Burn the Midnight Oil with Side-Splitting Fiction
Discover side-splitting fiction books to keep you laughing late into the night! Explore hilarious reads perfect for burning the midnight oil with humor and wit.
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What Looks Like Crazy
by Charlotte Hughes
She's had hit after hit with Janet Evanovich. Now this New York Times bestselling author begins a series that readers will go crazy for. Psychologist …
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You Must Be This Happy to Enter
by Elizabeth Crane
Features stories about such subjects as a zombie who appears on a reality TV program, a time-traveling photographer who is arrested for being happy, and …
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What I was
by Meg Rosoff
In the 1960s, off the coast of East Anglia, a disgruntled boarding school student develops an obsessive friendship with a boy living by himself at …
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Beginner's Greek
by James Collins
Falling hopelessly in love with a woman whose contact information he loses, Peter Russell perpetuates a series of events involving a woman's complicated marriage to …
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The Late Hector Kipling
by David Thewlis
Hector Kipling is a famous artist. But Hector is not as famous as his best friend, Lenny Snook. And as they are standing in the …
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Zeroville
by Steve Erickson
First edition of Erickson's phantasmagorical meditation on the power of cinema. In Zeroville (optioned by James Franco in 2011), Vikar becomes a film editor, the …
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The Gum Thief
by Douglas Coupland
Over the course of several months, two retail workers at an office supply superstore--Roger, a divorced, middle-aged "aisles associate" at Staples, and his young co-worker, …
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Grub
by Elise Blackwell
A novel of literary New York follows the lives of a cast of characters including editors, writers, and their friends over a five year period.
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Bad Monkeys
by Matt Ruff
Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division …
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Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls
by Danielle Wood
A collection of cautionary tales on such topics as virginity, commitment, love, work, longing, loss, and destiny.
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Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
by Daniel Wallace
Traveling through the Deep South in 1950 with Jeremiah Musgrove's Chinese Circus, magician Henry Walker finds himself in deep trouble with three angry white teenagers, …
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Trudy Hopedale
by Jeffrey Frank
"Amid tides of intrigue and shifting allegiances, this little town's extraordinary inhabitants swim helplessly, and alarmingly, toward their remarkable fates."--BOOK JACKET.
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Second Chance
by Jane Green
"The story of a group of people who haven't seen each other since they were best friends at school. When one of them dies in …
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Starting Out Sideways
by Mary E. Mitchell
Roseanna Plow is perfectly content with her nice, simple life on Long Island, despite the fact that she's being driven slowly insane by her meddling …
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Gun Shy
by Ben Rehder
The National Weapons Alliance is holding a rally in Blanco County, and it's being headlined by country music star Mitch Campbell. But Campbell's a fraud …
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What's Wrong with Dorfman?
by John Blumenthal
Martin Dorfman, a cynical, hypochondriacal, burned-out screenwriter, is in the midst of trying to develop his latest film script when he awakens one morning with …
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The Story of My Baldness
by Marek van der Jagt
In this darkly funny novel, an obsessive Viennese philosophy student is in search of l'amour.
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Florence of Arabia
by Christopher Buckley
The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way …
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Boomsday
by Christopher Buckley
Inciting a culture war when she suggests that baby boomers should be given government incentives to commit suicide, twenty-nine-year-old blogger and political malcontent Cassandra Devine …
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Thank You for Smoking
by Christopher Buckley
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY • A …
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
by Sue Townsend
Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his …