O P : 454 books
Thrown Under the Omnibus
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
An essential collection of career-spanning writings by the political satirist and #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Parliament of Whores.
From his early pieces for the National Lampoon, through his classic reporting as Rolling Stone’s International Affairs editor in the 1980s and...
Age and Guile
Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The political humorist shares his transformation from dirty hippie to conservative middle-aged grouch: “An incorrigible comic gift” (The New York Times Book Review).
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Give War a Chance was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly...
Driving Like Crazy
Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending: Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed to Be—With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The #1 New York Times–bestselling humorist’s tribute to car travel is “a ride worth taking, even for readers who don’t know an oil pan from a frying pan” (The Washington Times).
From a veteran of both Car and Driver and National Lampoon magazines, this hilarious book chronicles the...
The Bachelor Home Companion
A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From “the funniest writer in America,” a book about cooking and cleaning for people who don’t know how to do those things and aren’t about to learn (The Wall Street Journal).
In addition to debunking popular myths about bachelors (they are in fact not creatures known to hang around...
"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye"
Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This classic New York Times bestseller is an illuminating portrait of JFK—from his thrilling rise to his tragic fall—by two of the men who knew him best.
As a politician, John Fitzgerald Kennedy crafted a persona that fascinated and inspired millions—and left an outsize legacy in the...
Off the Hook
God, Love, Dating, and Marriage in a Hookup World
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Hookup culture is about much more than the quest for pleasure. It offers an easy way out of real communication and lasting relationships. It also teaches us to treat each other as objects for personal satisfaction. Even those who reject the hookup culture can still be negatively affected by it and...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
Parliament of Whores
A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A #1 New York Times bestseller: “An everyman’s guide to Washington” by the savagely funny political humorist and author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The New York Times).
P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores has become a classic in understanding the workings of the American political...
Give War a Chance
Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The #1 New York Times bestseller from “one of America’s most hilarious and provocative writers . . . a volatile brew of one-liners and vitriol” (Time).
Renowned for his cranky conservative humor, P. J. O’Rourke runs hilariously amok in this book, tackling the death of communism; his...
by P. J. O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Experience a year in the life of a cranky couch potato—also known as “the funniest writer in America” (The Wall Street Journal).
Touching on topics from technological change to the United Nations, this is a chronicle of the day-to-day home life and frequent harangues of a New York Times–bestselling...
The Baby Boom
How It Got That Way, And It Wasn't My Fault, And I'll Never Do It Again
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The New York Times–bestselling author looks at the sixties generation, and how he and his seventy-five million accomplices made America what it is today.
A onetime editor-in-chief of National Lampoon who also spent years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly, P. J. O’Rourke...
by Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Seabury Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Weird Tales' launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, 'Weird Tales' was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. 'Weird Tales' single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer...
Don't Vote
It Just Encourages the Bastards
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
“[A] merciless but often humorous look at the shortcomings of American politics” by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Parliament of Whores (Booklist).
Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious, and sobering look at why politics and politicians...