Humorous Books Roundup (10/1/24)

Ready to laugh? Check out some upcoming books sure to make you chuckle!

BAD NATURE BY ARIEL COURAGE
9781250360885 | 4/1/25

Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, forty-year-old Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny novel.  It’s Hester’s fortieth birthday when she’s diagnosed with terminal cancer, and she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. With no friends or family tying her to the life she’s built in New York City, she quits her wildly lucrative job in corporate law and sets off. She hasn’t made it far when she runs into John, an environmental activist in need of a ride to different superfund sites across the United States. From five-star Midwestern hotels to cultish Southwestern compounds, the two slowly make their way across the country. But will the revelations they make along the way dissuade Hester from her final goal?

IN MY REMAINING YEARS BY JEAN GRAE
9781250857538 | 3/18/25

SPELLBOUND: My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith BY PHIL HANLEY
9781250860156 | 3/18/25

When Phil Hanley entered first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart from his peers: he couldn’t read. Phil slipped through the school’s cracks, year by year falling farther and farther behind his friends, only passing to each next grade because of his mother’s interventions. Finally he was diagnosed with dyslexia, a learning disability that would shape the rest of his life. Unable to pursue college or a conventional job, Phil was thrust into a life to be defined by unconventional twists. Finally, he found himself on a stage with a microphone, a spotlight, and five minutes of jokes. Though stand-up was never his dream, the comedy community provided a path that at the time seemed to be the only option left for him, and one that he compellingly argues, saved his life. SPELLBOUND is a story of humor and also of struggle and heartbreak, of constantly living in a world that sees things differently than you, and of triumph over adversity.

WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE BY JOHN SCALZI
9780765389091 | 3/25/25

One day soon, suddenly and without explanation, the moon as we know it is replaced with an orb of cheese with the exact same mass. Through the length of an entire lunar cycle, we follow multiple characters–schoolkids and scientists, billionaires and workers, preachers and politicians–as they confront the strange new world they live in, and the absurd, impossible moon that now hangs above all their lives.