Humorous fiction Books

Ever wonder what it would be like to be inside the brain of a ridiculous cartoonist? Explore into subject matter like who is God? Why do things happen? What's a molecule's favorite game? What reality might be like in alternate universes? Poke fun at...

A collection of poems to suit every imagination, everything from nature antics to life as a baby to an aging adult to the end of time. Adventures of all seasons, winter, spring, summer and fall, will keep you amused, make you cry, shake your head and...

Vanity Fare is a charming romantic comedyof food, family, literature, and romance in which a 40-year-old newly single Brooklyn mother embarks on a culinary writing career and finds herself at the center of a deliciously tempting love triangle.Molly...

The School Candidates: A Prosaic Burlesque is a satirical novel written by Henry Clarke in 1877. The book is a humorous take on the political process of electing school board candidates in a small town. The story follows a group of candidates as they...

""Satire del Cavalier Dotti, Parte 1"" ����� un libro di satira scritto da Bartolomeo Dotti nel 1757. Il libro ����� diviso in sei parti e contiene una serie di racconti satirici che prendono di mira la societ������ italiana del XVIII secolo. Dotti...

South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society.

Bishop returns, and this time its personal.When Bishop’s former mentor threatens to instigate a nuclear war, the MI6 agent dives headlong into a deeply personal mission where nothing is quite what it seems.Racing across China with enemy hounds...

Paul isn't dead. He just meditated so much that he ascended to a new plane of consciousness. Isn't that what spiritual retreats are for? Linda's job just got harder. Not only does she need to figure out how this pain in the arse died, she...

A fun book about hotel life in AustraliaBruce is a city boy who found a new home as a trainee property manager at Boolaroo sheep station in the far west of New South Wales, near a town called Enngonia. Returning to Bondi for a weeks holiday, Bruce...

The summer of 2010-11 was Perth's driest for a century. The city's reservoirs were down to the mud and the ground water aquifers were being pumped for all they could give. Toiling away in the State archives, Comrade Oldie discovers some rather disturbing...

A fun book about bush life in AustraliaThis book, The Adventures of a Jackeroo, is set in the early 1950's when bush life in Australia was a bit rougher than it is today. It will carry you along with Bruce from Bondi, a city boy who decides to become a...

One jaded Rose is a light-hearted caper, the first in the series written by James Byron Books. Rose needed a plus-one, but not for the usual wedding or party. She was going to a funeral and needed a quiet, unassuming type, but when Nic Thorn arrived, he...

The United States and its Freedom Coalition allies are conducting serial invasions across the globe, including an attack on the anti-capitalist rebels of Northern California. The Middle East--now a single consumerist Caliphate led by Lebanese pop singer...

Freedom's fifteen minutes are over!Software pirates! Mostly extinct dinosaurs! Giant barbarians! Crooning criminals! Captain Freedom's beat them all, saved the world, and looked fantastic doing it--but he couldn't fend off middle management. The...

A wicked comedy about the perils of making your dreams come trueQuirky, clever, cubicle-bound Jennifer Johnson is desperate. Everyone around her is getting married, while she's still single and stuck writing ad copy about men's dress socks.Her life hits...

New York career woman Stacey Knight marries James Makepeace just as she learns he's been offered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to run a major Hollywood studio. There's one catch: they must relocate to Los Angeles. Will Stacey be lost in translation,...

From the moment Emma Sutton walks into the FitzCoopers auction house, the disgraced media darling knows exactly what she wants: an antique dining table. What she gets is a chance to set things right. Fresh from a yearlong stretch in prison, Emma finds...

"Entirely satisfying, an expert balance of warmth and compassion, terrific supporting characters, a little steamy sex, and just enough suspense to keep you from guessing how it will all go down." -- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA sassy, sexy, sometimes...

"Tasty. . . . [Andrews is] the queen of sass, and revenge is her favorite ingredient." -- Daytona Beach News-JournalBattling TV chefs find themselves competing for a coveted weekly time slot on national television in Mary Kay Andrews's delightful and...

"A sheer delight and will have readers laughing out loud by the second page." --Daytona Beach News-JournalSouthern manners, mint julips, cold-blooded larceny, and sweet revenge collide in this rollicking tale from the delightfully charming New York Times...

Molly, a happy-go-lucky photographer, is thrilled when she wins an all-expenses paid vacation to Mauritius. Bursting with excitement, she packs her camera and a few colourful bikinis and can't wait to have some fun in the sun.But things don’t...

