Genre :: Humor (59 books)

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  #155

  Henderson the Rain King

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  130 Points

  "What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated."

  

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  #197

  Breakfast of Champions

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (6 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "This is the tale of a meeting of two lonely, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast."

  

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  #199

  The Day of the Locust

  by Nathanael West

  (3 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office."

  

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  #202

  Cat's Cradle

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (7 Reviews)

  97 Points

  "Call me Jonah."

  

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  #227

  Nightmare Abbey

  by Thomas Love Peacock

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county..."

  

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  #243

  The Code of the Woosters

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  (5 Reviews)

  86 Points

  "I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves."

  

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  #272

  Asterix the Gaul

  by René Goscinny

  (8 Reviews)

  78 Points

  

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  #288

  Cranford

  by Elizabeth Gaskell

  (3 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women."

  

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  #299

  Portnoy's Complaint

  by Philip Roth

  (4 Reviews)

  71 Points

  "She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seemed to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise."

  

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  #309

  Cold Comfort Farm

  by Stella Gibbons

  (5 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "The education bestowed upon Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of influenza or..."

  

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