Eight American war heroes are on the last stop of a Victory Tour at a Dallas Cowboys game. From here, Ben Fountain gives us a brilliant, satirical, and incisive portrait of contemporary America.
To find the beating heart behind Kurt Vonnegut's tongue-in-cheek writing, look no further than his trove of personal letters. The humanism, jokes, and avuncular morality that radiates from his fiction is found tenfold in this collection.
Martin Amis tells a vicious, funny saga about the London lives of thuggish Lionel Asbo and his bookish nephew, Des. From a fat lottery jackpot to pit bulls, Tabasco, and incest, they move through a series of vile events toward love and redemption.
In the late nineteenth-century Paris art world, a painter in the midst of a passionate affair finds that time and his memory are suddenly unreliable … and as it happens, these symptoms also plagued some of the most famous artists in history.
This is not a novel about a wedding; it's a novel about what happens in the wake of the pursuit of imagined perfection.
Lunar Park is a tale that is as ironic as it is gripping, a fun read that makes your blood run cold, and a story that is excessively self-centered yet cathartic to the reader.
Chuck Palahniuk is fearless, funny, and crude. His latest must-read novel, Damned, plays with the notion of teenage coming-of-age stories, except this one is set in hell.
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami
Abigail Pollak
Allyson Pearl
Andrew Agudo
Jen Marshall
Joe Muscolino
Rita D. Jacobs
