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My friend needs a happy or funny book recommendation. It’s okay to be dark and funny
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My friend needs a happy or funny book recommendation. It’s okay to be dark and funny
Anything by Carl Hiassen
Lots of Christopher Moore’s stuff is dark, twisted, and funny.
The Dirty Book Club by Lisi Harrison was funny.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Jinx! Haha
Janet evonovich one two three books
Would you say that’s a good place to start with her? I’ve seen so many at the thrift store and wasn’t sure where to start!
@Jed I think it’s a good place. They are funny and short And grandma is funny as hell
I got hooked on these a little while ago, end of Feb maybe. And I’m now on # 15. They really are hilarious.
@Caroline appreciate the feedback! Think I’ll try and snag these next Goodwill run.
@Beth I’m waiting (not so patiently)for the next one. I only get them in paperback
@Caroline One advantage of being late to the game, I have a few more to read before the waiting starts. But I’m sure I’ll catch up soon at this rate
@Beth there is that.
Author Bill Bryson, A walk in the Woods.
I found To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis to be pretty funny.
Pucked by Helena Hunting…
I picked up my book reservation. It’s called ‘This is going to hurt’. It’s written by a junior doctor. So as a nurse myself, I have numerous funny things I could fill a book with ?
Anything by David sedaris
Nanny diaries. Dad is fat (jim gaffigan)
Anything Sophie Kinsella my favorite is The Undomesticated Goddess and the Shopaholic Series
I second Sophie Kinsella. Love her Shopaholic series!
Undomestic goddess was hilarious.
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis) or Adventures of the Thundebolt Kid or A Walk in the Woods (Bryson) or Compromising Positions (Isaacs)
Fannie flagg
The Virgin Romance Novelist. I laughed so hard at this book. There is also a sequel.
Circles in Hell. Laugh out loud funny
Sellevision by Aughusten Burroughs
I second this!! Not what I expected at all 🙂 His next one was great, too!
Bill Bryson. Anything by him.
The most entertaining & memorable funny book of all time – Hold Me Closer Necromancer (and its sequel) by Lish McBride. Characters are lovable and both books have their own fabulous playlist. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8041873-hold-me-closer-necromancer
Sounds interesting
Gave these books to a friend whose wife banned the books from their bedroom because he kept laughing out loud and waking her up.
And the classic hysterically silly books by Patrick McManus. Guy humor at its best. They actually can make you laugh so hard your chest hurts. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364744.The_McManus_Treasury?ac=1&from_search=true
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin is that story where a fictional contemporary Prince and Lady (we knew who) so aggravated the Queen (we know her too) that she had them stripped and airlifted and parachuted unannounced into the US to force them to get along.
James Herriot is my go to when I need happy.
Where’d you go Bernadette?
When will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin.
Anything by Christopher Moore! I especially recommend Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper. Also Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Carrie Fisher books….
Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, David Sedaris
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19347251-the-extraordinary-journey-of-the-fakir-who-got-trapped-in-an-ikea-wardro
Anything written by David Sedaris or Jenny Lawson ❤️
I’ve got to agree, anything by David Sedaris.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines, or Finger Lickin´ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich both had me laughing so hard i couldn’t breathe. You don’t have to have read the other 14 books to crack up at it or follow along.
The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow, anything by P.G. Wodehouse
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, wickedly dark humour
You’ll Grow Out of It – Jessi Klein
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson and Let’s pretend this never happened by her also. I was ROFL
John deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (,Western)
Anything by Christopher Moore!!!
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Me before you trilogy by Jojo Moyes
Parnell Hall’s the Puzzle Lady series
Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Bill Bryson
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb.
Confederacy of Dunces.
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir [Jenny Lawson
The Rosie Project!
Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
I loved that book
The bathtub incident almost killed me ???
It is probably one of my favorite books that I’ve read so far this year. I laughed throughout the whole book.
I laughed all the way through “Handling Sin”by Michael Malone
Anything written by David Sedaris, although I’m not loving Theft by Finding.
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
Anything by Sophie Kinsella
Christopher Moore books are always fun
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. Preferably in audio format because Sarah narrates it along with
Jon Stewart, Conan O’Brien, Stephan King and Dave Eggers. Wickedly hysterical and educational!
Yes The Rosie Project!!!!
Jennifer Crusie’s books always make me laugh, especially Crazy for You, Fast Women, Bet Me. Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny is a recent discovery that I found witty. These are funny-clever, not funny-hysterical.
Practical Demonkeeping – or any from Christopher Moore
Jenny Lawson or David Sedaris
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Sunday’s are for hangovers by K Webster and JD Hollyfield
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Anything Christopher Moore..he always makes me laugh!
Calypso, David Sedaris
Try Gervase Phinn. Brilliant comedic series.
The Rosie Project
David Sedaris
I only read the classics so here’s a good one: Blandings Castle by PG WODEHOUSE
Great Humorous authors: David Sedaris, Jancee Dunn, Christopher Moore, Dave Barry, Fannie Flagg, Tom Robbins, P G Wodehouse, P J O’Rourke…
Carl Hiassen books
Where’d you go Bernadette
Anything by Christopher Moore.
Danny Wallace is funny
Class Mom
Cooking with Fernet Branca.
Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan