What funny books do you recommend? I’m looking for something light and fun after the serious books I’ve read recently.

Anything by Janet Evanovich is a winner and laugh out loud reading.

Might want to try anything written by Zadie Smith. She is an English writer who is often lauded by critics as being a humorist. Her novel White Teeth might be a good place to start. Her genre is modern cultural. My favorite of late is, Thomas Pychon, he is American, I believe, and wrote Inherent Vice which was recently made into a movie. The movie is too complicated to be entertaining, however the book is great, fast paced writing and great characters, although it might lean more toward a male audience than Zadie. And there is an old classic, Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole, although I notice that many of the younger readers on facebook don’t like this work, however others swear it is one of the funnest novels ever written, and the back story is almost as entertaining as the book itself, and one last favorite is Hunter S. Thompson, he wrote a lot of political satire books in the 60’s and 70’s which are very entertaining and witty. Might start with Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas, its Gonzo journalism at its best. Although my favorite was Fear and Loathing on the Campaign trail. If you read it, I’ll let you be the judge as to whether he really ran into Richard Nixon in the washroom of an airport and conducted an interview.