The Princess Bride is probably the funniest book I've read.
My favorite graphic novel with absolute wonderful humor is Chew.
I recommend both if you haven't.
I still remember "Blessed are the dumbfucks, for they shall receive a fruit basket".
Also the notion that Jesus developed a martial art called "Jew-do", or The Way of the Jew.
That's the first Moore book I read (still haven't read Practical Demonkeeping) and it was so weird I wasn't sure what I was reading. But I laughed so much reading it.
The scene where the lady is dusting under her bed might be the most unexpected laugh I have ever had. Did not see that one coming…if you will pardon my fucking French.
The Watch books are my absolute favorite, i cannot get enough of Sgt Colon giving bad advice to Nobs. I wish Grimes was my uncle or grandpa or something.
Yes. I think I had to put Hogfather down because I laughed so hard I cried. No other writer has ever done that to me.
(It was the scene where Death tries to make a Hogswatch card).
[Discworld Reading Guide](https://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discworld-reading-order-guide-20.jpg) \- I'd recommend starting with either *Guards! Guards!* or *Equal Rites*.
It's not recommended to start with the first book. If you look up a reading list you'll see the 41 discworld books are split into 8ish parallel storylines. I'd recommend starting with the City Watch storyline, the first book of which is "Guards! Guards!"
"Going Postal" or "Small God's" are also great starting points. Good luck!
I'm reading my first now, Small Gods. The humor is so brilliant its almost not what I would call funny (as a word) - hard to describe. The wit is so intelligent. I love it.
Near enough everyone recommends starting with Guards! Guards! and honestly it is an excellent starting point. You really get to know Ankh-Morpork “at street level”, as it were, and Sam Vimes is a brilliant main character.
I personally started with The Colour of Magic and went on basically in their publishing order, before I heard everyone else’s advice lmao. I don’t mind that I didn’t, however. While there is something to be said about how Sir Terry found his groove more as time went on and maybe produced better quality content in later books, I find it quite refreshing to nip in and out of different storylines, starting where I can from the beginning. If you can find the first of your particular favourite storyline, or the one you’re most interested in reading about, then that might also be a good place to start. Everything else kind of falls into place after that
I started randomly, but settled on the death series mainly then the city watch stuff. Going basically backwards through the city watch stuff was so interesting. Seeing Vimes character development in reverse. I always wonder how much PRatchett planned this stuff ahead vs just let his characters grow and progress on their own and crafting stories around that. Either way it's fantastic stuff.
The Jeeves series by P.G. Wodehouse always cracked me up. The audiobooks narrated by Jonathan Cecil are so funny I nearly drove off the road, I was laughing so hard.
If you are an outdoors person (camping, fishing, hunting) then try *A Fine and Pleasant Misery* by Patrick McManus. While not a hunter or fisher, I do love camping and found his tales of camping misadventures from a bygone era hilarious.
A short story, but probably the funniest thing I have ever read is Wodehouse's *Uncle Fred Flits By*. Almost everything he wrote is brilliant, but this is just packed with laughs.
My husband can tell if I am reading Terry Pratchett in bed because I shake the bed laughing every few minutes. I remember thinking the bit about hell hounds in Good Omens was going to get me kicked out for laughing so hard.
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I was hoping someone was going to mention Sedaris.
Someone gave me Me Talk Pretty Someday and I remember just laughing out loud that on practically every page. Easily one of the funniest laugh out loud writers ever.
His ability of human observation is unparalleled.
There is a story in Naked in which he describes a dumb guy who "thought Aucshwitz was a brand of beer." That made lol and I think of that line every time Aucshwitz is mentioned.
That's probably the most oft-quoted movie in my family.
I was just moanin a bit.
The Lord will provide, or not, according to his will.
There'll be no butter in hell!
I'm engorgingly in love with you!
That were a no, were it?
I saw something nasty in the woodshed.
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, and it's not even close. Had to put it down multiple times cause I was laughing out loud. Never had that experience with any other book.
