Can anyone recommend a book that makes you lol?
Can anyone recommend a book that makes you lol? For some reason, the books I’ve read lately, although they’re great stories, have been very sad/depressing
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Can you keep a secret by Sophie Kinsella
The Gold Coast
Dolls behaving badly. (Not girls behaving badly!)
Janet Evanovich. Series. First one is One For The Money
Any book by Sophie kinsella ♥
Totally agree
Her books are pretty funny. It’s been a while but I remember laughing a lot while reading Undomestic Goddess
One can literally be laughing from the start of her books till the end 😀
@Melanie – that book is hilarious!
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
I just added this on Goodreads but it says it was published in 2017? I thought this book has been around for years? It says it a trilogy and the one I added was the first. Did I add the right book?
It might be an updated edition
Tina Fey
Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
Laugh out loud funny.
The Rosie Project had some great parts. Also, Where did you go, Bernadette. David Sadaris is laugh out funny for me. I especially like Naked and Barrel Fever.
Janet evonovich the one two three books. Grandma is funny as hell
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. They go in a row but you can pick anyone and get the gist of who is who. The first one is a little graphic but the rest are hysterical.
Thank you for this comment! I had never tried the others after the first, but this helped me!
@Dorothy I think she had to set up Lula’s arrival. But it was hard. The rest are not that. Stephanie still gets into messes with Lula but they all get out of it!
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Anything by Bill Bryson
A Confederacy Of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole-This book had me laughing out loud.
The Rosie Project; The 100 year old man who jumped out of the window. …;
Books by Donald Westlake, especially Help I’m Being Held Prisoner.
Books by James Kirkwood, especially PS Your Cat is Dead.
Ann George’s Sister mystery series.
James Kirkwood – love him esp. There Must be a Pony
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah will make you laugh and cry. Also books by Jenny Lawson and David Sedaris.
I love David Sedaris and I have reserved Born a Crime at the library. What are some titles for the third author or anything else you can suggest?
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson is the one I’ve read. I’ve heard good things about another of hers, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson and Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern also made me laugh.
@Amy thank you! I just started a new book that looks humorously promising. Mislaid by Nell Zink
Stephanie plum books
Stephen Haughan the peshwari Nans books
Christopher Moore books
Marley & Me, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, A Girl Named Zippy, A Dirty Job
Good Omens
Kids books. Anything Louis sachar I think is how it’s spelled. Wayside school. That makes me literally LOL
Check out Jen Mann’s anthologies, People I Want to Punch in the Throat series, Carrie Fisher’s, The Princess Diarist, Wishful Drinking and Lauren Graham’s Talking as Fast as I Can. These are even funnier in audiobook. And, agreed, The Rosie Project is a fun read
Lamb by Christopher Moore. Any of Terry Pratchett’s books but especially Good Omens
Sophie Kinsella’s books are hilarious
I am rereading some of her books right now. They are definitely LOL.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, or Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series
Miss Julia series by Ann B Ross. I laughed till tears were rolling down my face.
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; Barchester Towers and The Warden by Anthony Trollope … esp. The Warden; Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (the characters may be a little hard to take but he’s a superb writer with some screamingly funny episodes) Also, The Wind in the Willows, Alice in Wonderland, and poetry by Lewis Carroll, John Betjeman, Ogden Nash and Judith Viorst ~
Stephanie Plum will make you laugh until you cry. Author is Janet Evanovich.
I completely agree. I love that series.
Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Harrison Paterson. A friend read it after I did and when we started to talk about it we were in hysterics all over again.
Whoops…got the author’s name wrong. James Hamilton-Paterson.
Michael Malone’s Handling Sin
The Catcher in the Rye. Always makes me laugh.
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
The Rosie Project
Me Talk Pretty One Day
also Naked…both are classic David Sedaris!
How to be good by Hornby. Literally LOL on public transport while reading it.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler if you want non-fiction, and Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett for fiction.
Don’t forget The Hitchhikers Guide by Douglass Adams
Jasper Fford is brilliant his Thursday Next series…The Eyre Affair for starters, Christopher Brookmyer’s Jack Parlabane’s series is very funny (and very Scottish) and anything by Terry Pratchett.
The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo By Amy Schumer
If you like Tina Fey (Bossypants), Amy Poehler (Yes, Please), and Mindy Kaling (Why Not Me), I recommend their autobiographies. Especially on audiobook. If you’re not a fan, then probably not. 🙂
The Rosie Project.
Yep. And the Rosie Effect. Both made me laugh out loud even though I was going through a terribly difficult time.
Food:A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan is SO funny!! Bossypants by Tina Fey is also great!
I giggled quite a bit while reading Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl. Not howl-out-loud funny, but light, witty and fun.
Caged Bird Fly by C.B. Daily
Three blind dates by Megan Quinn and wait with me by any Daws
It depends on what type of books you love to read. What’s your favorite genre? It may help guide you to a book you will really enjoy ?❤️
Being dead is no excuse
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Philip Gulley’s Harmony series.
humans do concentrate on the negative. i don’t like it either
A confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, you’ll be cheesing.???
Kings of the Wyld, by Nicholas Eames. I laughed so much through out that book.
Carl Hiaason is funny with an edge.
‘A Walk in the Woods’ Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson and AJ Jacobs
It depends where you are in your life, but I laughed so much at The Unmumsy Mum, and Hurrah for Gin. Fab if you’ve got kids
‘A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole.
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Ross O’Carroll Kelly series of books are really funny
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
“Does This Baby Make Me Look Fat?”
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore, or Mother Can You Not by Kate Friedman
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King, anything by Erma Bombeck
Read the Miss Fortune series by Jana DeLeon. The first one is usually offered for free – Louisiana Long shot. Laugh out loud funny!
Marian Keyes is a pretty funny author
Jenny Lawson! Her first one.
Loved the second one!
The Rosie Project!
I second this one!!! Definitely LOL!!
Following
The Shopaholic Series!!!!
Furiously happy by Jenny Lawson made me laugh out loud so many times. I even went out and bought a signed copy. Would love to meet Jenny one day
Had tears rolling. Funniest ever.
No, I mean her first one.
Where’d you go Bernadette
Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“Stiff” by Mary Roach
Ruby fruit jungle
The Rosie Project, any book by Rainbow Rowell
Sh*t My Dad Days by Justin Halpern ?☺️?
Janet evanovich
One of my fave authors
@Nancy me too
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. I had to stop reading it at bedtime because I woke my husband up with my laughing. I also really enjoyed Billy Crystal’s Still Foolin’ ‘Em.
If you want a rather funny take on the Apocalypse, I definitely recommend Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett! Trust me, it’s even better than in sounds 😉
Bridget Jones´s Diary by Helen Fielding and a lot of Sophie Kinsella´s books.
RUMPOLE AND THE PRIMROSE PATH by John Mortimer. You’ll never go wrong with Rumpole. You’ll be hard pressed to stop yourself from laughing out loud. ?
David sedaris me talk pretty one day
Where did I Leave MyGlasses by Martha Weinman Lear…especially if you are over 50!
@Shawna..we need to check this out for you
Depends on what you like, but anything by Jonathan Coe or PG Wodehouse works for me.
Anything by Laurie Notaro, she’s a very funny humorist.
McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy!
The Brocksport Series
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore.
The Rosie Experiment
Save Karyn by Karyn Bosnak
Furiously Happy
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper!!
Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods.
Try some Bill Bryson books!