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Coming from True Grit? Start with Little Big Man, The Count of Monte Cristo, News of the World ARE. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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Pitch-black comedy and wry
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Funny, and it bites · it stirs you up inside
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Sharp and very funny · love in the middle of danger
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Western and wry
Little Big Man
Thomas Berger 2004
Like yours: western · comforting, like coming home
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Pitch-black comedy · it makes you cry, in a good way
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Pitch-black comedy · nobody is entirely good
Hike
Drew Magary 2016
A reader shelved it with yours in Underrated novels nobody ever recommends
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Only western
The Count of Monte Cristo
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In common with yours: revenge · someone passing as someone they're not
News of the World ARE
Paulette Jiles 2016
Like yours: western · tender and sad at once
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Michael Punke 2002
Like yours: revenge · fierce and defiant
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy 1900
In common with yours: western · nobody is entirely good
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Evan Winter 2017
In common with yours: revenge · fierce and defiant
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Ann Leckie 2013
Like yours: revenge · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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Only wry
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Jonathan L. Howard 2008
Grouped with yours in Underrated novels nobody ever recommends
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Bonnie Garmus 2022
Sharp and very funny · it leaves you with a warm feeling
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters 1975
Sharp and very funny · odd and endearing
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis 1998
Comedy with teeth · within the walls of a school
Hollywood
Charles Bukowski 1989
Funny, and it bites · funny and sad at once
Heartburn
Nora Ephron 1983
Sharp and very funny · love hurts sometimes
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome Klapka Jérôme 2003
Sharp and very funny · comforting, like coming home
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman 2020
Comedy with teeth · odd and endearing
The Silver Pigs
David Lindsey 1992
You need to know how it ends · one more chapter, then another
The Group
Mary McCarthy 1968
Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
The butcher boy
Patrick McCabe 1994
Grouped with yours in Underrated novels nobody ever recommends
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan 2013
Funny, and it bites · love in the middle of danger
City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert 2019
Sharp and very funny, but in literary fiction
The lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch 2001
Funny, and it bites · you'll finish it in two nights
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole 1982
Sharp and very funny · odd and endearing
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Joanne Harris 2014
Comedy with teeth · a myth or a classic told anew
Romantic Comedy
Curtis Sittenfeld 2023
Comedy with teeth · a tender love story
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder 2021
Pitch-black comedy · it gets under your skin
Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman 2012
Sharp and very funny · it restores your faith in people
Notes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller 2003
Pitch-black comedy · it ties your stomach in a knot
Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding 1996
Comedy with teeth · a love story that hurts
Prater Violet
Christopher Isherwood 1945
Sharp and very funny · funny and sad at once
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson 2010
A love story that hurts · a tender love story
Shipping News
Annie Proulx 1993
Funny, and it bites · a love that builds slowly
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
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Comedy with teeth · odd and endearing
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It makes you cry, in a good way · funny and sad at once
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