I am looking for a funny, laugh out loud kinda book.. any recommendations?
I am looking for a funny, laugh out loud kinda book… any recommendations?
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I am looking for a funny, laugh out loud kinda book… any recommendations?
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Mark Twain’s Roughing It and John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row are two classics that have some “laugh out loud” moments.
You suck a love story Christopher Moore
James J. Park, anything by Christopher Moore.
And Fat White Vampire Blues by Andrew Fox.
maybe not Sacre Blue
@James, you’re right. That wasn’t “laugh out loud” funny, but it was, nonetheless, a brilliant novel. Thanks for the reminder.
The first Moore books I read were Fluke and Bloodsucking Fiends. They are funny. Fluke is full of surprises, too.
Non fiction, but Bill Bryson is an hilarious travel writer. Also you could try Douglas Adams Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. Good Omens is a great read by Neil Gaiman and Terry pratchett. Christopher Moore writes some funny books too.
Janet Evanovitch series
I’ve read through 5 or 6 of them!
Most of Terry Pratchett’s novels
Books by Sophie Kinsella
I’ve read all of her books!
If you like fantasy, Piers Anthony’s Xanth books have a healthy helping of humor. Heaping amounts of puns, too.
Yes and there are so many of them .
Is he still writing them? There must be at least thirty.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler!
LAMB: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. Or anything by Christopher Moore (author of LAMB) You will literally laugh out loud the whole time
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Anything by Penny Reid
Are you looking for “clean” humor or are you ok with “crude” humor (cursing, sexual innuendo, crass). If you don’t mind the later, I would recommend “The Lightning Struck Heart”… I loved it so much I was making people read passages as I went along. Here’s a character listing just to start. A hornless gay unicorn, a wizard’s apprentice who is oblivious to everything, a knight “the dreamiest dream to have ever been dreamed” and a horny dragon. It definitely made me laugh but I have a very twisted sense of humor. (very)Adult fantasy humor.
Any kind of humor! Thanks!
The Charlie Davidson series, Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs, Wallbanger from the Cocktailed series….. They are all laugh out loud funny. They are not YA.
The two books that have made me laugh the hardest are probably “The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared” and “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”.
Hitchhikers! ?
know the latter story. But never heard of that first one. Intriguing title…..!
I love The Hundred Year Old Man! Such a great story!
The first one I have but haven’t gotten too far into yet. Love the Hitchhiker’s Guide
The I ? series by Lindsay Kelk are pretty funny. Oh, and the Thursday Next series by Jape Fforde! ???
Stephanie Evanovich books are really funny.
Erma Bombeck, “If Life Is A Bowl of Cherries Why Am I In The Pits?”
Christopher Moore ?
The second story in The Hinterlands by Robert Morgan gave me a few laughs. I really liked that book.
Anything by Erma Bombeck and PG Wodehouse!
The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro.
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series
Bossypants by Tina Fey, anything by David Sedaris.
thud by terry prachett
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
That is great!
Three men in a boat, Mapp and Lucia, Calvin and Hobbes,
Calling invisible women by Jeanne Ray. She also wrote “Eat cake:” Romeo and Julia, and “Step Ball Change. All are delightful
Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Tigers on the Beach
All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot
Still life with Woodpecker ?
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series are lol funny!
Following
Shopping for a Billionaire by Julia Kent and Double Whammy by Gretchen Archer. I laughed until I cried.
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. Hilarious
Don Quixote
Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim (The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman)
by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella Any book written by these two will make you laugh out loud!
P.G.Wodehouse
Erma Bombeck and Janet Evonovitch.
Anton Chekhov,s booksssss ……( The comic stories) or? ( The Bear)
Bill Bryson books are funny.
Try anything from author Carl Hiaasen.
Funny in Farsightedness.
Oh my goodness. That is Funny in Farsi. My tablet did autocorrect, actually making it funnier to me because I am farsighted! ???
I hate auto-correct.
A Confederacy of Dunces
Wodehouse and Tom Sharpe top my list
The Sweet Potato Queens series by Jill Connor Browne.
Try David Sedaris–short stories and funny.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Me earl and the dying girl
Any Carl Hiaasen
I’ve read Sick Puppy – bloody hilarious!
Sophie Kinsella~Can you keep a secret & Remember Me
Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Vols I and II
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher, or Surrender the Pink, by the same author.
Anything by Gervase Phinn. He is hilarious. I can’t stop laughing when I read his books. He used to be a school inspector and his wife was a teacher and his tales of what the little ones get up to or come out with are so so funny. I have seen him live at the theatre twice and I listen to his audio books as he is just so animated.
Robert Ludlum, THe Road To Omaha and THe Road to Gandolfo
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
The vast majority of Pratchett’s work, (the Disc World series), makes me laugh every time. There’s also the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovitch
Summer at Sea by Beth Labonte is the first in a series but can be read without the others.
This one was quite funny. It’s not exactly my genre (romance), but it did make me laugh out loud a couple of times.
‘e’ by Matt Beaumont. Almost had me in hospital.
Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
Can you keep a secret – Sophie Kinsella
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
The Sheriff of Yrnameer
Anything by Kathy Lette
The Princess Bride. I was in stitches!
Any Terry Pratchett
Anything by Christopher Moore… Bite Me is hysterical!!! ???
The MYTH series of books by Robert Asprin? Similar in tone and style to Pratchett or Adams.
Life and other near death experiences was great
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened – one woman with anxietys auto biography, could not put it down!!! Must read
Frozen Music by Marika Cobbold
Big trouble _Dave Barry
Yes! I read this when it came out and it was amazing.
Matthew Norman’s we are all damaged
This made me laugh quite a bit
@Chris If you like him, I would recommend Jonathan Tropper’s Book of Joe!
Thanks, I put it on my to be read list
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. I actually listened to it and had to pull over a couple times bc I was crying from laughing so hard.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Anything Chelsea handler wrote or Ellen made me laugh….if you have that sense of humor
Loved all of Ellen’s books. Only read one of Chelseas but loved it too.
Terry Pratchett 😛
One for the Money-Janet Evanovich
And Two for the Dough.
The Rosie Project.
I love the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency….always a giggle
I have been passing on it for quite a while, is it that good?
War of the Fae series. Super sarcastic, witty and entertaining with a good storyline.
The Funny Thing Is by Ellen Degeneres. I laughed out loud throughout!
Can you keep a secret? By Sophie Kinsella. Hilarious!
The One Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared … Gets me Everytime!!!
Books of Rich Amooi is hilarious
Anything by Dixie Cash.
https://www.fictiondb.com/author/dixie-cash~39003.htm
John Bishop’s autobiography.
Kathy lette is hilarious
Anything by Sophie Kinsella 😉
Lamb by Christopher Moore made me laugh
That’s a great one
Paw Enforcement Series by Diane Kelly
Lorie notaro
The Help! It will make you laugh and cry.
Mark Henry’s Amanda Feral series & Dakota Cassidy’s Accidentall series, that is if you don’t mind foul language & crude humor.
Anything by Janet Evanovich