I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb

At first I thought this book was brilliant.
Then I read a little more and was concerned I should not be finding this as funny as I was.
Then I reserved judgment until I was a little further and the pages flew by.
Final analysis: Brilliant.
Oliver Watson is a seventh grader in Omaha, Nebraska. He's a genius and the third richest person in the world, but very few people know that because 1) children can't run or own multi-national corporations because legally they are insignificant and 2) Oliver is playing stupid so no one suspects him of being a the third richest person in the world. Lionel Sheldrake (the man that everyone thinks is the third richest person in the world) is one of the few people that actually knows that Oliver is the evil genius behind Sheldrake Industries.
So Oliver gets by in school, barely working, pretending to fail, all in an attempt to keep himself above suspicion. He's happy to work this way and then a wrench is thrown into his plan: Tatiana, one of his classmates, nominates him to be class president. Not wanting to show off what a genius he is, Oliver declines.
Only to find out it's something his father would respect him for, having been class president himself in high school. Not that Oliver wants his father's respect. Oliver and his father have a bit of a contentious relationship--his dad thinks he's the idiot he pretends to be because Oliver knows it drives his father crazy. Oliver decides to make a mockery of school elections, something his father holds dear, by getting elected president. So he tries to get on the ballot by speaking to the Principal, but has to call in The Motivator, who then gets a toy from an African dictator that the Principal wants in order to be on the ballot. An uprising occurs in Africa and Oliver becomes the world's fourth richest person.
Oliver is now on the ballot, huzzah! Now to get the two other people running off the ballot. Which The Motivator comes in handy for as well. But Oliver's father doesn't think winning unopposed is what school elections are about. So now Oliver has to get someone ELSE on the ballot, but someone who Oliver can easily win against.
And because he is an genius of unspeakable evil, it happens. And then there's an actual campaign plan and Sheldrake wonders why Oliver is trying so hard to impress a man who doesn't appear to care about Oliver (his dad) and then things go off course .... But it all works out. In a way.
I was totally into this book until I reached the point when Oliver descended into his hidden cave beneath his house to attend to business matters with Sheldrake. Oh, and the school toilet filled with Milk Duds. Then I was beginning to think that perhaps Oliver has a very vivid imagination and is not really an evil genius. But when I began to worry less about Oliver's sanity and went along with the story for the sake of the story, I was into it and totally enjoyed it. Even at the end, I don't know if all of this happened outside of Oliver's head or if it's all in his mind. Which makes it probably the most brilliant aspect of the book because his family and classmates all treat him the way he's wants to be treated--like an idiot.
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President is funny and fast paced and Oliver is endearing, even though he claims to be a genius of unspeakable evil. Good times.