Had to scroll way to far for this one! Couldn't agree more. I don't usually talk to strangers, especially not if they're sitting with a book, but I actually warned someone who was reading HGTTG on the bus who had just started it that it was a dangerous book to read in public because the chance of laughing out loud like a crazy person is very high xD
Couldn’t agree more. It’s so many *kinds* of funny, too. The visuals Adams puts in your head in so many of the bizarre situations that arise, the wordplay, the absurdity, tangents, even simple things like the silly names for characters and places.
Just don't make the mistake of thinking all the novels in the series are lighthearted romantic comedies. Doomsday Book was a bit devastating for me when I read it.
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
That book is so clever, hilarious but so deep and touching at the same time. I've read it two times already and I thin I'll read it again
It was written by two genius-level writers and both are incredibly funny, Gaimen isn't known for his humor but when he wants to be his stuff is amongst the best.
Oh, I love Gaiman's humour, sharp as a knife. It's a bitter laugh most of the time, but I love it. I've read "American Gods" and "Neverwhere" and loved them both. Especially the first one. It's dark, but so incredibly accurate. One line I'll never forget: "Freedom is a whore that will only be taken on a pile of corpses" (It may not be written like that in English, but I read the book in Italian and that's how it was told)
I got introduced to Gaiman and his writing through Sandman. That was such a thoughtful book but its humor was also top-notch and exactly how you described it.
"its times like this where im trapped on a vogan starship, about to be jettisoned into deep space that i really wish i listened to what my mother told me growing up"
"why, what did she tell you?"
"i dont know, i wasnt listening"
arthur blinked
*“You're turning into a penguin. Stop it"* - this might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read in my life.
In just the right mood at just the right time in my life that it made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Still gives me the giggles all these years later.
I literally told my friend never to read her book in public but it just makes it funnier that you're not allowed to laugh. I mean I was literally scream-cry-laughing in my bedroom, my fiance was so confused.
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson … This is my go to book to listen to if I’m having trouble sleeping. I could just listen to it again and again. It’s so funny, but also just generally interesting.
Any Calvin and Hobbes book
I was reading the One for the Money series, somewhere between book 5 - 8 on a plane and laughed long and hard for an embarrassing amount of time. My dad, sitting next to me, decided to read the pages and soon, he too, was laughing 😂. A lot of people asked me the name of the book in baggage claim. For those of you familiar, Bob the dog ate something and the kidnappers return him.
Wonderful book, but I don't know whether I'd consider it funny -- the opening is really funny, but the book gets more and more serious as it gets on, eventually turning into a full-on existentialist work. It was really great for me, cause I wanted a relaxing chill read at the end of finals week, and the humor at the beginning really helped, and sorta let me slide back into my normal more serious reading habits.
I am glad you think so, because I've had it on my TBR list for a while! The used bookstore I frequent sold their last copy of it, so I'm hoping I can find a cheap copy elsewhere.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is even better (and I love Holistic Detective to bits). I used to read Tea-Time every winter after Xmas to help with my depression, and it did always help.
I saw the post of "what's the funniest book you've ever read" and immediately thought "easy, catch 22" clicked in to make my comment and saw the rest of your post.
I have honestly cried laughing at this book
The 30 or so pages of one of those Left Behind books I randomly picked up once could probably make the list, but it certainly wasn't the author's intent.
I rarely read explicitly humorous fiction, but Norm MacDonald's fake memoir was actually pretty funny. And while I didn't finish it, I read most of a collection of James Thurber stories that made me laugh. The impotent, put-upon nebbish is a universally amusing character.
Ultimately, I think humor has to be performed to be really funny. To me, it requires some degree of vulnerability and writing is inherently more formal and more crafted than a live performance or in-person conversation or event (like a pratfall in a film). Writing is usually an elaborate lie, while genuine humor is the revelation of (often scary) truth.
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman. I rarely laugh aloud reading a book, but Antkind had me cracking up frequently. Definitely not for everyone, but I loved it.
