Can you recommend any hilariously funny books.
Hi all! Can you recommend any hilariously funny books. I want to start building a collection. Thanks bunches ?
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Hi all! Can you recommend any hilariously funny books. I want to start building a collection. Thanks bunches ?
I love PG Wodehouse books!
Thank you ?
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald!
Thanks!
Dolls Behaving badly (not girls behaving badly)
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Yes P G. Wodehouse excellent.
Stephanie Plum novels
I have all of hers lol
Are they good? Any suggestions on which I should begin with?
@Akshata The first one and work your way up. I stopped by 20 since they start to get to be the same, but I definitely recommend trying it out
Thanks. 🙂 They are next on my list!
There’s a few side books that you can read of hers but the numbers are in the title!
@Amanda I love the books that are Stephanie plum but are out of the number order. Like the valentines or St Patrick’s Day ones!
@Jennifer I haven’t read those yet but I have all the number ones!
@Amanda Those are really funny! They have a new character and is a little different than the others. Because they are separate, you don’t have to read them in any kind of order. Just a little break from the Stephanie/Morelli/Ranger drama!
Awesome!!
Those were my beach and pool books for years. Really lol funny
Anything by Christopher Moore or Bill Bryson.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Yes!
Carl Hiaasen
Forrest Gump. Far more hilarious than the film.
Anything by J Maarten Troost
Just here to steal book suggestions.
Book Thief ?
The funniest book I ever read was Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation. If you are a history buff with a very warped sense of humor you will love it. I love the humor in Molly Harper books – either her Half-Moon Hollow Series or, if ridiculous vampires aren’t your cup of tea, her stand-alone novel “And One Last Thing” is great. “Furiously Happy” and “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” by Jenny Lawson are fun too. Finally, everything David Sedaris has ever written.
Awesome! And I do have a warped sense of humour ?
@Shannon Great – I don’t know if you ever listen to audiobooks. If you do, get Assassination Vacation in that format. Sarah Vowell narrates it along with a bunch of well-known comedians and actors including Jon Stewart. I think all the voices really added to the humor. I listen to Molly Harper books as well. Her regular narrator Amanda Ronconi, has the perfect voice for Molly’s characters. I think her voice probably makes them funnier. The Lawson and Sedaris books I’ve read in hardback. I’ve actually worn out my copies of Sedaris’ first two books, I’ve reread and loaned them so often and had to replace both.
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Laura!! Yes I loved this book too. Audiobook was perfect
Jana DeLeon’s Miss Fortune Mystery series
Good omens.
Read any of Jim Gaffigan’s two books. I am done with FOOD, it was the funniest book i ever read.
Let’s pretend this never happened is a pretty funny memoir you could try. I really enjoyed it
Sh*t my dad says by Justin Halpern. (oops — added note — get the audiobook for sure!)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
hyperbole and a half
Yes! I wish Alli Brosh had a new book out!
Anything by Erma Bombeck.
Wodehouse’s books, especially Blandings Castle stories
Lunatics by Dave Barry
Jen Lancaster’s early memoirs…Bright Lights, Big Ass…Such a Pretty Fat…Bitter is the New Black…those are the best but any of the them are great. I was reading in the doctor’s exam room. A nurse checked on me because she thought I was crying. Nope, just laughing like a lunatic by myself. ??
The Rosie Project
The Country Life by Rachel Cusk.
Offhand, these: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut – the funniest book I ever read (and in the authors opinion, “The best book I’ve written? Cat’s Cradle is the only book I’ve written.” That was early on, before his best sellers) The others are by Anthony Trollope: The Warden and — if you’re an Anglican, or an anglophile — Barchester Towers.
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson.
Right Ho, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse.
Mary Roach writes about science and she is hilarious. Packing for Mars, Bonk, Stiff and Gulp are my favorites. Science that is laugh-out-loud funny!
Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs.
I second Christopher Moore & Carl Hiassen.
Depends on your definition of funny. Check out the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich (there are a lot, you can read the first 10 or less and be good to go), or anything by Tim Dorsey.
Also, if you like Ellen Degeneres, her books are pretty funny.
‘A Walk in the Woods’ by Bill Bryson
Also The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, etc.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett (this series will keep you busy for a while. yes there are many books, but all so, so good)
I third Christoper Moore – seriously, read them all
all of the above had me laughing out loud on a crowded subway like a lunatic
Ditto to Christopher Moore, especially Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
I second Lamb!
When The Balls Drop by Brad Garrett
Anything Dave Barry wrote. Fiction or non, he literally makes me snort laugh in public when I’m reading his books.
We are never meeting in real life by samath Erby
Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. JErome 1066 And All That by W.C. sellar and R.J. yeatman. MY Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. the General DAnced at Dawn by George Macdonald Fraser. COld Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. COde of the Woosters by P G Wodehouse. MY Life and Hard Times by James Thurber.
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I laugh out loud every time I read it, and I’ve reread it a ton.
Yes, anything by David Sedaris.
Barbara Pym – Jane and Prudence is her funniest I think
Lots of chuckles in that one but I’d vote for Less than Angels.
The Tuesday Night Erotica Club by Lisa Beth Kovetz.. also Jennifer Weiner is a witty and funny writer
Curse of the Gods Series by Jaymin Eve and Jane Washington.
I heart my little Aholes ???
I love James Herriott’s “All Creatures Great and Small” series. They have a wide range of emotions, though. Sometimes sadness and laughter in the same chapter.
Thanks for reminding me of these books
Lets pretend that never happend Jenny Lawson
Oh yeah? I read Furiously Happy and thought it was pretty good. Considered going back to read her first novel.
@Melanie lets pretend is way funnier and just as honest
The Day My Butt Went Psycho, Tales From The teacher’s Lounge.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler!
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.
Lamb
This is the ultimate ‘feel good’ novel.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Following this post!
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.
I second this!
Also…The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.
Anything by terry Pratchett x
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Anything by David Sedaris
Solar by Ian McEwan, Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Following
Cooking with Fernet Branca.
Class Mom
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Not everyone’s cup of tea, but I loved reading Chelsea Handler
Furiously Happy (had a raccoon on the front)
(by Jenny Lawson)
NORA EPHRON’S always a delight to read. So funny and insightful.
Don’t forget about…I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. It’s also by Ephron and the last book she published before her death. Very good.
Good Omens by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman and I Love Everybody (And Other Atrocious Lies) by Laurie Nataro (She’s written a bunch of these type of real life comedy books, but this was my fav, but I do know that she’s not for everybody)
John Dies at the End
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Sheila Levine is dead and living in New York by Gail Parent.
Its an old book but very funny.
Very humorous and insightful.