The funniest novels since Catch-22

Our book critics have put together a list of 22 of the funniest novels written in English since Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” was published in 1961. That novel was funny about something American novels hadn’t been funny about before: war.

These 22 books are not knee-slappers. Instead, the authors apply the tools of satire to whole other categories of human experience, from race and gender to dating, aging, office cubicles and book publishing itself.