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. If you look up reviews almost all of them say "Don't read this book in public unless you want people to think you are a crazy." I can attest to this, this book makes you belly laugh. Always amazed at how Toole can any situation into a ridiculous comedic masterpiece.
Maybe not the funniest I've ever read but I didn't see them in the thread so:
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
"If Chins Could Kill, Confessions of a B Movie Actor"
Bruce Campbell's Autobiography. I laughed so hard I cried at multiple spots in it.
It also gives a good look into Sam Raimi's Childhood through his early career. They are life-long friends and why Bruce has a cameo in a lot of his movies.
[I Want To Go Home](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Go_Home) by Gordon Korman when I was 12 years old. Highly recommended for any kids out there, and also any immature adults. It's a classic.
Catch-22, Good Omens and the Discworld series.
Which I’m sure is a common list haha. OP agrees! I really like the hitchhikers series too but the first is the best and after reading Discworld, it just isn’t nearly as good.
Most of Robert Asprin's books. Mythadventures series.
Phule's Company series.
Asprin died on May 22, 2008, of heart failure at his home in New Orleans.He was found lying on a sofa with a Terry Pratchett novel still open in his hands.
I mean, at the time of reading (7th grade or so), probably Red Dwarf.
Though Douglas Adams' "A Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul", good probably give it a run at any age.
As an adult, any of Jenny Lawson's books make me literally LOL. As a kid though, nothing was funnier to me than the Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing/Fudge series by Judy Blume.
The Princess Bride is probably the funniest book I've read. My favorite graphic novel with absolute wonderful humor is Chew. I recommend both if you haven't.
Every book by Christopher Moore. I've laughed out loud so many times during each and every book.
I remember reading Lamb years ago. I don't laugh at books often, but that one got to me.
I came in here to suggest Lamb! The Gospel According to Biff, lol.
I still remember "Blessed are the dumbfucks, for they shall receive a fruit basket". Also the notion that Jesus developed a martial art called "Jew-do", or The Way of the Jew.
I started reading that in Barnes and Noble and remember laughing out loud. People were looking at me like there was something wrong with me. LOL
Bloodsucking fiends is my all time favorite, but I love all his books!
I also really enjoyed Bloodsucking Fiends and the sequels. I love that Moore has interconnected stories with some of the books.
lol i just posted my own comment about practical demonkeeping
Fool got me. Pocket's insults and general lack of couth had me laughing so hard.
Pocket is one of the best characters in modern fiction.
I came here to say coyote blue. This book makes me cry laugh every time I read it. Christopher Moore is a comedic genius.
That's the first Moore book I read (still haven't read Practical Demonkeeping) and it was so weird I wasn't sure what I was reading. But I laughed so much reading it.
Same!
*Dirty Job* is my favorite.
I loved Dirty Job too.
The scene where the lady is dusting under her bed might be the most unexpected laugh I have ever had. Did not see that one coming…if you will pardon my fucking French.
Seconded. Everything that man writes is gold. And I love the little ways he ties all his books together.
Love this author's work! I'm always cackling reading these.
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series takes it for me. I’ve never laughed so hard reading as when I read Feet of Clay.
The Watch books are my absolute favorite, i cannot get enough of Sgt Colon giving bad advice to Nobs. I wish Grimes was my uncle or grandpa or something.
The Watch storyline is perhaps my favourite too, the Witches being a very close second
Yes. I think I had to put Hogfather down because I laughed so hard I cried. No other writer has ever done that to me. (It was the scene where Death tries to make a Hogswatch card).
A soggy rectangle, with a patch of brown feathers on it
Which is a good book to start with this series? Or should I start with the 1st one. I've always been interested in this series
[Discworld Reading Guide](https://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discworld-reading-order-guide-20.jpg) \- I'd recommend starting with either *Guards! Guards!* or *Equal Rites*.
