25 novels to make you hoot

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Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  Lucky Jim (Penguin Modern Classics) by Kingsley Amis
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  "Jim Dixon struggles to make it in 1950s academe."
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Blott On The Landscape
2.  Blott On The Landscape by Tom Sharpe
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  "The little people make their stand against entrenched bureaucracy."
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾
3.  The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend
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  "Young Adrian Mole takes on the world – which fights back."
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Diary of a Nobody
4.  Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
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  "Victorian clerk Mr Pooter stands on his dignity. Always."
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Volume One in the Trilogy of Five (Hitchhikers Guide 1)
5.  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Volume One in the Trilogy of Five (Hitchhikers Guide 1) by Douglas Adams
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  "When Earth is demolished, Arthur Dent takes off around the galaxy."
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Three Men in a Boat
6.  Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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  "Three friends plus a dog take a boating holiday on the Thames."
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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
7.  Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller
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  "The Second World War as bloody farce."
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
8.  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
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  "A novel of constant digressions. Tristram is not born until Volume III."
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Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics)
9.  Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics) by Stella Gibbons
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  "The Archers gone dreadfully wrong."
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The Happiest Days
10.  The Happiest Days by Iain Manson
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  "Tom Cardwell grows up (after a fashion) in the 1960s."
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Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics)
11.  Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
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  "Sent down from Oxford, Paul Pennyfeather's teaching career goes off the rails"
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A Confederacy of Dunces
12.  A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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  "Huge slob Ignatius J. Reilly cuts a swathe through New Orleans."
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The Pickwick Papers: Premium Edition (Unabridged, Illustrated, Table of Contents)
13.  The Pickwick Papers: Premium Edition (Unabridged, Illustrated, Table of Contents) by Charles Dickens
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  "Mr Pickwick and friends travel through early Victorian England."
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05
14.  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 by Mark Twain
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  "Life on the Mississippi in the 1840s."
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The Wimbledon Poisoner
15.  The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams
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  "A henpecked husband fails to poison his wife."
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Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman papers)
16.  Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
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  "Supercad Flashman gets caught up in the slave trade."
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Carry On, Jeeves
17.  Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
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  "Gentleman's gentleman Jeeves holds his hapless employer together."
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Portnoy's Complaint
18.  Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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  "Alexander Portnoy talks wanking."
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Small Gods (Discworld Novels)
19.  Small Gods (Discworld Novels) by Sir Terry Pratchett
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  "Terry Pratchett takes a hatchet to organised religion."
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The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
20.  The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J. P. Donleavy
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  "Innocent young Balthazar is buffeted by capricious fate."
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Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel
21.  Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding
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  "Thirty-ish Bridget Jones tells her diary . . . everything."
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Billy Liar (Penguin Decades)
22.  Billy Liar (Penguin Decades) by Keith Waterhouse
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  "Billy Fisher daydreams his way through 1950s England."
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Don Quixote
23.  Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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  "Don Quixote makes his deluded way through Spain, circa 1600."
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Zuleika Dobson: (A Modern Library E-Book) (Modern Library Paperbacks)
24.  Zuleika Dobson: (A Modern Library E-Book) (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Max Beerbohm
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  "Oxford University in the Edwardian era."
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Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War, Book One
25.  Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War, Book One by Jaroslav Hasek
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  "The Frist World War as bloody farce"
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