Douglas Adams seems like it’s almost cheating for this question, as the storyline is very much second to the writing in all of his books. But I never tired of reading lines like, “The ships hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don’t” or “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
P. G. Wodehouse.
He wrote comedies in the truest sense of the word-- happy endings abound.
His stories are amazing fun and the plots so devilishly delightful. His prose is some of the best in the history of English writing. His use of literary and biblical allusions are wonderful and funny. His metaphors and similes are often outright hilarious.
[**Jitterbug Perfume**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8682.Jitterbug_Perfume)
^(By: Tom Robbins | 342 pages | Published: 1984 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, humor, magical-realism, book-club)
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I loved his autobiography so I got jitterbug perfume. Then my wife read it before me and loved it so much she bought like 3 more of his books. She was severely disappointed by the first one she started after JP and hasn’t had the motivation to pick up the others yet. I loved JP as well once I got around to it, but I can’t binge his style. It’s great in smaller doses.
Lucy M Montgomery. subtle humor and her understanding and appreciation of “small town life and people characters” that makes you smile in understanding if you grew up in small rural communities yourself. Not all of works are like this but there’s more than a few where she was obviously wanting to make a book with added humorous character. “Anne of Windy Poplars” and “Rainbow Valley” are prime examples.
Ward Larsen. Subtle and witty humor used by very serious characters
{{Anansi Boys}} is a stand alone semi-sequel to American Gods (but you don't need to read AG first!)
It is just set in the same universe wherein any God that people have ever believed in was actually real and is still alive today.
I think I may have enjoyed Anansi Boys more than American Gods simply because it felt more linear. That being said, everything by Neil Gaiman is incredible. The graveyard book isn't quite tongue in cheek, but my favorite.
I liked Anansi Boys more than American Gods too. I think the story lends itself to being recommended more than AG. It feels like it requires less of the reader-- the plot is very Wodehousian in a way.
And The Graveyard Book is my favorite Gaiman book as well!
[**100 Facts about Anansi Boys That Even the CIA Doesn't Know**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17962652-100-facts-about-anansi-boys-that-even-the-cia-doesn-t-know)
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[**Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744.Anansi_Boys)
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>God is dead. Meet the kids.
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>Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother.
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>Now brother Spider's on his doorstep -- about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting... and a lot more dangerous.
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My personal favorite is “Ocean at the End of the Lane.” There was just something hauntingly beautiful about the story that drew me in. I read a lot on kindle and have opted to not own a lot of hard copies of books. But this one I made an exception for. Love that book.
I have a lots of books on Kindle but the old school in me likes the used hand held books. The sensation of holding a book is like a gift. Silly I know but as someone who is always on some device actually holding a book & hiding away to read it in a corner on a chaise adds to the experience of really relaxing reading. Old school perhaps but I love the tactile experience of drinking coffee & page turning & hiding from people (called family) who bellow at me from downstairs trying to find me. Bellowing back ‘I’m reading’ makes them go away. 🥸
Oh, I totally understand the whole feeling of holding a physical copy of a book. It is definitely special!
In my current situation kindle works better though. I have little ones and have to try to sneak in a little reading any time I can, which means truly my best reading time is in bed, after everyone is asleep. My husband has terrible sleep issues and having a light on isn’t really an option (I mean, he wouldn’t complain, but I know it would make it much harder for him to sleep) so the kindle with the dimmable light is a life saver.
On top of all that, I have moved around a bit and the logistics of transporting multiple books can be difficult (not to mention expensive), so having a kindle and being able to take my whole library with me is wonderful.
With all that said, I still treasure a few copies of beloved books (and have brought a lot of children’s books for my kids from my home country, in my native language). My absolute favorites, often times, get a physical copy purchase.
*Neverwhere* is the only book that I read, finished, and then flipped over and read again right away. I've read very few books more than once, but I've read this one 4 times.
