Andrew Shaffer Books in Order

Shaffer surveys famous Western thinkers whose romantic lives were full of affairs, betrayals, bad decisions, and heartbreak. This witty nonfiction collection pairs big ideas with the very human failures philosophers could not reason away.

Young tycoon Earl Grey draws college student Anna Steal into his wealthy, melodramatic world. This adult parody skewers billionaire romance conventions through Earl’s increasingly absurd secrets, awkward desires, and fifty very embarrassing shames.

A lively history of writers whose lives were often as wild as their books. Shaffer profiles literary troublemakers, rebels, addicts, and scandal-makers, balancing their work with the personal disasters that followed them.

This mock survival manual prepares readers for flying sharks, monster attacks, freak storms, and other impossible emergencies. Packed with straight-faced advice and absurd scenarios, it treats disaster-movie logic as a matter of practical preparedness.

A darkly funny holiday collection of essays, poems, short stories, and cartoons. Shaffer cuts through seasonal sweetness with odd traditions, talking animals, violent surprises, and plenty of reasons to dread festive cheer.

On his fifth wedding anniversary, Earl Grey’s wife Anna disappears, leaving him as the leading suspect. With only his twin sister in his corner, Earl faces a missing-person mystery in this short parody sequel.

In this political satire, struggling ex-tabloid reporter Jimmie Bernwood becomes President Trump’s official biographer. When the previous biographer is murdered, Jimmie must investigate the White House secrets he was hired to record.

This illustrated humor book applies real medical reasoning to the injuries action heroes casually survive on screen. Bullet wounds, explosions, falls, and broken bones get grimly funny diagnoses that reveal how little Hollywood bodies resemble real ones.

After an Amtrak conductor Joe Biden knows dies under suspicious circumstances, the former vice president starts asking questions. Reunited with Barack Obama, Joe follows the case through Delaware and into a dangerous criminal network.

Jay Z. Catsby throws extravagant Jersey Shore parties and hides behind a cat costume, all while longing for Dandelion, his neighbor’s cousin. This modern parody turns a familiar tale of wealth, obsession, and longing delightfully strange.

Joe Biden visits Barack Obama in Chicago, where Barack’s stolen BlackBerry quickly leads to a shooting and a deeper conspiracy. The former White House partners chase clues through the city in a fast, playful political mystery.

This comic poetry chapbook finds humor in alienation, bad romance, online culture, and the awkward business of being human. Shaffer’s short poems mix deadpan observations with sharp turns that skewer modern life.

In 1980s New York, desperate editor Lussi Meyer lands a job at a horror publisher where her coworkers make her life miserable. A sinister Secret Santa gift soon turns office hazing into a deadly supernatural problem.

A full-length collection of humorous poems about online life, breakups, self-help, pop culture, and everyday absurdity. Shaffer mixes new and selected work with photographs, delivering poetry for readers who dislike being lectured by poetry.

Bernie Sanders and his Gen Z aide are pulled into a murder investigation in a small Vermont town. With a killer still at large, they must untangle local grudges, maple-syrup politics, and a case that threatens Bernie’s fight for justice.

This comic poetry collection takes aim at self-love slogans, romance, cheap vodka, snack cakes, and modern nonsense. Short, sharp poems and rough illustrations give Shaffer plenty of room for deadpan observations and bad advice.

A morbidly funny illustrated joke book for readers who prefer black clothes, bleak punch lines, and Halloween all year. Its collection of goth-themed gags keeps the mood dark without taking itself too seriously.

A shadowy tech company sends two reluctant agents to find a renegade scientist running an isolated deprogramming clinic. When he takes one agent captive, the other must recruit help and enter the strange world of Orphis.