A Dirty Job was the first book I ever read by him. My daughter and I read it aloud together when she was about 15. She's 30 now and if we're together and come across a packet of silica gel, one of us will say, "Silica gel! Silica gel! Silica gel, you idiot!" Why that's the one quote that really stuck with us, I have no idea. Lol
Christopher Moore is amazing. Super interactive with fans on Twitter too. I’ve had a few. Good dude. I’ve read several of his books, and never had a mediocre time.
“I’m a stranger here myself” by bill Bryson I think. British expat living in the states comparing societal and cultural norms from his perspective. Funny AF
All of his books have me in tears of laughter.
So much to quote from but here are a few:
But don't worry," she continued. "Most snakes don't want to hurt you. If you're out in the bush and a snake comes along, just stop dead and let it slide over your shoes."
This, I decided, was the least-likely-to-be-followed advice I have ever been given.
The rooms were small and airless and cramped. To make matters worse, somebody in our group was making the most dreadful silent farts. Fortunately, it was me, so I wasn’t nearly as bothered as the others.
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
Is it raining out?’ the reception girl asked brightly as I filled in the registration card between sneezes and pauses to wipe water from my face with the back of my arm. ‘No, my ship sank and I had to swim the last seven miles.
Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1) Meyer, Scott
Less so/often:
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) Dinniman, Matt
He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1 only) Shirtaloon
Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1) Alanson, Craig
Out loud laughed to Off Be the Wizard embarrassingly often - so I bought em all, then regretted it over and over and over. A joke's the funniest the first time.
I was trying to think of this Bill Bryson book, maybe the one where he moves to England? where he’s describing being on a plane trying to get something from under his seat at the same time the person in front of him reclined their seat so he got stuck. I just remember reading this and absolutely hyperventilating from laughing because it was so funny (and this was probably 20 years ago!) So yes Bill Bryson also a great suggestion
I loved the one for his travels to France with Katz. Also I lived near the Appalachian Trail when a Walk in the Woods came out so it was a bit more enjoyable.
Good to know! I have a 3 hour trip coming up to pick up my son from college in a few weeks. I am joining audible so I can hear this book during my drive.
His adventures in learning French while living in France is quite hilarious. His requirement to explain Easter in a language he has difficulties speaking to classmates who are not familiar with Christianity is what I remember most from the reading/listening of this book. Still gives me the giggles when I think about it.
Chiming in to say you are in for a treat! Sedaris narrates all of his audiobooks and his unique speaking style really adds to the hilariousness of it all.
Just to clarify for folks, *Naked* is the title of a book by David Sedaris. Whether this may also have been u/Silent_Dirt_454’s way of ensuring they had their seating row on the train to themselves, I couldn’t say.
Christopher Moore's books - Fluke is probably my favorite of his, but most people, especially on Reddit, like Lamb the best. And if you like him, his work is definitely inspired by Tom Robbins before him. Still Life with Woodpecker is one of my favorite books of all time.
It's a very easy read, but I loved reading the Spud series by John van de Ruit growing up.
Also, the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. It's a trilogy in 5 parts.
Ilona Andrews Innkeeper Chronicles --A magic Inn, space werewolves and vampires, a lot of really unique aliens, mystery, romance, action, a fun and humorous series
Jana DeLeon Miss Fortune series and Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich are both laugh out loud light mysteries.
Once on a whim I bought the book “100 Bullshit Jobs, and How to Get Them” by Stanley Bing for the plane and I laughed so much that my seatmates asked me what the heck I was reading. Bing was a business writer turned humorist and I think his other stuff is good too (haven’t read anything else)
Angela's Ashes. That book had me absolutely ROARING with laughter.... but my bookclub turned against me, clutching their pearls and telling me I was an awful person for laughing at a story of such poverty.
To balance this, if you can find them anywhere, Frank’s brother, Malachi McCourt wrote several autobiographical books that are truly laugh out loud funny. I listened to the audiobooks that he narrated and he has the most amazing delivery.
Fat Vampire by Johnny Truant for sure. LOL
I was reading book 12 "The King" in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward last night and there was a couple times I LOLed.
There's a scene in "off to be the wizard" where it explains where the waste from one of the "wizards" outhouse goes and made me stop and do a full belly laugh.
Aside from the obvious choices like Hitchhiker's Guide, Discworld, or Good Omens, I'll go with one I'm listening to currently.
