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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
Matt Dinniman · 544 pages
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Welcome to the Iron Tangle! Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, have to team up with other contestants not just to survive, but to solve a deadly puzzle in this third, mind-twisting novel in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition. Earth has been transformed into the set of the galaxy’s most watched game show
Holy Cow
David Duchovny · 175 pages
"Elsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that--her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture ... [and] Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright Box God--and what the Box God reveals about something called an 'indu
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
Mo Yan · 552 pages
Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 32 pages
Villa Incognito
Tom Robbins · 256 pages
Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.Imagine just those things (don't even try to imagine the love story) and you'll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins's eighth and perhaps most beautifu
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Walter Moers · 704 pages
Captain Bluebear is a bear with blue fur, a creature as unique as the fantastic adventures he undergoes. Unlike cats, which have only nine lives, bluebears have twenty-seven. This is fortunate, because our hero is forever avoiding disaster by a paw's breadth. In this remarkable book, Captain Bluebear tells the story of his first thirteen-and-a-half lives spent on the mysterious continent of Zamoni
Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness
Berkeley Breathed · 224 pages
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
Leonie Swann · 352 pages
The mysterious death of their shepherd has sent a flock of sheep into a frenzy trying to piece together "whodunit." Overcoming their "sheepish" ways, the members of the flock realize that they may be the only ones who can solve it. The more intelligent sheep, who have better retention or the intuition to ask the right questions, develop a list of potential suspects. As the investigation continues,
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
Robert Rankin · 342 pages
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
The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994
Gary Larson · 1,246 pages
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson · 204 pages
Maverick author Hunter S. Thompson introduced the world to "gonzo journalism" with this cult classic that shot back up the best seller lists after Thompson's suicide in 2005. No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture. In Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, Raoul Duke (Thompson) and his attorney Dr. Gonzo (inspired by a friend of Thompson) are quickly
The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett · 255 pages
From the back cover: In *The Light Fantastic* only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world....
Gulliver's Travels / A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift · 416 pages
The Hitch Hiker's guide to the galaxy
Douglas Adams · 590 pages
A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World
Rachel Cantor · 249 pages
In the not-too-distant future, the world is ruled not by governments but by fast-food delivery companies. Only one disgruntled employee stands between them and the end of civilization-- and a woman who's a librarian--and an anarchist book group--and a little kid who can travel through time--and maybe one or two other people.
The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog
John R. Erickson · 144 pages
Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov · 128 pages
A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the pr