Books like 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.
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Breakfast of Champions
Kilgore Trout meets his creator in a Holiday Inn bar, and the meeting becomes a reckoning with free will, American madness, and the author's own despair.
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.
Pastoralia
Six stories set in dystopian theme parks and corporate hellscapes where dignity is the only luxury, and small acts of human decency are heroic.
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.
Tenth of December
Ten stories that veer between absurd comedy and great tenderness, from a boy's rescue attempt on a frozen pond to a medieval theme park and a family that buys living women as lawn ornaments, all about trying to be decent in broken systems.
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.
Banal Nightmare
After a decade in the city with a domineering partner, Moddie moves back to her hometown and falls in with old friends now nearing middle age, until an artist arrives for a residency at the local university.
The Late George Apley
A satirical memoir of George Apley, a Boston Brahmin, put together from his letters by an admiring family friend.
The Magnificent Ambersons
In a Midwestern town turning into a city at the turn of the century, George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled heir of its richest family, waits for his comeuppance.
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.
Dr. No
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.
May We Be Forgiven
Harry Silver, a Nixon scholar, sleeps with his brother's wife, and within weeks his brother George's life explodes, leaving Harry to look after his house, his children and his dog.