Smart, Funny
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson  
Publisher Comments Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests...
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Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Powells.com Staff Pick On one list are the books you like to recommend. You want to turn on someone to your favorite unknown author or introduce them to the season's latest, greatest novel. If you've read widely enough over the years, you'll match reader to occasion. The list...
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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
by Aimee Bender
Powells.com Staff Pick When friends tell me to pick a book for them to read that I really like, this is the one I give most often. Brilliant, wacko, kooky, sharp short stories from one of my favorite writers. Dave, Powells...
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Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes....
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
Publisher Comments Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear...
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Fraud
by David Rakoff
Publisher Comments Journalist, actor, and radio commentator Rakoff has gathered in his first book what can best be described as essays on contemporary culture. And therein lies Rakoff's genius and his burgeoning appeal. The wry and the heartfelt join in his prose to...
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The Hundred Brothers (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Donald Antrim
Publisher Comments With this satanically funny novel Donald Antrim establishes himself as a literary provocateur of the first order as well as a grandmaster of the subject of sibling rivalry as he bring together 11 eccentric brothers in the decaying library of their family...
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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
by David Foster Wallace
Publisher Comments Long renowned as one of the smartest writers on the loose, David Foster Wallace reveals himself in Consider the Lobster to be also one of the funniest. In these pages he ranges far and farther in his search for the original, the curious, or the merely...
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A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews
Powells.com Staff Pick Sharp and often howlingly funny — but insistently generous — A Complicated Kindness introduces sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel, straining under the pressure of family, boys, and authority, common enough conflicts drawn here in extravagant...
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Without Feathers
by Woody Allen
Publisher Comments Here they are--some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD (A Play), to NO KADDISH FOR WEINSTEIN, old and new Woody Allen fans will laugh themselves...
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
by George Saunders
Powells.com Staff Pick TBaFRoP has garnered many a comparison to Animal Farm. Fair enough: they're both novella-length, political fables written by men named George. But Saunders is so much funnier — and more playful. If you haven't read his work, here's a perfect place...
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The Effect of Living Backwards
by Heidi Julavits
Powells.com Staff Pick Julavits's second novel manages the neat trick of entertaining while relating the story of a hijacking. The Effect of Living Backwards is a book about sisters. About identity. About choices. "A wonderfully absurdist game of chess," Aimee Bender called it....
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Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
by Donald Antrim
Powells.com Staff Pick For a while, inexplicably, Donald Antrim's debut novel was out of print. How did the publishers let this happen? As soon as Vintage released a new paperback edition, I immediately scooped up three copies for friends. Although I'd read and enjoyed Antrim...
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