Kingsley Amis 1998
- What it is
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Within the walls of a school · comedy with teeth
- Genre
- Classics Humor
- Feels
- Morally grey Funny Wry Defiant
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Funny and school setting
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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
Good Omens
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A reader shelved it with yours in Books that made me laugh out loud, alone
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Funny, and it bites · funny and sad at once
True Grit
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Sharp and very funny · outlaws and guns in the West
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Ned Beauman 2022
Funny, and it bites · prose with a spark
The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
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Comedy with teeth · a myth or a classic told anew
Lessons in Chemistry
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Sharp and very funny · it leaves you with a warm feeling
Crazy Rich Asians
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Funny, and it bites · love in the middle of danger
Man Called Ove
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Sharp and very funny · it restores your faith in people
My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Funny, and it bites · it stirs you up inside
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Jonathan L. Howard 2008
Funny, and it bites · odd and endearing
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Tom Hanks 2023
Comedy with teeth · a small, intimate story
The Shampoo Effect
Jenny Jackson 2026
Sharp and very funny · it raises the temperature
1 book
School setting and wry
Notes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller 2003
Like yours: school setting · it ties your stomach in a knot
5 books · Alike in just one
Only funny
Trio
William Boyd 2020
It makes you cry, in a good way · funny and sad at once
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Funny and sad at once · it makes you laugh
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman 2017
Funny and sad at once · it makes you laugh
Guncle
Steven Rowley 2021
It makes you cry, in a good way · funny and sad at once
3 books · Alike in just one
Only school setting
Stoner
John Williams 1965
Like yours: school setting · it leaves you shaken
The secret history
Donna Tartt 1992
In common with yours: school setting · you end up rooting for the wrong people
14 books · Alike in just one
Only wry
Mezzanine
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Sharp and very funny · odd and endearing
The great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald 2011
A love story that hurts · a love story that makes you laugh
Little Big Man
Thomas Berger 2004
Comforting, like coming home · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh 2019
Sharp and very funny, but in literary fiction
Prater Violet
Christopher Isherwood 1945
Sharp and very funny · funny and sad at once
The age of innocence
Edith Wharton 1920
Love hurts sometimes · love and laughs in equal parts
Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo 2003
Funny, and it bites, but in literary fiction
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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It gets under your skin · pitch-black comedy
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov 1777
You end up rooting for the wrong people · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
Fight Club
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it tells it straight
The Group
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Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
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