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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst published in 1906, this edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works by W.J. Craig has been many times reprinted. The spelling has been modernised, and the punctuation revised. A short glossary of obsolete words is provided, and there is also an index of characters and of the first lines of songs.The drawing on the jacket, a reconstruction of the Fortune Theatre, 1600, is by C... -
A Perfectly Messed-Up Story by Patrick McDonnell
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this interactive and engaging read-aloud, bestselling author and award-winning artist Patrick McDonnell creates a funny, engaging, and almost perfect story about embracing life's messes... -
Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist by Erich Kästner
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGoing to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, “aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . -
Mystery Man by Colin Bateman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the comic crime caper. He's the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency's clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. It's not as if there's any danger involved... -
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The Baby Diaries by Sam Binnie
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe hilarious and heart-warming second in the series from the author of The Wedding Diaries."I'd be sick right now, but I never like to reinforce a cliché."A few weeks after Kiki and Thom return from honeymoon, Kiki finds there's a noticeable absence. An extremely serious noticeable absence of something, it turns out, Kiki now realises she was pretty glad about... -
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA brilliantly crafted novel about one man's betrayal of his talent, his friends, and his principles-a work of demon energy, startling imagery, and utter originality. At fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want. Nearly twenty-five years ago, he traded his precarious existence as a brilliant underground artist for the perks and comforts of a high-ranking Soviet apparatchik... -
Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Right Honourable Leslie Titmuss has clawed his way up the Tory government ranks and is now Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Ecological Affairs and Planning (H.E.A.P.), and in pursuit of beautiful widow Jenny Sidonia. But seismic changes are afoot in the beautiful countryside where a new town threatens to engulf his own back garden... -
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsBegun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s... -
Tauben, Die Den Mambo Tanzen by C.D. Payne
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Jonathan Livingston Seagull as imagined by the Marx brothers." That's one take on Frisco Pigeon Mambo, an uproarious new comic novel by C.D. Payne, author of the cult classic Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp.When a flock of alcohol and tobacco addicted lab pigeons are liberated in San Francisco, our feathered heroes turn the whole city topsy-turvy... -
The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"[The Reactive is] a searing, gorgeously written account of life, love, illness, and death in South Africa. With exquisite prose, formal innovation, and a masterful command of storytelling, Ntshanga illustrates how some young people navigated the dusk that followed the dawn of freedom in South Africa and humanizes the casualties of the Mbeki government's fatal policies on HIV & AIDS...Categorized as:
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Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Anonymous, Joe Klein
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures... -
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsWhile reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper... -
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsTHE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS `Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you... -
Dinosaur Therapy by James Stewart, K. Roméy
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsa comic about dinosaurs navigating the complexities of life, togetherincluding exclusive, never-seen-before, bonus comicsa wistful, honest and highly relatable account of modern life.dinosaur therapy is a book of cartoons for grown-ups from the very successful web comic @dinosandcomics... -
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 14 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle... -
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 15 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo geniuses. Two brains.Two hearts. One battle.Who will confess their love first…?!Turns out confessing your feelings is the easy part of a romantic relationship… Now Kaguya and Miyuki have to figure out how to behave in a relationship. Kaguya retreats behind the ice shield she built to protect herself years ago. Miyuki believes only an ideal version of himself is worthy of love... -
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 13 by Aka Akasaka, 赤坂アカ
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle... -
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe idiosyncratic, erudite and brilliantly funny new book from Mark Forsyth, bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon.In an age unhealthily obsessed with substance, this is a book on the importance of pure style... -
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 16 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWill Kaguya and Miyuki ever go beyond making out and get around to officially going out?! What game is Miko playing when she interferes with Yu and Tsubame’s fledgling intimacy? Meanwhile, Kaguya tries to choose the perfect gift for Miyuki, Yu tries to choose the perfect gift for Tsubame, and Miyuki’s dad goes into the fortune-telling business!India is the land of spiritual enlightenment... -
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 12 by Aka Akasaka, 赤坂アカ
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle... -
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny... -
Kind of Coping: An Illustrated Look at Life with Anxiety by Maureen Marzi Wilson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“These comics perfectly capture what it's like to live with anxiety.” —BuzzFeedMaureen “Marzi” Wilson—the popular Instagram cartoonist behind Introvert Doodles—is back with a brand-new collection of hilarious, relatable, and heartwarming doodles about anxiety that show you that you are not alone.If you struggle with anxiety, you may feel like it’s you against the world all the time... -
Emotions Explained with Buff Dudes: Owlturd Comix by Andrew Tsyaston, Shen Comix
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYou know how, since the dawn of humanity, great philosophers and poets have dedicated their entire lives to exploring concepts like love, life itself, logic, and sorrow? Well, those great philosophers and poets are dead now, so I win... -
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsDo lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures... -
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Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings‘Perfect, kind, hilarious and persuasive’ Lena Dunham‘You need this book. Your mum needs this book. Your best friend needs this book. Everyone needs a dose of Happy Fat!’ Julie MurphyIn Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife...Categorized as:
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Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsIn this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank... -
How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRules for being a man:Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About FeelingsBut Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone?Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother... -
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world... -
Improvisation for the Theater by Viola Spolin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere is the thoroughly revised third edition of the bible of improvisational theater.Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, film... -
Nigger by Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent twenty years there one night..
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