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Breathers: A Zombie's Lament

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Brains: A Zombie Memoir

Robin Becker · 182 pages

College-professor-cum-zombie Jack Barnes is a different breed of undead—he can think. In fact, he can even write. And the story he has to tell is a truly disturbing—yet strangely heartwarming—one.Convinced he'll bring about a peaceful coexistence between zombies and humans if he can demonstrate his unique condition to Howard Stein, the man responsible for the zombie virus, Barnes sets off on a gru

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American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis · 399 pages

Dark ComedySatirical HumorFirst Person NarratorCannibalism
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Warm Bodies

Isaac Marion · 349 pages

R is having a no-life crisis -- he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he'd rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization. And then he meets a girl. First as his captive, then his r

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Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth · 288 pages

Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth century.

Therapy JourneyDark ComedySatirical HumorFunny
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The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

Christopher Moore · 290 pages

Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into th

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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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Mother Night

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 202 pages

Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.

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'Till Death Do Us Part

Mark Tufo · 462 pages

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Psychos: A White Girl Problems Book

Babe Walker · 276 pages

"In this hysterical follow-up to the New York Times bestseller White Girl Problems, Babe Walker travels the globe as she tries to figure out the answer to the question foremost on everyone's mind--including hers: Who is Babe Walker? If you're one of Babe's 800,000+ Twitter followers who devour her daily musings, including "It's so sad when you're not dating Ryan Gosling" and "Good deed of the day:

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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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Zombie, Ohio

Scott Kenemore · 240 pages

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Choke

Chuck Palahniuk · 304 pages

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be "saved" by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, go on to send checks to support him. When he's not pulling this

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Married with Zombies

Jesse Petersen · 272 pages

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Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues

Diana Rowland · 300 pages

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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Matt Dinniman · 832 pages

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend. **It is bedlam on the eighth floor.** As management reels from the unexpected conclusion of the seventh level, the surviving crawlers stumble onto the eighth and find themselves scattered.

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Z-Burbia

Jake Bible · 226 pages

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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

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Gil's All Fright Diner

A. Lee Martinez · 272 pages

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Fiend

Peter Stenson · 295 pages

When Chase sees the little girl in umbrella socks savaging the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As someone who's been smoking meth every day for as long as he can remember, he's no stranger to such horrifying, drug-fuelled hallucinations. But, as he and his fellow junkies discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived. And with Chase's life already destroyed b

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Magical Thinking: True Stories

Augusten Burroughs · 272 pages

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The Good Lord Bird

James McBride · 468 pages

Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.

Dark ComedySatirical HumorFirst Person NarratorFunny
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I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Tucker Max · 288 pages

The Book That Inspired The MovieMy name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my a

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Flashman and the Redskins

George MacDonald Fraser · 512 pages

Flashman is in America fleeing a murder charge, traveling with a brothel on wheels toward California, tricking the noble redman while seducing their women, and reaching his moment of supreme ingloriousness and fear--under fire at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Dark ComedySatirical HumorFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Absurdistan

Gary Shteyngart · 333 pages

"Absurdistan is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than Shteyngart, the great-great grandson of one Nikolai Gogol and the funniest foreigner alive."--Aleksandar HemonFrom the critically acclaimed, bestselling author o

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