Absurdist Comedy

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 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 comedic satire for our times... Caspar Ritter manipulates reality for a living. As Chief Creative Officer at MEGACorp, Ritter shapes what millions of people believe, buy, and trust. Truth is flexible. Perception is everything. And business has never been better. But things are changing. The planet’s gravity is weakening—just slightly at first. Scientists are alarmed. The media shrugs. His boss sees profits. An incompetent President downplays it all. And Caspar, drifting through a chemically enhanced haze of pills, propaganda, and carefully curated illusions, barely notices. Until ...

“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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

What would you do if every law disappeared… for 24 hours? Steal a croissant? Slap your nemesis at the bakery? Form a rooftop cult around your dog? Because that’s exactly what happened. One ordinary couple (me and Mia) and one very judgmental dog (Frosty) wake up to discover that every law — from jaywalking to grand theft to using your neighbor’s Wi-Fi — has been suspended. For one day only, society hits pause… and chaos presses play. What follows is a whirlwind of moral confusion, IKEA looting, philosophical cheese, vigilante yoga instructors, and a surprisingly charismatic ...

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...

“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...

“Dorsey differs from writers such as Carl Hiassen, James Hall, and Elmore Leonard…These guys fire bullets. Dorsey makes sure his gun is filled with hollow-point.” —Sarasota Herald Tribune Readers who can’t get enough of lovable serial killer Serge A. Storms can rejoice. He’s back in...

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...

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...

“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...

Lovable serial killer Serge Storms is back and coming to the rescue of a Midwestern couple who aren't finding Florida quite as charming as he does in Riptide Ultra-Guide, the sixteenth installment in Tim Dorsey's bestselling series. When newly unemployed Patrick and Barbara McDougal decide a...

When a soy‑latte‑addicted hipster misses his grandmother’s death because he spent his last $20 on “ethically sourced caffeine,” he spirals into a delusional crusade to avenge her. Armed with stolen hospital scrubs, mislabeled syringes, and a revolutionary ego far larger than his job prospects, Nathan Mortimer sets out to “save Victoria” one murder at a time — becoming the hero Victoria didn’t need in every possible sense. As the body count rises, Premier Danielle Anders seizes the opportunity to expand her emergency powers, her Chief Medical Officer falls in love with an ...

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 very unique and comical view of life, death and all that comes after it. This very darkly humorous but strangely heart warming tale follows the unremarkable Bernard Fish as he learns that living is far less simple than he thought. He also discovers that being dead is more exciting than he could ever have imagined, not that he has ever had much of an imagination. Betrayal, greed, love and lust all play a part in this simple everyday story of an ordinary man who wasn't supposed to know he was going to die. With guest appearances from God and of course Satan as well as a host of afterlife ...

A time-traveling scientist, a nervous funeral director, and an ancient curse—Southend on Sea is about to get seriously weird. Chaos, curses, and comedy guaranteed! Dennis Dogmore (the spitting image of Eric Morecambe) is a neurotic, funeral-obsessed hypochondriac whose Southend-on-Sea parlour hasn’t seen a corpse in weeks. His love life is lifeless, his confidence is six feet under, and Fenella—the woman of his dreams—would rather tango with literally anyone else. Enter Miss Miftley Wade: a razor-sharp, possibly unhinged scientist from ninety-four years in the future, with a time ...