Satirical fiction and parodies Books

The sacred and the profane come together with visceral force in two novellas by Bruce Wagner,The Met Gala & Tales of Saints and Seekers.The Met Galafollows a prominent family of influencers and would-be philanthropic socialites in the Hollywood hills...

An epic novel that brings together a motley crew of characters, including porn stars in love, celebrity chore-whores, plotting dermatologists, masseurs, and shrinks, among many others cast in the debauchery of Hollywood.I'm Losing Youfollows the rich and...

Published to mixed reception, Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring is a controversial take on the realities of Black life in the shadow of a cultural boom. "'...you're right. I was frightened. After all I had never seen a Negro before in my life, that...

Arnold Palmer has just died and The King of Video Poker is about to lose everything he loves.In Paolo Iacovelli's debut novel, we follow a nameless narrator. He is a normative, upper-middle-class American who commutes to Las Vegas to play high-stakes...

Jonas Williker is considered one of the most sadistic serial murderers of the modern era. This epistolary novel explores the aftermath of his arrest and the psychological trauma of those who lived through it.The Pennsylvania native brutalized his way...

The Bulgarian Training Manual is a comic novel that tells the story of Tina in her quest to find her true parents and jeans that fit.With the help of a mysterious book with magical powers, Tina makes her way from her waterlogged apartment in Hoboken, New...

Death Row Restaurant is a debut satire novel about a disenchanted flight attendant searching for "authentic experiences" who instead finds an unexpected opportunity running a restaurant staffed by serial killers.Flight attendant, Dave Aslin, circles the...

The Next Great Rock and Roll NovelOn a September afternoon in Santa Barbara, a private jet carrying the members of Poor Ghost-one of America's most storied rock bands-plunges into the backyard of Caleb Crane, a retired insurance salesman. Still mourning...

"Mr. Melvin Levin, I'm going to kill you."The Threattells the darkly comic story of Melvin Levin, a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull andmediocre life. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Terrified at first,...

A farcical biography of Ulysses S. Grant,You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grantis a history lesson disguised as an uproarious novel. Spanning from Grant's birth until his victory over the Confederacy,You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grantgives us an honest-warts and...

In 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 toKill the Rich.The year is 2038, America's new President won...

Bridget Jones's Diary meets Douglas Coupland's Microserfs Supremacy Software is the world's largest video-game developer and publisher. They're the shining light, a dream job for many aspiring game developers.Who Hunts the Whale? tells the story...

Mike Kovacs is an economics professor who's trying to get over a bitter divorce. He's barely on speaking terms with his only child. And he's just killed two bicyclists in an inebriated hit-and-run at a deserted Michigan beach. (In his defense, he hadn't...

"A writer contends with slavery's legacy, and his own link to it . . . Daring in both scope and imagination."-The New York TimesA stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica...

From Man Booker International Prize finalist Josip Novakovich comes a satiric novel with teeth-a tale of Russia in the early aughts, perfect for fans of Dostoevsky and Gary Shteyngart.In this picaresque novel set in the early 2000s, David, an investment...

Not unlike his literary forebearers Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover, Damian Dressick brings us a crackling series of dispatches fresh from the postmodernist front.This daring gathering of brief, innovative stories tantalizes the intellect nearly as...

A Darkly Humorous Collection of Cartoons Rejected by The New Yorker

It is 1989 and a seemingly invincible Prime Minister has sacked Geoffrey Howe, her Foreign Secretary. She apparently had nothing to fear from him: his speaking skills had, famously, been compared to those of a dead sheep. But, a year later, inspired by...

Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself...

Never before available in the United States, Robert Aickman's bizarre and timeless masterpiece!Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before published in the US and not widely in the UK, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasy...

An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she's had sex with her thirty-something teacher. A hose pumping...

How to Build a Girl meets Fleabag in this sparkling novel about coming of age and the agony of modern relationshipsMeet Tabitha Gray, a delusional girl from Topanga, California, who redefines what it means to be a truly hopeless romantic. Tabby suffers...

First (authorised) publication (in any language) of a wildly popular, anonymously written serial novel that started life as a blog during the US invasion of IraqPopulated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans - as well...

Ann Quin's wildest, funniest, freakiest, kinkiest, and best novel - a road-trip novel, a graphic novel, a spy novel, a Beat novel, an anti-novel - is available again, to inspire a new generation of mavericks.First published in 1972, Ann Quin's fourth and...

