Looking for a “Laugh out Loud” funny book from start to finish Any Recommendations?
Looking for a “Laugh out Loud” funny book from start to finish
Any Recommendations?
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Looking for a “Laugh out Loud” funny book from start to finish
Any Recommendations?
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich always makes me cackle!
For me, the first few were the best. Would laugh so hard I could not speak!
Yes, I’ve now given up on the series because it’s kind of stalled. But I think that Book #2 was funniest.
ANY memoir by Jen Lancaster. Especially her early stuff (Bright Lights, Big Ass; Bitter is the New Black; Such a Pretty Fat) I was reading one while waiting in a doctor’s exam room. A nurse came and checked on me because she thought I was crying. Guess I was laughing that loudly and tearfully
Seriously! I buy all of her books sight unseen. I don’t even read the descriptions until after I buy them. She just wrote her first YA book- not a funny topic! She lives in Lake Forest, IL, which has the highest rate of teen suicides due to academic pressure. Her latest book, The Gatekeepers, deals with this topic. I haven’t started it yet (TORTURE!!!) because I’m saving it for the 2018 reading challenge for “an author with my same name” prompt.
@Jennifer which challenge are you following? Laurie Notaro is similar to Jen Lancaster
Seriously second the Jen Lancaster recommendation. She is my hero!
@Erin Right?! I want to drive up and down the streets of Lake Forest calling her name out my window. It’s only about 30 minutes from me…that’s not crazy, right?! LOL! She also has a podcast that I am addicted to- and I HATE PODCASTS!
Yes I am OBSESSED! And I loved the podcast too
@Erin You are my long-lost book twin!
What was her podcast titled?
@Kristi Stories We’d Tell in Bars
@Jennifer, thank you! Going searching now!!!
How about a laugh out loud with some tears at the end? Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime
Bill Bryson
I’ve only read the one where he goes hiking (A Walk in the Woods?? I think that is the title) I loved it so much that I immediately added all of his to my Wishlist
Absolutely
Ditto
Notes from a Small Island cracked me up!
Anything by David Sedaris! Me Talk Pretty One Day was nonstop hilarious. And his Holidays on Ice could be a fun seasonal choice.
I second this!
Was just going to say David Sedaris.
“the Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo” is absolutely hilarious.
Priestdaddy had me chuckling quite a bit. Jenny Lawson’s books do too
Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff.
Phebe Robinson’s “No, You Can’t Touch my Hair and Other Things I still Have to explain” was also very funny!
Lamb by Christopher Moore.
Fool!
I also loved Sacre Bleu but not super funny
Dear Bob and Sue is a fun book about a couple who decide to visit all the National Parks. They write letters to their friends (Bob and Sue) detailing their adventures.
just looked them up…instantly added to my WL 🙂
Bill Bryson…A Walk in the Woods.
Carl Hiaasen….any book
He absolutely hooked me in with Lucky You.
Sick Puppy was also funny
Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern.
Oh my gosh. I was reading that in a doctors office waiting room and was laughing so hard I couldn’t breath. My son, about 8 at the time, tapped my shoulder and asked it was an appropriate book to be reading at the moment. Probably not, son, in more ways than one. Should put a disclaimer for those that get offended by course language, luckily I do not or I would have missed this gem.
Just downloaded this and already laughing out loud.
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.
last chance to see by douglas adams
Anything by Lewis Grizzard. Laugh out loud, tears rolling down your cheeks, wake up the house when reading in the middle of the night
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
I just finished “the Cuban affair.“ By Nelson DeMille. I had quite a few laugh out loud moments. I really enjoyed it.
Crazy rich Asians had be laughing out loud!
This thread and the most twisted
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Funeral Makers by Cathie Pelletier
I like Carl Hiaasen.
A Dirty Job, Auntie Mame
Janet Evanovich – Stephanie Plum series! Laugh out loud!!!
Anything written by Christopher Buckley. When I read his books, my abs hurt from laughing.
Holidays on ice David sedaris
It’s middle grade AND it’s on my TBR: Laugh out Loud by James Patterson. Also I laughed out loud often while listening to Still Foolin’ ‘Em written and read by Billy Crystal.
I laughed at Jill Connor Browne’s “Sweet Potato Queen” books
These are my favorite funny books!
Tina Fey, Bossypants, extra funny on audio.
Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight? (Audiobook was hilarious!)
If you can find it- the Egg and I by Betty Macdonald.
Check out this book on Goodreads: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848559-furiously-happy
It’s great on audio as well, she reads it. Loved this book!
@Kathy, Yes! I listened to it also.
I now want a stuffed raccoon. Lol
Rory!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0446694843/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1511638511&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=good+grief&dpPl=1&dpID=41cpOVs5a3L#immersive-view_1511638526524
Any fiction by Dave Barry
Following @@@
Anything by Laurie Nataro. The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club is a fav!
Dolls behaving badly
Furiously Happy. She reads the audiobook, BTW
David Sedaris, Patrick McManus, Douglass Addams
Lamb
A Dirty Job
Confessions of A Failed Southern Lady.
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Following
Following.
anything by Sophie Kinsella
I like her stand alone novels better than the Shopaholic series. I really liked The Undomestic Goddess. ?
that is my favorite too, in the Shopaholic series I really liked Mini Shopaholic
Wedding Night is laugh-till-you-cry
Sophie Kinsella and Janet Evanovich is a sure bet
The Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich.
