"Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy is the zeitgeistiest thing I ever read. Everything about it is contemporary, right down to the fearless woman author who doesn't think of herself as a feminist and gives an impression at least in interviews of habitually killing rapists . . .
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale
In the gated community of Consilience, residents who sign a contract will get a job and a lovely house for six months of the year—if they serve as inmates in the Positron prison system for the alternate months…
From the bestselling author of Razor Girl, suspense and hilarity combine with greed and political corruption in the tale of a Florida stripper, a sex-obsessed congressman, a heart-of-gold bouncer, a political fixer, and a touch of blackmail.
A debut novel told with humor, intelligence, and heart, a “funny but insightful look at teachers in the workplace…reminiscent of the TV show The Office but set in an urban high school” (The Washington Post), perfect for fans of Tom Perrotta and Laurie Gelman.
Roxanna Elden’s “laugh-out-loud funny satire” (Forbes) is a brillian
This hilarious collection of short stories features several episodes in the life of the idle gentleman Bertie Wooster and his faithful valet Jeeves. Within these tales, Bingo Little falls in love with every woman he meets, meanwhile Bertie attempts to avoid the eagle eye and iron will of his merciless Aunt Agatha.
“Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—The Washington Post • “Shteyngart’s best book.”—The
***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS*** ***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021***
Natalie Savage grew up focusing her ambition on her reporting career instead of her personal life. Now her efforts are paying off. Offered the title of White House correspondent--temporarily--she knows she has the grit, the principles, the news sense to succeed. But first she must compete with a vacuous, popular frat boy for the position.
“[An] insightful, unsettling look at how technology impacts our lives. . .Kavenna has skillfully made our present feel like dystopian fiction.” USA TODAY
Named a Best Book of 2020 by USA TODAY
Chuck Palahniuk, literature's favorite transgressive author, gives us twenty-one stories and one novella in Make Something Up, a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club.
"Brilliant. . . . The perfect summer read." --Nylon
"[A] compulsively readable page-turner." --Cosmopolitan
An assured and savagely funny novel about three old friends as they navigate careers, husbands, an ex-fiancé, new suitors, and, most important, their relationships with one another
Named a Best Thriller of the Year by:
The Washington Post
The Telegraph
"The Plotters’s first convenient comparison may be to the ever-expanding John Wick movies" --Los Angeles Review of Books
A fantastical crime novel set in an alternate Seoul where assassination guilds compete for market dominance.
