Read-alikes and related books

Books like The Joke

Across Literary — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Joke by Milan Kundera.

Literary Fiction

Top related books to The Joke

A diverse selection of titles that share the core themes and atmosphere of The Joke.

Celestina

Fernando de Rojas

Themes: Literary

Victory An Island Tale

Joseph Conrad

Themes: Literary

Loser Takes All

Graham Greene

Themes: Literary

Universal History of Iniquity

Jorge Luis Borges

Themes: Literary

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Themes: Literary

The Sound of Trumpets

John Mortimer

Themes: Literary

The Golovlyov Family

Михаил Евграфович Салтыков

Themes: Literary

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Themes: Literary

Bouvard and Pecuchet With the Dictionary of Received Ideas

Gustave Flaubert

Themes: Literary

#10

Penguin English Library Dubliners

Themes: Literary

Themes: Literary

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith

Themes: Literary

#13

Lark Rise to Candleford A Trilogy

Flora Thompson

Themes: Literary

#14

Fairy Tales — Hans Christian Andersen

HANS CHRISTIAN. ANDERSEN

Themes: Literary

#15

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Themes: Literary

#16

The Horse and His Boy

Themes: Literary

Themes: Literary

Themes: Literary

Jeeves And The Tie That Binds — P.G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Themes: Literary

#20

Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis On Killing Oneself

Themes: Literary

Themes: Literary

Themes: Literary

The books of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Themes: Literary

#24

Wieland or, The Transformation: An American Tale and Other Stories

Charles Brockden Brown

Themes: Literary

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The Joke by Milan Kundera. Connected by Literary. Authors featured include Fernando de Rojas, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.