Browsing: Satire

America in 1953 seems hell-bent on squandering the flood tide of international goodwill earned in WWII. Senator Joe McCarthy is…

Forced to downsize after the death of her husband, Lucy Muir moves to a purportedly haunted cottage in a small coastal village. The rumors prove true when she finds herself cohabiting with the ghost of a sea captain! A classic with over 900 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

A Pulitzer Prize finalist, this collection of stories from the celebrated author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love captures the minutiae of every day, with characters who “overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery, and possibility of life” (The Washington Post Book World).

This wildly popular Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller traces the journey of immigrant Josef and his cousin Sam. Together, they create a comic featuring a superhero who can go head-to-head against the Nazi empire. “Enrapturing” (Booklist).

Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen’s writing powers and published in 1814, Mansfield Park marks a conscious…

Nefertiti Snorkjutt, a dominatrix who thinks she is just a dedicated feminist. Desmond Cork, the rock scholar who believes the…

From a Pulitzer Prize nominee who is “fast becoming one of our fiercest and most compelling writers” (The Sunday Times) comes a novel that brims with “inventiveness and gusto” (Margaret Atwood): In the near future, Mae discovers a shattering truth about massive internet corporation, the Circle.

The “brilliant” classic (Time) that became a major motion picture: When rambunctious McMurphy is sent to a psychiatric hospital, he faces off with tyrannical nurse Mildred Ratched — and shows his fellow patients another way to live. “A work of genuine literary merit… A glittering parable” (The New York Times Book Review).

An American classic from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of East of Eden and Of Mice and Men: Cannery Row’s motley residents come together to show appreciation for one of their own. “One of the most thoroughly enjoyable and delicious books you’ll ever have the fortune to read” (Chicago Sun-Times).

A New York Times bestseller from the author of Water for Elephants: After an explosion at the Great Ape Language Lab, scientist Isabel fights to rescue her beloved second family of animals. A “funny, clever, and perceptive story” (Library Journal starred review).