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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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  • Tenure by Egan, Kieran
    Kieran Egan

    Tenure

    Saved from certain death on the Whistler-Vancouver highway after his luxury car malfunctions, Mark Morata feels honour-bound to reward his rescuer, Geoff Pybus, with a token of his undying gratitude. Geoff, a frustratingly humble university professor, happy with his family's lot in life, only...
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  • The Road Through the Wall by Jackson, Shirley
    Shirley Jackson

    The Road Through the Wall

    The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary career Pepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The...
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  • Make Russia Great Again by Buckley, Christopher
    Christopher Buckley

    Make Russia Great Again

    In "the Trump satire we've been waiting for" (The Washington Post), award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman--Donald Trump's seventh chief of staff--who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump and Russia.Herb...
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  • Jock Blocked by Grant, Pippa
    Pippa Grant

    Jock Blocked

    She can't let him score...Call it superstition, but when a guy bats as hot as Brooks Elliott, you don't mess with what's working. And what's working is him keeping his pants zipped and doing all of his scoring on the field.So when I hear...
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  • Monday Starts on Saturday by Strugatsky, Boris
    Boris Strugatsky

    Monday Starts on Saturday

    Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving through the forests of Northwest Russia to meet up with some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of local hitchhikers, who persuade him to come work with them at the National...
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  • Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1976-1985 (Loa #252): Slapstick / Jailbird / Deadeye Dick / Galápagos by Vonnegut, Kurt
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1976-1985 (Loa #252): Slapstick / Jailbird / Deadeye Dick / Gal疳agos

    With the success of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Kurt Vonnegut cemented his reputation as America's funniest and most original satirist. This third volume of the definitive edition of his fiction collects four novels written in the 1970s and '80s, when Vonnegut was at the height of...
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  • The Jesus Nut by Prather, John
    John Prather

    The Jesus Nut

    The Jesus Nut tells the parallel stories of three unlikely pilgrims--a reviled professor, a delusional homeless veteran, and a priest who loves strip clubs--searching for the greatest religious relic of the 21st century. Thrown together after a raucous showdown with evangelists, they decide to...
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  • The Recognitions by Gaddis, William
    William Gaddis

    The Recognitions

    A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but:...
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  • The Heart Goes Last by Atwood, Margaret
    Margaret Atwood

    The Heart Goes Last

    From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments--in the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year...if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system...
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  • Candide, or the Optimist by Voltaire
    Voltaire

    Candide, or the Optimist

    Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat...
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  • Nineteen to Go: A Peace O'Farce by Carpenter, James
    James Carpenter

    Nineteen to Go: A Peace O'Farce

    Getting a vasectomy these days can be a responsible social gesture, but for Hank and Chuck back in 1950s Appalachia, it's but a boozy night's whim and all about hating to use rubbers, leaving them unprepared for how complicated their lives are about to...
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  • Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition): Bilingual Edition by Lakhous, Amara
    Amara Lakhous

    Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition): Bilingual Edition

    The immigrant tenants of a building in Rome offer skewed accounts of a murder in this prize-winning satire by the Algerian-born Italian author (Publishers Weekly). Piazza Vittorio is home to a polyglot community of immigrants who have come to Rome from all over the...
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  • The Silentiary by Di Benedetto, Antonio
    Antonio Di Benedetto

    The Silentiary

    In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of Zama. The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A...
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  • Oblivion: Stories by Wallace, David Foster
    David Foster Wallace

    Oblivion: Stories

    In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could...
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  • Democracy by Didion, Joan
    Joan Didion

    Democracy

    From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean--a gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life. Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam...
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  • Cold Comfort Farm: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Gibbons, Stella
    Stella Gibbons

    Cold Comfort Farm: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    "Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century." --Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas...
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  • Gremlins: Gizmo's 12 Days of Christmas by Robinson, Andrea
    Andrea Robinson

    Gremlins: Gizmo's 12 Days of Christmas

    Relive the cult classic movie Gremlins in this storybook retelling for adults and children alike. On the first day of Christmas, my father brought to me: a mogwai from Chinatown. Based on the cult classic holiday movie Gremlins, this clever illustrated storybook retells the...
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  • Being There by Kosinski, Jerzy
    Jerzy Kosinski

    Being There

    A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to...
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  • Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread by Palahniuk, Chuck
    Chuck Palahniuk

    Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

    Chuck Palahniuk, literature's favorite transgressive author, gives us twenty-one stories and one novella in Make Something Up, a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before...
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  • Cavanaugh by Kornreich, Joshua
    Joshua Kornreich

    Cavanaugh

    Cavanaugh is not Kavanaugh, and Kavanaugh is not Cavanaugh. Yet when Cavanaugh, a pencil-pushing, number-crunching, "middling, middle-aged middleman," reluctantly buys a bobblehead of the controversial Supreme Court justice for his innocent young daughter at a minor league baseball game, past traumas are retriggered, households...
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  • The White Boy Shuffle by Beatty, Paul
    Paul Beatty

