The Last Detective Alive
By: John Swartzwelder
4.14
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
One of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By Jo…
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1. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Who can forget our beloved gentleman's personal gentleman, Jeeves, who ever comes to the rescue whe… read more
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"Come on," he said. "Bring the poker." I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
"It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something"-P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)
2. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
By: Douglas Adams
4.09
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ra… read more
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- science fiction
- humor
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"Shit!"-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
"Non tout baigne, tout ce qui est susceptible de biagner, baigne."-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
"Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo."-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
"God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience."-Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
3. Communion: A True Story
By: Whitley Strieber
3.51
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with hi… read more
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"Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a la…"-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story
"Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the band of dream, weaving imagination & reali…"-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story
4. Alas, Babylon
By: Pat Frank
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United … read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
5. The Stepford Wives
By: Ira Levin
2.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
6. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
By: Elmore Leonard
4.00
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more
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"I want you to understand,"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
7. Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.98
Format: None pages,
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Roy… read more
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- comedy
- fiction
8. Based on a True Story
By: Norm Macdonald
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible memoir of the actor, gambler, ra… read more
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- comedy
9. A Man Without a Country
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -Los Angeles… read more
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- humor
10. Moonchild
By: Aleister Crowley
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Aleister Crowley, a prolific writer, wrote only a few novels in his lifetime. Moonchild is his most… read more
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- fiction
11. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream
By: Nick Bryant , David McGowan
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the a… read more
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12. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
By: David Sedaris
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a jo… read more
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13. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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14. This is a Book
By: Demetri Martin
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Ce… read more
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15. The Making of Major League: A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic Baseball Comedy
By: Jonathan Knight
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
A behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest baseball movies ever. If you love watching "Major L… read more
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16. Naked
By: David Sedaris
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris tu… read more
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17. Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron
By: Spencer Kansa
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the e… read more
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18. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1 (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, #1)
By: Kevin Eastman , Peter Laird
3.81
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
Rediscover the underground roots of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, starting with this special editio… read more
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19. Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Kingdoms wobble, crowns topple and knives flash on the magical Discworld as the statutory three wit… read more
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20. This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
By: David Wong
4.26
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Originally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the… read more
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- humor
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"Damn it! I knew she was a monster! John! Amy! Listen! Guard your buttholes."-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
"When they write the sequel to the Bible, that shit is definitely gonna be in there."-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
"Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back."-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
"Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons."-David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
21. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- comedy
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
22. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
23. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography
By: Rob Wilkins
4.68
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more
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24. Meantime
By: Frankie Boyle
3.54
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more
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25. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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26. A Stroke of the Pen
By: Terry Pratchett
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more
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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen
27. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!
By: David Zucker
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more
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28. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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29. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
By: Garth Marenghi
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more
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"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
30. Tripping Over Myself: A Memoir of a Life in Comedy
By: Shaun Micallef
3.80
Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition
From Shaun Micallef, beloved host of ABC TV’s news satire Mad as Hell, comes Tripping Over Myself –… read more
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31. The Last Detective Alive
By: John Swartzwelder
4.14
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
One of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By Jo… read more
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