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A mathematics professor whose specialty is nothing is hired by a billionaire who wants to become a Bond villain and needs help stealing the nothing kept in Fort Knox.
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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.
Mother Night
An American spy in World War II is tasked with broadcasting Nazi propaganda and discovers he may have become the monster he was pretending to be.
The Trees
When white men in Money, Mississippi, start turning up dead beside the body of a Black man who resembles Emmett Till, two state detectives arrive in a furious dark comedy about a century of lynching.
Pulp
Bukowski's alter ego takes a pulp-fiction detective job, blurring the line between literary fiction and dime-store noir.
Deadeye Dick
At twelve, Rudy Waltz fires a rifle from the cupola of his father's house in Midland City, Ohio, and kills a pregnant woman eight blocks away. He spends the rest of his life, and a fair number of recipes, trying to live it down.
Earth Angel
Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.
Absurdistan
The 325-pound son of a Russian oligarch, barred from returning to his beloved New York, gets caught up in a civil war over oil in a tiny former Soviet republic.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Saunders' debut collection of stories set in failing theme parks and corporate wastelands, including a Civil War park with real ghosts, established his mix of satire and heartbreak.
Pygmy
A small, ferocious exchange student from an unnamed totalitarian country, placed with a family in the American Midwest, carries out a secret mission, narrated in his own broken English, in Palahniuk's most divisive novel.
The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart, a bored Manhattan psychiatrist, begins letting the roll of a die make his decisions, from the trivial to the criminal, and turns the idea into a therapy for his patients.
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.
Damned
Madison Spencer, the thirteen-year-old daughter of film stars, wakes up in Hell, which turns out to be run like a corrupt, bureaucratic high school, and sets out to make the best of it.