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Coming from Catch-22? Start with Lucky Jim, A Confederacy of Dunces, Three Men in a Boat. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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War from the inside and witty prose
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Like yours: war from the inside · nobody is entirely good
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Pitch-black comedy · nobody is entirely good
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In common with yours: war from the inside · funny and sad at once
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Atonement
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In common with yours: war from the inside · a farewell that moves you
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In common with yours: war from the inside · it stays with you
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Like yours: war from the inside · it leaves you shaken
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Like yours: war from the inside · love hurts sometimes
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In common with yours: war from the inside · love in the middle of danger
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Like yours: war from the inside · you won't want to come back
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In common with yours: war from the inside · it leaves you shaken
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Only witty prose
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis 1998
A reader shelved it with yours in Books that made me laugh out loud, alone
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole 1982
Readers put them together in Books that made me laugh out loud, alone
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Jerome Klapka Jérôme 2003
Readers put them together in Books that made me laugh out loud, alone
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Jonas Jonasson 2012
Readers put them together in Books that made me laugh out loud, alone
Good Omens
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A reader shelved it with yours in Books that made me laugh out loud, alone
Heartburn
Nora Ephron 1983
Sharp and very funny · love hurts sometimes
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A reader shelved it with yours in Books that made me laugh out loud, alone
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A reader shelved it with yours in Books that made me laugh out loud, alone
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It stirs you up inside, but in literary fiction
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Funny, and it bites · a love that builds slowly
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Sharp and very funny · odd and endearing
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It gets under your skin · nobody is entirely good
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Sharp and very funny · it leaves you with a warm feeling
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It ties your stomach in a knot · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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Anthony Burgess 1972
It stirs you up inside · no clean hands here
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Funny, and it bites · funny and sad at once
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Funny, and it bites, but in literary fiction
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Sharp and very funny · it restores your faith in people
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Sharp and very funny · funny and sad at once
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