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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness
Berkeley Breathed · 224 pages
A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury
Aaron McGruder · 255 pages
Here’s the first big book of The Boondocks, more than four years and 800 strips of one of the most influential, controversial, and scathingly funny comics ever to run in a daily newspaper. “With bodacious wit, in just a few panels, each day Aaron serves up—and sends up—life in America through the eyes of two African-American kids who are full of attitude, intelligence, and rebellion. Each time
Prez, Vol. 1: Corndog-in-Chief
Mark Russell
"Meet Beth Ross, the first teenaged President of the United States. In a nation where corporations can run for office, the poor are used as human billboards, and tacos are delivered by drone, our only hope is this nineteen-year-old Twitter sensation. But the real question isn't whether she's ready for politics--it's whether politics is ready for her. Writer Mark Russell (GOD IS DISAPPOINTED IN YOU
The Big Book of Hell
Matt Groening · 176 pages
Goodnight Bush
Erich Origen, Gan Golan
A brilliant parody of the children's classic Goodnight Moon, built around the coming end of the worst presidency ever.Goodnight Bush: An Unauthorized Parody is a hilarious and poignant visual requiem for the Bush administration. In it we see a childlike George W. Bush tucked safely away in the confines of his own room with all of the toys he's willfully destroyed, abused, or defaced. Complete with
Good as Gold
Joseph Heller · 447 pages
Gold accepts a government post in Washington, considers leaving his wife, and all the while he is also searching for material to write his book on the Jewish experience in America, without realizing he is going through that experience.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Paul Torday · 352 pages
"Dr. Alfred Jones has many reasons to be content with his life. His latest paper 'Effects of Increased Water Acidity on the Caddis Fly Larva' looks set to cause a stir on the pages of Trout & Salmon, his job as a fisheries scientist is satisfactory, and he and his wife, Mary, have just celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary - for which she gave him a replacement electric toothbrush. So why
Hope: A Tragedy
Shalom Auslander · 304 pages
Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.
Stormy Weather
Carl Hiaasen · 384 pages
In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, the devastation of the storm has attracted crowds of voyeurs and imposters to Florida, drawn by the chance to prey on Andrew's victims in insurance scams. They are unprepared for the opposition, led by an ex-governor who smokes toads.
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous
Serious Men
Manu Joseph · 338 pages
"Low-caste Ayyan Mani lives in a Mubai tenement and works in an esteemed research institute as the assistant of top researcher Arvind Acharya. Forever spiteful toward his privileged superiors, Ayyan is deviously mischievous and pulls off a stunt that ends with his half-deaf (but otherwise ordinary) son being proclaimed in the local news as a boy genius. Meanwhile, Arvind is obsessed with proving h
The Magic Christian
Terry Southern · 148 pages
This is a prescient description of Donald Trump and the current American political fiasco, obviously written either with the use of a Time Machine or while in a prescient trance.
The Rapture of the Nerds
Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross · 349 pages
A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson · 396 pages
Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Rob Sitch · 176 pages
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea... People have been predicting the end of the world al
The Short Reign of Pippin IV
John Steinbeck · 182 pages
Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife Maria, his star-struck daughter Clotilde and her Californian beau, Todd.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories
Mark Twain · 158 pages
The celebrated jumping frog -- The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- A fable -- The story of the good little boy -- The story of the bad little boy -- The £1,000,000 bank note -- Jim Baker's bluejay yarn -- A medieval romance -- The $30,000 bequest -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm -- Was it heaven? or hell? -- Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven -- A dog's tale.
The Jokers
Albert Cossery · 145 pages
The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of all is the governor, a bug-eyed, strutting, rapacious character of unequaled incompetence who presides over the nameless Middle Eastern city where this effervescent comedy by Albert Cossery is set. The jokers are also the revolutionaries, no less bumbling and no less infatuated with the trappings of power than the government they oppose. And