5 best-selling comedy books like The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler

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The Scarfolk Annual

By: Richard Littler

4.26

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

The Scarfolk Annual is the facsimile of a book discovered in a charity shop in the north west of En…

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Cover of Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) by William Gibson

1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

By: William Gibson

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

Cover of I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker

2. I Can Make You Hate

By: Charlie Brooker

4.01

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight? Who wouldn't? Keep dreaming, imbecil… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Brooker's I Can Make You Hate book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • humor
  • comedy
"DARK AGE LOSERS PROBLY USED TURNIPS FOR IPHONES LOL!!!!"

-Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate

"One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people."

-Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate

"Recently killed plankers whose bodies hadn’t been carted away yet could always save face by pretending to have invented ‘stiffing’ – lying on the ground being authentically dead."

-Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate

"At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably wee…"

-Charlie Brooker, I Can Make You Hate

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3. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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4. Jude the Obscure

By: Thomas Hardy

3.83

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy … read more

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  • fiction
"Always wanting another man than your own."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"But no one came. Because no one ever does."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

"We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more."

-Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Cover of Echopraxia (Firefall, #2) by Peter Watts

5. Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)

By: Peter Watts

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Prepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsigh… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Echopraxia (Firefall, #2) book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror

6. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

Similar categories in E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction

7. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

By: Philip K. Dick

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book- SF: 100 Best Novels In the ove… read more

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8. City Come a-Walkin'

By: William Gibson , John Shirley

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Stu Cole is struggling to keep his nightclub, Club Anesthesia, afloat in the face of mob harassment… read more

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9. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

10. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Cover of All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by Nemo Ramjet

11. All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

By: Nemo Ramjet

4.21

Format: 111 pages, ebook

The story begins in the near future, as burgeoning population pressures force humanity to terraform… read more

Similar categories in Nemo Ramjet's All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

Similar categories in Alan Partridge's Alan Partridge: Big Beacon book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • humor
  • comedy
  • fiction
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13. O Brother

By: John Niven

4.64

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more

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"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"

-John Niven, O Brother

Cover of 後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1) by Masaaki Nakayama

14. 後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1)

By: Masaaki Nakayama

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

...ha...ir......hand hand and.. ..an..d......fire..... ....be...hin...d......blood......u... ...sh.… read more

Similar categories in Masaaki Nakayama's 後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1) book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Greatest Hits

By: Harlan Ellison

4.18

Format: 468 pages, Paperback

How to summarize the psychedelic, witty, helter-skelter mind of Harlan Ellison? A mind that refu… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

Cover of Die Insel der tausend Leuchttürme (Zamonien, #10) by Walter Moers

17. Die Insel der tausend Leuchttürme (Zamonien, #10)

By: Walter Moers

4.03

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

Das Buchereignis des Jahres 2023 Der neue Moers – ein Zamonienroman, wie es ihn bisher nicht gegeb… read more

Similar categories in Walter Moers's Die Insel der tausend Leuchttürme (Zamonien, #10) book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • humor
  • fiction
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18. Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

By: Garth Marenghi

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dar… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • comedy
"Good job I loaded this with silver bullets from that box of silver bullets that was sitting on that table labelled “Silver Bullets"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know."

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Thanks for the warning about leaving the car door open, by the way,’ Capello said, his manner towards Nick softening. ‘You know it makes sense, amigo. I guess we’re both learning something out here.’…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

"Roz, I need you to do this,’ I said, although I didn’t, in actual fact – that’s just a lazy phrase which helps steer a lost narrative back on course when readers are giving up in droves, and is, iron…"

-Garth Marenghi, Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome

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19. Il fascismo eterno

By: Umberto Eco

4.33

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare … read more

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"L’Ur-Fascismo si basa su un “populismo qualitativo"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai."