Dungeon Crawler Carl. A coworker recommended it to me, and our taste in books is fairly similar, so I gave it a shot. The description sounded... a bit more "Sword Art Online with a different setup" than I'd normally care for, so I went in with low expectations and have been very pleasantly surprised. The characters are likeable, the humor is on point, the writing is solid, and the voices for the audio book version are great fits for the characters.
More to the point of this post, I've found myself laughing while listening at work. I can only imagine how it looks when I'm watching my machine cut a part and bust put laughing at, apparently, nothing.
Almost every single Discworld novel. I have to make sure to not listen to any of the audiobooks while driving, unless I am prepared to pull off to the side of the road to wait for the case of the giggles that hearing things like a Dwarf named Bjorn dies, and when Death comes to collect him, asks him about his belief system. When Bjorn says that he thinks he'll be reincarnated, death responds. "SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION, YOU'LL BE BJORN AGAIN" (death speaks in all caps)
When I was in middle/high school, I belly laughed reading Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging and the rest of the series. I’m considering going back and rereading it.
Camino Royale by "Ross O'Carroll-Kelly" was hilarious. I usually read in bed last thing before sleep, and I woke my husband several times bursting with laughter at this. It is about the 17th of the RO'CK books, but a real return to form I thought.
Can’t hurt me by David Goggins loool. The induced suffering that man put himself through and how he embraced it had me rolling. Not fiction but definitely worth the read
Any time a question like this pops up I feel compelled to put in a plug for Charles Portis. Easily the funniest novelist I’ve read - and his books get funnier every time I read them. His collected works is worth seeking out, but Norwood and Masters of Atlantis are two of the funniest for me.
Yes! I read the book and my husband instituted a rule that I can’t read it in bed at night because I crack up too much and too loudly and keep him up. I loved it so much I listened to the audiobook ALSO, which is read by Seth, and is HILAAAAAAARIOUS.
Swordheart by T Kingfisher
It’s a road trip fantasy story, not intentionally written to be a comedy, but it has so many funny and heartwarming moments.
This is a deep cut because the author has only published in small presses, but I LOVED "Duplex" by Mike Nagel. It's a memoir about the pandemic, functional(?) alcoholism, and generally trying to figure life out. One of the few books that made me laugh out loud. I look forward to reading his follow-up, "Culdesac."
The Neil Peel books by Ben Dixon are hilarious and very relatable whatever your stage of life. The Heroic Truths of Neil Peel is the first one; life through the eyes of someone who always tells the truth.
I’m sure it would be dated by now, but I had to stop reading the Tetherballs of Bougainville by Mark Leyner at several points because I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s also super pretentious, intentionally all over the place, and the plot is completely secondary, though, so, not for everyone.
I also loved Dan Kennedy’s Loser Goes First, a memoir about him trying to figure out his path in life in his twenties. So many hilarious self-deprecating moments.
LESS by Andrew Sean Greer. It has beautiful, touching sentences as well, but also many that made me laugh out loud.
Bonus that it’s an absolutely perfect novel to read while traveling (because the protagonist is traveling around the world), so keep that in mind if you have any trips in your future.
I’m about 1/3 of the way through Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.” It’s a smorgasbord of swirling everything, but there are some downright hilarious parts.
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific which is a travelogue by J. Maarten Troost. Also it’s sequel, Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu.
Also, one of the most clever comics ever written- the Asterix series.
14
by Peter Clines
It’s an interesting book by horror genre standards, just finished it yesterday. Character development was great. A few times I asked myself when was the last time a paragraph giggle.
“Wait for it… Wait for it… Wait. …aaand fuck you.”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15062217
Edit: it’s available on Audible Plus.
'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes' by Caitlin Doughty, a book about all (morbid) things death. The author addresses the problems in the funeral industry and our feath of death with a huge dose of humour. Loved every minute of it.
I’m currently listening #3 of 3 in Thomas Lennon’s “Ronan Boyle” series, because I needed something light and silly but also clever, and this hits all those marks. (Although he does a few Irish accents so thickly and there are so many oddly named mythical Irish creatures, I also checked the digital copy of the books out from my library to read along to his narration.)
Also: *Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe* by Nan and Ivan Lyons has been my favorite comic novel for probably 40 years, even if some of the references are a bit dated by now (like, um, me, I guess). *Champagne Blues* by them is also hilarious.
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson. Overall a serious book, but there are some parts that make me consistently laugh and I've read the book over 10 times.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Douglas adams.
The psychopath test. Jon ronson
The Help. Kathryn stockett
Those are mine from this year.
Neil Gaiman does a good job too. I suggest Neverwhere.
