Books like Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things by Linda Berdoll

A witty, supernatural romp in which a demon, an angel, and a misfit dog stop the apocalypse after their prophetic bible misplaces the Antichrist.

A witty Victorian comedy in which characters adopt false identities to evade social obligations, exposing the hypocrisy of late‑Victorian society.

A humorous, diary‑style look at a thirty‑something Londoner's year, exploring her career, friendships, body image, pleasures, and love life.

A post‑Apocalyptic reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic, where Elizabeth Bennet must halt a zombie outbreak while navigating Regency courtship and class tensions.

Shakespeare’s comedy follows the love‑blocked pairs Hero and Claudio and Benedick and Beatrice, whose witty quarrels and false accusations ultimately culminate in a humorous resolution of misunderstandings and mistaken identity.

A practical guide for writers and learners, showing how to craft bold, effective sentences that serve the reader.

A parody of Jane Austen’s classic, the Dashwood sisters find themselves on a mysterious island teeming with sea monsters, while navigating love, inheritance, and social expectations in a humorously monstrous rewrite of "Sense and Sensibility."

In California’s Central Valley, six friends form a Jane Austen book club, spending six months debating her novels while navigating marriages, affairs, and new love.

"The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language 'mistakes' and how they came to be accepted as correct--or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or just plain wrong. Whether you consider yourself a stickler, a nitpicker, or a rule-breaker in the know, Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire. Filled with historic and contemporary examples, the book chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes, and features some of our most common words and phrases, including: Decimate; Hopefully; Enormity; That/which; Enervate/energize; Bemuse/amuse; Literally/figuratively; Ain't; Irregardless; Socialist; OMG; Stupider. Lively, surprising, funny, and delightfully readable, this is a book that will settle arguments among word lovers--and it's sure to start a few, too"--

The Princess Bride is a fantasy romance by William Goldman, blending adventure, humor and love into a 'ruritanian romance' style tale.

Explore the quirky world of euphemisms, slang, and rounded language with definitions, examples, and historical context in R.W. Holder’s handy guide.

There's an art to not saying what you mean, and A Dictionary Of Euphemisms investigates our all too common tendency to prefer vague or roundabout expressions to words which are blunt, precise, and often disagreeably true. Whey else do we say 'bijou', 'house of ill repute', and 'corporate entertainment', when what we really mean is 'inconveniently small', 'brothel', and 'bribery'? Let A Dictionary of Euphemisms be your guide to the language of prudery, evasion, and deceit. Filled with thousands of quotations, definitions, derivations, and historical explanations, this dictionary offers compulsive browsing combined with essential reference.