Satire
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One Potato
$17.99 Add to cartAn 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 mys
- Author: McMahon, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1684427827
- Language: English
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Lump
$18.99 Read moreA dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.
Cat’s career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home
- Author: Whitlock, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1459751280
- Language: English
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The Lobster Heist
$14.94 Add to cartSometimes, you’ve just got to get the lobster.
Apart from his thankless job at Hot Dawgy Dawgs, Brooklyn’s best and worst hot dog joint, twenty-something Josh Cantillo doesn’t have much going on in his
- Author: McLaughlin, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: August 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1954158211
- Language: English
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Less
$39.00 Add to cartA struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of “arresting lyricism and beauty” (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF TH… [more below]
- Series: The Arthur Less Books #1
- Author: Greer, Andrew Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 0316529109
- Language: English
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Blueprints of the Afterlife
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the “wickedly talented” (Boston Globe) and “darkly funny” (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force.
It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is- Author: Boudinot, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0802170919
- Language: English
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The First Men in the Moon
$5.00 Read moreOf the enormous body of work produced by H. G. Wells — more than a book a year over the course of half a century — the early science fiction novels that first made him famous have proved to be the m
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: December 18 2000
- ISBN10: 486414183
- Language: English
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The Nanny Diaries
$24.00 Add to cartWritten by two former nannies, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, The Nanny Diaries deftly punctures the glamour of Manhattan’s upper class.
Now a major motion picture starring Scarlett Johansson and L- Author: McLaughlin, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0312291639
- Language: English
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Blue Angel
$17.99 Add to cartThe National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose–now the major motion picture Submission
“Screamingly funny … Blue Angel culminates in a sexual haras
- Author: Prose, Francine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0060882034
- Language: English
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The Rebel Angels
$21.99 Add to cartThe first book in the acclaimed Cornish Trilogy. “[A] darkly funny scuttle through academe’s more covert passageway . . . saucy stuff indeed.”–Kirkus Reviews
Davies weaves together the destinies of- Series: Cornish Trilogy #1
- Author: Davies, Robertson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 467
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0795352557
- Language: English
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The Best of the Bonnet
$21.95 Read moreSince its debut, the internet’s most trusted source for Mennonite satire has drawn the attention of everyone from the Canadian Prairies to the high-rises of New York, keeping readers laughing with hun
- Author: Unger, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0888017391
- Language: English
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
$15.99 Read moreNOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE
Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful o
WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 WOMEN’S PRIZE
- Author: Braithwaite, Oyinkan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1432873040
- Language: English
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Juice!
$14.95 Add to cartA lament for the death of print media, the growth of the corporation, and the process of growing old, Juice! serves as a tragi-comedy chronicling the increased anxieties of “post-race” America.
In 201
- Series: American Literature
- Author: Reed, Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1564786374
- Language: English
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Holy Cow
$18.00 Add to cartA rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won’t soon forget
Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that–her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, a- Author: Duchovny, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535906
- Language: English
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Generosity: An Enhancement
$23.99 Add to cartWhat will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and magical, Generosity celebrates both s… [more below]
- Author: Powers, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429754
- Language: English
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Make Russia Great Again
$17.00 Add to cartIn “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–Dona… [more below]
- Author: Buckley, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 198215747X
- Language: English
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Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet
$15.00 Add to cartAn Italian journalist gets wrapped up in the criminality and cultural controversies of modern Turin in this “very funny” satirical novel (The New York Times).
It’s October 2006. The northern Italian t- Author: Lakhous, Amara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1609451880
- Language: English
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Ryder
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.
Told as through a kaleidoscope, t
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barnes, Djuna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1628974982
- Language: English
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The Girl in Green
$18.99 Add to cartFrom 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,
- Author: Miller, Derek B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745503
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s the History of England: Writings from Her Youth
$9.95 Read moreThe author of one of the greatest romance novels of all time, Pride and Prejudice, takes her readers on a satiric tour through England’s history, mercilessly exploiting the comedic potential of human … [more below]
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851400
- Language: English
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Red Pyramid: Selected Stories
$18.95 Add to cartExtended comic turns like The Queue and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like Ice Trilogy have established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorok… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378205
- Language: English
