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  • The Red Room: A Swedish novel by August Strindberg by Strindberg, August
    August Strindberg

    The Red Room: A Swedish novel by August Strindberg

    The Red Room (Swedish: R da rummet) is a Swedish novel by August Strindberg that was first published in 1879. A satire of Stockholm society, it has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In this novel Strindberg reflects his own experiences...
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  • Letters from the Earth by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    Letters from the Earth

    An unabridged, unaltered edition of Mark Twain's controversial work written in 1909 though not put into print till 1962; to include the original Prologue, and all 11 Letters to archangels Gabriel and Michael, with any footnotes.Author: Mark TwainISBN-10: 1603868208ISBN-13: 9781603868204Publisher: Merchant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2019Pages:...
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  • Once There Was a Way: What If the Beatles Stayed Together? by Zabel, Bryce
    Bryce Zabel

    Once There Was a Way: What If the Beatles Stayed Together?

    Imagine that The Beatles never broke up but instead worked out their differences, continuing to make history as the greatest rock-and-roll band ever while living new adventures and creating a soundtrack for generations of fans to come.Author: Bryce ZabelISBN-10: 1682303217ISBN-13: 9781682303214Publisher: Diversion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...
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  • Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen, Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes by Mellick, Carlton, III
    Carlton III Mellick

    Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen, Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes

    Known for his cute, disturbing, and utterly absurd novels, cult author Carlton Mellick III returns with a tale of childhood love and spontaneous face explosions. Ethan is in love with the weird girl in school. The one with the twitchy eyes and spiders in...
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  • Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek, 1: Vulcan by Ward, Dayton
    Dayton Ward

    Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star Trek: Vulcan

    Set in the Star Trek universe, this Hidden Universe travel guide explores all that Vulcan--Spock's home planet--has to offer in an interactive guidebook. Plan your next trip to the planet Vulcan! Find restaurants that serve the best fried sandworms and Vulcan port. Take a...
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  • Holidays on Ice by Sedaris, David
    David Sedaris

    Holidays on Ice

    David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and...
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  • Babbit by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Babbit

    Babbitt, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture, society, and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure toward conformity. An immediate and controversial bestseller, Babbitt was influential in the decision...
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  • Victor in the Rubble by Finley, Alex
    Alex Finley

    Victor in the Rubble

    Victor Caro is a counterterrorism officer with the CYA, caught in a world where job security trumps national security. On assignment in West Africa in a post-9/11 world, he is tasked with hunting down the terrorist Omar al-Suqqit, who is looking to launch his...
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  • The Book of Dave by Self, Will
    Will Self

    The Book of Dave

    One of Will Self's best-loved novels, newly reissued by Grove, The Book of Dave begins when East End cabdriver Dave Rudman's wife takes from him his only son. In response, Dave pens a savage jeremiad against the contemporary world that filters his fearful bigotry...
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  • Serve the People! by Lianke, Yan
    Yan Lianke

    Serve the People!

    Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, Serve the People is a beautifully told, wickedly daring story about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young, pretty wife of a powerful Division Commander in Communist China, and her household's lowly...
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  • Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas by Gass, William H.
    William H. Gass

    Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas

    In the words of the late Walker Percy, William Gass is a "totally committed, totally uncompromising, and extraordinarily gifted writer." His latest work is a suite of four novellas that explore Mind, Matter, and God. In the title story, God is a writer in...
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  • Sari Shop (Revised) by Bajwa, Rupa
    Rupa Bajwa

    Sari Shop (Revised)

    Ramchand, a tired shop assistant in Sevak Sari House in Amritsar, spends his days patiently showing yards of fabric to the women of "status families" and to the giggling girls who dream of dressing up in silk but can only afford cotton. When Ramchand...
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  • Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Main Street

    In this classic satire of small-town America, beautiful young Carol Kennicott comes to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, with dreams of transforming the provincial old town into a place of beauty and culture. But she runs into a wall of bigotry, hypocrisy and complacency. The first...
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  • The Dressmaker by Ham, Rosalie
    Rosalie Ham

    The Dressmaker

    A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture--now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the...
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  • Nevergreen by Pessin, Andrew
    Andrew Pessin

    Nevergreen

    A smart, fast, funny, and incisive portrait of today's liberal arts college scene, cancel culture, and more. A chance encounter-if it is by chance-gives J. the opportunity of a lifetime. A physician in a midlife funk, he is invited to speak at a small...
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  • A Man Against a Background of Flames by Hoggart, Paul
    Paul Hoggart

    A Man Against a Background of Flames

    Ideas are dangerous . . .James Appleby's career as a social historian is drifting into mediocrity until the phone call that changes his life forever.Appleby uncovers a dangerous secret hidden deep in a chest of 400-year-old documents. To his horror, its discovery ignites a...
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  • Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Main Street