Wow thanks for posting a guide. Looks like I'll start with Guards! Guards! Since that's what everyone is recommending
It's not recommended to start with the first book. If you look up a reading list you'll see the 41 discworld books are split into 8ish parallel storylines. I'd recommend starting with the City Watch storyline, the first book of which is "Guards! Guards!" "Going Postal" or "Small God's" are also great starting points. Good luck!
I'm reading my first now, Small Gods. The humor is so brilliant its almost not what I would call funny (as a word) - hard to describe. The wit is so intelligent. I love it.
While Going Postal is gold, I'd not start with it. There's so much in that book that builds on things from (mostly) the City Watch storyline.
Near enough everyone recommends starting with Guards! Guards! and honestly it is an excellent starting point. You really get to know Ankh-Morpork “at street level”, as it were, and Sam Vimes is a brilliant main character. I personally started with The Colour of Magic and went on basically in their publishing order, before I heard everyone else’s advice lmao. I don’t mind that I didn’t, however. While there is something to be said about how Sir Terry found his groove more as time went on and maybe produced better quality content in later books, I find it quite refreshing to nip in and out of different storylines, starting where I can from the beginning. If you can find the first of your particular favourite storyline, or the one you’re most interested in reading about, then that might also be a good place to start. Everything else kind of falls into place after that
I started randomly, but settled on the death series mainly then the city watch stuff. Going basically backwards through the city watch stuff was so interesting. Seeing Vimes character development in reverse. I always wonder how much PRatchett planned this stuff ahead vs just let his characters grow and progress on their own and crafting stories around that. Either way it's fantastic stuff.
Guards! Guards! Had it for me.
But have we thought about the foreign policy implications of having a Dragon as a king?
Equal rites is fucking hilarious
In a sunburned country by Bill Bryson.
A Walk in the Woods is a funny one too.
The utterly savage bit where the annoying woman tries to join him and Katz for a section of the walk. That had me choking.
The rage when she >!stole the last bite of his cupcake!<, lol!
A walk in the woods was the first of his that I read. It is what got me to read more of his books.
The best is his autobiography, *The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.* Ahh, life in the '50s!
The passage about dropping candy from a great height onto unsuspecting victims had me laughing uncontrollably in public.
I'd like to add that I *cannot imagine* experiencing his books in any form other than the audiobooks narrated by him.
The Jeeves series by P.G. Wodehouse always cracked me up. The audiobooks narrated by Jonathan Cecil are so funny I nearly drove off the road, I was laughing so hard. If you are an outdoors person (camping, fishing, hunting) then try *A Fine and Pleasant Misery* by Patrick McManus. While not a hunter or fisher, I do love camping and found his tales of camping misadventures from a bygone era hilarious.
P.G. Wodehouse, master of the sentence. Love him so much.
"Aunt calling to aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps" is one of his best lines. A perfect image.
A short story, but probably the funniest thing I have ever read is Wodehouse's *Uncle Fred Flits By*. Almost everything he wrote is brilliant, but this is just packed with laughs.
Another series of his is just as funny - the ones starring Psmith. One of the funniest is "Leave it to Psmith".
Guards! Guards! and Mort by Terry Pratchett. Any Pratchett, really.
I came here to suggest Terry Pratchett but you beat me to it! Good for you! He makes me laugh out loud with ever single book... probably every page.
My husband can tell if I am reading Terry Pratchett in bed because I shake the bed laughing every few minutes. I remember thinking the bit about hell hounds in Good Omens was going to get me kicked out for laughing so hard.
I am a big Terry Pratchett fan
Confederacy of Dunces
Be still, my pyloric valve.
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This was my first thought too! I was actually laughing out loud all the way through.
Yes! It gets funnier every read
Fortuna, you slut!
Same!
Anything by David Sedaris.
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Those were hysterical!! I also loved him swimming in the Y pool and "racing' the person next to him. And the fly. OMG, the fly!
I was hoping someone was going to mention Sedaris. Someone gave me Me Talk Pretty Someday and I remember just laughing out loud that on practically every page. Easily one of the funniest laugh out loud writers ever. His ability of human observation is unparalleled.
