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Satire
Humor with a biting edge, often making a point or points about society.
Authors & Titles
- Ackroyd, Peter: The Plato Papers
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- Adler, Warrn: Funny Boys
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- Amis, Martin: Yellow Dog
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- Anderson, Scott: Moonlight Hotel
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- Bachelder, Chris: Bear v. Shark
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- Bachelder, Chris: U.S.!
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- Baker, Nicholson: Checkpoint
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- Banks, Iain: The Business
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- Bardi, Abby: The Book of Fred
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- Barris, Chuck: The Big Question
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- Barry, Max: Company
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- Barth, John: Coming Soon!!!
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- Beatty, Paul: Tuff
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- Berger, Thomas: Adventures of the Artificial Woman
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- Bozai, Agota: To Err is Divine
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- Binelli, Mark: Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
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- Bing, Stanley: Lloyd: What Happened
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- Bohjalian, Chris: Before You Know Kindness
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- Bradbury, Ray: Let's All Kill Constance
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- Buchwald, Art: Stella in Heaven
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- Buckley, Christopher: Florence of Arabia
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- Buckley, Christopher: Little Green Men
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- Buckley, Christopher: No Way to Treat a First Lady
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- Buckley, Christopher: Supreme Courtship
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- Buckley, Christopher: Thank You For Smoking
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- Buckley, Christopher: The White House Mess
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- Burcham, Carl: White Dolphin Blues
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- Cadre, Adam: Ready, Okay!
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- Carson, Tom: Gilligan's Wake
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- Carter, Steven: I Was Howard Hughes
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- Chase, Clifford: Winkie
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- Cheever, Benjamin: Famous After Death
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- Coe, Jonathan: Rotter's Club series
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- Rotter's Club
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- The Closed Circle
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- Cohen, Robert: Inspired Sleep
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- Condon, Richard: The Final Addiction
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- Connelly, Joe: Crumbtown
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- Cornwell, Patricia: Isle of Dogs
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- Costello, Mark: Big If
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- Coupland, Douglas: All Families Are Psychotic
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- Crimmins, Cathy & Maeder, Tom: Revenge of the Christmas Box
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- Cronley, Jay: Shoot!
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- Dann, Jack: The Rebel
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- Date, S.V.: Black Sunshine
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- Davies, Stevie: Four Dreamers and Emily
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- Davis, Gwen: West of Paradise
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- Denker, Henry: Judge Spencer Dissents
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- Derby, Matthew: Super Flat Times
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- DeRosa, Peter: Pope Patrick
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- deVries, Peter: I Hear America Swinging
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- deVries, Peter: Mrs. Wallop
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- deVries, Peter: Sauce For the Goose
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- Dickens, Charles: Bleak House
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- Director, Roger: A Place to Fall
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- Duffy, James: Dog Bites Man
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- Dunn, Mark: Ibid: A Life
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- Ebest, Ron: The Dave Store Massacre
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- Ehrlich, Ev: Big Government
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- Elliott, Chris: Into Hot Air
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- Ellis, Bret Easton: Glamorama
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- Elton, Ben: Popcorn
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- Eprile, Tony: The Persistence of Memory
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- Everett, Percival: American Desert
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- Everett, Percival: I Am Not Sidney Poitier
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- Everett, Percival & Kincaid, James: A History of the African-American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond
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- Fake Steve Jobs: Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs
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- Ferguson, Craig: Between the Bridge and the River
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- Fielding, Helen: Cause Celeb
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- Finley, Karen: George and Martha
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- Fowler, Karen Joy: Sister Noon
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- Frank, Jeffrey: Bad Publicity
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- Franken, Al: Why Not Me?
