swap_horiz Letty Fox: Her Luck Alternatives

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The Public Burning

The Public Burning is a 1977 novel by American author Robert Coover that fictionalizes the 1953 execution of Julius and...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

8.6 Great

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Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth’s *Portnoy’s Complaint* offers a candid, confessional narrative following Alexander Portnoy’s exploration of...

American Satire 20TH Century Confessional

8.5 Great

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The Sot-Weed Factor

The Sot-Weed Factor is a 1960 novel by John Barth, structured as a picaresque satire set in late-seventeenth-century Mar...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

8.4 Great

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The Dog of the South

"The Dog of the South" is a 1979 picaresque and comic novel by American author Charles Portis. The narrative follows Ray...

American Comic Satire 20TH Century

8.2 Great

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Hasta no verte Jesús mío

Hasta no verte Jesús mío is a 1969 novel by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, constructed from extensive interviews with...

Satire 20TH Century Mexican Testimonial

8.1 Great

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Two Serious Ladies

Published in 1943, Two Serious Ladies is a modernist novel by American writer Jane Bowles, and it remains her only compl...

American Satire 20TH Century Surreal

8.0 Great

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The Revolt of the Cockroach People

Oscar Zeta Acosta's 1973 novel, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, is a picaresque work of fiction that dramatizes the...

American Activist Satire 20TH Century

8.0 Great

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The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo is a 1972 novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta, a Mexican-American attorney, activist, and wr...

American Satire 20TH Century Outsider

7.9 Good

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Rubyfruit Jungle

Rubyfruit Jungle is a novel by Rita Mae Brown published in 1973 that follows the life of Molly Bolt from her childhood i...

American Satire 20TH Century Queer

7.8 Good

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A Cool Million

Published in 1934, A Cool Million is a satirical novel by American author Nathanael West. The narrative systematically d...

American Satire 20TH Century Parody

7.5 Good

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El roto

El roto is a Chilean novel written by Joaquín Edwards Bello and published in 1920. The narrative critically examines the...

Satire 20TH Century Urban Rogue

7.4 Good

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The Road to Wellville

T. Coraghessan Boyle's The Road to Wellville is a 1993 historical novel set around the health-reform culture of Battle C...

American Satire 20TH Century Historical

7.3 Good

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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is the only published novel by American writer Richard Fariña. First issued in...

American Satire 20TH Century Counterculture

7.2 Good

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Kinflicks

Kinflicks is Lisa Alther's first novel, published in 1976. It follows Ginny Hull through a series of relationships, expe...

American Satire 20TH Century Coming Of Age

7.1 Good

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The Fan Man

The Fan Man is a 1974 comic picaresque novel by American author William Kotzwinkle. The book is narrated in the erratic,...

American Comic 20TH Century Urban

7.1 Good

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A Start in Life

A Start in Life is an 1842 French novel by Honoré de Balzac and a work in his larger series La Comédie humaine. The nove...

Satire 20TH Century Crime British

7.0 Good

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My Search for Warren Harding

My Search for Warren Harding is the 1983 debut novel of American writer Robert Plunket. Its narrator, Elliot Wiener, is...

Quest American Comic Satire

7.0 Good

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Mott the Hoople

Mott the Hoople is a comic picaresque novel by the American writer Willard Manus, published in 1966. It follows Norman M...

American Comic Satire 20TH Century

6.2 Fair

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Ten Men

Ten Men is a 2005 British novel by Alexandra Gray. It is structured as an episodic first-person account in which an Engl...

Comic Satire 20TH Century British

5.9 Mediocre

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Homo Sapiens Berliner Art

Homo Sapiens Berliner Art is Albrecht Behmel's 2012 German comic novel, opening his Mitte series about artists in post-r...

German Modern Satire 20TH Century

5.7 Mediocre