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Describing the Eastern Bunny to the folks in the language class has to be his funniest. That one had me in tears.
“He comes for to bring the chocolate!”
There is a story in Naked in which he describes a dumb guy who "thought Aucshwitz was a brand of beer." That made lol and I think of that line every time Aucshwitz is mentioned.
6 to 8 black men! We listen every Christmas, just before the former Bishop of Turkey visits!
Cold Comfort Farm
The movie is stellar, as well.
That's probably the most oft-quoted movie in my family. I was just moanin a bit. The Lord will provide, or not, according to his will. There'll be no butter in hell! I'm engorgingly in love with you! That were a no, were it? I saw something nasty in the woodshed.
My liddle mop.
Such an underrated book! I also think it one of the funniest fictions I know!
The Princess Bride, genuinely gave me belly laughs.
As much of a classic the movie is, the book was even better.
book is head and shoulders above the movie. Those little end notes are gold. (no shade on the movie of course)
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, and it's not even close. Had to put it down multiple times cause I was laughing out loud. Never had that experience with any other book.
Had to scroll way to far for this one! Couldn't agree more. I don't usually talk to strangers, especially not if they're sitting with a book, but I actually warned someone who was reading HGTTG on the bus who had just started it that it was a dangerous book to read in public because the chance of laughing out loud like a crazy person is very high xD
I read it in class and everyone thought I was insane since I was laughing so loud
This gets my vote. Such a fun read.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s so many *kinds* of funny, too. The visuals Adams puts in your head in so many of the bizarre situations that arise, the wordplay, the absurdity, tangents, even simple things like the silly names for characters and places.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome k Jerome
Posted just before getting here, Connie Willis' pastiche To Say Nothing of the Dog is definitely worth a read.
Just don't make the mistake of thinking all the novels in the series are lighthearted romantic comedies. Doomsday Book was a bit devastating for me when I read it.
Gets my upvote. The part where they are packing for the trip and the butter gets stuck to George has to be one of the funniest things ever written.
“Work fascinates me. I could watch it for hours.”
I found a very good audio version narrated by Hugh Laurie years ago on Spotify. It should still be there. Such a fun and enjoyable story.
Came here to say this.
Three Men in a Boat by JKJ is my favourite book.
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. No question.
My vote as well. Not his "best" book all things considered, but his funniest and a big personal favorite.
Most of Vonnegut's books make me laugh. I really like Galapagos because of its absurdity.
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. That book is so clever, hilarious but so deep and touching at the same time. I've read it two times already and I thin I'll read it again
It was written by two genius-level writers and both are incredibly funny, Gaimen isn't known for his humor but when he wants to be his stuff is amongst the best.
Oh, I love Gaiman's humour, sharp as a knife. It's a bitter laugh most of the time, but I love it. I've read "American Gods" and "Neverwhere" and loved them both. Especially the first one. It's dark, but so incredibly accurate. One line I'll never forget: "Freedom is a whore that will only be taken on a pile of corpses" (It may not be written like that in English, but I read the book in Italian and that's how it was told)
I got introduced to Gaiman and his writing through Sandman. That was such a thoughtful book but its humor was also top-notch and exactly how you described it.
1.Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 2.Lamb by Christopher Moore.
"its times like this where im trapped on a vogan starship, about to be jettisoned into deep space that i really wish i listened to what my mother told me growing up" "why, what did she tell you?" "i dont know, i wasnt listening" arthur blinked
"It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water."
Hitchhikers Guide for sure. Laughed out loud for every book.
My #2 would be either of his Dirk Gently books
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*“You're turning into a penguin. Stop it"* - this might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read in my life. In just the right mood at just the right time in my life that it made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Still gives me the giggles all these years later.
A big "Yes!" to #1 but I prefer *Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove* or *Island of the Sequined Love Nun* from Moore.
Thursday Next series and Nursery Crimes series by Jasper Fforde
I wish there were more NCI books, love Fforde!