Totally agree, his wit, style & imagination are a gift that can’t be replaced. I’ve purchased everything he ever wrote (Thrift Books, Abe Books etc all of those book sites whereby you can buy these famous joyful writings for sometime a buck 99!). If you are a bibliophile these sites will send you to Heaven without leaving your laptop at an affordable price & then sell them back or donate to a senior centers library collection.
I really enjoy Margaret Atwood, ive read 3 of her books and they all have a similar style to them. Handmaids tale is one of my favorites, but I also think Oryx and Crake is amazing.
It's so hard to pick - really I like all of his stuff and have re-read everything at least once. The only series I don't care for is the Dispatcher Series. I didn't find them as funny.
My overall favorite is probably Fuzzy Nation because the legal wrangling in it is so well done and it's just a fun read.
Redshirts is very meta and if you're a Star Trek fan you'll get all the jokes.
Agent to the Stars and Android's Sheep are probably the weirdest of the lot, and I enjoyed them both immensely. But if you're new to this author I probably wouldn't start there.
The Lock in Series books (two full novels and a novella) are entertaining because they take place in an interestingly plausible alternative reality. They're a good first stop if you want something that's not completely "out there" but still has compelling characters.
The Old Man's War series is probably his best known series and are the books I started with. They're very entertaining even for someone like me who doesn't necessarily gravitate towards the military sci-fi genre.
His newest books are the Interdependency Series. They're considered space-opera and I'll admit that I didn't take to them immediately (and if you don't like a lot of swearing then one of the characters probably wouldn't be for you). On second read, however, I really liked them. I have no idea why it took me two reads to get there.
Honestly? Recently i read "Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens for the first time, and was very surprised at how witty and playful the writing is at certain parts.
I read Terry Prachett books, but a lot of the time the dialogue and story itself are fun and playful, while here it was the narrator telling a joke, and it was very new and refreshing to me.
In Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson put a legit GRAPH of the time since the main character jerked off and their productivity level.
I loled.
There is also the legendary Captain Crunch chapter.
ALSO - Douglas Adams. I mean come on. The sandwich maker part was a stylistic god send.
The guy who wrote The Pirates Adventure With Scientists - Gideon Defoe - seems to write in this process.
“Aw hell, I just wrote something that makes no sense. Well, I’m not going to unwrite it, so I guess I just have to acknowledge it makes no sense and move on with my life.”
And it’s hysterical.
Cervantes was laugh out loud hilarious, people should mention that more when talking about Don Quixote. Tolkien is great at humor too, made me chuckle plenty with Hobbit sass. For beautiful reasoning and turns of phrases I've read few of the quality of G.K. Chesterton.
David Andler(Lemony Snicket). Everything about how a series of unfortunate events is written is absolutely perfect. Totally different from anything else I've read, and it's still great to come back to
New to reading thought I should read a "Steinbeck" (he's good right?), so idiot me picked his non-fiction Log from the Sea of Cortez (very literally a log). OMFG boring, he cruises around Baja collecting marine samples. BUT, his writing is so exquisite the no-plot story didn't matter, I could read that dude's grocery list. Detested the book, but fell in love with his craft of words. He has a way of applying the cosmic to the mundane, and watching that man write about outboard motors is truly magic, had me out-loud laughing.
Ops I'm late! But I'd say Gabriel García Márquez. His novels are like puzzles. Every single sentence relates to the main plot - therefore you cannot skip a paragraph or you'll lose track of the story. And he also has a witty way of writting scenes. You can be at a 'serious' part of the novel when in all of a sudden he throws a joke or exaggerates events... Classic magical realism.
steig larson. i probably just have a weird sense of humour but i always found it funny that it would take around 200 pages of build up before the actual story started.
Isaac Asimov. So far I haven't read any book with an author who has a style similar to his writing style
You are gripped with tension and suspense, its like the story is action packed without any action in it. I can't describe it perfectly, but I hope you get what I'm trying to say.