Yep just finishing one of her audio books now
I know the books have been around for a while, but Erma Bombeck. She was fabulous and the issues of housecleaning, having kids, husbands, and all she wrote about are still pretty much the same as today. And she was funny!
Love her.
I hate everyone except you, by Clinton Kelly. A series of stories about his life growing up. I laughed out loud on almost every page. Really well done.
Anything by Christopher Moore.
Anything by Patrick McManus
As Husbands Go by Susan Isaacs! Definitely a NY attitude, fun and a mystery with an Interesting cast of characters…………
Bill Bryson Walk in the Woods
My Family and Other Animals… written from the viewpoint of a 10 yr old boy … from a Praying Mantis honeymoon to human behaviour when a mother scorpion tosses her babies into a room crowded with adults … the PBS shows don’t begin to capture the humor and joy
Gerald Durrell! Love his books, so funny
I always loved Michael Malone’s “Handling Sin”
Dad is Fat Jim Gaffigan
Anything by Gaffigan but mu favorite us Food:a love story!
A Walk in the Woods.
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, by Fannie Flagg.
The S**t Your Dad Says
Catch 22
A Girl Named Zippy!
I’d forgot about that one. It was hilarious.
The Rosie Project
Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris.
Also, his Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, & Barrel Fever, are funny, ‘creative non-fiction’ stories!
Yes!
In A Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson.
I️ love Bill Bryson!
Practical Demonkeeping.
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8041873-hold-me-closer-necromancer?ac=1&from_search=true
Really loved this book. I want to read the sequel.
@Kathy I have been anxiously waiting for book 3 for years.
A Man Called Ove
Running with Scissors
Let’s pretend this never happened…it’s freaking hilarious and will make you feel better about your life at the same time
I second this one!
Me too! Furiously Happy, her second book is even funnier IMO. Although I wouldn’t say it made me feel better about my life. It made me admire the author for her strength and made me and many, many others feel less alone.
Agree @Tanya?
A MILLION GIANT METAL CHICKENS YES
It made me feel better about my life because I saw someone being affected by the same struggles I was, and still kicking a boatload of ass and writing BOOKS about it. Jenny is amazing. She’s my patronus. She talks about “34” in Furiously Happy, but SHE IS MY PERSON. And THEN I met the fabulous community when I was willing to come out of my shell a little!!!!!
She is my person as well, there are a few of us here, @Michelle and @Jasmine as well as @Tanya that feel the same way. We’re not like a cult or anything ?? but we are devoted!
“Not like a cult” PFFT. ???
(Kidding. OR AM I?)
I agree on Furiously Happy – in fact I just recommended it, further down in this thread. I laughed so much that I had tears running down my face, my stomach was hurting. I have her other books on my TBR list.
Jennifer wiener’s books always make me laugh out loud!
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovitch
Such a Pretty Fat, and Bright Lights, Big Ass ….just a few by Jen Lancaster! She has others!
Eat Cake. Can’t recall the author.
@Mary Author is Jeanne Ray <3
Correct. found this book entertaining and amusing. Candidate for a “best book” award–no. But a book to take the edge off. I have never forgotten the first few paragraphs. Had me hooked right away.
@Mary Have you read Julie and Romeo, Julie and Romeo Get Lucky, Step Ball Change???? All are delightful.
Julie and Romeo and Step Ball Change–yes. Not the other.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler is hilarious.
Kiss Carlo
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0380813815/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511655393&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=lamb+the+gospel+according+to+biff&dpPl=1&dpID=51i-iA-flpL
Anything by David Sedaris, too.
When Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Baily @Terry
Martian
The Brocksport Series by Janice Earnest. Super, super funny! Della’s my favorite—no, Maynard is, or maybe…
Big Trouble, and Tricky Business by Dave Barry.
“We Are Never Meeting in Real Life” by Samantha Irby had me cracking up. Crying, too, in parts, and some parts were so vulgar I flipped through quickly. Still, can’t wait for her next book.
Are you There Vodka? It’s me, Chelsea.
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson! I laughed through the whole book!
If you like rock band culture I recommend everyone loves you when you’re dead
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole.
Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Funniest book ever.
Furiously Happy
David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Hitchhiking with Larry david
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Woefield Poultry Collective by Susan Juby.
Any PG Wodehouse
I Don’t Care About Your Band by Julie Klausner. You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson.
Please read The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson.
Picked this up today. Thanks
The Rosey Project.
Beginner’s Luck – Laura Pedersen; Lamb – Christopher Moore
Straight Man by Richard Russo.
Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods
@Gabi
Went to the store armed with my phone to get the books that were recommended. Got so confused that I came home, print this thread, in the process of editing it. Then I will go back intelligently armed?
Of course I did not leave the store empty handed. Since so many of you recommended her I have decided to try it
You won’t be disappointed!
Thanks
Some recommend these. What do you think?
I’ve read a few of his books and have enjoyed them all
Practical Demonkeeping or Lamb by Christopher Moore.
If you’re a fan of Ellen DeGeneres, I’d recommend her book “Seriously… I’m Kidding”. It’s been years since I read it, but I remember that it was hilarious.