Satire
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David Copperfield
$12.00 Add to cartHugely 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, heart… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783415
- Language: English
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Landscape with Invisible Hand
$8.99 Add to cart“Practically every word reflects a prescient, bitingly precise critique of contemporary human folly, of economic and environmental inequities and absurdities.” — The Horn Book (starred review)
Now a- Author: Anderson, M. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0763699500
- Language: English
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Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions
$13.00 Add to cartA “romance in many dimensions” that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory
A Penguin Classic A work that continues to pose provocative qu- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Abbott, Edwin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014043531X
- Language: English
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Lightning Rods
$16.95 Add to cartDescribed as “the most well-executed literary sex comedy” of our time by Salon.com, and “a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic” by Bookforum, Helen DeWitt’s Lighting Rods is a novel th… [more below]
- Author: DeWitt, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0811220346
- Language: English
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My Year Abroad
$17.00 Add to cartINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire “A manifesto to happiness–the one found when you stop running from who you a- Author: Lee, Chang-Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1594634580
- Language: English
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Company of Foos
$15.99 Add to cartCameron Murphy just landed the ultimate dream job. Unfortunately, working at one of the world’s largest tech companies is a bit of a nightmare. Now, stuck in the Pacific Northwest with his family in t
- Author: Davidson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798891450431
- Language: English
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Invisible Things
$19.00 Add to cartA sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial election, and a mysterious invisible force that must not be named, by one of our most imaginative comic novelists
LONGLISTED FOR- Author: Johnson, Mat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0593229274
- Language: English
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The Crying of Lot 49
$19.99 Add to cart“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.” — San Francisco Examiner
The Crying of Lot 49 is Thomas Pynchon’s highly original classic satire of modern America, about Oedipa Maas,
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062334417
- Language: English
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Submission
$19.00 Add to cartA 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 an- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1250097347
- Language: English
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Lobster Wars
$19.95 Add to cartLobster Wars is a tight, fast-paced social satire about what happens when reality TV comes to a small fishing village in Maine. The locals think they’re going to get famous and rich. But it’s never th
- Author: Greene, Mark E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638476
- Language: English
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Timequake
$19.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book from the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat’s Cradle.
At 2:27pm on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0425164349
- Language: English
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Jock Blocked
$21.32 Add to cartShe 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 hi
- Author: Grant, Pippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1940517850
- Language: English
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Seating Arrangements
$16.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize – The irresistible story of a summer New England wedding weekend gone awry–a deliciously biting satirical glimpse into the lives of th… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Shipstead, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0307743950
- Language: English
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Pnin
$17.00 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: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: June 18 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723412
- Language: English
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (Loa #216): Cat’s Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions
$45.00 Add to cartLike Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can b… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #2
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: June 02 2011
- ISBN10: 1598530984
- Language: English
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Patricia Wants to Cuddle
$27.00 Read moreOne of the Best Books of 2022
“A one-of-a-kind queer horror comedy for people who watch The Bachelor and The X-Files back-to-back
NPR – Them – Lit Hub – CrimeReads – Book Riot – Chicago Review of Books- Author: Allen, Samantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 163893004X
- Language: English
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The Groves of Academe
$23.95 Add to cartHenry Mulcahy, a literature instructor at progressive Jocelyn College, is informed that his appointment will not be continued. Convinced he is disliked by the president of Jocelyn because of his abili… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156027879
- Language: English
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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
$18.00 Add to cartA freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe.
- Author: Yamashita, Karen Tei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1566894859
- Language: English
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Oreo
$14.95 Add to cartOreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysteriou… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Fran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0811223221
- Language: English
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Fox 8: A Story
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a darkly comic short story about the unintended consequences unleashed by our quest to tame the natural world–featuring gorgeous… [more below]
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1984818023
- Language: English
