6 Top fantasy books like Noir by Christopher Moore

Cover of Noir by Christopher Moore

Noir

By: Christopher Moore

3.79

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

San Francisco. Summer, 1947. A dame walks into a saloon . . . It’s not every afternoon that an e…

"There are times in a guy's life when he finds himself floating facedown in a sea of troubles, and as hope bubbles away, he thinks, How the hell did I get here?"

-Christopher Moore, Noir

"[after Sammy struggles to unhook Stilton's bra] She rolled onto her face to give him a good shot at the hook in the back. "Free my people!" "I will. I am the Harriet Tubman of your breasts."

-Christopher Moore, Noir

"Now, I am the younger brother of an older brother who often measured the worth of a guy by his ability to not scream under pressure, and insisted, in fact, that if any screamlike sounds ever reached Ma and/or Pa, this younger brother, me, would receive a pasting such as I had never known, including severe and painful Indian burns to the bone — a threat my older brother, Judges, may he rest in peace, backed up with great enthusiasm through most of my boyhood. So, first I closed the back door, made sure it was solidly latched, then I glanced through the doorway into the front of the bar, which was still dark, and only then did I scream. Not the scream of a startled little girl, mind you, but a manly scream: the scream of a fellow who has caught his enormous dong in a revolving door while charging in to save a baby that was on fire or something."

-Christopher Moore, Noir

If you liked the fantasy plot in Noir by Christopher Moore , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings by Henry N. Beard, The Harvard Lampoon, Douglas C. Kenney

1. Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

By: Henry N. Beard , The Harvard Lampoon , Douglas C. Kenney

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

A quest, a war, a ring that would be grounds for calling any wedding off, a king without a kingdom,… read more

Similar categories in Henry N. Beard's Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • humor
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • comedy
Cover of I am a Pole by Stephen Colbert, Aaron Cohen, None

2. I am a Pole

By: Stephen Colbert , Aaron Cohen , None

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The sad thing is, I like it" - Maurice Sendak "The perfect gift to give a child or grandchild for … read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • fiction
Cover of Black (Black, #1) by Russell Blake

3. Black (Black, #1)

By: Russell Blake

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Artemus Black. Perennially down-on-his-luck Hollywood PI whose Bogie fixation is as dated as his wa… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home by Erma Bombeck

4. When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home

By: Erma Bombeck

2.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Erma Bombeck, whose books have sold more than 15 million copies, takes her show on the road with th… read more

Similar categories in Erma Bombeck's When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • humor
  • comedy
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5. Bad Monkey

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in w… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides by Matthew Inman

6. 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides

By: Matthew Inman

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Prepare to laugh your ass off. The hilarity of TheOatmeal.com is now presented in book form with 35… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Inman's 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • humor
  • comedy
  • fiction

7. Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned

By: Kenneth C. Davis

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Davis consistently does what your junior high teacher probably didn't; he makes geography amusing a… read more

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8. Sick Puppy

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Independently wealthy eco-terrorist Twilly Spree teaches a flagrant litterbug a lesson--and leaves … read more

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9. Basket Case

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida dai… read more

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10. Year Zero

By: Rob Reid

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet. Worse, they were lawyering up. . . . … read more

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11. The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

By: None

3.96

Format: 236 pages,

For his first book, The Know-It-All, A. J. Jacobs read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica from cov… read more

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12. Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War

By: Mark Harris

3.51

Format: 383 pages,

In Pictures at a Revolution, Mark Harris turned the story of the five movies nominated for Best Pic… read more

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13. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • humor
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

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14. Saint Richard Parker

By: Merlin Franco

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • fiction
"See you later, tailgater."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Dark is beautiful, brother."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Tell me, son, what do you seek?"

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"A saint has control over his anger and itches."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

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15. The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

By: Nancy Omeara

4.33

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

Tired of the "them or us" politics that the Democrats and Republicans are pushing down our throats?… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Omeara's The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far] book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • humor
  • fiction
"It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant “Criminal Trials, Not Missiles"

-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

"Written twenty years after she held office, this abridged biography is being released now, prior to taking place. Maybe we can learn from history before it happens."

-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

"I wheeled and dealed with leaders from all over the world on behalf of the American people. In fact, my favorite headline from Washington Speaks magazine was “She Walks, She Talks, She Negotiates"

-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

"Educate not Legislate Refusing to pass unnecessary laws requires a converse – encouraging education and understanding. We started by slashing the salaries of legislators (Dubbed “Bloodbath on the Bel…"

-Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

Cover of Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3) by Jason Pargin

16. Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3)

By: Jason Pargin

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual music festival in the desert, which every year precedes t… read more

Similar categories in Jason Pargin's Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3) book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • humor
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Noir by Christopher Moore

17. Noir

By: Christopher Moore

3.79

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

San Francisco. Summer, 1947. A dame walks into a saloon . . . It’s not every afternoon that an e… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Moore's Noir book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • comedy
  • humor
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"There are times in a guy's life when he finds himself floating facedown in a sea of troubles, and as hope bubbles away, he thinks, How the hell did I get here?"

-Christopher Moore, Noir

"[after Sammy struggles to unhook Stilton's bra] She rolled onto her face to give him a good shot at the hook in the back. "Free my people!" "I will. I am the Harriet Tubman of your breasts."

-Christopher Moore, Noir

"Now, I am the younger brother of an older brother who often measured the worth of a guy by his ability to not scream under pressure, and insisted, in fact, that if any screamlike sounds ever reached …"

-Christopher Moore, Noir

Cover of No Country for Old Gnomes (The Tales of Pell, #2) by Delilah S. Dawson

18. No Country for Old Gnomes (The Tales of Pell, #2)

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Go big or go gnome. The New York Times bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy return to the world… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's No Country for Old Gnomes (The Tales of Pell, #2) book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • humor
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"And, uh . . . to whom do you pray?' 'We worship the perfect cohesion of space and time and nonlinear probabilities represented by cabbage.' 'Wow, that's . . . yeah."

-Delilah S. Dawson, No Country for Old Gnomes (The Tales of Pell, #2)

"When he glanced back at his twin, he saw that Offi's general woe-is-me-for-I-am-a-tortured-soul-and-I-walk-the-world-alone face had been replaced by a brand-new by-dinkus-this-is-worrisome face."

-Delilah S. Dawson, No Country for Old Gnomes (The Tales of Pell, #2)

"Looking off to the horizon, properly and heroically squinting, Onni added, 'Get your washtub ready, brother. It will be a bloody business when the gnome empire strikes back.' 'Whoa,' Offi said, with …"

-Delilah S. Dawson, No Country for Old Gnomes (The Tales of Pell, #2)

Cover of No Sunscreen for the Dead (Serge Storms, #22) by Tim Dorsey

19. No Sunscreen for the Dead (Serge Storms, #22)

By: Tim Dorsey

4.10

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Serge and Coleman are back on the road, ready to hit the next stop on their list of obscure and wac… read more

Similar categories in Tim Dorsey's No Sunscreen for the Dead (Serge Storms, #22) book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass by Lilah Sturges

20. Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass

By: Lilah Sturges

3.92

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

The first original graphic novel set in the award winning and critically acclaimed Lumberjanes worl… read more

Similar categories in Lilah Sturges's Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass book and Christopher Moore's Noir

  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of MEDROMEDA by Lore Wren

21. MEDROMEDA

By: Lore Wren

4.33

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

The myth of Medromeda explores the life of Medusa before she became the feared monster that turns m… read more

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