    The White Boy Shuffle

    "A bombastic coming-of-age novel....The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time."--Los Angeles Times The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout Paul Beatty's...
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  • David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    David Copperfield

    Charles Dickens's most famous novel was also his own favorite, and the one that drew most on his own life story. David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic....
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  • In Persuasion Nation by Saunders, George
    George Saunders

    In Persuasion Nation

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers,...
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  • Why Odin Drinks: Humorous Norse Mythology Retelling by Larssen, Bjørn
    Bjn Larssen

    Why Odin Drinks: Humorous Norse Mythology Retelling

    'A delightfully quirky satire I didn't know I needed.' - Jenny Lawson, NYT bestselling author of Broken (In the Best Possible Way)'Funny, quirky and surreal, this is the Norse Myth you've been craving' - Joanne Harris, NYT bestselling author of The Gospel of LokiPoor...
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  • Seven Down by Whitton, David
    David Whitton

    Seven Down

    In this quirky, character-driven debut novel seven hotel employees puzzle out the events of a botched assassination attempt -- the next read for fans of Fredrik Backman (Anxious People) and Matt Haig (The Midnight Library).Finalist for the 2022 Crime Writers of Canada Award for...
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  • The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings

    Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon--with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and a Granta Best Young American Novelist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems,...
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  • Submission by Houellebecq, Michel
    Michel Houellebecq

    Submission

    A controversial, intelligent, and mordantly funny new novel from France's most famous living literary figure It's 2022. Fran ois is bored. He's a middle-aged lecturer at the New Sorbonne University and an expert on J. K. Huysmans, the famed nineteenth-century novelist associated with the...
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  • Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut, Kurt
    Kurt Vonnegut

    Hocus Pocus

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Slaughterhouse-Five comes an irresistible novel that combines "clever wit with keen social observation... and] re-establishes Mr. Vonnegut's place as the Mark Twain of our times" (Atlanta Journal & Constitution). Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs...
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  • J R by Gaddis, William
    William Gaddis

    J R

    A National Book Award-winning satire about the unchecked power of American capitalism, written more than three decades before the 2008 financial crisis. At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a...
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  • Doomed by Palahniuk, Chuck
    Chuck Palahniuk

    Doomed

    Welcome to Purgatory. Chuck Palahniuk style. After a botched Halloween ritual, Madison Spencer, the snarkiest dead girl in the universe, finds herself trapped in Purgatory, otherwise known as Earth. The upside: she is no longer subject to physical limitations (she can pass through doors...
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  • Why Odin Drinks: Humorous Norse Mythology Retelling by Larssen, Bjørn
    Bjn Larssen

    Why Odin Drinks: Humorous Norse Mythology Retelling

    'A delightfully quirky satire I didn't know I needed.' - Jenny Lawson, NYT bestselling author of Broken (In the Best Possible Way)'Funny, quirky and surreal, this is the Norse Myth you've been craving' - Joanne Harris, NYT bestselling author of The Gospel of LokiPoor...
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  • David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    David Copperfield

    Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising...
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  • Brave New Worlds by Adams, John Joseph
    John Joseph Adams

    Brave New Worlds

    Brave New Worlds collects the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today's most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Ken Liu, Shirley, Jackson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. What happens when civilization...
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  • Then We Came to the End by Ferris, Joshua
    Joshua Ferris

    Then We Came to the End

    Winner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is "as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent." (TIME) No one knows us in quite the same way as...
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  • The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by Saunders, George
    George Saunders

    The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it can only accommodate...
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  • The Girl in Green by Miller, Derek B.
    Derek B. Miller

    The Girl in Green

    From the award-winning author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before. 1991: One hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British...
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  • My Uncle Napoleon by Pezeshkzad, Iraj
    Iraj Pezeshkzad

    My Uncle Napoleon

    The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century "God forbid, I've fallen in love with Layli " So begins the farce of our narrator's life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon....
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  • Beautiful You by Palahniuk, Chuck
    Chuck Palahniuk

    Beautiful You

    Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm. She has an apartment, but no love life. When C. Linus Maxwell, a mega-billionaire and international playboy, invites her to dinner and then whisks her off to a hotel in Paris, where...
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  • Encyclopaedia of Hell II: The Conquest of Heaven a Demonic History of the Future Concerning the Celestial Realm and the Angelic Race Which Infes by Olson, Martin
    Martin Olson

    Encyclopaedia of Hell II: The Conquest of Heaven a Demonic History of the Future Concerning the Celestial Realm and the Angelic Race Which Infes

    Evil Readers, as ye partake of Encyclopaedia of Hell, rejoice! The hateful sequel written by Satan has arrived! After Hell's army conquers Insignificant Earth and devours the human race in a celebratory feast, Lord Satan reveals that he will now journey deep into the...
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