Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
Interior Chinatown
A background actor in a Chinatown cop show realises his entire life has been scripted by stereotypes, and breaks the fourth wall to rewrite his story.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
A stockbroker is woken at 4 AM by a phone call and must navigate a surreal night of psychics, homeless prophets, and the stock market's metaphysical underpinnings.
The Sellout
A Black farmer in Dickens, a Los Angeles neighbourhood that has been quietly wiped off the map, sets out to put it back, by reinstating slavery and segregating the local school.