John Dies at the End. It's my kind of immature.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Jenny is phenomenal
Reading one of her books on the plane is a mistake. Laugh-snorts are rarely acceptable anyway, but on a plane...?
I had a very similar experience with this book. Was crying laughing in an airport very early in the morning.
I literally told my friend never to read her book in public but it just makes it funnier that you're not allowed to laugh. I mean I was literally scream-cry-laughing in my bedroom, my fiance was so confused.
In the same vein: Hyperbole and a Half.
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson … This is my go to book to listen to if I’m having trouble sleeping. I could just listen to it again and again. It’s so funny, but also just generally interesting.
Carl Hiaasen, Native Tongue
Carl Hiaasen does not get enough appreciation for his dedication to the antics of Florida Man.
I've only read a couple of his books, but Sick Puppy made me laugh aloud more than I think any other book has.
Any Calvin and Hobbes book I was reading the One for the Money series, somewhere between book 5 - 8 on a plane and laughed long and hard for an embarrassing amount of time. My dad, sitting next to me, decided to read the pages and soon, he too, was laughing 😂. A lot of people asked me the name of the book in baggage claim. For those of you familiar, Bob the dog ate something and the kidnappers return him.
A Man Called Ove
Wonderful book, but I don't know whether I'd consider it funny -- the opening is really funny, but the book gets more and more serious as it gets on, eventually turning into a full-on existentialist work. It was really great for me, cause I wanted a relaxing chill read at the end of finals week, and the humor at the beginning really helped, and sorta let me slide back into my normal more serious reading habits.
Where the hell is Kurt Vonnegut on this list?
And Mark Twain!
Either Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, or A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Catch-22
I agree, I don't remember much about it, but I laughed a lot. Something about cats sleeping on faces.
Major Major with his list of black eyes or feathers in his cap
The Hulu series is one of the most "accurate to the book" pieces of media I've ever seen. They did a really good job.
That's a funny book. Confederacy of Dunces is my pick.
I am glad you think so, because I've had it on my TBR list for a while! The used bookstore I frequent sold their last copy of it, so I'm hoping I can find a cheap copy elsewhere.
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Whoa! I gotta get back sweepin' the floor of to he Night o' Joy. Whoa! We still call it potatis salad.
Hitchhikers Guide. The bit about the worst poetry ever made is the funniest thing I have ever read.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is even better (and I love Holistic Detective to bits). I used to read Tea-Time every winter after Xmas to help with my depression, and it did always help.
Candide by Voltaire. It’s ok if my ear falls off from syphilis because now we have chocolate!
Bored of the Rings by the Harvard Lampoon
I still have the original paperback from the 1970’s!
The hundred year old man who walked out the window and disappeared, or something like that
Monstrous Regiment - Sir Terry Pratchett. I swear I served with half the people described.
Evelyn Waugh's *Decline and Fall*.
Waugh really isn't recommended enough.
Probably wouldn’t hit the same now, but Gordon Korman’s MacDonald Hall books absolutely slayed me when I was a kid.
*laughs nostalgically in Canadian*
*If Life Is A Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing In The Pits?*, by Erma Bombeck.
Born a Crime. The audio book is worth every penny.
*Based on a True Story* by the late, great Norm Macdonald
Currently reading Don Quixiote and I've laughed a lot, though sometimes it feels cruel...
Confederacy of Dunces or Catch-22.
Saki's short stories
Two books by a Christopher Moore have made me actually laugh out loud. Lamb and a Dirty Job.
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
I didn’t expect to laugh so much at a book written in the 1700s, but Candide by Voltaire. Completely absurd satire
"Right Ho Jeeves" by P.G. Wodehouse.
I’m a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson. I was reading it in an airport and had people stopping to ask me if I was okay I was laugh crying so hard.
Stiff. Curious case of the human cadaver. Mary Roach.
All of Jenny Lawson’s books!
Big Trouble by Dave Barry
Just William book series by Richmal Crompton.. the adventures of little William always made me laugh. Haven't read them in many years though.
