Titres dans Humour noir

Una novela crítica, divertida y reflexiva sobre la adicción, el consumismo y la soledad de la sociedad norteamericana, desde una perspectiva de gran sabiduría y sentido del humor.

Maya's been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband leaves her and her favorite professor ends their affair, her barely-calibrated life descends into chaos, and she has to make some choices. Maya's struggle to be alone, to be a woman, and to be thoughtful and imperfect and alive in a world that doesn't really care what happens to her is rendered with dead-eyed clarity and unnerving charm. This book takes every tired trope about addiction and recovery, "likeable" characters, and redemption narratives and blows them to pieces.

Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, "the French rat". That at least is how Harriet sees things, even if it’s Claude who has just asked Harriet to leave his Greenwich Village apartment. Well, one way or another she has no intention of leaving. To the contrary, she will stay and exact revenge - or would have if Claude had not had her unceremoniously evicted. Still, though moved out, Harriet is not about to move on. Not in any way. Girlfriends circle around to patronize and advise, but Harriet only takes offense, and it’s easy to understand why.

A “one-sitting-read" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space...

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up comedy in a novel that “[brims] with insecure characters, clever repartee, dark jokes and funny riffs” (The Wall Street Journal) “Insightful, compassionate, biting and honest.”—The...

Brought to you by Penguin. A fresh, funny and deeply affecting novel about a thirty-something woman who begins stalking a celebrity crush - and about what happens when it all becomes a bit too real. Perfect for fans of Baby Reindeer. *AN INSTANT NO.1 BESTSELLER* You're the love of Esther's life...

A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE GILLER PRIZE Named a Must-Read Pick by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, People, Associated Press, Marie Claire, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Goodreads, Women’s Wear Daily, and more The highly anticipated follow-up to...

For fans of Lights Out and You, this follow-up to Love Me Stalk Me is a dark rom-com about a woman matched with her fantasy boyfriend by an AI app—unaware he’s actually her ex-husband, back to win her over in disguise. When Amanda Bennett signs up for the beta feature of the Obsess AI...

Liv ist 48, Ehefrau, Mutter, Küchenplanerin und – nachdem ihre erste Hitzewallung eine tödliche Kettenreaktion ausgelöst hat: Mörderin. Jetzt schläft sie nicht mehr nur wegen des Hormonmangels schlecht, sondern auch wegen ihrer Schuldgefühle. Aber sich stellen und ins Gefängnis gehen...

An abused, grief-stricken, and impoverished Sonny has all but given up on life. That is, until he meets death, by way of the Grim Reaper. The Reaper, a junk food loving, poetry reading, cigarette-addicted entity, has no time to waste as he searches for a suitable successor who would become “Death” for the next millennium. By training the boy in the ways of death and dying, Reaper grooms his young apprentice and through suspenseful and horror-laced events, he unknowingly gives Sonny something he never intended: A reason to live.

Acclaimed humorist David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is a perennial favorite. This updated edition includes six additional pieces, including a never-before-published story. David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published...

A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a...

“Funny, chatty, weird, and at times unexpectedly poignant.” —Electric Literature Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this “one-of-a-kind debut” (Cosmopolitan) about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister—a poignant...

A stunning collection of stories exploring love and art, luck and loss, from “one of our greatest living short story writers” (Esquire), the author of How to Behave in a Crowd and The Material ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE SUMMER AND ONE OF THE NEW YORKER AND ESQUIRE’S BEST...

In these wonderfully funny and poignant stories, Willett’s eccentric, complex characters think and do the unconventional. Soft, euphonic women gradually grow old; weak, unhappy men confront love and their own mortality; and abominable children desperately try to grow up with grace. With a unique voice and dry humor, Willett gives us a new insight into human existence, showing us those specific moments in relationships when life suddenly becomes visible. Critically acclaimed when it was first published, Jenny and the Jaws of Life is being brought back due to popular demand. 

If you are looking for epic space battles, if you are looking for generals achieving victory through genius tactics, if you are looking for berserker warriors carrying empires aloft on their swords, look elsewhere my friends. Here, you will find laughter. Here, a quartermaster must discover why the human insists that the mass produced broom, identical down to the molecule to every other broom on the base, is the "wrong" broom, and why and how they expect him to fix it.

Ray is not a bad guy. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. And though his career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal and he spends his afternoons churning out third-rate listicles in his boxer briefs, he dreams of making...

‘A fast-paced, unpredictable ride.’ KATERINA DIAMOND, author of The Teacher What do you do if you witness a murder…but no-one believes you? When Kate sees a horrific murder streamed live on her laptop, she calls the police in a state of shock. But when they arrive, the video has...

So ein mieser Schuft! Als Carina entdeckt, dass Ehemann Jonas sie betrügt, bricht ihre heile kleine Welt zusammen. Klar, Lust und Leidenschaft sind nach zehn Jahren Ehe und zwei Kindern auf der Strecke geblieben. Doch dass Jonas mit seiner Neuen all die romantischen Highlights genießt, die sich Carina immer gewünscht hat, ist zu viel. Sie beschließt, ihn direkt in die Scheidungshölle zu schicken. Und die Neue gleich dazu. Soll sie ruhig merken, wie angenehm das Leben an Jonas Seite ist, wenn seine Kinder sonntagmorgens Hockeytraining haben oder Brechdurchfall bekommen... Während ihres Rachefeldzugs blüht Carina auf. Die Männer stehen Schlange - und plötzlich auch Jonas. Was tun?

In Renates Alter muss man sich so seine Gedanken darüber machen, was passiert, wenn man dereinst "heimgerufen" wird. Wer bekommt welche Sammeltasse? In welcher Leibwäsche will man bestattet werden? Und wie ist das eigentlich mit dem Erbe? Als Renate bei der Bank ihres Vertrauens erfährt, dass der Bankenheini ihre paar Kröten nicht in Bundesschatzbriefe, sondern in Aktien angelegt hat, ist das Entsetzen groß.