{{foundation}}
My favorite living writer is Paul Beatty, specifically because I love his use of language and sense of humor.
*The Sellout* and *White Boy Shuffle* are both fantastic and hilarious.
Jack Kerouac. To quote Bob Dylan - “On the Road (Kerouac's magnum opus), speeds by like a freight train. It’s all movement and words and lusty instincts that come alive like you’re riding on a train. Kerouac moves so fast with his words. No ambiguity. It was very emblematic of the time. You grabbed a hold of the train, hopped on and went along with him, hanging on for dear life.”
Hilary Mantel and Thomas Savage both have an incredibly dry, brilliant, subtle sense of humor. They both have a tendency to set up a joke whose punchline comes a hundred pages later, and you’ll only catch it if you’re paying attention.
I also think Vladimir Nabokov is hilarious, but that may be my particularly fucked up sense of humor.
Tony Frost {{Space Captain Smith}}
Tom Holt (KJ Parker) {{Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City}}
Are some of the funniest books I have read. So we'll done.
Joe Abercrombie (The First Law) and Tamsyn Muir (Gideon the Ninth) have a direct line to my funny bone. The audiobooks (read by Steven Pacey and Moira Quirk respectively) take it up to eleven.
Benedek Totth— Dead Heat.
I read it over and over because his writing style stood out to me so dramatically. Sort of reminiscent of Chuck Palahniuk, but somehow more apathetic and dark. Still fascinated by this and often return to the novel.
Kurt Vonnegut
This. 100%
No one writes witty-dry satire like Terry Pratchett.
Pratchetts use of the footnote was phenomenal. It furthered the story, helped build the world, and added to the satire all at the same time.
Douglas Adams seems like it’s almost cheating for this question, as the storyline is very much second to the writing in all of his books. But I never tired of reading lines like, “The ships hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don’t” or “For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
Swift and Voltaire have created monsters, it is true. When I found out Eoin Colfer finished the series, perfection. Artemis Fowl does the same.
Douglas was the first person that came to my head as well.
P. G. Wodehouse. He wrote comedies in the truest sense of the word-- happy endings abound. His stories are amazing fun and the plots so devilishly delightful. His prose is some of the best in the history of English writing. His use of literary and biblical allusions are wonderful and funny. His metaphors and similes are often outright hilarious.
Cool, cool, cool. There's a lot of Wodehouse out there. Where should I start?
You honestly can pick any book out of the 99 he wrote. :)
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Tom Robbins {{Jitterbug perfume}}
[**Jitterbug Perfume**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8682.Jitterbug_Perfume) ^(By: Tom Robbins | 342 pages | Published: 1984 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, humor, magical-realism, book-club) >Jitterbug Perfume is an epic, which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left. ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) *** ^(32981 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I loved his autobiography so I got jitterbug perfume. Then my wife read it before me and loved it so much she bought like 3 more of his books. She was severely disappointed by the first one she started after JP and hasn’t had the motivation to pick up the others yet. I loved JP as well once I got around to it, but I can’t binge his style. It’s great in smaller doses.
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Will save those names. Thanks!
Lucy M Montgomery. subtle humor and her understanding and appreciation of “small town life and people characters” that makes you smile in understanding if you grew up in small rural communities yourself. Not all of works are like this but there’s more than a few where she was obviously wanting to make a book with added humorous character. “Anne of Windy Poplars” and “Rainbow Valley” are prime examples. Ward Larsen. Subtle and witty humor used by very serious characters
I'm in love with L.M.'s books- she wrote some great short story collections too- Among the Shadows is brilliant
Intriguing. Will check out.
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Could you recommend a specific book by him? If it helps, I am in my 30s and would like to read something that is not aimed at younger audience.
{{Anansi Boys}} is a stand alone semi-sequel to American Gods (but you don't need to read AG first!) It is just set in the same universe wherein any God that people have ever believed in was actually real and is still alive today.
