#Dark Humor

2 books tagged with dark humor, sorted by rating.

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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

4/5

Fiction & Literature

Yellowface

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

Fiction & Literature

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

4/5

Set on a small Mediterranean island during World War II, bombardier Yossarian is desperate to survive the insanity of war. The infamous Catch-22 dictates that concern for one's own safety in the face of danger is the process of a rational mind — but anyone rational would fly combat missions, making them insane.

Fiction & Literature

Yellowface

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

When literary star Athena Liu dies in a freak accident, her struggling former classmate June Hayward walks off with Athena's unfinished manuscript, a novel about Chinese laborers in World War I. June edits it, publishes it as her own under the name Juniper Song, and becomes a bestseller, until people online start asking questions.

Fiction & Literature