Genre :: Humor (59 books)

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  #6

  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  (31 Reviews)

  823 Points

  "It was love at first sight."

  

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  #40

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  (28 Reviews)

  344 Points

  "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million..."

  

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  #61

  Don Quixote

  by Miguel de Cervantes

  (9 Reviews)

  291 Points

  "Idle reader, you can believe without any oath of mine that I would wish this book, as the child of my brain, to be the most beautiful, the liveliest and the cleverest imaginable.Prologue: Idle..."

  

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  #68

  Tom Jones

  by Henry Fielding

  (3 Reviews)

  255 Points

  "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."

  

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  #74

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  by Laurence Sterne

  (4 Reviews)

  244 Points

  "I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much...

  

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  #110

  The World According to Garp

  by John Irving

  (11 Reviews)

  177 Points

  "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."

  

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  #122

  Scoop

  by Evelyn Waugh

  (5 Reviews)

  156 Points

  "While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters'."

  

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  #136

  A Confederacy of Dunces

  by John Kennedy Toole

  (4 Reviews)

  142 Points

  "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on..."

  

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  #144

  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  by Roald Dahl

  (16 Reviews)

  135 Points

  "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket."

  

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  #149

  Lucky Jim

  by Kingsley Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  133 Points

  "They made a silly mistake, though," the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.

  

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