This is the original Gĩkũyũ version of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's satirical novel Mũrogi wa Kagogo, published in English as Wizard of the Crow . The novel gives a surgical examination of the cult of dictatorship in Africa. The story is set in the imaginary Free...

Namisa and its sister island of Pundar are the setting for A Traveller's Guide to Namisa. Namisa is difficult to find on a map and problematic to Google, but when readers get there, they will have the time of their lives, reading about Namisa's weird...

Nina is happily married to Gael, until his recently published book rouses the ire of a not-quite-there critic, Howard, intent on becoming the mover and shaker of London's literary circles. Howard seduces Nina, while Howard's wife Elizabeth becomes...

El deshollinador es un personaje que pulula por los tejados de París en una época de renacimiento intelectual que tiene como epicentro el mayo francés del 1968. Es testigo de las conversaciones más interesantes de nuestra época. De chimenea en chimenea...

Did you know that, in the Spring of 1940, the once famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald was recruited by an agent of the French Resistance to assassinate the premier of Vichy, France? Fitzgerald had hijacked the "Jazz Age" and made it his own in the Roaring...

Wokeness.In a bygone decade it was known as political correctness. A 20th Century prophet coined the term newspeak. What is, isn't; and what isn't, is. A societal game of make-believe, where participants walk on egg shells, and self-censor in hushed...

Serena Young travels the world daily, teaching English online from her living room table to people in every corner of the globe. But when the laptop is off, her universe shrinks to her bare-bones apartment and a pair of toothy hamsters. And the men...

Det är inte givet att valet av en viss koncernchef är det bästa valet. Även om han eller hon lyckas, så får man aldrig svaret på om någon annan person skulle ha lyckats bättre. Herman Long råkar, av misstag, hamna på posten som koncernchef. Han har inte...

I en inte alldeles för ovanlig stad får två inte helt ovanliga män en idé. De ska starta en detektivbyrå. Med god vilja och stor energi tar de sig an uppgiften, men inte allt går riktigt som de tror.

Hvad jeg dog ikke har måtte lægge ører til de seneste år. De fleste af fraserne nedfældet også i denne rulle er sætninger, som ofte faktisk har været adresseret til mig. Jeg noterede dem blot som en form for bevisførelse. Helt til grin. Venskaber står...

Schmunzel-Weihnachtsgeschichte für Erwachsene.Wie viele Türchen hat ein Lockdown-Kalender?, wollte die alleinerziehende Mutter Maria vom Weihnachtsmann erfragen, doch dessen Wunschzettelgruppe war im Frühlingsurlaub stumm geschaltet.Nun in der...

Als Schnapsidee im ersten Corona-Lockdown entstanden, wurde der "Sinnlos-Märchen Podcast" des sächsischen Privatradiosenders Radio PSR schnell zu einem großen Publikumserfolg. Mehr als eine Million Hörer amüsierten sich bereits über die komplett...

Ein neuer Welpe ist bereits eine Herausforderung, aber mit Bella und Elvis kommen gleich zwei junge Hunde ins Haus. Der erst kürzlich verstorbene Hund der Familie hält glücklicherweise seine schützende Pfote über die kleinen Kurzschnauzen. Mit einem...

Tod ist das Ende, Tod ist das Aus - das konsequent zu Ende denken: Dann gibt es nur Leben! Das Leben mit Anfang und Ende, das begrenzte Leben, welches Urgrund der menschlichen Solidarität ist, weil nur die Sterblichkeit allen Menschen eigen ist. Das...

Die sagenhaften Begegnungen im Alltag Reisender: Humorvoll bis satirisch, manchmal auch nachdenklich, denn die schönsten Geschichten passieren im wahren Leben!Und genau diese Erfahrung machen auch die Protagonisten in den sehr abwechslungsreichen...

2029A.D. Nachdem George W. Tell dank einer Volksinitiative zum ersten demokratisch gewählten Präsidenten der Schweiz gewählt wird, möchte er das Land verändern, es vorwärts bringen und die Ruinen der Vergangenheit begraben. Er verlegt die...

Zu viel Nachdenken kann schädlich sein - oder warum man ab und zu den Glauben in die Unvernunft verlieren sollte: Der Protagonist hat sein Nachdenken institutionalisiert und sich an seinem Küchenfenster ein eigenes Universum errichtet. Doch bei aller...