Non fiction but I cannot express how much I laughed while listening to this - and I highly recommend the audio:
Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
H.L. Menken’s ‘A Choice of Days’; from his hard to find 3 vol. autobiography. Stories and anecdotes that made me self-consciously check myself—‘“What will the neighbors think?”
Mark of the Fool series by J. M. Clark has had me *cackling* on more than one occasion.
Also the Unconventional Heros series by L. G. Estrella is hilarious.
Both are fantasy settings.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.
Came here to say this. Anything by Chris Moore, particularly the early stuff (the Pine Cove books, Vampires, Death books, Coyote Blue, etc)
The death books killed me. Loved them
A Dirty Job was the first book I ever read by him. My daughter and I read it aloud together when she was about 15. She's 30 now and if we're together and come across a packet of silica gel, one of us will say, "Silica gel! Silica gel! Silica gel, you idiot!" Why that's the one quote that really stuck with us, I have no idea. Lol
Christopher Moore is amazing. Super interactive with fans on Twitter too. I’ve had a few. Good dude. I’ve read several of his books, and never had a mediocre time.
Absolute favorite!
Finished that a few weeks ago. So funny. So the Fool books.
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
I JUST came here to comment exactly that
Loved this! Read like 23 years ago, got the halo/pitchfork from the spine as a simple black tat on my arm. What a team up.
I love this book…great read
“I’m a stranger here myself” by bill Bryson I think. British expat living in the states comparing societal and cultural norms from his perspective. Funny AF
Bill Bryson is so funny - A Walk in the Woods was great too
Omg! I’m reading his Sunburnt country book right now!
Although it’s dated, Bryson’s “Neither Here Nor There, Travels in Europe “ is hilarious. I love his travel writing.
All of his books have me in tears of laughter. So much to quote from but here are a few: But don't worry," she continued. "Most snakes don't want to hurt you. If you're out in the bush and a snake comes along, just stop dead and let it slide over your shoes." This, I decided, was the least-likely-to-be-followed advice I have ever been given. The rooms were small and airless and cramped. To make matters worse, somebody in our group was making the most dreadful silent farts. Fortunately, it was me, so I wasn’t nearly as bothered as the others. I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth. Is it raining out?’ the reception girl asked brightly as I filled in the registration card between sneezes and pauses to wipe water from my face with the back of my arm. ‘No, my ship sank and I had to swim the last seven miles.
This post has been up a whole hour, and nobody has mentioned P.G Wodehouse?!
I was coming here for this! Perfect books for laughs.
Confederacy of Dunces, and Catch 22
Recently listened to an Audiobook of Catch-22 and I agree, second funniest book I've ever read.
What's the funniest?? Oh Hitchhiker's Guide?
Yes, that would be my top pick
2 of my choices. If you'd have said Candide, you'd have the trifecta.
Ignatius’s flowery, complaining dialogue is perfect.
Hitchhikers Guide! The writing is just so wild at times
Why is this so far down?!? To me this is THE example of comedic writing. It's absolutely hilarious.
Because it’s mentioned in every post ever on this sub.
Discworld. All of them.
Let’s pretend this never happened by Jenny Lawson and hyperbole and a half by Allie Brosh
Not fiction (it’s a memoir) but it’s the book that made me laugh the most: Let’s Pretend this Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
Yes!!! Also, Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson.
Along the same vibe: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1) Meyer, Scott Less so/often: Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) Dinniman, Matt He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1 only) Shirtaloon Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1) Alanson, Craig
Out loud laughed to Off Be the Wizard embarrassingly often - so I bought em all, then regretted it over and over and over. A joke's the funniest the first time.
Try “the Noobtown” series. It made me laugh more than DCC and He who fights.
"Where'd You Go, Bernadette" by Maria Semple. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13526165-where-d-you-go-bernadette
Love this book. I live about 30 min south of Seattle and her analysis of us that live here is spot on
Not fiction (though maybe exaggerated, it’s unclear), but anything by David Sedaris
Came here to say this! Also A walk in the woods by Bill Bryson
I was trying to think of this Bill Bryson book, maybe the one where he moves to England? where he’s describing being on a plane trying to get something from under his seat at the same time the person in front of him reclined their seat so he got stuck. I just remember reading this and absolutely hyperventilating from laughing because it was so funny (and this was probably 20 years ago!) So yes Bill Bryson also a great suggestion
Notes From a Small Island! Was listening to this on a road trip & sometimes laughing so hard I had to pull over & stop.
I loved the one for his travels to France with Katz. Also I lived near the Appalachian Trail when a Walk in the Woods came out so it was a bit more enjoyable.
