Quick question, what’s the funniest book you’ve ever read?
Quick question, what’s the funniest book you’ve ever read?
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Quick question, what’s the funniest book you’ve ever read?
For me it’s got to be the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, there’s not a book I haven’t laughed out loud to yet. Which does get me a few stares in public ?
I love Stephanie Plum!
Yes!!! Have you gotten around to the new one yet? It’s on my Christmas list. ?
@Cassie not yet, it’s on my Christmas list too. lol
No not yet as I was late discovering them am only on 20 at the moment x
I was late to the party on these too, but they are so enjoyable I couldn’t put them down.
I’m the same if one comes into the library I’ll stop whatever I’m reading so I can devour it lol x
I’ve been reading them since high school, I think. My mother introduced them to me, and I’ve just kept reading. Haha
I love these books! By far the funniest ever!
Love that series.
I’ve read them all twice! They are fun (too) quick reads
I agree. Some of them are laugh out loud funny!
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Ooo, that’s a good one!
Agreed
Rachel’s holiday by Maryan Keyes.
Most of her books make me laugh out loud!
The Discworld novels were really funny, by Terry Pratchett. I also have to give a shout out to Fat Dad by Jim Gaffigan.
Read “Food: A Love Story,”also by Jim Gaffigan. Hilarious.
A walk in the woods by Bill Bryson, Stephanie Plum series and the Thin Woman series by Dorothy Cannell!
Letters from Groucho, read many years ago.
He’s just not that into you
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Second
Agree
Cold Comfort Farm. The “liddle dish mop” in particular.
Anything by Jenny Lawson. Literally LAUGHING OUT LOUD. Uncontrollable.
I completely agree.
Any by David Sedaris!?????
David Sedaris is my favorite. He’s made me laugh so hard I cried in public!
Tim Allen’s Don’t Stand Next to a Naked Man loved it
Carl Hiaasen is funny too. I’ve read some of his books twice also. The first book of his I read was “Sick Puppy “, I loved it!
Tough. I’ll go Top Five:
“No Time for Sergeants” by Mac Hyman
“My Life And Hard Times” by James Thurber
“A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole
“Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series” by Douglas Adams
“Parliament of Whores” by P.J. O’Rourke
M Z Kelly any of the Hollywood alphabet series, always laugh while reading.
A Walk in the Woods. A Dirty Job. Sookie Stackhouse books were full of humor. Catch 22.
I read the Sookie series. I liked them a lot!!
If you like them, you may also like the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger. It’s a steampunky, supernatural, sort of romance that takes place in Victorian London. Full of wit!
Lamb – the gospel according to Biff
Sweet Potato Queens.
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
For runner up, Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Talk of The Town Ardal O Hanlon
The Serpent of Venice.
Carl Hiaason books ?
In fact, I’ve changed my mind, Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe is hysterical.
Marian Keyes and The Stephanie Plum series are my favs to date x
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, Why am I in the Pits by Erma Bombeck…love this book, when I first read it, I was sick in Acapulco with no children of mine.. and I laugh my head off…..
I used to love to eat her columns in the newspaper. She could be funny, and then have something serious and moving in the same column.
I remember when I read Riders by Jilly Cooper, I would actually have to put the book down for a few minutes, because I would laugh so hard I couldn’t see the page through my tears. I don’t know if I would still find it as funny, but at the time I thought it was hilarious.
Tim Conway’s book.
Getting Stoned with the Savages by Marteen Troost
This is Where I leave You by Jonathan Tropper
By far…Discworld books are the funniest. ?
Yes sir!
Catch 22
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Definitely
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series. Specifically the one where grandma Mazur shot the turkey at the dining room table. Lol
I LOVED that one!
That was One For The Money, her books are good. I am on the twelfth book in the Stephanie Plum series.
I’m on the 23rd one. They never get old!
I’m waiting for the latest, Hardcore 24.
Ellen’s biography I laughed so hard I woke up my husband lol
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Anything Christopher Moore! Fluke was awesome too!
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady and Southern Ladies and Gentlemen both by Florence King, Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.
This was really good.
Even books by Tom Sharpe are funny as hell … Laughed so much while reading Wilt
Anasi Boys by Neil Gaiman
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.
The Shoot Canoes Don’t They? By Patrick F McManus
The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy ..hands down
Any written by Meg Cabot or Sophie Kinsella
Tom Sharpe books!
A Confederacy of Dunces
Three Men In A Boat; to say nothing of the dog. Jerome K Jerome
Sorry to say but I. Just.hate.it.
‘Catch 22’, ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ & all books of David Sedaris.
Sweet pea
Dark sarcastic humour which I apparently enjoy
Bossypants -Tina Fey
Marley and Me:
Can you keep a secret?
The Martian.
Mark Henry’s Amanda Feral series. It’s about a zombie named Amanda Feral & how she gets through life & solves murders. But her sarcasm makes it funny ?
McCarthy’s Bar
Let’s pretend this never happened by Jenny Lawson
The whole Stephanie Plumb series , there’s twenty-three books , Hilarious
Me Talk Pretty… Sedaris
And funny in a poignant way: Can We Please Talk About Something Pleasant? Roz Chaste
Diary of a wimpy kid
The Stupidest Angel is the first one that comes to mind.
Battle for Bittora, by Anuja chauhan. It’s both a romantic comedy and a hilarious send-up of Indian elections
Four to Score by Janet Evanovich. All of them are funny but the fourth book is the one that really got me laughing and hooked on the series.
Good Omens by Pratchett 😀
Mort is too super hilarious 😀
My horizontal life ??
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
All P.G.Wodehouse books ?
Especially the Jeeves Stories
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
I have to read more funny books. I remember finding Redshirts, Bridget Jones and a lot of books from my childhood pretty funny.
P G Wodehouse
Cold Comfort Farm
Hyperbole and a Half gets me every time.
Anything by Fannie Flagg
I can’t find the cranky Joe Queenan in this thread.
Any of the Calvin & Hobbes collections. As for non-comic books, I also used to enjoy Erma Bombeck and Molly Ivins. A recent funny book was NSA by Benny Neylon.
The Adrian Mole books. by Sue Townsend.
Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson
This pulled me out of a dark place … So funny and brilliant ??
I’m dark, dark, dark! “Report from Ground Zero” by Dennis Smith and another title I can’t remember. Some of the details were so horrifying I laughed out loud.
I agree with Amanda but this year A Walk in the Woods has made me guffaw out loud in public earning me some very weird looks ??
Murder with Peacocks and every Meg Langslow book I have read so far. Truly lol funny
Any book I’ve ever read by Sophie Kinsella, especially the Shopaholic series
Discworld series, just pick one