Books like Scoop

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh reads as satirical, dark comedy. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh · 1930

Shares the comic + bleak thread

100% genome match

Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh · 1928

Shares the comic + bleak thread

100% genome match

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut · 1963

Shares the comic + vspare thread

69% genome match

Right Ho, Jeeves

P.G. Wodehouse · 1934

Shares the comic thread

69% genome match

The Light Fantastic

Terry Pratchett · 1986

Shares the comic thread

69% genome match

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams · 1980

Shares the comic thread

69% genome match

De l'inconvénient d'être né

Emil Cioran · 1973

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match

En attendant Godot

Samuel Beckett · 1952

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match

Far away

Caryl Churchill · 2000

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki · 1914

Shares the vspare thread

69% genome match

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole · 1980

Shares the comic thread

69% genome match

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