Satire
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Fool
$18.99 Add to cart“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.”
—Dallas Morning NewsFool–the bawdy and outrageous New York Times be
- Author: Moore, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0060590327
- Language: English
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Our Mutual Friend
$13.00 Add to cartCharles Dickens’s last complete novel and a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society
Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance – Old Harmon’s profitable dust heaps – and its legatee- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140434976
- Language: English
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Black Buck: A Read with Jenna Pick
$16.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
“Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing n
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize- Author: Askaripour, Mateo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0358627982
- Language: English
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Super Sad True Love Story
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years–and the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BO- Author: Shteyngart, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0812977866
- Language: English
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Pure Cosmos Club
$19.99 Add to cartIn this biting satire, Matthew Binder takes surreal aim at the poses and pretensions of high art and fashion. With ruthless wit, Binder chronicles the struggles of Paul, an eccentric artist, and his c… [more below]
- Author: Binder, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 173691281X
- Language: English
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Love Novel
$15.95 Read moreWinner of the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis – Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award – One of The Millions Most Anticipated Titles of 2024 – One of Kirkus Reviews‘ Twenty Books You Can Re
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #44
- Author: Sajko, Ivana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 6, 2024
- ISBN10: 1771965983
- Language: English
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Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella
$17.00 Add to cartSince its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the wa
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0812987683
- Language: English
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The Threat
$28.99 Add to cartDripping with voice, The Threat is a hilariously relatable story of self-doubt, aging, and frustration. Literary yet accessible, Stein’s story explores what happens when the only way you can live is b… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Nathaniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1684429692
- Language: English
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Rebelión En La Granja / Animal Farm
$13.95 Add to cartUn rotundo alegato a favor de la libertad y en contra el totalitarismo.
Esta s tira de la Revoluci n Rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derecho propio en un hito- Series: Contemporanea (Debolsillo)
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 8499890954
- Language: Spanish
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Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
$18.00 Add to cart“Some of the best and most moving Vonnegut.”–San Francisco Chronicle
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the Unit- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 11 1999
- ISBN10: 0385334230
- Language: English
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Cold Comfort Farm: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$18.00 Add to cart“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 wr- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Gibbons, Stella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039598
- Language: English
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The Recognitions
$29.95 Add to cartA 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 tha- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1681374668
- Language: English
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No One Left to Come Looking for You
$16.99 Add to cartA darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 1990s New York City.
Manhattan’s East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and ha- Author: Lipsyte, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1501146130
- Language: English
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
$17.00 Add to cartI Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America
I was, in life, to be a gambler, a ri- Author: Everett, Percival
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26, 2009
- ISBN10: 1555975275
- Language: English
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Exalted
$27.00 Read more“A brutally funny and observant ride through astrology culture, love, and self-discovery.” –NYLON’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022
“A depressed Millennial astrologist, a self-hating lesbian with a rag
- Author: Dorn, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: June 7, 2022
- ISBN10: 1951213483
- Language: English
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Black No More
$16.00 Add to cartThe landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”–for fans of the Oscar-nominated film American Fiction
A Penguin Classic It’s New Year’s Day 1933- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0143131885
- Language: English
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Mistletoe Malice
$15.95 Read moreA dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.
“Literary comfort and- Author: Farrell, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 0571378269
- Language: English
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The Shakespeare Requirement
$18.00 Add to cartA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly aw… [more below]
- Series: The Dear Committee Trilogy
- Author: Schumacher, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0525432612
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$14.99 Read moreA young woman comes of age and realizes that life is not a Gothic novel.
A timeless classic, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is both a coming-of-age story and a parody of the Gothic novels of the ninet- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 1, 2017
- ISBN10: 162686974X
- Language: English
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A Touch of Jen
$19.99 Add to cartA young couple’s toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, “bananas good” story (Carmen Maria Machado).
“Um, holy shit…This novel
- Author: Morgan, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670427X
- Language: English
