Satire

Adult Fiction - Satire

Updated August 3, 2023
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The mutual friend : a novel
Bays, Carter
Paper Book
" From the co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, a hilarious and thought-provoking debut novel set in New York City, following a sprawling cast of characters as they navigate life, love, loss, ambition, and spirituality--without ever looking up from their phones. ...
Spoonbenders
Gregory, Daryl
Paper Book
A NEBULA AWARD FINALIST ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Hilarious, heartfelt and brimming with humanity." --Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady...
Bad monkey
Hiaasen, Carl.
Audiobook
Andrew Yancy--late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office--has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon...
Mrs. Queen takes the train : a novel
Kuhn, William M.
Audiobook
An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn-author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books-Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of...
Confessions of a domestic failure
Laditan, Bunmi
Paper Book
There are good moms and bad moms -- and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect, Facebook-fantastic and Instagram-impressive mommies but failing miserably.
Tell me how this ends well : a novel
Levinson, David
Ebook
Why is tonight different from all other nights? Tonight we kill dad.   In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their...
I think I love you
Pearson, Allison
Paper Book
Every generation had its teen idol and in the 1970s it was David Cassidy - and I Think I Love You is the song that sent millions of teenage girls into a swoon. 1974, Wales. Thirteen-year-old Petra and her best friend, Sharon, are madly in love with David Cassidy and obsessed with The Ultimate David...
The impossible fortress : a novel
Rekulak, Jason
Paper Book
*MOST ANTICIPATED NOVELS OF 2017 SELECTION BY * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * BUSTLE * "A sweet, funny, and moving tribute to nerds and misfits everywhere." --Seth Grahame-Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Slaughterhouse-five : or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death
Vonnegut, Kurt.
Paper Book
Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is "a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century" (Time). Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time * One of The Atlantic's...
Break in case of emergency
Winter, Jessica
Paper Book
"A funny and moving commentary on that point in a woman's life when everything seems to come into question." --Camille Perri, The New York Times "It's the superb insights and penetrating writing that make this book remarkable... An extraordinary debut." --The...

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