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Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

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Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not

Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello · 205 pages

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Redshirts

John Scalzi · 320 pages

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers. Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to realize that 1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, 2)

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How to Survive a Horror Movie

Seth Grahame-Smith · 175 pages

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The Last Hero

Terry Pratchett · 174 pages

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The Adventures of Captain Underpants

Dav Pilkey · 128 pages

When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.

Absurdist HumorParodyMiddle GradeSatire
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Mogworld

Yahtzee Croshaw · 336 pages

Jim, a dead former-magic student, has been wrenched from eternal slumber by an renegade necromancer. All he wants to do is die properly, once and for all, but the necromancer has other plans involving angry adventurers, an inept thief, shambling corpses, and a team of programmers.

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Go the Fuck to Sleep

Adam Mansbach · 32 pages

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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

David Sedaris · 192 pages

If animals were more like us, if mice kept pets and toads could cuss, if dogs had wives and chipmunks dated, sheep sat still and meditated, then in the forest, field, and dairy you might find this bestiary, read by storks, by rats and kitties, skimmed by cows with milk-stained titties. "I found the book to be most droll," might quip the bear, the owl, the mole. Others, though, would be more coarse

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Calvin and Hobbes

Bill Watterson · 127 pages

A collection of comic strips following the adventures of Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes.

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Quidditch Through the Ages

J.K. Rowling · 60 pages

A history of the sport Quidditch, answering such questions such as where the Golden Snitch came from, or why the Wigtown Wanterers have meat cleavers on their robes.

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The Willoughbys

Lois Lowry · 175 pages

La famille Willoughby est composée d'un père irascible, d'une mère paresseuse et froide et de quatre enfants : Timothy, douze ans, les jumeaux Barnaby, dix ans, et Jane, six ans et demi. Un jour, les enfants trouvent un bébé abandonné devant la porte de leur maison. Leur mère, qui déteste ses propres enfants, refuse évidemment de garder le nourrisson. Timothy et toute la fratrie décident alors de

ParodySatireDark ComedyMiddle Grade
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Roald Dahl · 176 pages

Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.

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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Max Brooks · 272 pages

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any t

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Pulp

Charles Bukowski · 192 pages

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on M

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Martians, Go Home

Fredric Brown · 189 pages

Martians, Go Home is a science fiction novel, written in 1955 by the American author, Fredric Brown. Written in a light-hearted style, it is a parody of the science-fiction genre. Lots of fun, much better than the movie.

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Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 302 pages

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum, Rich Bloomquist, Steve Bodow, Tim Carvell, Eric Drysdale, J.R. Havlan, Scott Jacobson, Tom Johnson, Rob Kutner, Chris Regan, Jason Reich, Jason Ross · 227 pages

Offers tongue-in-cheek insight into American democracy with coverage of such topics as the republican qualities of ancient Rome, the antics of our nation's founders, and the ludicrous nature of today's media.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen · 319 pages

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Fei

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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth

The Onion · 245 pages

A news-parody compendium of world non-facts features maps and incorrect statistics for all of the world's independent nations, from Afghanistan to the Ukraine, and includes the world's rejected flag designs and the planet's most annoying handicrafts.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Tom Stoppard · 126 pages

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of

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Discovering Scarfolk

Richard Littler · 192 pages

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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Christopher Moore · 440 pages

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inqui

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Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal

Jeff Kinney · 224 pages

"In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous." --

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