"Comedy" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read"

1.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,330 ratings
2.
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 78,267 ratings
3.
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7) 4.32 avg rating — 30,709 ratings
4.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 3.89 avg rating — 1,568,826 ratings
5.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows 4.02 avg rating — 235,240 ratings
6.
Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Comfort Farm 3.88 avg rating — 53,853 ratings
7.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,023 ratings
8.
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 1,012,876 ratings
9.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces 3.89 avg rating — 291,781 ratings
10.
The Uncommon Reader
The Uncommon Reader 3.73 avg rating — 58,257 ratings
11.
Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim 3.75 avg rating — 31,468 ratings
12.
Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)
Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5) 4.18 avg rating — 19,187 ratings
13.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 3.70 avg rating — 59,333 ratings
14.
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers 3.85 avg rating — 31,462 ratings
15.
Our Man in Havana
Our Man in Havana 3.94 avg rating — 39,687 ratings
16.
Scoop
Scoop 3.79 avg rating — 22,000 ratings
17.
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions 4.06 avg rating — 275,070 ratings
18.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 3.75 avg rating — 34,037 ratings
19.
Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall 3.83 avg rating — 15,502 ratings
20.
Portnoy’s Complaint
Portnoy’s Complaint 3.71 avg rating — 72,167 ratings
21.
Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 12,627 ratings
22.
Excellent Women
Excellent Women 3.91 avg rating — 19,594 ratings
23.
Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,263 ratings
24.
Pnin
Pnin 3.88 avg rating — 28,103 ratings
25.
Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 17,409 ratings
26.
A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust 3.89 avg rating — 28,247 ratings
27.
The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody 3.69 avg rating — 17,697 ratings
28.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3.73 avg rating — 22,670 ratings
29.
Heavy Weather (Blandings Castle, #5)
Heavy Weather (Blandings Castle, #5) 4.24 avg rating — 4,016 ratings
30.
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1)
Tales of the City (Tales of the City #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46,895 ratings
31.
Joy in the Morning
Joy in the Morning 4.28 avg rating — 12,930 ratings
32.
The Loved One
The Loved One 3.75 avg rating — 13,363 ratings
33.
Cakes and Ale
Cakes and Ale 3.78 avg rating — 7,779 ratings
34.
Vile Bodies
Vile Bodies 3.72 avg rating — 17,249 ratings
35.
Flaubert's Parrot
Flaubert's Parrot 3.65 avg rating — 16,253 ratings
36.
The Restraint of Beasts
The Restraint of Beasts 3.87 avg rating — 3,680 ratings
37.
High Fidelity
High Fidelity 3.90 avg rating — 211,781 ratings
38.
The Commitments (The Barrytown Trilogy, #1; Jimmy Rabbitte, #1)
The Commitments (The Barrytown Trilogy, #1; Jimmy Rabbitte, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 17,146 ratings
39.
Travels with My Aunt
Travels with My Aunt 3.80 avg rating — 16,567 ratings
40.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,889 ratings
41.
Diary of a Provincial Lady
Diary of a Provincial Lady 3.90 avg rating — 6,399 ratings
42.
The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March 3.84 avg rating — 18,692 ratings
43.
Molloy
Molloy 4.04 avg rating — 9,530 ratings
44.
The Towers of Trebizond
The Towers of Trebizond 3.68 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
45.
Porterhouse Blue (Porterhouse Blue, #1)
Porterhouse Blue (Porterhouse Blue, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 4,852 ratings
46.
Piccadilly Jim
Piccadilly Jim 4.04 avg rating — 5,335 ratings
47.
The Girls of Slender Means
The Girls of Slender Means 3.65 avg rating — 8,112 ratings
48.
A Far Cry from Kensington
A Far Cry from Kensington 3.84 avg rating — 6,895 ratings
49.
The Hearing Trumpet
The Hearing Trumpet really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,850 ratings
50.
Less Than Angels
Less Than Angels 3.93 avg rating — 3,177 ratings
51.
Moo
Moo 3.47 avg rating — 8,498 ratings
52.
Queen Lucia
Queen Lucia 3.92 avg rating — 5,295 ratings
53.
