Satire

Mark Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us....

Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation - a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson....

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness....

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him....

When a listless office employee (the narrator) meets Tyler Durden, his life begins to take on a strange new dimension....

Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions....

You are a failed novelist about to turn 50. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: Your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else....

The host of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight offers a blistering critique of the new American ruling class, the elites of both parties, who have taken over the ship of state....

Large chests are said to encompass all manner of hopes and dreams. Men covet them. Women envy them. But one fact holds true - everyone wants to get their hands on some big ones....

After the great success of his autobiography, Paddle Your Own Canoe, Offerman now focuses on the lives of those who inspired him....

The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication....

Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead....

The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey....

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents....

Call it superstition, but when a guy bats as hot as Brooks Elliott, you don’t mess with what’s working - him keeping his pants zipped and doing all of his scoring on the field. I hear he’s planning to ditch his V-card now that he’s been traded to my home team and plan to stop him....

This is a witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire for a better quality of life leads them to rob and ransom priceless artwork....

Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron and student of eternal optimist Pangloss, is living a simple and sheltered life in "the best of all possible worlds"....

This is a bundle of Reindeer Falls Books 4, 5, and 6....

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: 23 of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales....

Vainqueur Knightsbane is your average dragon: A giant, fire-breathing lizard who loves to take naps on his golden hoard, kidnap princesses for fun, and make the life of adventurers miserable. Vainqueur's only pleasure in life is to watch his treasure get bigger, one coin at a time....

Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus....

A compilation of funny, irreverently reverent stories on aligning with the Divine in daily life. For the passionately spiritual and bemusedly skeptical alike....

Professional heroes kill and loot deadly monsters every day, but Gorm Ingerson's latest quest will be anything but business as usual....

A crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful start-up where nothing is as it seems....

Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death....

Lady Miss Jacqueline swears that hair makes a difference. And it does! Now Janet is taking charge on the job and making moves on a local barista she’s always shied away from....

In this blazingly smart and voracious debut, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog....

In this dramatic comedy, Parks and Recreation and Good Girls star Retta brings humor and strength to her role as the unforgettable Tinaca Jones 

Set in the 26th century A.D., Yevgeny Zamyatin's masterpiece describes life under the regimented totalitarian society of OneState....

After her latest life-altering wig switch, Janet slips into leather leggings, quits her job, goes full advance on her barista crush, and makes a career commitment to her bestie, Candace. The follow-through? Not pretty....

A hilarious satire of today's media wars set in 1773 Boston. A conservative newspaper printer and a feisty American prostitute use their unique skills to uncover government corruption and scandals in colonial Massachusetts in the hopes of igniting an American Revolution. 

Swan Songs follows hip-hop visionary Leonard Swanson as he works, quits, signs on, and travels the country, playing in small capacity venues for even smaller capacity audiences, for which he gets paid in booze, drugs and a night on a bedbug-ridden mattress somebody dragged in from the street, all the while making the album he thinks will change hip-hop forever.

Julian Barnes pens a kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar’s search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert and the obsession of this detective, whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert’s characters. 

Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished by the luminaries who make up this star-studded world above us. James Musgrave’s collection of 11 stories, in many ways, addresses the theme of “star power”, but in a way that satirizes the stereotypical “Hollywood endings” in very unique and literary ways.

Smitty Lamortea comes from a long line of serial killers, and all he wants in life is to find a nice girl to brainwash into becoming his significant other, so he can finally appease his tyrannical mother and continue the murderous trend for another generation, just like nature intended. This family satire is a cautious parable that poses humanity’s beastly desire to kill and eat meat against the infinite moral landscape of creation by dissecting the meaning of the forbidden fruit into a vegetarian nightmare. 

In this comedy, heaven, hell, and earth collide as Mephistopheles and his assistant JR attempt to outmaneuver an obsessed angel, a power-hungry devil, and a vindictive employee, all while entertaining old friends, new friends, and a would-be assassin. 

An allegory like Alice and Oz, Draxfort is both a castle and a dynasty, rotten to the core. A tale of many tales, it lampoons fairy stories, the fantasy genre and our obsession with brands and status. Set in the early 15th century, plague ravages Europe and the orphaned Wixy quintuplet sisters flee Florence’s witch hunters, escaping to Draxenland, an island in the North Sea. Rebicus Hargmond, son of an alchemist, along with blacksmith and inventor Jack Rojax and Kaitlyn de Belvort, daughter of Sir Justin, face a devious, scheming court, drowning in debt and vying for power.

Back in 1979, when Solomon Zuch and Delphyne Shea were in high school, they shared an intense, romantic liaison on Halloween night. It became one of Solomon's most treasured memories. Twenty years later, Solomon is the married manager of the All Hallows' Eve Shoppe, a pop-up store that reopens every year to sell Halloween supplies to customers in north Columbus, Ohio. Delphyne Shadow, as she is now popularly known, calls herself the Madonna of the Underworld, and every year she hosts the most infamous Halloween party in town, the Nightmare Bash.

The Labyrinth of the World is about a fellow named Pilgrim who treks through the world in order to find the best way to live, aided by two guides: Mr. Ubiquitous and Mr. Delusion. Pilgrim finds much to be concerned about in the world. Ultimately, he finds something he had not planned upon in his journey: The Paradise of the Heart. This original pilgrim allegory was penned 55 years before Pilgrim's Progress. Find out how an educator and theologian, with real-life experience, penned a profound story that is still contemporary today.

Evie Laurent grew up in the shadow of her perfect older sister, Luna. Since they were young girls, she’d always longed to be a part of Luna’s attractive social circle. Evie gets her wish later in life when she begins dating Kyle Turner, a friend of her sister’s. But Kyle is not just a grown-up version of the handsome boy he used to be. The new Kyle is secretive and controlling, going so far as trying to stop Evie from purchasing her dream home - a house that seems oddly familiar to her and Luna’s entire group of friends.