Megan Chernoff is a talented but unemployed copywriter in an identity crisis after the birth of her second child. Seeking a fresh start, she and her family move to New York City, where she meets Daphne Cole - a gorgeous, stylish, well-known mom fluencer...

Relevant Subject Matter:One Potato's darkly funny approach to timely topics of neocolonialism and anxiety about GMOs-topics mostly left to nonfiction-makes this a unique and important take on climate fiction. Compelling Characters: Vivid and...

*Named a Best SFF Book of 2022 by Book Riot*They're underemployed. Underpaid. And trying to survive the end of the world while trapped inside an office complex. Who knew temp work could be this dangerous? Jacob Elliot doesn't want a temporary job in the...

A suspenseful tale of university sophomores struggling to come to terms with their individual and collective identities.

Fowl Eulogiesis an absurd fairy tale for the ethical carnivore, fiction of perfect madness, of brutal and unprecedented humour. From the meadow to the supermarket, this dazzling first novel of mischief and feathers, brings to life the singular poetry of...

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldlymaking their way into the village. In Dichtersruhe, an insular yet charming havenstifled by the Swiss mountains, these omens go unnoticed by all but the new parishpriest. The...

A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.Last November, I found a dead body inside the freezer that my roommate keeps inside the garage. My first thought was to call the police, but Jignesh hadn't paid his share of the rent just yet. It...

A 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 baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town...

From the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale of...

A Gogolian nightmare from the point of view of a small-town English professor.The Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey is a kind of post-modern May-December black comedy about the 60ish, cancer-stricken Oxford educated, Irish English literature professor,...

Evil Readers, as ye partake of Encyclopaedia of Hell, rejoice! The hateful sequel written by Satan has arrived! After Hell's army conquers Insignificant Earth and devours the human race in a celebratory feast, Lord Satan reveals that he will now journey...

"Lauren Baratz-Logsted has mastered the real life fairy tale in her explosive and hilarious Falling for Prince Charles. It's all here, lovelorn Daisy Silverman flush with cash and high hopes, Prince Charles who can't resist her, and London in all its...

Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim deconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire.Frank Exit is dead-or is he? While eavesdropping on two women...

Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Tron, via The Office, in this boldly dystopian novelThe agents don't know what they're agents of, but they're very busy agenting, which means watching endless data feeds in their cubicles, cubicles that are piled one on top of...

The Anti-Pamela: Or, Feign'd Innocence Detected (1741) is a novel by Eliza Haywood. Blending tragedy and comedy, Haywood explores the intersection of gender and class to reveal how women perform and experience desire. Written in response to Samuel...

A Man in the Zoo (1924) is a novel by David Garnett. Published several years after Garnett was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize for Lady into Fox (1922), his third novel explores themes of race and empire while...

The Great American Novel (1923) is an experimental novel by William Carlos Williams. Although he is predominately known as a poet, Williams frequently pushed the limits of prose style throughout his career. In the defining decade of Modernism, Williams...

The Disturbing Charm (1919) is a romance novel by Berta Ruck. After a decade of publishing stories in literary magazines, Ruck began releasing romance novels to popular acclaim. The Disturbing Charm is a satirical tale of love, fantasy, and modern life...

His Official Fiance (1914) is a romance novel by Berta Ruck. After a decade of publishing stories in literary magazines, Ruck released her first novel to popular acclaim. Adapted for a 1919 silent comedy film starring Vivian Martin and Forrest Stanley,...

The Headswoman (1898) is a story by Kenneth Grahame. Although less popular than The Wind in the Willows (1908), which would go on to become not only a defining work of Edwardian English literature, but one of the most popular works of children's fiction...

"Cridge ridicules the cult of domesticity by exposing its contradictions, made especially glaring when enacted by men." Carol Farley KesslerMan's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? (1870) is a feminist utopian novel by Annie Denton Cridge. Written during...

Though she is an orphan, Cecilia Beverly is an heiress to a small fortune, which she may keep under the stipulation from her uncle that when Cecilia marries, she will keep her Beverly name, asking her future husband to adopt it as well. After she leaves...

True History (2nd century C.E.) is a satirical novel by Lucian. Written in ancient Greek, True History is thought to be the first work of science fiction in all of Western literature. Intended as a criticism of the unbelievable scenarios populating...

"I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape." T.S. EliotUlysses depicts a day in Leopold Bloom's life, broken into episodes...