Satire
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Antuna’s Story
$14.99 Add to cartImagine yourself sucked through a wormhole.
Could you thrive on a far-off planet?
You’ll love Antuna’s Story because she knows the secret to survival.
Antuna understands her multi-insect colony must wor
- Series: The Antunite Chronicles #1
- Author: Birdgenaw, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1778151604
- Language: English
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Heretics Anonymous
$13.99 Add to cartA New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
Put an atheist in a strict Catholic school? Expect comedy, chaos, and an Inquisition. The Breakfast Club meets Saved in debut author Katie Henry’s hila
- Author: Henry, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0062698885
- Language: English
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Office Politics
$19.00 Add to cart“A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim.” –Elaine Dundy
Ever since college, George Wren has dreamed of working at The Outsider, the prestigious weekly edited by his- Series: McNally Editions
- Author: Sheed, Wilfrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1961341182
- Language: English
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Let Me Liberate You
$16.99 Read moreA restless New York artist searching for purpose returns to Barbados and stumbles into the role of activist in this scathingly funny and brilliantly observed satire about privilege, family discord, an
- Author: Davis, Andie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1662518412
- Language: English
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The Grip of Film
$12.95 Add to cartYou SLUG the guy.
That’s movies. And I love ’em. Gordy LaSure’s passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he’ll even watch a film. B
You KISS the dame.
You TOTAL the car.- Author: Ayoade, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0571316565
- Language: English
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Gideon Green in Black and White
$15.99 Add to cartTruly Devious meets Turtles All the Way Down in critically acclaimed author Katie Henry’s YA contemporary comedic mystery, a hilarious send-up of the hardboiled detective genre that spotlights family,
- Author: Henry, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0062955748
- Language: English
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Shriver
$19.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture A Little White Lie starring Michael Shannon and Kate Hudson!
In this charming, clever, and darkly satiric novel set at a writers’ conference, one man finds himself ca- Author: Belden, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1501119397
- Language: English
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Portuguese Irregular Verbs
$16.00 Add to cartWelcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he feels c… [more below]
- Series: Professor Dr Von Igelfeld #1
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 1400077087
- Language: English
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The Maltese Iguana
$34.00 Add to cartSerge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the “wickedly funny” (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey.
After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully
- Series: Serge Storms #26
- Author: Dorsey, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0063297264
- Language: English
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Goddess
$17.99 Read moreAn entrancing novel about a wellness retreat on a remote Greek island hosted by a celebrity guru who is more than meets the eye.
On a flight to New York at the end of her first book tour, up-and-comin
- Author: Hemming, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1487011113
- Language: English
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Derroche / Splurge
$19.95 Read more«Hay una notable precisi?n verbal y conceptual en los textos de Mar?a Sonia Cristoff. La justeza infalible que encuentran las palabras, tanto en sus cr?nicas como en sus novelas, parece suscitad… [more below]
- Series: Mapa de Las Lenguas
- Author: Cristoff, Mar?a Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 843974224X
- Language: Spanish
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Secret Rendezvous
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital…. [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375726543
- Language: English
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Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love
$25.95 Read moreA campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.
Last November, I found a dead body inside the freezer that my roommate keeps inside the garage. My first thought was to call the police, but Jign
- Author: Allende, Carlos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1636280358
- Language: English
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Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition): Bilingual Edition
$18.00 Add to cartThe 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 polyglo- Author: Lakhous, Amara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1609457226
- Language: English
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
$24.95 Add to cartFrom Mordecai Richler, one of our greatest satirists, comes one of literature’s most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz — in a novel that belongs in the pantheon of seminal twentieth century books…. [more below]
- Author: Richler, Mordecai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0671028472
- Language: English
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The Financial Lives of the Poets
$18.99 Add to cart“Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on.” — Los Angeles Times
Named one of the year’s best novels by: Time – Salon.com – Los Angeles Times – NPR/Fresh Air – New West – Kansas City
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Walter, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0061916056
- Language: English
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Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free A.D. 1933-1940
$18.99 Add to cartWhat would happen if science gave Black Americans the choice to become white? Mirroring Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange a
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1513138596
- Language: English
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The Temps
$15.99 Add to cart*Named a Best SFF Book of 2022 by Book Riot*
They’re underemployed. Underpaid. And trying to survive the end of the world while trapped inside an office complex. Who knew temp work could be this danger
- Author: DeYoung, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1684427606
- Language: English
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Pnin
$28.00 Add to cartOne of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his f… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: April 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400041988
- Language: English
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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
$29.95 Add to cartMaqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Mutis, Alvaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0940322919
- Language: English
