Absurdist Comedy

The universe has a complaints department. Unfortunately, it’s still processing yours If you enjoy absurd sci-fi, dry wit, and bureaucratic nightmares that somehow feel a little too real… welcome to the worst office in existence. Arthur Denton is just a human clerk trying to survive his shift at the galaxy’s most dreaded institution: The Department of Interspecies Complaints. His job? Process 47,000 grievances from aliens, planets, concepts, and occasionally reality itself—before the universe collapses under the weight of unresolved paperwork. No pressure. Inside this hilariously ...

What if your life was accidentally swapped with an alien’s? The universe is a very strange place. Some galaxies are built on logic. Others appear to have misplaced the instruction manual. Then one seemingly impossible cosmic glitch changes everything.

From “weird, scary, ingenious” (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and “laugh-out-loud funny” (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of...

The ""compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny"" (Boston Globe) Tim Dorsey returns with an insanely entertaining tale in which the inimitable Serge A. Storms sees dead people and investigates a creepy urban myth that may be all too real. Though another devastating hurricane is raking Florida...

“A propulsive, madcap story” (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the world." —The Atlantic After salaryman Hanio...

“Reports of His Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated blew me away. It is full of joy and human warmth and it has very wise things to say about the value of kindness. It immediately became one of my all-time favourite reads.” —Gareth Brown, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book of...

Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio set off on a globetrotting road-trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. In the fading days of...

Annabell Pearson came to Guantanamo Bay to teach physics, not to stand trial for killing an iguana. But when Henry, the island's beloved protected iguana, dies after colliding with Annabell's bicycle, she finds herself charged with hit-and-run homicide. Annabell becomes trapped in a media firestorm fueled by conspiracy theories, outrageous witnesses, the notoriety of Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, and Michelle Gunner, an ambitious reporter determined to turn the bizarre case into national news. STRAIGHT OUT OF GITMO is a witty, outrageous satire about fame, outrage, and the absurdity of modern ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana—and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a...

God and the Devil sit on a porch somewhere in Heaven, enjoying a perfect evening. God reads a book; the Prince of Darkness craves one of His divine cocktails. When God returns from the kitchen with the drinks, His book is missing, dropped by His old pal somewhere on Earth. God freaks out. The consequences of humans reading the book might be catastrophic, the extent unknown even to the Almighty Himself. Yet, like an Excalibur made of paper, the book defies them all: people come and go, and nobody proves worthy of fully reading the divine artifact. In an age of distraction, when people have ...

Read by the author. In 1971, at the beginning of Monty Python mania, Eric Idle bought a crumbling ruin in the hills of Provence. With no electricity, no water, no road, and no plan, he set out to transform the neglected stone shack into what he lovingly calls a shackeau. Idle in Provence is the...

One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of . . . Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic...

“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.” —Carl Hiaasen The undead rise again in Bite Me, the third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s wonderfully twisted vampire saga. Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck...

An explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she’s filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through history until she’s united with a centuries-old coven of ecstatically revolutionary women...

The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds lessons about what’s truly important in life. Meet Ole Mbatian Jr., a Maasai warrior; Kevin...

Told with biting humor, brutal honesty, and moments of absurd laughter, Why Is My Bra Still On? is a darkly comedic, deeply emotional novel about friendship, loyalty, and what it really means to be family.

"THE STORY BUILDS AND ENDS ON A CLIFFHANGER. BUT THANKFULLY THE NEXT IN THE SERIES IS ALREADY OUT!" ~ Der Wolff "ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor Welcome to the romantically depraved dangerous mind of one of the world's leading erotica authors. This 36,000-word bundle is a collection of Alice Crowley's latest and greatest masterworks, taking the reader down into A throbbing, pulsating, dark rabbit hole of kink, bondage, and hardcore lust. A dozen all-new stories are included herein, ...

A picaresque tale of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, from the author of the bestselling novel The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Poor and...

A bear takes a week's vacation in Las Vegas ... what could possibly go wrong?! Set half a million years in the future when bears control Planet Earth (and humans are no more), Brosnan, a young jazz trumpet playing enthusiast is joined by his bee accomplice, Chiwi, as they look forward to enjoying the comforts of a lavish presidential suite in one of Las Vegas's top hotels. Fresh from an ordeal in the Arctic, the young honey enthusiast is keen to relax and put his paws up, but quickly learns that the city is controlled by an organised crime group known as The Furia. Brosnan's idealism sets ...

What do you get when a neurotic funeral director, a time-travelling scientist, and an ancient curse collide in Southend-on-Sea? Dennis Dogmore hasn’t had a client in weeks, his love life is six feet under, and the woman of his dreams would rather dance with anyone else. Then Miss Miftley Wade arrives from ninety-four years in the future with a half-broken time machine and a talent for chaos. Throw in a Wiccan aristocratic curse, accidental trips through time, and the constant threat of a preordained death, and Dennis’s quiet life is suddenly anything but. One hypochondriac. One time ...