Humorous / English literature

Viral

by Mike Jeavons – Unbound Digital (February 07, 2019)

What is the worst thing that could happen to an introvert? For Chad McKenna, it’s discovering that his bully of brother, Sam, has uploaded a video of him jerking off to the internet. Thankfully, Chad knows...

Iron Bird

by Robert Woodshaw – Unbound Digital (January 24, 2019)

Remember Animal Farm? Remember the Seven Commandments? Well, this time it’s the creatures in the zoological gardens that are attempting to manage their own affairs. And instead of a critique of communism the...

There's a Word for That

by Sloane Tanen – Little, Brown and Company (April 02, 2019)

A hilarious and moving chronicle of a wildly flawed family that comes together--in rehab, of all places--even as each member is on the verge of falling apart

Meet Marty Kessler, a retired LA film producer whose...

Someday Jennifer

by Risto Pakarinen – HarperAvenue (August 06, 2019)

What if the only way forward is to go back?

Peter is stuck. The promise of his youth has petered out into a comfortable but lonely adulthood: his career is flat, his friendships exist only on Facebook and his...

Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe

by Evan James – Atria Books (March 26, 2019)

Named one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by LitHub and Entertainment Weekly

From a bright new voice in contemporary fiction comes a hilarious and sophisticated comedy of manners about a delightfully eccentric...

Stay Up with Hugo Best

by Erin Somers – Scribner (April 02, 2019)

June Bloom is twenty-nine, broke, and an aspiring comedy writer. Hugo Best is a beloved late-night TV icon and notorious womanizer who invites her to his mansion for Memorial Day weekend. This is the story of...

Hark

by Sam Lipsyte – Simon & Schuster (January 15, 2019)

A brilliant send-up of our contemporary culture from Sam Lipsyte, the critically acclaimed author of Home Land, centered around an unwitting mindfulness guru and the phenomenon he initiates.

In an America convulsed...

No Sunscreen for the Dead

Serge Storms #22

by Tim Dorsey – William Morrow (January 15, 2019)

A USA Today Bestseller!

The Sunshine State’s most lovable psychopath, Serge A. Storms, kills it in this zany adventure from the “compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny” (Boston Globe) king of mayhem,...

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

by Balli Kaur Jaswal – William Morrow (April 30, 2019)

The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama—an Indian This Is Where I Leave You...