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"It would be so much easier for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares". Life is not that …"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Fu il fascismo italiano a convincere molti leader liberali europei che il nuovo regime stesse attuando interessanti riforme sociali in grado di fornire un’alternativa moderatamente rivoluzionaria all…"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

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20. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

By: John Koenig

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koeni… read more

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"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand li…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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21. Psychic Teenage Bloodbath

By: Carl John Lee

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Susan Ward is in a coma. She’s been there for one year, ever since the accident. She can’t speak… read more

Similar categories in Carl John Lee's Psychic Teenage Bloodbath book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • supernatural
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of PTSD Radio Omnibus 2 (Vol. 3-4) (PTSD Radio 2-in-1) by Masaaki Nakayama

22. PTSD Radio Omnibus 2 (Vol. 3-4) (PTSD Radio 2-in-1)

By: Masaaki Nakayama

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Carried into modern Japan from a forgotten past, the being known as Ogushi haunts and tortures huma… read more

Similar categories in Masaaki Nakayama's PTSD Radio Omnibus 2 (Vol. 3-4) (PTSD Radio 2-in-1) book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of PTSD Radio Omnibus 3 (Vol. 5-6) (PTSD Radio 2-in-1) by Masaaki Nakayama

23. PTSD Radio Omnibus 3 (Vol. 5-6) (PTSD Radio 2-in-1)

By: Masaaki Nakayama

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Carried into modern Japan from a forgotten past, the being known as Ogushi haunts and tortures huma… read more

Similar categories in Masaaki Nakayama's PTSD Radio Omnibus 3 (Vol. 5-6) (PTSD Radio 2-in-1) book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ito Junji's Cat Diary by Junji Ito

24. Ito Junji's Cat Diary

By: Junji Ito

4.24

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

The representative of Japanese horror comics, Junji Ito = horror manga author J. J, a dog person, w… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Ito Junji's Cat Diary book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • humor
  • horror
"The road to cat wand mastery is long and treacherous indeed!"

-Junji Ito, Ito Junji's Cat Diary

Cover of Nightmare Country, Vol. 2: The Glass House by James Tynion IV

25. Nightmare Country, Vol. 2: The Glass House

By: James Tynion IV

4.01

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The celebrated world of The Sandman expands with the direct sequel to The Sandman Nightmare Countr… read more

Similar categories in James Tynion IV's Nightmare Country, Vol. 2: The Glass House book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • supernatural
  • horror
Cover of My Little Occult Book Club: A Creepy Collection by Steven  Rhodes

26. My Little Occult Book Club: A Creepy Collection

By: Steven Rhodes

4.49

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

My Little Occult Book Club is a hilarious collection of Steven Rhodes' parody book covers for the a… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rhodes's My Little Occult Book Club: A Creepy Collection book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • humor
  • comedy
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Rare Singles

By: Benjamin Myers

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler

28. The Scarfolk Annual

By: Richard Littler

4.26

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

The Scarfolk Annual is the facsimile of a book discovered in a charity shop in the north west of En… read more

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  • humor
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • supernatural
  • comedy
Cover of Scarred For Life: Volume One: The 1970s by Stephen Brotherstone

29. Scarred For Life: Volume One: The 1970s

By: Stephen Brotherstone

4.58

Format: 740 pages, Paperback

Scarred For Life Volume One is an affectionate look at the darker side of pop culture in the 1970s.… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Great When (The Long London Quintet, #1) by Alan             Moore

30. The Great When (The Long London Quintet, #1)

By: Alan Moore

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, the first book in … read more

Similar categories in Alan Moore's The Great When (The Long London Quintet, #1) book and Richard Littler's The Scarfolk Annual

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Scarred For Life Volume Two: Television in the 1980s by Stephen Brotherstone

31. Scarred For Life Volume Two: Television in the 1980s

By: Stephen Brotherstone

4.71

Format: 540 pages, Paperback

The second volume in the Scarred For Life Trilogy, Volume Two takes an affectionate look at the dar… read more

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  • horror

20 must-read fiction books like The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler

Transform Your Habits

Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

William Gibson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

High-Rise

J.G. Ballard

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)

Peter Watts

5.00

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Jessica Knoll

4.02

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In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

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The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

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