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- Frayn, Michael: Headlong
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- Fredericks, Emmi: Fatal Distraction
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- Freely, Maureen: My Year with the Stork Club
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- Fry, Stephen: The Liar
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- Fuentes, Carlos: The Eagle's Throne
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- Gaddis, William: A Frolic of His Own
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- Galbraith, John Kenneth: A Tenured Professor
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- Garner, James Finn: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
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- Garner, James Finn: Politically Correct Holiday Stories
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- Gaslin, Glenn: Beemer
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- Gessen, Keith: All the Sad Young Literary Men
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- Gilbert, David: The Normals
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- Giles, Molly: Iron Shoes
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- Goebel, Joey: Commonwealth
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- Goodman, Allegra: The Family Markowitz
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- Goytisolo, Juan: A Cock-Eyed Comedy
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- Grimes, Tom: Will @epicqwest.com
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- Grunberg, Amon: The Jewish Messiah
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- Guinzburg, Michael: The Plumber of Souls
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- Gunn, James: The Toy Collector
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- Harvard, Jane: The Student Body
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- Hawley, Ellen: Open Line
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- Heller, Jane: Lucky Stars
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- Heller, Joseph: Yossarian series
- Catch-22
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- Closing Time
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- Heller, Joseph: God Knows
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- Heller, Joseph: Picture This
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- Heller, Ted: Slab Rat
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- Heller, Zoë: What Was She Thinking?
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- Helprin, Mark: Freddy and Fredericka
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- Helprin, Mark: Memoir from Antproof Case
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- Hendra, Tony: The Messiah of Morris Avenue
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- Heppner, Mike: Pike's Folly
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- Holdefer, Charles: Nice
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- Holden, Wendy: Farm Fatale
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- Huxley, Aldous: Crome Yellow
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- Hynes, James: Kings of Inifinite Space
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- Hynes, James: The Lecturer's Tale
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- Hynes, James: Publish and Perish
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- Indiana, Gary: Depraved Indifference
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- Jackson, Shelley: Half Life
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- Jennings, Phillip: Jack Armstrong series
- Nam-A-Rama
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- Goodbye, Mexico
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- Kafka, Franz: Amerika
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- Kafka, Franz: The Trial
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- Kalich, Richard: Charlie P.
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- Keillor, Garrison: The Book of Guys
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- Keillor, Garrison: Me: by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente
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- Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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- Klein, Marjorie: Test Pattern
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- Kramer, Peter D.: Spectacular Happiness
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- Krum, Sharon: Walk of Fame
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- Lee, Don: Wrack and Ruin
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- LaMarche, Phil: American Youth
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- Langer, Adam: The Thieves of Manhattan
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- Lefcourt, Peter: Abbreviating Ernie
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- Lefcourt, Peter: Di and I
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- Lefcourt, Peter: The Woody
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- Lelchuk, Alan: Ziff: A Life?
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- Lennon, J. Robert: Mailman
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- Levandoski, Rob: Seredipity Green
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- Leyner, Mark: The Tetherballs of Bougainville
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- Lieberman, Nancy: Admissions
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- Litt, Toby: Beatniks
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- Lodge, David: Therapy
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- Maher, Bill: True Story
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- Majors, Inman: Wonderdog
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- Malanowski, Jamie: The Coup
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- Mamatas, Nick: Under My Roof
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- Martin, Steve: The Pleasure of My Company
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- Maugham, W. Somerset: Cakes and Ale
- McCabe, John: Herding Cats
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- McCourt, James: Delancey's Way
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- McEwan, Ian: Amsterdam
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- McGruder, Aaron: Birth of a Nation
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- McNally, John: America's Report Card
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- Merlis, Mark: Man About Town
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- Merullo, Roland: American Savior
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- Mills, Magnus: The Scheme for Full Employment
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- Monahan, William: Light House
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- Moore, Christopher: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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- Moore, Jeffrey: Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
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- Moser, Edward P.: The Politically Correct Guide to American History
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- Murphy, Sean: The Finished Man
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- Nelson, Michael J.: Mike Nelson's Death Rat!
