Comedy novels adapted into films

1605 novel by Miguel de Cervantes

one of China's Four Great Classical Novels

novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

' ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Optimism''''' (1947). A young man, Candide, lives a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise, being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. This lifestyle is abruptly ended, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire

1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk

novel by the Czech author Jaroslav Hašek

1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl

Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It was his debut novel. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the 20th century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot.

1815 novel by Jane Austen

novel series by Lemony Snicket

1979 novel by Douglas Adams

'''''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death''''' is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction–infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years. Throughout the novel, Billy frequently travels back and forth through time. The protagonist deals with a temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Alli

English children's novel, 1908, originally unillustrated

1837 novel by Charles Dickens

Discworld is a collection of fantasy comedy novels, graphic novels, short stories, and associated works conceived and primarily written by the English author Terry Pratchett. They are united by their being set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The novel series consists of forty-one books, the first being The Colour of Magic, published in 1983, and the last ''The Shepherd's Crown'', published posthumously in 2015. Pratchett also wrote eleven short stories related to the Discworld. The novels often satirise

1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis

1983 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett

1947 novel by Boris Vian

novel by William Faulkner

1931 novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov

1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome

1993 novel by Irvine Welsh

Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett

1973 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

1996 novel by Helen Fielding

Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett

2009 comic novel by Jonas Jonasson

satirical novel by Natsume Sōseki

2004 novel by Terry Pratchett

Hogfather is the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett, and a 1997 British Fantasy Award nominee. It was first released in 1996 and published by Victor Gollancz. It came in 137th place in The Big Read, a BBC survey of the most loved British books of all time, making it one of fifteen books by Pratchett in the Top 200.

novel by Oliver Goldsmith

novel by Philip Roth

1975 book by Arto Paasilinna

novel by Graham Greene

1971 novel by Stanisław Lem

novel by Jerzy Kosinski

novel by Henry Fielding

novel by Kurt Vonnegut

1965 novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

1973 novel by William Goldman

1925 comic novel by Anita Loos

1947 novel by Compton Mackenzie

2009 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith

Chinese historical novel

novel by Kingsley Amis

1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell

English comic novel

1973 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

1967 novel by Georges Simenon

novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer

LGBT romance novel by Casey McQuiston

2010 novel by Isaac Marion

novel by H. G. Wells

2008 novel by Matthew Quick

1954 novel by Fredric Brown

novel by Graham Greene

novel by Sherman Alexie

2010 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith