped, or at least she thinks she has.With a university reunion looming she has nothing to show for the past ten years except a part-time job in her friend's plant shop and a jar of pickled gherkins. To console herself Lottie...

Richard S. Hillman lives happily with his wife in a Florida condo. The Hillmans have travelled the world with Semester-at-Sea and have lived in New York, Brazil, Jamaica, and Venezuela. Richard has published eight texts on Latin America and the Caribbean as well as...

"Looking for something serious in the single scene is like keeping your clothes on for the orgy," Jennifer laments to her only serious romantic prospect and only prospect she won't take seriously, as her best friend Joel eagerly anticipates his first day of work...

Author: J. P. RiegerISBN-10: 1965514057ISBN-13: 9781965514054Publisher: Flock PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2024Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d

Single moms don't get second chances, right? In Hallmark movies, yes. In reality, doubtful. Especially when you have a five-year-old interrupting your "alone time" with the man of your dreams. Put your hand up if you've ever moved to a new place and found...

The sunny Florida Keys, early 1980s. Catch of the day, square groupers. A true paradise where every hour is happy-until it goes to pot.A chartered snorkel trip to see the John Pennekamp Park's underwater Christ of the Abyss statue delivers something unexpected-four bales of...

From the author of Pink Glass Houses, another delicious beach read about rich people behaving badly! The Namaste Club is a sly and hilarious send-up of the wellness industrial complex, rich ladies doing yoga, and all things fabulous and Florida.Just inland from Florida's sun-splashed...

A psychologically complex, genre-bending story collection from the author of Disorientation that reimagines narrative, one story at a time A mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California, where her much older husband...

An unexpected catastrophe of literary proportions . . .Aspirant, bookish, and close to broke, 26-year-old Clemi steps into her dream job at a prestigious literary nonprofit and finds herself in the bull's eye of a financial, legal, and existential calamity. The executive director has...

A funny and emotionally resonant coming-of-age novel about one summer of momentous social and political change at a Jewish sleepover camp It's the summer of 2013 and 21-year-old Ruby, a counselor at Camp Burntshore, can't wait to supervise a rowdy cabin of 11-year-olds, smoke...

Growing up under a dictatorship and the toil of academic life don't seem like laughing matters, but the lighthearted stories in A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists find humour in all corners. Radu Guiaşu draws on his own experiences of...

Give yourself-and your coworkers-the gift of laughter, and let the sarcasm flow (just politely enough to keep your job)!Sarcasm I've Suppressed for Professionalism is the ultimate workplace survival guide for anyone who's ever wanted to say exactly what they're thinking, but knows better. Packed...

In I Met Someone--what Wagner has called a "tenderly mutilated companion piece" to his screenplay for Maps to the Stars (the film directed by David Cronenberg for which Julianne Moore won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress)--Oscar-winning Dusty Wilding learns the unspeakable...

Nanna has been a nun. She's been a wife. She has also been a courtesan. And now, as her daughter turns sixteen, she must decide how to advise on her path in life. On what route should she send young Pippa?Bawdy, filthy, hilarious and...

Venetian Blinds, long a hidden gem buried beneath the cluttered shelves of out-of-print obscurity, is being joyfully resurrected for a new generation of readers who seek the introspective depth and reflective solitude that only Art Vandelay's unique voice can provide. In a time when...

In Russian Nonsensical, Edward D. Webster weaves a spellbinding embroidery of mystery and intrigue, with threads of betrayal, exotic thefts, international adventure, and the looming specter of war in Ukraine. Pastor Clem Dudas is a man of exquisite contradictions; a charismatic preacher who features...

A new novel by Hollywood's "master of satire." The myth of an epic, public life--its triumphs and tragedies--is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and completely made up, man. Born in...

S.N.A.F.U. is the satirical fictional story of Snaford University Jewish Hospital which explores the changing dynamics that have had a profound effect on the practice of medicine. As the acronym SNAFU implies, chaos and confusion abound.Nothing is the way it seems. Some may consider...

Funnier than Dune and mercifully somewhat shorter, Dude tells what really happened on that famous desert planet Arkansas (strangely pronounced as Arrakis). No fake news - just the facts about how the low-down Atrocides, led by Paolo Mudd'y Bib and helped by the beach-loving...

This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener...

Martin Amis's first novel, The Rachel Papers, tells the story of Charles Highway and his relationship with his girlfriend in the year before going to university. Charles Highway, a bright, egotistical Oxford student and soon-to-be Great Novelist, spends the eve of his twentieth birthday...

Growing up under a dictatorship and the toil of academic life don't seem like laughing matters, but the lighthearted stories in A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists find humour in all corners. Radu Guiaşu draws on his own experiences of...

Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV. Lily--a bored, beautiful twenty-something--wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast...

British universities once enjoyed an enviable reputation. Then the political class introduced fees, and in came corporate fixers, accountants, branding experts, those who salivate before the market. Hardnosed managers cut posts and salaries: why not put those bumbling professors on zero-hour contracts and get...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...

Inspired by Dave Tarnowski's hilarious book and his popular @disappointingaffirmations Instagram account come these additional, but no less disappointing aspirations to color in. Color your feelings. You deserve it. And you don't deserve much.Author: Disappointing AspirationsISBN-13: 9798320833613Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2024Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize:...

"...the public was pleased to know that they were ugly monsters for all their money, and everyone was satisfied all around."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Unspeakable Egg (1924)The Unspeakable Egg (1924) is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that features ultra-rich main character Fifi,...

George, J., Harris and Montmorency, the dog, are the best of friends. Armed with interesting anecdotes, their quirky personalities and a boat, the three men and the dog decide to go on a boat trip across river Thames. But they discover that their fancy...

"Comic genius of the highest order." --C.H. Herford, 1899The Misfortunes of Elphin (1829), by Thomas Love Peacock, is a historical romance and satire, set in 6th century Wales, about the adventures of the bard Talies, the princes Elphin and Seithenyn, and King Arthur. This...

Imagine the look on your father in-law's face when they see you reading this book If you're really looking for the top 10 ways to kill your father in-law, stop what you're doing and seek psychiatric help immediately.For the rest of you, bring some...