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- Newman, Sandra: The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done
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- Nicholson, Geoff: Bedlam Burning
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- Nicholson, Geoff: Female Ruins
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- Nicholson, Geoff: Hunters and Gatherers
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- Nothomb, Amelie: The Character of Rain
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- O'Connell, Robert L.: Fast Eddie
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- O'Neill, Jamie: Kilbrack
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- Ong, Han: Fixer Chao
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- Orloff, Alvin: I Married an Earthling
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- Othmer, James P.: The Futurist
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- Ozick, Cynthia: The Puttermesser Papers
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- Palahniuk, Chuck: Choke
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- Palahniuk, Chuck: Pygmy
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- Parkhurst, Carolyn: Lost and Found
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- Pate, Alexs D.: The Multicultiboho Sideshow
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- Paxson, John: Elvis Live at Five
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- Payne, Johnny: North of Patagonia
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- Perrotta, Tom: The Abstinence Teacher
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- Perrotta, Tom: Election
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- Perrotta, Tom: Joe College
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- Perrotta, Tom: The Leftovers
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- Phillips, Marie: Gods Behaving Badly
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- Pierre, DBC: Ludmila's Broken English
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- Pierre, DBC: Vernon God Little
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- Polio, Marco: The Hole
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- Polster, James: Brown
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- Powell, Padgett: Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men
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- Pynchon, Thomas: The Crying of Lot 49
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- Pynchon, Thomas: Vineland
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- Rankin, Robert: The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code
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- Rayner, Jay: Eating Crow
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- Reed, Kit: Thinner Than Thou
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- Rees, David: Get Your War On
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- Get Your War On
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- Get Your War On II
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- Robbins, Tom: Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
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- Robison, Mary: Why Did I Ever
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- Roszak, Theodore: The Devil and Daniel Silverman
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- Rushfield, Richard: On Spec
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- Sacks, Jen: Nice
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- Sandlin, Tim: Honey Don't
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- Schulman, Sarah: The Mere Future
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- Sedaris, Amy & Dinello, Paul & Colbert, Stephen: Wigfield
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- Sedlack, Robert: The African Safari Papers
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- Self, Will: The Book of Dave
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- Shakar, Alex: The Savage Girl
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- Sharpe, Matthew: Jamestown
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- Sheed, Wilfrid: The Boys of Winter
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- Shepherd, Jean: The Ferrari in the Bedroom
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- Shepherd, Jean: A Fistful of Fig Newtons
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- Shepherd, Jean: In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash
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- Shepherd, Jean: Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories
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- Sherrill, Martha: My Last Movie Star
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- Shteyngart, Gary: Absurdistan
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- Simpson, Thomas William: Full Moon Over America
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- Smith, Brad: Busted Flush
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- Smith, Jane S.: Fool's Gold
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- Strauss, Darin: More Than It Hurts You
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- Sundeen, Mark: The Making of Toro
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- Toews, Miriam: Summer of My Amazing Luck
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- Twain, Mark: The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain
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- Ty, Brother: God is My Broker
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- Updike, John: Henry Bech series
- Bech: A Book
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- Bech is Back
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- Bech at Bay
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(published in one volume as The Complete Henry Bech
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- Vidal, Gore: Duluth
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- Vigorito, Tony: Just a Couple of Days
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- Vonnegut, Kurt: Bluebeard
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- Vonnegut, Kurt: Breakfast of Champions
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- Vonnegut, Kurt: Galapagos
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- Vonnegut, Kurt: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
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- Vonnegut, Kurt: Hocus Pocus
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- Vonnegut, Kurt: Jailbird
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- Vonnegut, Kurt: Slapstick
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- Vonnegut, Kurt: Timequake
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- Waberi, Abdourahman A.: In the United States of Africa
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- Wagner, Bruce: I'm Losing You
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- Wainhouse, Austryn: Hedyphagetica
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- Walter, Jess: The Financial Lives of the Poets
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- Walter, Richard: Escape From Film School
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- Waterfield, Giles: The Hound in the Left-hand Corner
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- Waugh, Evelyn: The Loved One
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- Weiss, Daniel Evans: Honk If You Love Aphrodite
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- Weld, William F.: Terry Mullally series
- Mackerel By Moonlight
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- Big Ugly
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- Wenzel, Kurt: Kyle Clayton series
- Lit Life
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- Gotham Tragic
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- West, Beverly & Peske, Nancy: Frankly, Scarlett, I Do Give a Damn!
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- West, Paul: The Dry Danube
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- Westlake, Donald E.: Up Your Banners
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- Whitehead, Colson: Zone One
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- Wickham, Madeleine: Cocktails for Three
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- Willett, Jincy: Winner of the National Book Award
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- Wilmot, Patrick: Seeing Double
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- Wolper, Carol: Secret Celebrity
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- Zoschenko, Mikhail: The Galosh and Other Stories
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