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published 2004, Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum, #15), Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Mass Market Paperback), Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (Paperback), Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1), Visions of Sugar Plums (Stephanie Plum, #8.5), The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Pine Cove, #3), The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1), The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer, #1), The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Pine Cove, #2), The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1), The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next #3), Skinny Dip (Skink, #5; Mick Stranahan #2), Funny AF Female Fiction: A List for the Tabitopian Future. Welcome back. So, friends, let’s get funny books for our kids! Here we revisit the results, and add some extras from the Esquire team. 475,124 ratings — And the greatest solemn fool in all literature is Charles Pooter, the bearded, frock-coated, middle-aged, late Victorian clerk who records his suburban existence in Diary of a Nobody (actually written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith). published 2006, avg rating 3.93 — The series ultimately stretched over 8 books, finishing off with 2009’s The Prostrate Years, five years before author Sue Townsend's death. It's a hilarious account of a man who writes books in his bedroom but never … Kingsley Amis's first novel is definitely his funniest and, though the competition is strong, probably his best. published 2001, avg rating 4.13 — Sounds weird, is weird. 119,400 ratings — ", Brutally honest blogger and web-comic creator Allie Brosh built up a huge following with her witty meditations on depression. The Eyre Affair is the first in a brilliant series that straddles the line between sci-fi, fantasy, and classical literature; it's a book for people who love books. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. In between, he had become hugely successful, but his books were increasingly lazy, stuffed with stereotypes, and crushingly formulaic: cosy chuckles for tedious old farts. “This was probably the funniest book I’ve ever read. 91,753 ratings — He decided that today was perhaps the longest day of his life. Greg’s self deprecating narrative was extremely cynical and utterly hilarious and along with Earl’s epic lines of wisdom, it made for a laugh out loud book. More than one owned a pearl-handled revolver. Could the Partridge concept really sustain a 300+ page life story in his own words? 31,839 ratings — 666,185 ratings — Toole wrote the novel – set in New Orleans – in the early 60s, and his failure to find it a publisher led him to eventual suicide in 1969. 42,301 ratings — This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry. I was once turned away from suicidal thoughts by an essay: 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.' The verdict is in, friends: Kids want funny books. Want. published 1998, avg rating 4.09 — How can young people droning on about linguistics and dropping Russian literary references into every second sentence not be unbearable? published 2002, avg rating 4.06 — published 2002, avg rating 4.14 — Looking up from the blank page to the blinking clock, he discovered it was only three-fifteen. 121,522 ratings — This direct, economical little novella is arch, deadpan and surreal, but the richest humour's in the way Brautigan's characters arrive at their absurd junctures via small, apparently logical steps they feel powerless to avoid taking. When was the last time a book made me do that? It is a gift to the satirist to live in turbulent times but there still remains the task of encapsulating them. 60,778 ratings — Why isn't he going out with Christine, Bertrand's beautiful, large-breasted girlfriend? Whether Cooper is organising a surprise clarinet party for his wife, designing scarecrows made from beef (“based on Roman themes, such as ‘the Storming of Thebes’ and ‘Brutus Avenged’.”) or offering his services to the National Cavity Insulation Association as their “Poet in Residence”, the Timewaster Letters contain some of the most outrageous requests and ridiculous drawings you are ever likely to see. We’re not saying it’s actually as easy as he makes it look, but he pretty near has us fooled. published 1999, avg rating 4.15 — That's especially handy for Ayoola, because she's developed a habit of killing her boyfriends – she's just polished off her third – and needs Korede to help clean up. 201,655 ratings — published 1994, avg rating 4.14 — A stand-off between two men who want to hand the mayor the sombrero quickly gets dangerously out of hand. 1. In fact, he has 19 Katherines to his name! Irresistible Bachelors: A Romance Collection…. Can he convince it to rejoin his face? 119,608 ratings — In the end I backed out of the fight, as I didn't want to explain to everyone that I had a black eye because of a misunderstood 18th-century literary classic. White Teeth’s subtle humour is found in the mundane flaws and absurd fates of two multicultural families as they navigate the complex realities of race, roots and religion in post-war London. Whether you’re in the mood for fiction, nonfiction, or traveling with the kids, here are the 25 best funny audiobooks. He also overhears "upscale US citizens ask whether snorkelling necessitates getting wet." 333,353 ratings — That's not fair, though. published 2015, avg rating 3.83 — And Portnoy's Complaint, for all its somewhat dated, therapy-obsessed, Woody Allen/Lenny Bruce-inspired Jewish neurotic manic voice, is still his funniest. But don't laugh out too loud because the joke might be the only truth. published 1986, avg rating 4.09 — The writing is relentlessly honest as the characters on the airbase live and die, love and fail in the kind of madness that can only exist in the military. Bring one of these funny nonfiction books or funny fiction books for adults to your next meeting for a good time! 71,718 ratings — "We look like Republicans, and think like conservatives, but we drive a lot faster and keep vibrators and baby oil and a video camera behind the stack of sweaters on the bedroom closet shelf." Laughter is the only reaction to a book that can be trusted. The book was published and went on to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. 101,844 ratings — published 1999, avg rating 4.25 — They have a good system, but it can't last. That's our loss. Find the top 100 most popular items in Amazon Books Best Sellers. Bob Servant, 62-year-old window cleaner, and Dundee's former cheeseburger kingpin, wages war on the scammers and their promises of easy money, love and gainfully employment. published 2004, avg rating 3.94 — That probably comes as no surprise to many of us, but it’s always helpful to see it out there in print. Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it’s hard for a robot to make his way. published 2011, avg rating 4.17 — Simply, the most famous comedy science-fiction book ever written (not a great deal of competition in that genre, granted). But in none of the books did a woman have thirty-two teeth in her head, seventy-four more in a box, and a new one on the way. The story is set as WW II nears its end and concerns Yossarian an America bombardier, who is seriously committed to staying alive in a world of insanity. The conventional nomination for greatest comedy since the second world war, because that's exactly what it is. published 2010, avg rating 4.03 — The Automatic Detective is a fast-paced mishmash of SF and hard-boiled detective story. No one has ever captured the adolescent voice with such accuracy; the pretension, the self-importance, the heart-breaking sincerity and misguided passion. My wife and I have a go-to for such long trips: funny audiobooks. Her first book includes all of her most celebrated work, alongside a glut of fresh material. You'll buy copies for friends. His first and only book, Based on True Story, is an intentionally bewildering mix of memoir and pure fiction, tracing Norm’s life from his childhood farm in rural Canada, to the bright big-time lights of Rockefeller Plaza, to the bottom of his pocket at a Las Vegas craps table.

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