    Orphaned as a teen, Carol Milford grew up in a city in Minnesota. Already a compassionate person, Carol's time studying in college and grad school exposed her to diverse, radical ideas and lifestyles, which she learned to either accept or tolerate. After college, Carol...
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  • Exalted by Dorn, Anna
    Anna Dorn

    Exalted

    "A brutally funny and observant ride through astrology culture, love, and self-discovery." --NYLON's Most Anticipated Books of 2022"A depressed Millennial astrologist, a self-hating lesbian with a rage (and drinking) problem, and profound questions of connection and destiny make Exalted an unforgettable read. Clear your...
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  • BlackWash: The Untold Stories of Reverse Racism by Hill, Rodney Cloud
    Rodney Cloud Hill

    BlackWash: The Untold Stories of Reverse Racism

    It is a psychological norm for individuals to not empathize with issues that do not affect them. History is often written by those who win in battle or conquer the minds of a population. America and much of this world have had a one-sided...
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  • The Cardiff Giant by Lockridge, Larry
    Larry Lockridge

    The Cardiff Giant

    The Cardiff Giant, set in Cooperstown, New York, has up its novelistic sleeve Puck's profound declaration, "Lord, what fools these mortals be " Jack Thrasher, investigative reporter, arrives on the scene to look into the weird disappearance from the Farmers' Museum of a huge...
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  • Dunfords Travels Everywheres by Kelley, William Melvin
    William Melvin Kelley

    Dunfords Travels Everywheres

    WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD - William Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories. "[A] lost giant of American Literature." --The New Yorker Ride...
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  • Barry Lyndon by Thackeray, William Makepeace
    William Makepeace Thackeray

    Barry Lyndon

    Eager to leave his humble beginnings, Redmond Barry, runs multiple scams, conning his way into the military and pursuing the fortune of a young widow.For every momentous achievement, he's riddled with a bittersweet result. Redmond Barry is born into a poor Irish family and...
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  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying by Orwell, George
    George Orwell

    Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results....
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  • Escape from Oblivia: One Man's Midlife Crisis Gone Primal by Kindall, Brian
    Brian Kindall

    Escape from Oblivia: One Man's Midlife Crisis Gone Primal

    He fantasizes about saving damsels in distress and battling beasts. He'd better be careful what he wishes for... Will Kirby has hit his mid-life crisis at full speed. Once a rugged outdoorsman, he's now soft around the middle and trapped in the banality of...
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  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Loos, Anita
    Anita Loos

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady (1925) is a comic novel written by American author Anita Loos. The story primarily follows the escapades and dalliances of a young blonde flapper in New York City and Europe during the Roaring Twenties....
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  • A Tale of a Tub by Swift, Jonathan
    Jonathan Swift

    A Tale of a Tub

    From the author responsible for the satirical work of genius, A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub is an allegorical work that follows three brothers after the event of their father's death. When their father, who meant to be God, dies,...
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  • The Bug Light Room by McManus, Gregg
    Gregg McManus

    The Bug Light Room

    With so much apparent alien activity and presence on our planet, what would happen if an American actually took a swing at a UFO and landed a punch? Who in Washington would take that call? What would such a government agency look like? How...
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  • The Flying Inn: Dystopian Novel by Chesterton, G. K.
    G. K. Chesterton

    The Flying Inn: Dystopian Novel

    The Flying Inn is set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales to the poor are effectively prohibited, while the...
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  • Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel De
    Miguel De Cervantes

    Don Quixote

    "Don Quixote looms so wonderfully above the skylines of literature, a gaunt giant on a lean nag, that the book lives and will live through his sheer vitality...The parody has become a paragon."-Vladimir Nabokov "A more profound and powerful work than this is not...
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  • The Perfect Stranger by Harris, Gregory Seth
    Gregory Seth Harris

    The Perfect Stranger

    You can read this novel for its silliness & absurdity. Its author uses every trick in the book - and a few uniquely his own-to keep the laughs coming. You don't have to take this novel seriously. You may enjoy merely for the fun...
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  • Outré by Wilson, D. Harlan
    D. Harlan Wilson

    Outré

    In a future where cinema has usurped reality and there's nothing special about effects, an aging movie star takes on the role of a lifetime, growing the flesh of an otherworldly kaiju onto his body. At the same time, all of the roles he...
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  • The Hungry and the Fat by Vermes, Timur
    Timur Vermes

    The Hungry and the Fat

    Germany has imposed an upper limit on the number of asylum seekers, and Europe's borders are closed. Beyond the Sahara, huge camps have been built for millions of people who have no choice but to wait. They have been waiting so long that they...
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  • The Seductive Lady Vanessa of Manhattanshire by Kaufman, Seth
    Seth Kaufman

