What are some humorous books where the main type of humor employed is logical fallacy humor?
Lewis Carroll was the pen-name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a serious mathematician at Oxford University, and he delighted in producing logical puzzles, short stories, games with words and numbers, etc., as well as the Alice books – which are predicated on twists in the logic. You can get his Collected Works quite easily (and for once the ’search for a widget’ function works! and it’s possible to recommend them directly). Another author you might try is Martin Gardner, who wrote (?) writes the end-piece for Scientific American, and also produced loads of books for young adults – also, he annotated the two Alice books to demonstrate the poems and literature that Lewis Carroll parodied, the logical twists therein, etc. He’s a brilliant writer and takes his examples from a wide variety of sources. The Philosophy Gym, by Steven Law, is described as ’25 adventures in thinking’ and while it’s not fiction, it might well appeal to the sort of quirky mind that enjoys logical fallacies and humo
