Humorous fiction
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Really Good Actually
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Every sentence of Monica Heisey’s writing is a treat. No one makes me laugh like she does.” —Dolly Alderton, New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About LoveRecommended by Los Angeles Times • Washington Post • GQ • Elle • Good Morning America • People • Guardian • The Times • E! News Online • The Globe and Mail • Toronto Star • The Week • New York Post • Shondaland • and many more!A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup, from comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwr
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Means
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A fast-paced and funny send up.” — People "Delicious." — Zibby Owens, gma.com “A plucky jaunt of a novel.” — New York Times Book Review "With its deadpan absurdity, pithy prose and moral je ne sais quoi, Fusselman's latest will appeal to fans of Marcy Dermansky....With its satire of the particular hypocrisy of the Hamptons, including homeowners associations, graft, and garbage and recycling practices, Maria Semple....We may be entering a golden age of the comic novel, surely one of the best possible outcomes of this desperate moment in history." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Just like its title, Amy Fusselman’s new novel is breezy-sharp, super-funny, and full of second meanings and surprising insights into The Means, and what it means to have and lack them. You don’t have to want to live in a shipping container in the Hamptons to understand Shelly Means and the yearnings that drive her hilarious desperate measures. But if you need a hint, Twix the socialist dog will yell it at you. (SPOILER, but look: Maria Semple and David Sedaris are brilliant, but have they written a talking dog as funny as Twix? The answer, my friends, is no. You can only find this, and so much else, in The Means)." — John Hodgman, author of Vacationland and Medallion Status "This charming novel bears the Fusselman touch that makes all of her books so brilliant: touching, uncanny, and deceptively simple observations that dismantle complex assumptions about the world." — Sarah Manguso, author of Very Cold People “Amy Fusselman’s The Means is an absolute delight! Anyone who’s ever wanted more than they had—so, all of us—will be unable to turn away from this wise, funny, page-turning story of relationships, motherhood, and real estate ambitions.” — Jessica Anya Blau, author of Mary Jane "Location, location, location: that is the real estate chant. In Amy Fusselman’s The Means those words are intermingled with laugh, laugh, laugh. Fusselman is a prescient observer chronicling one couple’s desire to live near where the other half live. She deftly captures the absurdity of the everyday and the American quest for more. The Means is funny, playful and at times painfully accurate." — A.M. Homes, author of The Unfolding and May We Be Forgiven "The Means is such a fast-paced, breezy comedic novel that you may find yourself surprised that Fusselman deftly and directly leads you to existential dilemmas and the absurdity of capitalism and striving for more." — The Millions “Fusselman (Idiophone, 2018) delivers a well-paced story with gentle humor, compassion, and a sparkling, original look at the absurdities of everyday life in a world filled with inequities, financial and otherwise.” — Booklist "[An] entertaining debut. ... Recommended to anyone who enjoys humorous fiction." — Library Journal "Damn funny. ... Fusselman presents a hilariously heightened reality." — Shelf Awareness
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
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Penguin Publishing Group The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
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Vintage Publishing Eustace
Book SynopsisPoor Eustace is not very well. Convalescing in bed, his world is confined to the four walls of his grand and gloomy room. His days are spent in wild imaginings, punctuated by the occasional visit from his mother and a legion of Aunties, who fuss and smother Eustace.But then his wicked uncle arrives in a cloud of pipe smoke, accompanied by a swelling cast of prostitutes, hoodlums, drunkards and assorted hangers-on. Suddenly Eustace finds himself transformed from invalid to the star of a glittering and decadent social scene, serving drinks and holding court from his enormous bed. That is, until his Uncle''s past begins to catch up with him...Eustace is blackly comic, surreal and exquisitely rendered. It marks the debut of a brilliant new graphic novelist.Trade ReviewA strong debut with a compelling style... One of the particular joys reading comics offers is the chance of synchronicity between artistic style and thematic elements, and Harris offers that in abundance. -- Alex Hern * New Statesman *Surreal and enjoyable. -- James Smart * Guardian *Shades of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey twine tantalisingly about Eustace, the blackly comic debut by Londoner S. J. Harris. Harris’ angular stylistics and feathered pencil work is outstanding. -- Larushka Ivan-Zadeh * Metro *There’s a sniff of the great Robert Aickman in the mix of brittle comedy with murky sexual threat, and the whole thing is beautifully conceived and illustrated. Disturbingly confident, too, in its refusal to quite make sense. -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph *The darkness in Eustace creeps up on you unexpectedly. * The Skinny *