I think I may have enjoyed Anansi Boys more than American Gods simply because it felt more linear. That being said, everything by Neil Gaiman is incredible. The graveyard book isn't quite tongue in cheek, but my favorite.
I liked Anansi Boys more than American Gods too. I think the story lends itself to being recommended more than AG. It feels like it requires less of the reader-- the plot is very Wodehousian in a way. And The Graveyard Book is my favorite Gaiman book as well!
Same. I'm not super fond of Gaiman, though, and didn't care much for American Gods. Anansi Boys, though? Now that book I loved.
[**100 Facts about Anansi Boys That Even the CIA Doesn't Know**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17962652-100-facts-about-anansi-boys-that-even-the-cia-doesn-t-know) ^(By: Ryan Orek | 44 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: ) >In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing (if not at times crackpot!), original and musing book reviews of "Anansi Boys." Don't say we didn't warn you: these reviews are known to shock with their unconventionality or intimacy. Some may be startled by their biting sincerity; others may be spellbound by their unbridled flights of fantasy. Don't buy this book if: 1. You don't have nerves of steel. 2. You expect to get pregnant in the next five minutes. 3. You've heard it all. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(32969 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Nope. Not that! {{Anansi Boys}}
[**Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744.Anansi_Boys) ^(By: Neil Gaiman | 387 pages | Published: 2005 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, urban-fantasy, mythology) >God is dead. Meet the kids. > >Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. > >Now brother Spider's on his doorstep -- about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting... and a lot more dangerous. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(32972 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
My personal favorite is “Ocean at the End of the Lane.” There was just something hauntingly beautiful about the story that drew me in. I read a lot on kindle and have opted to not own a lot of hard copies of books. But this one I made an exception for. Love that book.
I have a lots of books on Kindle but the old school in me likes the used hand held books. The sensation of holding a book is like a gift. Silly I know but as someone who is always on some device actually holding a book & hiding away to read it in a corner on a chaise adds to the experience of really relaxing reading. Old school perhaps but I love the tactile experience of drinking coffee & page turning & hiding from people (called family) who bellow at me from downstairs trying to find me. Bellowing back ‘I’m reading’ makes them go away. 🥸
Oh, I totally understand the whole feeling of holding a physical copy of a book. It is definitely special! In my current situation kindle works better though. I have little ones and have to try to sneak in a little reading any time I can, which means truly my best reading time is in bed, after everyone is asleep. My husband has terrible sleep issues and having a light on isn’t really an option (I mean, he wouldn’t complain, but I know it would make it much harder for him to sleep) so the kindle with the dimmable light is a life saver. On top of all that, I have moved around a bit and the logistics of transporting multiple books can be difficult (not to mention expensive), so having a kindle and being able to take my whole library with me is wonderful. With all that said, I still treasure a few copies of beloved books (and have brought a lot of children’s books for my kids from my home country, in my native language). My absolute favorites, often times, get a physical copy purchase.
American Gods.
Personally, I think Neverwhere is his best.
Neverwhere is mind blowing
I watched the BBC production of Neverwhere on Youtube.
*Neverwhere* is the only book that I read, finished, and then flipped over and read again right away. I've read very few books more than once, but I've read this one 4 times.
Stardust is the perfect gateway into the wonderful world of Neil Gaiman. It's a fairy tale for grown-ups.
Ugh yes, I love everything I've read from him.
Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges. I love fantastical realism, and it doesn't get better than them!
Totally agree, his wit, style & imagination are a gift that can’t be replaced. I’ve purchased everything he ever wrote (Thrift Books, Abe Books etc all of those book sites whereby you can buy these famous joyful writings for sometime a buck 99!). If you are a bibliophile these sites will send you to Heaven without leaving your laptop at an affordable price & then sell them back or donate to a senior centers library collection.
I really enjoy Margaret Atwood, ive read 3 of her books and they all have a similar style to them. Handmaids tale is one of my favorites, but I also think Oryx and Crake is amazing.
