Books written by Christopher Buckley

Wry Martinis

"Fifty years ago, the three funniest writers in the English language were named Shaw, Mencken and Muggeridge. Today, they're named Thompson, O'Rourke and Christopher Buckley.Read this book and you'll die laughing.
Now What?: The Voters Have Spoken--Essays on Life After Trump

This quick-turnaround volume, a collection of 38 personal essays from writers all over the country--"many of America's most thoughtful voices," as Jon Meacham puts it--captures the week Trump was voted out, a unique juncture in American ...
But Enough About You: Essays

At about this time the first James Bond movie appeared, in which Sean Connery memorably orders the barman: “Vodka martini. Shaken, not stirred.” “Shaken, not stirred” entered the language as the sine qua non of sophistication.
Christopher Buckley: 2-Book Bundle

Boomsday: One of America's most hilarious novelists and bestselling author of Thank You For Smoking takes on the plight of aging Baby Boomers in this Swiftian comedy about generational warfare.
Evening Street Review Number 15

NUMBER 15, AUTUMN 2016 Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the ...
Evening Street Review Number 13

But that day they say that Laura Nelson had a small girl child she carried in her arms. They said she laid the child down on the bridge deck, just before she was hung. One woman who was present told the newspaper reporter that the men ...
Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

... of Treuhaft and herself made a brilliant success of muckraking journalism, causing vampiric shrieks in U.S. funeral homes coast to coast and, into the bargain, exposing as a money-minting fraud Bennett Cerf 's Famous Writers School.
Thank You for Smoking: A Novel

What am I supposed to do, challenge him to a debate on hit men on the Donahue show? “Men who kill other men, and the ones who get away, next, on Donahue'?” “No.” Gomez smiled enigmatically. “I'd expect you to be smarter than that.
God Is My Broker: A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth

I climbed Mount Cana—that is, the original “Mount Cana,” the hillock over the old garbage dump—and listened to the sounds of the feast below. The moon rose behind the skeleton of the new Mount Cana. How ridiculous it looked: steel ...
Supreme Courtship

Senator Mitchell held up a piece of paper as if mere physical contact with it might forever contaminate his fingers. “Do you recognize this document?” Not from this distance, Judge Cooney replied, now thoroughly perplexed.
Pacific Beat

I saw him a few more times that night , always with Christine , who is an attractive woman , if a little self - conscious . Our eyes kept bouncing off each other's like billiard balls . The Power Crowders made Buddy get up and dance ...
The Relic Master: A Novel

It is only when they reach their destination they realize they are not alone in their intentions to acquire a relic of dubious legitimacy. “A rollicking good time, Christopher Buckley has transported his signature wit and irreverence from ...
The Judge Hunter

The latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, in which a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a...
Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital

Just one or two more: Winslow Homer's Hound and Hunter (1892) manages to be both dramatic and hilarious at the same time, showing a boy in his canoe struggling desperately to keep the six-point buck that he has just shot from sinking to ...
The Relic Master: A Novel

Pressured by a patron who would buy a cardinalship, a sixteenth-century relic hunter and his best friend unsuccessfully forge a shroud before being placed in the custody of mercenaries to steal the celebrated Shroud of Chambéry.
Make Russia Great Again: A Novel

With hilarious jabs at the biggest world leaders and Washington politics overall, Make Russia Great Again is a timely political satire from “one of the funniest writers in the English language” (Tom Wolfe).
But Enough About You: Essays

An irreverent selection of essays by the best-selling author of Wry Martinis traces his literary friendships, family experiences and travels in such entries as "How to Teach Your Four-Year-Old to Ski," "A Short History of the Bug Zapper" ...
Camino Cielo

-ROBERT LOWELL Grandmother , 100 now , in a home in a small town south of Columbus , a town from which she's never moved , sees it only that way now - her body tied in the weakest manner to the mind , a bird fluttering all day about the ...
Boomsday: A Novel

Inciting a culture war when she suggests that baby boomers should be given government incentives to commit suicide, twenty-nine-year-old blogger and political malcontent Cassandra Devine catches the attention of an ambitious senator seeking ...
Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees

Poetry. In this remarkable anthology of poems about Weldon Kees or inspired by Weldon Kees—each accompanied by a statement by the poet regarding Kees's influence, magic, and power over the...