    The Seductive Lady Vanessa of Manhattanshire

    A hilarious, multi-layered, modern mashup of Don Quixote, Cold Comfort Farm, and The Thirteenth Tale, The Seductive Lady Vanessa of Manhattanshire is an ingenious must-read for fans of romantic fiction, literary satire, and books about books. Famous Arabic translator Oona Noor receives a mysterious...
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  • The Very Nice Box by Gleichman, Eve
    Eve Gleichman

    The Very Nice Box

    "A quirky, deeply satisfying, whip-smart debut that critiques corporate culture and male entitlement while also offering a heartfelt look at how to work through grief. Meticulously constructed and truly original--I inhaled it."--Jami Attenberg, author of All This Could Be Yours For fans of Eleanor...
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  • Looking for Bono by Sanusi, Abidemi
    Abidemi Sanusi

    Looking for Bono

    A sparkling satire on international aid and celebrity, Looking for Bono charts Baba's accidental quest to bring water to his Nigerian community by trying to secure the help of international humanitarian and rockstar, Bono, launching him into a world of high stakes foreign aid...
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  • The Beginner's Guide to Being Evil by Crawford, Craig
    Craig Crawford

    The Beginner's Guide to Being Evil

    Hey! I'm Dave. And you have questions. You're probably starting with this one: "Why should I not only buy, but actually read this book?" Look, no matter what religious doctrine, books, laws, or commandments you follow (and even if you don't), 100% of you...
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  • Dragon Day by Pegas, Matthew
    Matthew Pegas

    Dragon Day

    "He promised himself that the next time he found himself in a similar situation, he would really do it: really reach out and assert himself with his fist."Meet Toby Sharpe, a naive, pimple-faced freshman studying at a stridently progressive university outside of New York...
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  • How Would You Like It? by Cridge, Annie Denton
    Annie Denton Cridge

    How Would You Like It?

    "Cridge ridicules the cult of domesticity by exposing its contradictions, made especially glaring when enacted by men." -Carol Farley KesslerMan's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? (1870) is a feminist utopian novel by Annie Denton Cridge. Written during the early stages of the...
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  • Hard Times by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Hard Times

    Set in an industrial city in Northern England during the Victorian era, Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy and retired man, devotes his life to the rationalist philosophy, and raises his children, Louisa and Tom, to never engage in any imaginative activity. The two grow up...
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  • Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
    Sinclair Lewis

    Babbitt

    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 represents an...
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  • Boomsday by Buckley, Christopher
    Christopher Buckley

    Boomsday

    Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire...
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  • The Golden House by Rushdie, Salman
    Salman Rushdie

    The Golden House

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture--a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, PBS,...
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  • Tremor of Intent by Burgess, Anthony
    Anthony Burgess

    Tremor of Intent

    Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper back to England or risk losing his fat retirement bonus....
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  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Shafer, David
    David Shafer

    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

    Three young adults grapple with the usual thirty-something problems -- boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy -- in David Shafer's darkly comic debut novel. The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary,...
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  • Chronic City by Lethem, Jonathan
    Jonathan Lethem

    Chronic City

    A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in...
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  • This Is the Way the World Ends by Morrow, James
    James Morrow

    This Is the Way the World Ends

    The Gulliver's Travels of the nuclear age, the Alice in Wonderland of the arms race, this mordantly funny and visionary tale of the apocalypse was a Nebula finalist. The trouble starts when George Paxton ingenuously signs an admission of complicity in starting World War...
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  • Multiple Choice by Zambra, Alejandro
    Alejandro Zambra

    Multiple Choice

    A "brilliant, innovative, beautiful" (The Guardian) book from the acclaimed author of Chilean Poet "Dazzling . . . a work of parody, but also of poetry." --The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE...
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  • The New Republic by Shriver, Lionel
    Lionel Shriver

    The New Republic

    "Shriver is an incisive social satirist with a clear grip on the ironies of our contemporary age . . . [Her] take on journalism and international politics is wry, insightful and just over the top enough to be fun." --Los Angeles TimesNew York Times...
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  • Where There's Smoke, There's Liars: Woke Island Battle Royale by Eaton, Aleksandër
    Aleksand? Eaton

    Where There's Smoke, There's Liars: Woke Island Battle Royale

    In 2017, Aleksand? Eaton is cancelled by an online woke mob. Shortly thereafter, his defenestrators begin mysteriously disappearing. The police bring him in for questioning, but more of these woke warriors continue disappearing while he's in police custody, so the cops have to let...
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  • The First Robot President by Taylor, Robert Carlyle
    Robert Carlyle Taylor

    The First Robot President

    Fourth Edition of Robert Carlyle Taylor's Award-Winning Debut NovelThe First Robot President combines science fiction with political satire, making fun of Democrats and Republicans in equal measure. The novel centers around Thomas Jenkins, a lobbyist, and his robot wife whose political ambitions land her...
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