Black Mischief
Black Mischief 3.69 avg rating — 3,586 ratings
54.
The Castle
The Castle 3.92 avg rating — 71,986 ratings
55.
Oblomov
Oblomov 4.13 avg rating — 41,552 ratings
56.
Life: A User's Manual
Life: A User's Manual 4.18 avg rating — 9,834 ratings
57.
Zuleika Dobson
Zuleika Dobson 3.52 avg rating — 4,866 ratings
58.
Lake Wobegon Days
Lake Wobegon Days 3.64 avg rating — 8,324 ratings
59.
Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1)
Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 8,988 ratings
60.
The Debt to Pleasure
The Debt to Pleasure 3.74 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
61.
Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews 3.28 avg rating — 5,982 ratings
62.
The Wimbledon Poisoner
The Wimbledon Poisoner 3.47 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
63.
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself, Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself, Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man 3.80 avg rating — 626 ratings
63.
The Little World of Don Camillo
The Little World of Don Camillo 4.23 avg rating — 4,630 ratings
65.
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes 3.66 avg rating — 635 ratings
66.
The History Man
The History Man 3.61 avg rating — 1,959 ratings
67.
The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches of Eastwick 3.22 avg rating — 18,132 ratings
68.
The Mysterious Stranger
The Mysterious Stranger 4.12 avg rating — 11,373 ratings
69.
The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1)
The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1) 3.51 avg rating — 3,516 ratings
70.
Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest 4.25 avg rating — 98,659 ratings
71.
Puckoon
Puckoon 3.71 avg rating — 3,830 ratings
72.
Jacques the Fatalist
Jacques the Fatalist 3.80 avg rating — 9,455 ratings
73.
My Search for Warren Harding
My Search for Warren Harding 3.81 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
74.
Death and the Penguin
Death and the Penguin 3.78 avg rating — 21,140 ratings
75.
Bouvard and Pécuchet
Bouvard and Pécuchet 3.82 avg rating — 4,381 ratings
76.
A Time to Be Born
A Time to Be Born 3.96 avg rating — 1,009 ratings
77.
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters 3.88 avg rating — 16,138 ratings
78.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 3.74 avg rating — 844 ratings
79.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings
80.
Zazie in the Metro
Zazie in the Metro 3.65 avg rating — 9,352 ratings
81.
The Information
The Information 3.61 avg rating — 6,432 ratings
82.
Solomon Gursky Was Here
Solomon Gursky Was Here 3.98 avg rating — 3,142 ratings
83.
Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit 3.83 avg rating — 16,842 ratings
84.
The Ascent of Rum Doodle
The Ascent of Rum Doodle 3.77 avg rating — 3,302 ratings
85.
The Bottle Factory Outing
The Bottle Factory Outing 3.37 avg rating — 2,459 ratings
86.
According to Queeney
According to Queeney 3.46 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
87.
Great Apes
Great Apes
by: Will Self
3.66 avg rating — 3,603 ratings
88.
Illywhacker
Illywhacker 3.78 avg rating — 3,070 ratings
89.
The Horse's Mouth
The Horse's Mouth 3.97 avg rating — 1,602 ratings
90.
The Life and Loves of a She Devil
The Life and Loves of a She Devil 3.76 avg rating — 6,286 ratings
91.
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon 3.62 avg rating — 2,771 ratings
92.
Blott on the Landscape
Blott on the Landscape 3.92 avg rating — 4,059 ratings
93.
Ennui
Ennui 3.37 avg rating — 205 ratings
94.
The Harpole Report
The Harpole Report
by: J.L. Carr
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 303 ratings
95.
Brewster's Millions
Brewster's Millions 3.65 avg rating — 964 ratings
96.
Kaas
Kaas 3.58 avg rating — 8,168 ratings
97.
Before Lunch (Barsetshire, #8)
Before Lunch (Barsetshire, #8) 3.94 avg rating — 793 ratings
98.
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3)
A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1-3) 3.93 avg rating — 4,779 ratings
99.
The Unbearable Bassington
The Unbearable Bassington
by: Saki
3.77 avg rating — 683 ratings
100.
Under the Net
Under the Net 3.77 avg rating — 16,015 ratings
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