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Back Bay Books Less
Book SynopsisA struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of arresting lyricism and beauty (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZENational BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2017A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Lambda Award, and the California Book AwardWho says you can''t run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can''t say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can''t say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitation
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Back Bay Books The Perfect Couple
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Pan Macmillan Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Book SynopsisHelen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked for many years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist, travelling as wildly and as often as possible to Africa, India and Central America. She is the author of Cause Celeb (1994), Bridget Jones's Diary (1996), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2000), Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (2003) and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2013). She also co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jones's Diary, The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones's Baby. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter and lives in London and Los Angeles.Trade ReviewA Bond-style romp. The thrills come thick and fast. Olivia is entirely successful as a heroine because she is witty, kind, entertaining, occasionally accident-prone, and has Bridget’s warm intelligence and humorous insight in spades. -- Wendy Holden * Literary Review *Shimmers and glares with wit, sophistication and humanity. Hurrah for Fielding! -- Helen Brown * Independent on Sunday *
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Macmillan 50 Ways to Find a Lover
Book SynopsisLucy-Anne Holmes is an actress living in London. 50 Ways to Find a Lover had its genesis in Lucy's blog, Spinsters Quest, cataloguing her real-life love woes. She is also the author of a second Sarah Sargeant comedy, The (im)Perfect Girlfriend.
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Penguin Random House LLC Razor Girl
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Little, Brown Book Group Showing The Flag
Book SynopsisThe flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam''s stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.
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Lulu.com To Squeeze a Prairie Dog An American Novel
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Penguin Putnam Inc Twenties Girl
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Random House USA Inc A Fraction of the Whole
Book SynopsisMeet the Deans“The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any other man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them . . .”Heroes or Criminals?Crackpots or Visionaries?Families or Enemies?“. . . Anyway, you know how it is. Every family has a story like this one.”Most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity, hate, love, or murder his certifiably paranoid father, Martin, a man who overanalyzed anything and everything and imparted his self-garnered wisdom to his only son. But now that Martin is dead, Jasper can fully reflect on the crackpot who raised him in intellectual captivity, and what he realizes is that, for all its lunacy, theirs was a grand adventure.As he recollects the events that led to his father’s demise, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking discoveries&
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Random House USA Inc Lessons in Chemistry
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Penguin Putnam Inc Twisted TwentySix
Book SynopsisThis isn''t just another case. This is family.How far will Stephanie Plum go to protect the one person who means the most to her? The stakes have never been higher in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Janet Evanovich.Grandma Mazur has decided to get married again - this time to a local gangster named Jimmy Rosolli. If Stephanie has her doubts about this marriage, she doesn''t have to worry for long, because the groom drops dead of a heart attack 45 minutes after saying, I do. A sad day for Grandma Mazur turns into something far more dangerous when Jimmy''s former business partners are convinced that his new widow is keeping the keys to a financial windfall all to herself. But the one thing these wise guys didn''t count on was the widow''s bounty hunter granddaughter, who''ll do anything to save her.
