Books like A Confederacy of Dunces
A slothful, brilliant, hot-dog-cart-pushing medievalist wages war against modern New Orleans in one of literature's great comic antiheroes.
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The Dog of the South
Ray Midge of Little Rock follows his runaway wife, her ex-husband and his stolen Ford Torino to Honduras, picking up a broken-down con man named Dr. Reo Symes along the way.
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A young Black man named Not Sidney Poitier, raised with a fortune and Ted Turner as guardian, stumbles through a life that keeps replaying the plots of Sidney Poitier's films.
Colas Breugnon
A year in the life of Colas Breugnon, a fifty-year-old carpenter and wine-lover of Clamecy in Burgundy in the early 1600s, who tells his story through war, plague and family with unshakeable good humour.
Murphy
Murphy, an Irishman in London who likes nothing better than to tie himself naked in a rocking chair, is pushed by Celia, the prostitute who loves him, into finding a job, and finds one in a mental hospital.
I Am a Cat
A nameless cat belonging to a Tokyo schoolteacher observes his owner and his owner's Meiji-era circle of scholars, businessmen and gossips with the cool contempt of his species.
Treasure Island!!!
A directionless young woman who works at a pet-lending store reads Treasure Island and resolves to live by its core values of boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing, which goes badly for everyone around her, parrot included.
A Fraction of the Whole
Jasper Dean tells the story of his father Martin, a brilliant, paranoid philosopher full of grand schemes, and his uncle Terry, Australia's most beloved criminal, in a sprawling comic family saga.
The Ponder Heart
Edna Earle Ponder, who runs the hotel in Clay, Mississippi, talks a stranger's ear off about her generous, childlike Uncle Daniel, his marriages and the trial that has the whole town watching.
The Good Lord Bird
A young enslaved boy in 1850s Kansas Territory is freed by John Brown, mistaken for a girl, and spends years disguised in a dress as Brown's good-luck charm on the road to Harpers Ferry.
Pretend I'm Dead
A housecleaner in Taos, New Mexico drifts through odd jobs and stranger relationships, narrating her life with deadpan humour and unacknowledged pain.
Solar
Michael Beard, a vain, lecherous Nobel Prize-winning physicist coasting on old work, stumbles into the business of saving the world from climate change and the farce of his own life.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
A millionaire philanthropist in a small Indiana town tries to give away his fortune to the poor and discovers that generosity is the most subversive act in America.