Satire
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Intemperance
$30.00 Add to cartIn this follow-up to the critically-acclaimed The Laughter–winner of the Washington State Book Award–a middle-aged woman starts a firestorm when she holds a contest, based on an ancient Indian ritua
- Author: Jha, Sonora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063440849
- Language: English
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Truth in Advertising
$16.99 Add to cart“A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture…A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing” (The Washington Post).
Finbar- Author: Kenney, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1451675550
- Language: English
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The Literati
$18.99 Add to cartAn unexpected catastrophe of literary proportions . . .
Aspirant, bookish, and close to broke, 26-year-old Clemi steps into her dream job at a prestigious literary nonprofit and finds herself in the bu
- Author: Coll, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1400346657
- Language: English
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Lolly Willowes: Or the Loving Huntsman
$14.99 Add to cartLaura Willowes, known as “Lolly” to her relatives, is an invisible woman. She lives with her father in the countryside, until his death leads her to move in with her brother and sister-in-law, who liv… [more below]
- Series: Herald Classics
- Author: Townsend Warner, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1454960116
- Language: English
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Victim
$18.00 Add to cartMOST ANTICIPATED: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, & MORE – There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about … [more below]
- Author: Boryga, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0593471261
- Language: English
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American Werewolves
$18.99 Add to cartAmerica’s venture capitalist werewolves meet their match in USA Today bestseller Emily Jane’s third rollicking, genre-defying novel.
“It takes aliens (or an Emily Jane) to help us see our society for- Author: Jane, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1368116035
- Language: English
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Rejection: Fiction
$18.99 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION – A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“A master comedian with a virtuoso prose style has produced an audacious, original and highly disturbing
- Author: Tulathimutte, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063337886
- Language: English
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Muscle Man
$27.00 Add to cartA hilarious, suspenseful metaphysical thriller following a day in the life of an English professor who would rather be lifting weights from the author of the cult hit The Novelist
Harold, a middling- Author: Castro, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1646222776
- Language: English
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Caledonian Road
$21.99 Add to cartCampbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and f?ted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public–yet he never imagined that a single year in L
- Author: O’Hagan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110945
- Language: English
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Julius Julius
$24.00 Add to cartWith biting wit, Aurora Stewart de Pe?a satirizes the creative industry she’s spent years in. From the people who brought you the invention of advertising comes Julius Julius, a rambling architectural… [more below]
- Author: Stewart de Peña, Aurora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0771015143
- Language: English
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The Babysitter at Rest
$16.95 Add to cart“I’m so happy this collection exists. I feel drunk with love for these stories. They’re so funny and weird and true.” –Sheila Heti
Five stories―several as long as novellas―introduce the- Author: George, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0997366621
- Language: English
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A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists
$19.99 Add to cartGrowing up under a dictatorship and the toil of academic life don’t seem like laughing matters, but the lighthearted stories in A Good Day and Other (Mostly) Humorous Stories and Lists find humour in … [more below]
- Author: Guiasu, Radu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 103919494X
- Language: English
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition
$30.00 Add to cartEndlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless wit
Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Sterne, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0241552664
- Language: English
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The War on Sarah Morris
$17.99 Add to cartONE DAY, YOU’RE A VALUED EMPLOYEE OF THE COMPANY … THE NEXT DAY, YOU’RE BEING PUSHED OUT THE DOOR.
What happens when your secure corporate job suddenly becomes precarious? Book editor Sarah Morris fi
- Author: Jones, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987482346
- Language: English
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The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey
$17.99 Add to cartA propulsive page-turning thriller following the hit reality TV show Garden State Goddesses where secrets are uncovered, intense rivalries surface, and a startling murder propels a producer on a rivet… [more below]
- Author: Dahl, Astrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 166806488X
- Language: English
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Comrade Papa
$18.95 Read moreA Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Fiction in Translation
International Booker-nominated satirist GauZ’ returns with a panoramic journey into the colonization of the African interior.
Mourning the rec
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #49
- Author: Gauz’
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966459
- Language: English
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Jennifer Government
$21.00 Add to cartA wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever.
“Funny and clever…. A kind of ad-world version of Dr. St- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Barry, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 1400030927
- Language: English
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Dis//Integration: 2 Novelas & 3 Stories & a Little Play
$17.00 Read moreAn odyssey through time in which past and future combine and re-combine to give the arc of a full life, by the “brilliant” (The New Yorker) author of A Different Drummer.
“[A] lost giant of American l- Author: Kelley, William Melvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469933
- Language: English
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Prez: Setting a Dangerous President
$16.99 Read moreIt’s 2046 and America has just elected its first teenage president! Previously selected as one of YALSA’s Top Ten Graphic Novels for Teens, DC’s critically acclaimed political satire Prez is in a new … [more below]
- Author: Russell, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1779528965
- Language: English
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Role Play
$16.00 Add to cartRole Play is a searing satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consciousness awakening.
Vivian is a curator, not just at her gallery gig in Rio de Janeiro, but in every- Author: Drummond, Clara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0374611289
- Language: English