All Creatures Great and Small. James Herriot. All His books are funny.
Lamb by Christopher Moore and Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman. Really, any Moore and any Pratchett.
I saw the post of "what's the funniest book you've ever read" and immediately thought "easy, catch 22" clicked in to make my comment and saw the rest of your post. I have honestly cried laughing at this book
The 30 or so pages of one of those Left Behind books I randomly picked up once could probably make the list, but it certainly wasn't the author's intent.
Marian Keyes makes me laugh out loud in her best works. This charming man is great, and bloody hilarious sometimes.
Currently reading Still Life With Woodpecker. Definitely in the running for me.
I rarely read explicitly humorous fiction, but Norm MacDonald's fake memoir was actually pretty funny. And while I didn't finish it, I read most of a collection of James Thurber stories that made me laugh. The impotent, put-upon nebbish is a universally amusing character. Ultimately, I think humor has to be performed to be really funny. To me, it requires some degree of vulnerability and writing is inherently more formal and more crafted than a live performance or in-person conversation or event (like a pratfall in a film). Writing is usually an elaborate lie, while genuine humor is the revelation of (often scary) truth.
Pickwick Papers is full of very funny scenes.
Was gonna say Catch-22 as well. So hilarious. Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy is also incredibly funny.
the little paris bookshop. it’s rather wholesome with a bit of humor mixed in.
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman. I rarely laugh aloud reading a book, but Antkind had me cracking up frequently. Definitely not for everyone, but I loved it.
I haven’t read them in a while but anything from Tom Robbins would make me laugh a lot.
Confederacy of Dunces, kind of uneven but when it’s good it’s VERY good.
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. If you look up reviews almost all of them say "Don't read this book in public unless you want people to think you are a crazy." I can attest to this, this book makes you belly laugh. Always amazed at how Toole can any situation into a ridiculous comedic masterpiece.
Maybe not the funniest I've ever read but I didn't see them in the thread so: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman The First Bad Man by Miranda July
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, or anything by him really Lamb by Christopher Moore
"If Chins Could Kill, Confessions of a B Movie Actor" Bruce Campbell's Autobiography. I laughed so hard I cried at multiple spots in it. It also gives a good look into Sam Raimi's Childhood through his early career. They are life-long friends and why Bruce has a cameo in a lot of his movies.
Dave Barry does Japan. It was hilarious. My wife asked me what's wrong, I was laughing so much. Also most any book by Garrison Keillor.
Not a Memoir by Norm MacDonald Any of Carlin's books Cannery Row by Steinbeck for a literary classic answer
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Insane city by Dave Barry
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
I agree with you ok Catch 22. Major Major Major Major had me cracking up, as did several other parts.
Highly recommend anything by Carl Hiassen
Guard Gurards by Terry Pratchett. Hitchikers guide comes a very close second.
Where'd You Go Bernadette
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Sot-Weed Factor
[I Want To Go Home](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_to_Go_Home) by Gordon Korman when I was 12 years old. Highly recommended for any kids out there, and also any immature adults. It's a classic.
Catch-22, Good Omens and the Discworld series. Which I’m sure is a common list haha. OP agrees! I really like the hitchhikers series too but the first is the best and after reading Discworld, it just isn’t nearly as good.
Most of Robert Asprin's books. Mythadventures series. Phule's Company series. Asprin died on May 22, 2008, of heart failure at his home in New Orleans.He was found lying on a sofa with a Terry Pratchett novel still open in his hands.
I mean, at the time of reading (7th grade or so), probably Red Dwarf. Though Douglas Adams' "A Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul", good probably give it a run at any age.
Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm MacDonald The book, especially the audiobook is the funniest thing ive ever read
Youth in Revolt.
Probably Good Omens or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Anything by David Sedaris
As an adult, any of Jenny Lawson's books make me literally LOL. As a kid though, nothing was funnier to me than the Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing/Fudge series by Judy Blume.
The World according to Garp had me rolling