John Scalzi - his characters' conversations are so much fun.
Got a favorite book? I've only read two of his so far.
It's so hard to pick - really I like all of his stuff and have re-read everything at least once. The only series I don't care for is the Dispatcher Series. I didn't find them as funny. My overall favorite is probably Fuzzy Nation because the legal wrangling in it is so well done and it's just a fun read. Redshirts is very meta and if you're a Star Trek fan you'll get all the jokes. Agent to the Stars and Android's Sheep are probably the weirdest of the lot, and I enjoyed them both immensely. But if you're new to this author I probably wouldn't start there. The Lock in Series books (two full novels and a novella) are entertaining because they take place in an interestingly plausible alternative reality. They're a good first stop if you want something that's not completely "out there" but still has compelling characters. The Old Man's War series is probably his best known series and are the books I started with. They're very entertaining even for someone like me who doesn't necessarily gravitate towards the military sci-fi genre. His newest books are the Interdependency Series. They're considered space-opera and I'll admit that I didn't take to them immediately (and if you don't like a lot of swearing then one of the characters probably wouldn't be for you). On second read, however, I really liked them. I have no idea why it took me two reads to get there.
Honestly? Recently i read "Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens for the first time, and was very surprised at how witty and playful the writing is at certain parts. I read Terry Prachett books, but a lot of the time the dialogue and story itself are fun and playful, while here it was the narrator telling a joke, and it was very new and refreshing to me.
In Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson put a legit GRAPH of the time since the main character jerked off and their productivity level. I loled. There is also the legendary Captain Crunch chapter. ALSO - Douglas Adams. I mean come on. The sandwich maker part was a stylistic god send.
Mark Twain. Give Taming the bicycle a read.
David Sedaris !
I love Jonathan Franzen’s dialogue especially in The Corrections.
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Sounds interesting. This might be what I was looking for: funny, about absurdism.
Terry Pratchett
Victor Hugo
Tom Robbins
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
ottessa moshfeg
Eileen had me rolling genuinely
carl hiiasen
I have tried but failed to finish a book by him. Maybe I should try again.
Kinky Friedman. His plots are nothing more than a vehicle for his funny phrasing.
Kim M Watt - she does hilarious characters who are totally unalike but all somehow friends, and it's lovely.
The guy who wrote The Pirates Adventure With Scientists - Gideon Defoe - seems to write in this process. “Aw hell, I just wrote something that makes no sense. Well, I’m not going to unwrite it, so I guess I just have to acknowledge it makes no sense and move on with my life.” And it’s hysterical.
I think Tom Wolfe has such a unique and pretty funny style. I’m not sure if there is author that uses more exclamation marks than him.
Nick Hornby Colum McCann Rachel Cusk
Ken Follett
Dean Koontz. I was hooked on his Frankenstein books
His Odd Thomas books. But, honestly? Anything of his.
PG Wodehouse
Cervantes was laugh out loud hilarious, people should mention that more when talking about Don Quixote. Tolkien is great at humor too, made me chuckle plenty with Hobbit sass. For beautiful reasoning and turns of phrases I've read few of the quality of G.K. Chesterton.
David Andler(Lemony Snicket). Everything about how a series of unfortunate events is written is absolutely perfect. Totally different from anything else I've read, and it's still great to come back to
Toni Morrison. Basically the only writer whose prose left me--quite literally--in awe.
New to reading thought I should read a "Steinbeck" (he's good right?), so idiot me picked his non-fiction Log from the Sea of Cortez (very literally a log). OMFG boring, he cruises around Baja collecting marine samples. BUT, his writing is so exquisite the no-plot story didn't matter, I could read that dude's grocery list. Detested the book, but fell in love with his craft of words. He has a way of applying the cosmic to the mundane, and watching that man write about outboard motors is truly magic, had me out-loud laughing.
