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 ...

A (Serge A.) Storm is brewing for a cabal of bad guys gaming the Florida state lottery in this insanely funny novel from the maestro of mayhem, Tim Dorsey. If you’re loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms, how do you follow up your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot your own...

“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...

Il fu Mattia Pascal è un celebre romanzo di Luigi Pirandello che apparve dapprima a puntate sulla rivista "Nuova Antologia" nel 1904 e pubblicato, nello stesso anno, in volume. Fu il primo grande successo di Pirandello. Il libro è seguito da un commento dello stesso Pirandello , aggiunto in seguito.

"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, ...

One Dog. Two People. Zero Hands. What if you woke up… and weren’t human anymore? When a mysterious twist of fate swaps bodies and species, one couple (me and Mia) find ourselves trapped in fur, claws, and a very undignified new reality. I’m now a golden retriever. Mia? A suspiciously judgmental cat. And Frosty — our real dog — is now human. Worse: she’s loving it. For the next 24 hours, we must survive squirrel politics, treat-based power struggles, and a rapidly rising canine cult led by our four-legged overlord turned two-legged menace. Told hour by hour, this absurd, witty, ...

“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...

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...

Read by the author. "A sunny celebration of a life well lived in the South of France—except for the bloody plumbing." —KIRKUS REVIEWS 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...

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 ...

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...

How about something completely ridiculous? 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 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...

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...

“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.” —Carl Hiassen “[Moore’s novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture.” —Washington Post “If there’s a funnier writer out...

“Science fiction satire in the Vonnegut mold.”—Cory Doctorow *SET TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY EDGAR WRIGHT (SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD)* ‘A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means to be human.’—Simon Pegg ‘One of the most unique books ever crafted...

What happens when the supernatural collides with bureaucracy? Usually paperwork. In The Universe Requires a Form, gods, monsters, dragons, golems, radioactive crustaceans, ancient evils, corporate weapons, supernatural spies, and one remarkably useful llama discover that humanity’s greatest defense against the impossible may not be courage, magic, or superior firepower. It may be forms. Across thirteen wildly inventive stories, ordinary people find themselves confronting situations no training manual was designed to cover. An intern accidentally signs his office into Hell. An insurance ...

When one man becomes the chosen deity of a church, it's all fun and games . . . until it interferes with his fishing time. After months of sticking his head in the sand—sometimes literally—Fischer is finally ready to learn the secrets of the Kallis Realm . . . just in time for some of his...

All Opal Slepecki wants is loyalty. But when her badly behaved friends refuse to kill her, it's impossible to feel loved. It's been eighteen agonizing hours since she asked them to help her die. Now, it's gone quiet. The brash pill-popper. The shameless exhibitionist. The quiet beauty. She knew the request would be jarring, awkward even, but these women have weathered worse. Haven't they?

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...