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Dark Comedy Books
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,495,548 ratings — published 1969
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,852 ratings — published 1961
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 641,771 ratings — published 2023
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.45 — 341,464 ratings — published 2019
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.80 — 368,034 ratings — published 1991
Red Russia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,371 ratings — published 2017
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.64 — 360,224 ratings — published 2018
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 26,594 ratings — published 2014
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 222,214 ratings — published 2001
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.60 — 579,382 ratings — published 2018
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,072,026 ratings — published 2023
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.18 — 649,141 ratings — published 1996
Uck It List (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.55 — 7,426 ratings — published
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 574,664 ratings — published 1999
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 440,563 ratings — published 1963
Battersea Parker (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.54 — 7,549 ratings — published
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 103,854 ratings — published 2011
A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 124,365 ratings — published 2006
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.08 — 203,894 ratings — published 2025
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.09 — 634,321 ratings — published 2024
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.48 — 302,716 ratings — published 2020
How to Kill Your Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.51 — 185,347 ratings — published 2021
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 124,497 ratings — published 1999
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,145,682 ratings — published 2024
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 314,612 ratings — published 2024
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 776,860 ratings — published 1962
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.72 — 188,991 ratings — published 1930
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 84,970 ratings — published 2007
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.28 — 428,946 ratings — published 1967
Boy Parts (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 85,297 ratings — published 2020
Battersea Parker 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,408 ratings — published
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 300,992 ratings — published 1980
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 281,755 ratings — published 1973
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.25 — 830,294 ratings — published 1990
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,518,255 ratings — published 2022
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 247,023 ratings — published 1999
Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.65 — 81,221 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,351 ratings — published 1999
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.16 — 82,289 ratings — published 2025
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 235,456 ratings — published 2022
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,597 ratings — published 1996
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,842 ratings — published 2005
Lullaby (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.74 — 104,009 ratings — published 2002
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.51 — 199,079 ratings — published 2021
How to Kill Men and Get Away With It (Kitty Collins, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 49,551 ratings — published 2023
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 92,360 ratings — published 2021
The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 186,027 ratings — published 2000
The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 160,879 ratings — published 2001
The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 175,299 ratings — published 2000
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.01 — 723,275 ratings — published 2000
“[On Dr. Strangelove]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the screenplay. [...] What could be more absurd than the very idea of two mega powers willing to wipe out all human life because of an accident, spiced up by political differences that will seem as meaningless to people a hundred years from now as the theological conflicts of the Middle Ages appear to us today?”
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“If anyone at my funeral says 'it's what he would have wanted', I'll kick the lid off my coffin and throttle them. Or, if I've been cremated, I'll flip the lid off the urn and become a dust storm in their eyes. Only you know what you truly want. Anything else is presumption skewed through personal agendas.”
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