I’m looking for a few easy, light reads that are really good. Comedy is a plus.
I’m looking for a few easy, light reads that are really good. Comedy is a plus.
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I’m looking for a few easy, light reads that are really good. Comedy is a plus.
Anything by Fannie Flagg.
Lorna Landvik!
Sex lies & chocolate cake by Stephen Morris. Very short funny story x
War and Peace
@Catherine That’s a funny read
@Gabe I really liked it.
The Rosie Project
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
+1
R rated but funny.
The Martian, by Andy Weir.
Anything by Christopher Moore
David Sedaris
Funny in Farsi by Iranian-American humorist Firoozeh Dumas, one long giggle!
Straight Man or Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer
I liked Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions!
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Happiness TM Paperback – February 15, 2003
by Will Ferguson He is Canadian, so you probably won’t find him at the local bookstore, great author.
A Man Called Ove is lovely
Tim Moore – Another Fine Mess. Driving across the US in a Model T Ford – funny and informative
Rhys Bowen’s series. “Evan” series about a Welsh cop and the “Royal” series about an aristocratic woman who is 39th in line to the throne. Funny.
James Herriot vet series, marvellous!
Be Frank With Me
One for the money was really funny. I also liked sophie kinsella books. If you are looking for new adult romance I loved Wallbanger. It’s the only book I actually LOLd outloud I may have even snorted lol.
For something different and totally delightful read Hold Me Closer Necromancer by Lish McBride. Lovable characters, funny & it has its own fabulous playlist. I gave it to a friend whose wife banned it from the bedroom because he kept laughing out loud and waking her up. The sequel is great too. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8041873-hold-me-closer-necromancer?ac=1&from_search=true
David Sedaris on audio. David reading his own hilarious stories is the best. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4137.Me_Talk_Pretty_One_Day?ac=1&from_search=true
Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster, Lunatics by Dave Barry
The hating game by Sally Thorne
@Nada I just finished this book and absolutely loved it (as in like 30 minutes ago lol)!! I stumbled across is randomly, and so glad I did! I don’t suppose you have any similar recommendations?
@Randi what a coincidence! ? I loved it too so much, well there’s sophie Kinsella’s “Surprise me” and “My not so perfect life” hilarious novels, and i just ordered “the kiss quotient” by Helen Hoang i saw some positive reviews and they definitely see similarities with the hating game
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is very funny, Bill Bryson’s travelogues, the Dirk Gently books by Douglas Adams, Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome, anything really by Mark Twain. I’m reading a comedy crime solving medieval monk series which is excellent by Geoffrey of Warwick, about Brother Hermitage who is an innocent in a world of pornographic weavers and William the Conqueror, which I’m loving.
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler. It’s a short, fun modern take on The Taming of the Shrew.
Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews, it’s in the middle of a series but holds up well on its own and is perfect for the season. An added plus is there is a whole series if you enjoy it!
The Rosie project
Perfect light read….
David Sedaris.
You’ll Grow Out of it
Wait. Is that the name of a book? Or are you saying she’ll get over wanting to read those types of stories? ?
haha its a book! I can’t think of the author out of the top of my head though
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett!
Also, for fun(ny), light and a good read, I recommend Terry Pratchett’s Death series (Mort, Reaper Man, Soul Music, Hogfather and The Thief of Time). Actually, any Terry Practhett is like that, but I love this little series in particular.
@Hincu I love the Death stuff too, but the early witch books are hysterical, particularly Witches Abroad ?
Carrying Albert home by Hines. Great funny book!
@Lisa I’ve read the Witches series right after the Death series and, for some reason, I’ve found them more serious rather than funny. I mean, yes, Nanny and Granny are a bomb together, but Granny’s “moments”in every book turned it serious (and philosophical), in my opinion. Masquerade was hilarious because of Nanny, for example. All books were hilarious because of Nanny Ogg, I think… Still a funny series, though.
Hincu Larisa I totally get what you mean, Granny became very serious in later books, I think all of his books did. In Witches Abroad, Granny Weatherwax relaxes on holiday, sort of, and the whole thing has a sunny feel. And obviously Nanny Ogg gets drunk and sings The Hedgehog Song. And there are pumpkins, and a magic wand that the Fairy Grandmother doesn’t know how to use. And lots of lovely Dwarf Bread ??
Thanks everyone!!!!
anything by JENNY COLGAN /a Scottish writer
tim dorsey
Visions of Sugarplums by Janet Evanovich. Its hysterical
I second Jenny Colgan!! Also, Liane Moriarty is great!
Anything by Bill Bryson is a joy. Or, A.J. Mackinnon.
Tom Sharpe
I love Tom Sharpe’s books, but don’t see him mentioned frequently in this club.
I am finishing up the Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas I am really enjoying it.
Completely out of my normal reading world but Dairy of a Bookseller had my laughing out loud at some points, really loved it!
Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series…alerting g with The Eyre Affair. They are awesome and funny and clever.