Satire
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The Road Through the Wall
$16.00 Add to cartThe 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 coun- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107054
- Language: English
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Vernon Subutex 1
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex–short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for
- Series: Vernon Subutex #1
- Author: Despentes, Virginie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0374283249
- Language: English
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The Survivalists
$17.95 Add to cartA Phenomenal Book Club Pick
“A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to such great lengths to prepar- Author: Cauley, Kashana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767595
- Language: English
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Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition
$22.00 Add to cartA gorgeously produced, bilingual edition of Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer’s canonical story–one of the most influential of the 20th century–about a hapless yet charmingly resilient bake
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1632060388
- Language: English
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The Wandering Jew of St. Salacious
$17.95 Add to cartWhat happens when you drop an agnostic Jewish surgeon in a century-old Catholic hospital, where the doctor meets dogma and falls for the CEO? A nun, for God’s sake.
Dr. Martin Fischer, a white-coated Q
- Author: Turker, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: March 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987572900
- Language: English
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Sterling Karat Gold
$16.00 Read moreLike Franz Kafka’s The Trial for the post-truth era, at once “surreal, polemical, and fun” (The Telegraph).
Sterling Beckenbauer is plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world one morning when the- Author: Waidner, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452138
- Language: English
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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
$19.00 Add to cartThe page-turning first novel in the charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian series about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice. – “The spot-on work of a talented writer.” –… [more below]
- Series: Johannes Cabal #1
- Author: Howard, Jonathan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0767930762
- Language: English
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Crying of Lot 49
$30.00 Add to cartOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels
“The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”–New York Times
Thomas Pynchon’s highly original, postmodernist classic, a satire of American life a
- Author: Pynchon, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0063289520
- Language: English
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Closing Time: The Sequel to Catch-22
$21.00 Add to cartA 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- Author: Heller, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0684804506
- Language: English
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Kind of a Big Deal
$12.99 Add to cart“So many strange and wonderful things happen at every twist and turn, you’ll be happy to wander with Josie . . . Each book she descends into seems to teach her something, and even if it’s not obvious
- Author: Hale, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250206251
- Language: English
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The Fur Hat
$11.95 Add to cartIn this satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-published novelist, Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers’ Union is giving fur hats to its members based on their importance, and that he rates onl… [more below]
- Author: Voinovich, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: March 28 1991
- ISBN10: 0156340305
- Language: English
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Fowl Eulogies
$17.99 Add to cart“A quirky, moving novel propelled by love, grief, and violence.” ―Kirkus Reviews
Fowl Eulogies is an absurd fairy tale for the ethical carnivore, fiction of perfect madness, of brutal and unprece
- Author: Rico, Lucie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1642861316
- Language: English
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J R
$29.95 Add to cartA 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 ave- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1681374684
- Language: English
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A Star Is Bored
$18.99 Add to cart“A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender.”
“Wildly funny and irreverent… Lan
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six- Author: Lane, Byron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250266505
- Language: English
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Kill the Rich
$17.95 Add to cartIn this political satire-thriller, we follow a government official, an exiled influencer, and a burned-out delivery driver, living through a culture obsessed presidency that signs the policy to Kill t… [more below]
- Author: Allison, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1955904855
- Language: English
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For You and Only You: A Joe Goldberg Novel
$30.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes, whose acclaimed YOU series inspired the hit show on Netflix, follows “addictively charming antihero” (The Washington Post) Joe Goldberg to the hallow… [more below]
- Author: Kepnes, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0593678532
- Language: English
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Drama, Drinks and Double Faults: The Skinny about Tennis Fanatics That No One Has Had the Balls to Say . . . ‘Til Now!
$15.95 Add to cartAfter giving of yourself as a wife, mother, daughter and friend, there comes a time when it is necessary for us as women to do our own thing, and tennis has become that thing. Sometimes that thing can… [more below]
- Author: Moses, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 061596561X
- Language: English
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To Be or Not to Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
$23.00 Read moreFrom the bestelling author of Romeo and/or Juliet and How to Invent Everything, the greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure … [more below]
- Author: North, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0735212198
- Language: English
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A Clockwork Orange
$28.95 Read moreA Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago. A nightmare vision of the future told in its own fantastically inventive lexicon, it has si… [more below]
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0393089134
- Language: English
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Oblivion: Stories
$19.99 Add to cartIn 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. … [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0316010766
- Language: English
