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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,528,718 ratings — published 1969
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 905,096 ratings — published 1961
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 696,388 ratings — published 2023
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.44 — 372,117 ratings — published 2019
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.80 — 382,432 ratings — published 1991
Red Russia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,512 ratings — published 2017
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.63 — 380,771 ratings — published 2018
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 622,870 ratings — published 2018
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 26,668 ratings — published 2014
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,750 ratings — published 2001
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.43 — 632,409 ratings — published 2020
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,170,637 ratings — published 2023
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 449,495 ratings — published 1963
The Wedding People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,448,620 ratings — published 2024
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 586,951 ratings — published 1999
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.18 — 664,605 ratings — published 1996
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 756,057 ratings — published 2024
Uck It List (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.54 — 7,578 ratings — published
Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.07 — 229,654 ratings — published 2025
Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 345,030 ratings — published 2024
How to Kill Your Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.51 — 195,476 ratings — published 2021
Battersea Parker (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.53 — 7,706 ratings — published
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,682 ratings — published 2011
A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 125,638 ratings — published 2006
Boy Parts (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 91,371 ratings — published 2020
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 792,872 ratings — published 1962
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 286,437 ratings — published 1973
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 125,973 ratings — published 1999
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.11 — 123,203 ratings — published 2025
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.72 — 194,551 ratings — published 1930
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 308,649 ratings — published 1980
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 87,446 ratings — published 2007
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.25 — 847,151 ratings — published 1990
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.28 — 450,849 ratings — published 1925
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.47 — 420,585 ratings — published 2021
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,625,404 ratings — published 2022
Battersea Parker 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 4,450 ratings — published
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 154,442 ratings — published 1999
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.74 — 258,318 ratings — published 2023
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.38 — 342,920 ratings — published 2021
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 251,649 ratings — published 1999
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,355 ratings — published 2005
Too Old for This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.78 — 60,976 ratings — published 2025
Listen for the Lie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 639,299 ratings — published 2024
How to Kill Men and Get Away With It (Kitty Collins, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 54,874 ratings — published 2023
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.83 — 101,695 ratings — published 2021
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 410,483 ratings — published 2016
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,021 ratings — published 1996
Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 3.65 — 81,888 ratings — published 2003
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as dark-comedy)
avg rating 4.01 — 730,650 ratings — published 2000
“But what are we going to do?" Colonel Cathcart exclaimed with distress. "The others are all waiting outside."
"Why don't we give him a medal?" Colonel Korn proposed.
"For going around twice? What can we give him a medal for?"
"For goung around twice," Colonel Korn answered with a reflective, self-satisfied smile. "After all, I suppose it did take a lot of courage to go over the target a second time with no other planes around to divert the antiaircraft fire. And he did hit the bridge. You know, that might be the answer—to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.”
― Catch-22
"Why don't we give him a medal?" Colonel Korn proposed.
"For going around twice? What can we give him a medal for?"
"For goung around twice," Colonel Korn answered with a reflective, self-satisfied smile. "After all, I suppose it did take a lot of courage to go over the target a second time with no other planes around to divert the antiaircraft fire. And he did hit the bridge. You know, that might be the answer—to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.”
― Catch-22
“You know I’ve seen a lot of evil,” Kozlowski replied. “But the Four Horsemen? The Apocalypse? Nope. Never worked anything like this. Try not to vomit all over yourself.”
― The Doomsday Butcher
― The Doomsday Butcher