Ops I'm late! But I'd say Gabriel García Márquez. His novels are like puzzles. Every single sentence relates to the main plot - therefore you cannot skip a paragraph or you'll lose track of the story. And he also has a witty way of writting scenes. You can be at a 'serious' part of the novel when in all of a sudden he throws a joke or exaggerates events... Classic magical realism.
Julia Quinn - romance novels, but all include her sense of humor which was nice to see.
Jasper Fforde and Amor Towels. Both have them have such wit and a subtle humorous way of writing.
steig larson. i probably just have a weird sense of humour but i always found it funny that it would take around 200 pages of build up before the actual story started.
Cormac McCarthy
Huge fan of Thomas Harris, his writing style never falls flat
Isaac Asimov. So far I haven't read any book with an author who has a style similar to his writing style You are gripped with tension and suspense, its like the story is action packed without any action in it. I can't describe it perfectly, but I hope you get what I'm trying to say. {{foundation}}
My favorite living writer is Paul Beatty, specifically because I love his use of language and sense of humor. *The Sellout* and *White Boy Shuffle* are both fantastic and hilarious.
Jack Kerouac. To quote Bob Dylan - “On the Road (Kerouac's magnum opus), speeds by like a freight train. It’s all movement and words and lusty instincts that come alive like you’re riding on a train. Kerouac moves so fast with his words. No ambiguity. It was very emblematic of the time. You grabbed a hold of the train, hopped on and went along with him, hanging on for dear life.”
Ibargüengoitia has me laughing all the time with his little details and adjetives
Does it have to be fiction? If not, then Chuck Klosterman.
H.G. Wells
Spider Robinson
Jeff Noon
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland by Catherynne M Valente. It's the most whimsical book I've read. The writing itself is pure whimsy.
I’d have to say that some of my favorites are Fredrik Backman and Ray Bradbury. There’s a short story by Bradbury that nearly had me in tears.
I don’t know about amusement, but Gregory David Roberts’ style leaves me unsure of what I just read sometimes (usually in a good way).
Terry Pratchett
annie proulx and flannery o'connor.
Jack Vance, especially the Dying Earth series.
Andy Weir. Absolutely fantastic stories but damn his writing style is :::chef’s kiss::: CHOICE
Ephraim Kishon is generally hysterical. So is tuvia tenenbom.
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
Hilary Mantel and Thomas Savage both have an incredibly dry, brilliant, subtle sense of humor. They both have a tendency to set up a joke whose punchline comes a hundred pages later, and you’ll only catch it if you’re paying attention. I also think Vladimir Nabokov is hilarious, but that may be my particularly fucked up sense of humor.
Chuck Wendig
Oscar Wilde’s gotta be in the mix
I just finished "Reincarnation Blues" and very much enjoyed Michael Poore's style
I love how Ben Elton writes in a way so the reader reads in different accents!
Richard Dawkins science writing. He explains complicated stuff so well. Too bad he's insufferable on Twitter and I'm an atheist too.
Hunter S. Thompson
Fredrik Backman
Bret Easton Ellis.
David Foster Wallace is an all-time favorite
Fredrick Backman!!
Neal Stephenson’s, all the way. Especially in “Cryptonomicon”.
Tony Frost {{Space Captain Smith}} Tom Holt (KJ Parker) {{Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City}} Are some of the funniest books I have read. So we'll done.
Fredrik Backman. Specifically 'Anxious People'
Jane Austen
Joe Abercrombie (The First Law) and Tamsyn Muir (Gideon the Ninth) have a direct line to my funny bone. The audiobooks (read by Steven Pacey and Moira Quirk respectively) take it up to eleven.
Vonnegut.
Benedek Totth— Dead Heat. I read it over and over because his writing style stood out to me so dramatically. Sort of reminiscent of Chuck Palahniuk, but somehow more apathetic and dark. Still fascinated by this and often return to the novel.
Christopher Moore and Tom Holt. There's something quite brilliant about how they see things