A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction. Many well-known authors have written comic novels, including P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, and John Kennedy Toole. Comic novels are often defined by the author's literary choice to make the thrust of the work—in its narration or plot—funny or satirical in orientation, regardless of the putative seriousness of the topics addressed. Novels, books, plays and many works of fiction or art can certainly contain and include passages or themes that are comic, humorous or satirical, the defining characteristic of this genre is that comedy is the framework and baseline of the story, rather than an occasional or recurring motif. It is the through-line and organizing genre for the novel's tone, orientation and sensibility. A reader is not expected to 'find' or 'discover' a humorous moment within the reality of the text, rather, humor is the ongoing mood, like a comedy movie, rather than a movie that has some comedy or laughs within it. Literary scholars distinguish textual analysis on this basis; the theory being that a story by Mark Twain that is a satirical critique in its very origin, for example, must be understood differently than a more literal novelistic plot. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in the genre comic novel 141
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Indians on Vacation
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
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Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
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2030
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The Tatami Galaxy
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The Finkler Question
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Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
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Blonde Bombshell
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And Another Thing...
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Fool
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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The Financial Lives of Poets
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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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We Are All Made of Glue
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Escape from Hell!
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Larry and the Meaning of Life
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John Dies at the End
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Gods Behaving Badly
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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How to Build a Robot Army
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I Love You, Beth Cooper
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Then We Came to the End
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You Don't Love Me Yet
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Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World
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Yes Man
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Apex Hides the Hurt
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Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings
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Chart Throb
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Weight Loss
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White Man Falling
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Merde Actually
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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