Looking for some good humorous books. Need a little change please and thanks.
Looking for some good humorous books. Need a little change please and thanks.
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Looking for some good humorous books. Need a little change please and thanks.
Mildred In Disguise, With Diamonds
Fiction/crime/humor
Mildred expected a comfortable retirement. But when her husband died, his secrets changed everything. She doesn’t have the luxury of a graceful old age, she takes the job the casino offers-undercover security.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/154495669X/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07JFSDCLM/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_b07jfsdclm
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Almost anything by Christopher Moore will fit the bill. A Dirty Job, Fool, and Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Friend are personal favorites.
I loved A Dirty Job. I need to read more Moore.
I read The Stupidest Angel and thought it was very funny.
R rated but funny.
I heard this was really good
I listened to this one… very funny ?
Anything by my mother Jacquie Rogers is a hit and you will Laugh Your Butt Off….
The Crazy Rich Davenports: Dare to Enter
Anything by Bill Bryson
Welcome To Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. I recommend the audiobook.
Carpet diem by @Justin is brilliant and funny
The Rosie Project
Wishing and Hopin by Wally Lamb.
Anything by terry pratchet ❤️
Try Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester, Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn, Can You Keep A Secret? by Sophie Kinsella, Neighbor from Hell series by RL Mathewson and RS Grey’s books
The Miss Fortune series by Jana DeLeon.
Also the Honey Beaulieu series by Jacquie Rogers, and the Meg Langslow series by Donna Andrews.
I just finished #3…love this series!
@Diane cozy mysteries are my favorite. Do you have any other suggestions?
If you like paranormal you can try Nocturne Falls by Kristen Painter. Amanda M. Lee has a several series out that are funny–Wicked Witches of the Midwest and Aisling Grimlock for starters. You have to like her kind of snark though 🙂
I love cozies, but not all of them are humorous. Julie Moffett writes Lexi Carmichael series which is great, Julie Mulhern writes the Country Club series and Annette Dashofy writes the Zoe Chambers series. All of them are really good. Along with Kate Carlisle’s Bibliophile series.
Adrian Mole
Not sure if it’s your cup of tea but I’m reading David sedaris’s Calypso. First page I turned had me laughing out loud…
My favorite Sedaris book is Me Talk Pretty Some Day
@Diana this is my first Sedaris read…will definitely be checking out his others. Thanks.
@Ash one of the chapters deals with the ridiculous descriptions that restaurants come up with for their food. I’ve never looked at menus the same way since. So, so funny…
The Spellman Family chronicles by Lisa Lutz several in the series, all hilarious fiction with usually a crime to solve but the family is jus so funny.
Most anything by Tim Cahill or Johnathan Tropper.
Love Jonathan Tropper, wish he would write more novels. Apparently, he’s writing for television/movies.
Janet Etanovich is supposed to be good
Definitely one of my favorites!
Neighbours from hell series by RL.Mathewson
Seduction and snacks
Can you keep a secret ?
It sounds counterintuitive but the Reaper series by Darynda Jones is great. The main character is hysterical.
I’ve read a couple of these and I agree…they are good.
Anything by Kathy Lette really amusing
Do you like sci-fi and fantasy or mysteries? Cuz Robert Asprin, Steven Brust, Harry Harrison, and lillian Jackson are my go to for funny books. She writes the cat who series.
Mine doesn’t drop until Wednesday
This is Where I leave You by Jonathan Tropper, and The Punch by Noah Hawley
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The Thin Woman by Dorothy Cannell and A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The autobiography of gerald durrell. It’s hilarious like no other book I’ve read
My Family and Other Animals by gerald durrell
@Masood agree fabulous read
Agree with the above, also anything by James Thurber and Bill Bryson plus the Jeeves and Wooster novels by P G Wodehouse.
Following
Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix. It’s a non fiction book about horror and gothic novels from like, the ’50’s through ’80’s and it’s hilarious.
Reading Bill Bryson currently
Fannie Flagg
This may be obvious but the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich is pretty hilarious.
Definitely one of my favorite series. Can’t wait for the next one to come out.
David Sedaris
Mapp and Lucia by E F Benson
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, G K Chesterton’s essays (and his Father Brown stories are very funny in places too.)
Ann B Ross Miss Julia series
The Queen and I bye sue Townsend
Nobody’s Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips had me laughing throughout and I ended up becoming a fan of hers afterwards.
Carl Hiassan
The Virgin Romance Novelist by Meaghan Quinn had me laughing so hard I kept waking my husband when I read it in bed. Also Pucked by Helena Hunting had me laughing out loud. Both are rom/com’s and books I’ve reread.
I looked for your first suggestion I cannot find it anywhere. Not even on goodreads.
You should try the Stefanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich! There are almost 30 of them so far in the series. They are very funny. The first is called One for the Money.
This is one of my favorite series. I can’t wait for the next one to come out.
Its so good! I always wonder how she will make another crazy story, but she always does and they are great!
these books make me laugh out loud–
I’m reading #8. So funny!
Stephanie doesn’t want to quit her job bc there’s a bakery across the street. Hahaha!
Tim dorsey’s serg books. You will wake up the house laughing out loud.
If you like family oriented – Erma Bombeck. Anything by her is awesome and makes you laugh out loud while making you feel connected to humanity.
Janet evonovich one two three book. They are really cute
Bill Bryson books…funny
David Sedaris is hilarious! Try Theft by Finding, Calypso, and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Bill Bryson is fantastic and funny
The Dalai Lama’s Cat.
“Tibetan Peach Pie”, Tom Robbins–whimsical, clever memoir written by a master of humor and originality.
Jennifer Cruisie is really funny and smart.
I’m reading ‘Us’ by David Nicholls and it’s numerous and touching
Carl Hiaasen. Also a humor book? What kind of humor in a novel? Satire? I recommend listening to @Bossypants
If you like humour and quirky – try the Thursday Next series by Jasper Forde
“Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah – funny, inspiring and different
Carl Hiassen’s books are really zany; and Richard Lederer’s Anguished English books are laugh-out-loud riots!!
Animal Lovers by Rob Palk is great – really darkly funny. It’s about a man whose wife leaves him to protest a badger cull…
Dave Barry is my go to for a guaranteed chuckle, and the rosie project is great
Any books by Sophie Kinsella. She has a lot of quirky characters in her books.
The Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series of books are usually good for a laugh as well…the grandmother is hilarious!
I like Lula ?
@Debby I think Lula and the grandma make the story lol
yes!! Totally agree!
tHE rOSIE pROJECT
I’ve been reading Pirates of Falicity by Kelly St Clare and have had plenty of laughs. ?