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Penguin Publishing Group How to Change a Life
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Penguin Publishing Group Some Women
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Random House USA Inc Evvie Drake Starts Over
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ?Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today ??Everything a romantic comedy should be: witty, relatable, and a little complicated.??PeopleA heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who?s lost her husband and a major league pitcher who?s lost his game.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth ?Evvie? Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband?s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn?t correct them. Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy?s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the ?yips?: he can?t throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he can?t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean?s future. When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie?s house, the two make a deal: Dean won?t ask about Evvie?s late husband, and Evvie won?t ask about Dean?s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken?and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pasts?the friendships they?ve damaged, the secrets they?ve kept?but in life, as in baseball, there?s always a chance?up until the last out. A joyful, hilarious, and hope-filled debut, Evvie Drake Starts Over will have you cheering for the two most unlikely comebacks of the year?and will leave you wanting more from Linda Holmes.Praise for Evvie Drake Starts Over?A quirky, sweet, and splendid story of a woman coming into her own.??Taylor Jenkins Reid,New York Timesbestselling author ofDaisy Jones & The Six ?Effortlessly enjoyable . . . [a] pitch-perfect . . . adult love story that is as romantic as it is real.??USA Today?Charming, hopeful, and gently romantic . . . Evvie Drake is great company.??Rainbow Rowell, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofEleanor & Park
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Random House USA Inc Curious Minds
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Random House USA Inc Dangerous Minds
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P. Dangelico Wrecking Ball 1 Hard to Love
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Tough Poets Press Happiness Bastard
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Karen Booth Gray Hair Dont Care
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Karina MacKenzie Smut
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Random House USA Inc Unlikely Animals
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Lost Ticket
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Penguin Putnam Inc Astrid Parker Doesnt Fail
Book SynopsisAn interior designer who is never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care. For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ago, she’s been focused on her career—her friends might say she’s obsessed, but she knows she’s just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn’s renovation, which will be featured on a popular HGTV show, Innside America, Astrid is thrilled. Not only will the project distract her from her failed engagement and help her struggling business, but her perpetually displeased mother might finally give her a nod of approval. However, Astrid never planned on Jordan Everwood, Pru’s granddaughter and the lead carpenter for the renovation, who despises every modern design decision Astri
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Penguin Putnam Inc Happy Place
Book SynopsisINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“The beach-read master hooks us again.—People Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by BuzzFeed ∙ Paste Magazine ∙ Elle ∙ Southern Living ∙ SheReads ∙ Culturess ∙ Medium ∙ Her Campus ∙ Readers Digest ∙ Zibby Mag and more!A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up five months ago. And still haven’t told their b
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Penguin Putnam Inc Summer Reading
Book SynopsisWhen a woman who?d rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot-summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay''s new rom-com.For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha?s Vineyard at her family?s tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she?s tasked with chaperoning her half-brother, Tyler. The teenage brainiac is spending his summer at the local library in a robotics competition, and there?s no place Sam, who has dyslexia, likes less than the library. And because the universe hates her, the library?s interim director turns out to be the hot-reader guy whose book she accidentally destroyed on the ferry ride to the island. Bennett Reynolds is on a quest to find his father, whose identity he?s never known. He?s taken the temporary job on the island to research the summer his mother spent there when she got pregnant with him. Ben tells himself he isn''t interested in a relationship right now. Yet as soon as Sam knocks his book into the ocean, he can?t stop thinking about her. An irresistible attraction blossoms when Ben inspires Sam to create the cookbook she?s always dreamed about and she jumps all in on helping him find his father, and soon they realize their summer fling may heat up into a happily ever after.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Mrs. Nashs Ashes
Book SynopsisA New York Public Library Best Book of 2023A Most Anticipated Summer Read by Today ∙ Barnes & Noble ∙ BookRiot ∙ GoodReads ∙ Culturess ∙ and more!A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love.Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she’d reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D.C. to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash’s remains in her backpack. But Millie’s determined to give her friend a symbolic happily-ever-after, before it’s (really) too late—and hopefully reassure herself of love’s lasting power in the process.She just didn’t expect to have a living travel compan
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Penguin Putnam Inc You with a View
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Penguin Putnam Inc Iris Kelly Doesnt Date
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Diversified Publishing Lessons in Chemistry
Book Synopsis#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD • Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. • STREAM ON APPLE TV+This novel is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel” (The New York Times Book Review) and “witty, sometimes hilarious...the Catch-22 of early feminism” (Stephen King, via Twitter).A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.
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Random House USA Inc The Enigma of Garlic
Book SynopsisThe latest installment in the charming and congenial 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents of Scotland's most celebrated address up to their usual hilarious hijinks.It's the most anticipated event of the decade—Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding—and everyone is invited! But the relative peace and tranquillity of 44 Scotland Street is about to be disrupted. Domineering Irene is set to return for a two-month stay, consigning young Bertie to a summer camp. Not content with that, she somehow manages to come between the enigmatic nun, Sister Maria-Fiore dei Fiori di Montagna, and her friend, the hagiographer, Antonia Collie.And can a person really change, even after being struck by lightning? Bruce Anderson’s metamorphosis and new-found outlook on life is put to the test as he prepares to leave his creature comforts for the monastic simplicity of Pluscarden Abbey. His house sitter, meanwhile, gets a little too comfortable in his new l
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iUniverse King Winston and the Knights of the Square Table
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iUniverse Jack Be Nimble A revised and expanded version of Jack Be Nimble
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