Catch-22

Joseph Heller 1961

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
war literary fiction philosophical political

Our Take

The funniest book about death ever written, and therefore the most honest. Heller makes the absurdity of war so total that laughter becomes the only sane response — then pulls the rug and shows you what the laughter was covering. Snowden's secret is the most devastating revelation in American war literature.

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