Simon Rich Books in Order

Brief comic stories transform childhood fears, relationships and everyday frustrations into unlikely scenarios. Dracula tries online dating, God forgets his plan, and familiar cultural figures encounter absurd obstacles in a collection that finds humor in human insecurity.

Bored billionaire teenager Elliot decides to transform unpopular Seymour into the most powerful student at their Manhattan school. Their unlikely friendship becomes an education in manipulation, sabotage, and the limits of what immense wealth can achieve.

God plans to abandon Heaven’s mismanaged business and destroy Earth. Two low-ranking angels negotiate a reprieve: if they can make a pair of exceptionally awkward humans fall in love, they can save the world and keep their jobs.

This collection turns the frustrations of romance into surreal comic situations. A deity juggling work and love, a romantically ambitious imaginary friend, and other unlikely narrators explore courtship, breakups, and the ordinary anxieties that make relationships feel absurd.

Simon Rich and illustrator Farley Katz parody an erotic manual with the familiar routines of marriage. Household chores, exhausted parents, and interrupted intimacy become comic poses in an illustrated account of how domestic life reshapes romantic expectations.

Comic stories examine entitlement, family expectations and the friction between generations. A preserved immigrant encounters modern life, neglected classroom hamsters confront their surroundings, and parents struggle with troublesome children as ordinary relationships become increasingly absurd.

These comic pieces find absurdity in everyday fears, from childhood embarrassment to adult confusion and old age. People, animals, and even God struggle with situations that exaggerate familiar anxieties, combining previously published material with additional work.

Stories about fame and artistic ambition follow people desperate to succeed or unable to accept failure. Hollywood hopefuls, embittered celebrities and unlikely historical voices reveal how the pursuit of recognition can distort friendship, judgment and personal identity.

Stories explore family, growing older and the responsibilities of caring for others through improbable situations. Pirates adopt a stowaway, a superhero confronts ordinary work, and toddler detectives investigate their world as unlikely households struggle with recognizable emotional problems.

A child regards bath time as a frightening ordeal involving strange objects, slippery soap and the prospect of being scrubbed clean. The child’s exaggerated fears turn a familiar household routine into an illustrated account of resistance, imagination and reassurance.

Comic stories follow millennials confronting middle age, fading ambitions and the distance between youthful expectations and adult life. Familiar fictional and historical figures face increasingly ordinary frustrations, revealing the anxieties that accompany nostalgia, aging and changing ideas of success.

These comic sketches and stories turn ordinary anxieties into absurd situations, from family tensions to public embarrassment. Rich explores how people respond to fear, rejection and social expectations when familiar everyday problems develop in unexpectedly ridiculous directions.