If you relished the satirical wit and playful mockery of religious and magical conventions in The Unfortunate Fursey, you'll be delighted by Good Omens. The book follows the bumbling efforts of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to prevent the apocalypse in a world where the supernatural and the mundane collide with hilarious results. The clever dialogue and absurd situations evoke the same comic sensibility that made Fursey's adventures so memorable.

If you appreciated Fursey's misadventures amidst witches, monks, and demonic forces, you'll find The Master and Margarita irresistible. Bulgakov’s tale weaves the arrival of the Devil in Soviet Moscow with surreal, darkly comic episodes, as characters like Woland and his demonic retinue wreak havoc and expose human folly. The mix of supernatural chaos and biting humor is a perfect match for Fursey fans.

If you were fascinated by the bizarre, dreamlike logic and strange magical happenings in The Unfortunate Fursey, The Third Policeman will be a delight. O'Brien’s protagonist wanders a rural Irish landscape where time, space, and reality itself bend to absurd rules—bicycles become human, policemen debate the nature of existence, and the world feels as whimsically unpredictable as Fursey's Ireland.

If you enjoyed the mix of historical setting and slyly comedic magic in The Unfortunate Fursey, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell will enchant you. Clarke’s novel presents a Regency-era England where magicians bicker over magical theory and etiquette, and the absurdities of magical bureaucracy are exposed with a wry wit reminiscent of Fursey’s encounters with both monks and demons.

If you rooted for Fursey, the unintentional troublemaker swept up in forces beyond his control, you'll enjoy following Švejk, the eternally optimistic and baffled soldier in The Good Soldier Švejk. His naive honesty and comic misadventures through a bureaucratic, absurd world echo Fursey’s journey, making for a hilarious yet slyly critical read.