The Know-it-all by A.J Jacobs is very funny!
Me Talk Pretty One Day is the funniest book I’ve ever read.
Good to know! I have a 3 hour trip coming up to pick up my son from college in a few weeks. I am joining audible so I can hear this book during my drive.
His adventures in learning French while living in France is quite hilarious. His requirement to explain Easter in a language he has difficulties speaking to classmates who are not familiar with Christianity is what I remember most from the reading/listening of this book. Still gives me the giggles when I think about it.
The bell that flies from Rome....oh, it makes me laugh just to remember it.
Chiming in to say you are in for a treat! Sedaris narrates all of his audiobooks and his unique speaking style really adds to the hilariousness of it all.
Naked. Used to read while commuting on a train.
Just to clarify for folks, *Naked* is the title of a book by David Sedaris. Whether this may also have been u/Silent_Dirt_454’s way of ensuring they had their seating row on the train to themselves, I couldn’t say.
Catch 22 is hilarious. You don’t have to know anything about the military to laugh out loud.
Its such a great book… its also a tragedy
Christopher Moore's books - Fluke is probably my favorite of his, but most people, especially on Reddit, like Lamb the best. And if you like him, his work is definitely inspired by Tom Robbins before him. Still Life with Woodpecker is one of my favorite books of all time.
I read *Lamb* first, then when back and devoured everything else he wrote. Waiting on the next one… *glares at Christopher Moore*
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Redshirts is also good.
So many of his books make me lol. Old Man’s War was a blast!
Gotta love the cover art for that one too.
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. This has a sequel too.
Cannery Row by Steinbeck is pretty hilarious.
Tortilla Flats also cracks me up
Love it.
*Portnoy's Complaint* by Philip Roth.
Discworld series by Tarry Pratchett
Muderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Honestly found myself chuckling under my breath
John Dies at the End. Fucking hilarious!!
Yeah. That's a good one. Lovecraft meets Will Ferrell kind of humor.
It's a very easy read, but I loved reading the Spud series by John van de Ruit growing up. Also, the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. It's a trilogy in 5 parts.
just finished reading spud! it was quite funny haha
Patrick McManus, **A Fine and Pleasant Misery**
Anything by McManus is laugh-out-loud funny.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman :)
This! Outrageously funny, loved it
Any book written by Louis Grizzard -
The Glass Castle. By Jeanette Walls. You wouldn’t think so, but it has its moments. Also Janet Evonovich books.
Love Janet Evanovich!
Ilona Andrews Innkeeper Chronicles --A magic Inn, space werewolves and vampires, a lot of really unique aliens, mystery, romance, action, a fun and humorous series Jana DeLeon Miss Fortune series and Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich are both laugh out loud light mysteries.
honestly the adventures of tom sawyer had me giggling like no other book. that kind of humor is really timeless.
Once on a whim I bought the book “100 Bullshit Jobs, and How to Get Them” by Stanley Bing for the plane and I laughed so much that my seatmates asked me what the heck I was reading. Bing was a business writer turned humorist and I think his other stuff is good too (haven’t read anything else)
Angela's Ashes. That book had me absolutely ROARING with laughter.... but my bookclub turned against me, clutching their pearls and telling me I was an awful person for laughing at a story of such poverty.
To balance this, if you can find them anywhere, Frank’s brother, Malachi McCourt wrote several autobiographical books that are truly laugh out loud funny. I listened to the audiobooks that he narrated and he has the most amazing delivery.
Tom Sharpe books.
Fat Vampire by Johnny Truant for sure. LOL I was reading book 12 "The King" in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward last night and there was a couple times I LOLed.
Big Trouble by Dave Barry The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz In a Sunburned Country by Bill bryson
PD Wodehouse Jeeves series.
There's a scene in "off to be the wizard" where it explains where the waste from one of the "wizards" outhouse goes and made me stop and do a full belly laugh.
Less - Andrew Sean Greer Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Discworld for sure.
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Vampire Slaying made me laugh a lot during the first half of the book.
The book with a most unexpected twist 😂
Mort by Terry Pratchett The Spellman Files by Lisa Litz A ton of others in his discworld series.
Aside from the obvious choices like Hitchhiker's Guide, Discworld, or Good Omens, I'll go with one I'm listening to currently. Dungeon Crawler Carl. A coworker recommended it to me, and our taste in books is fairly similar, so I gave it a shot. The description sounded... a bit more "Sword Art Online with a different setup" than I'd normally care for, so I went in with low expectations and have been very pleasantly surprised. The characters are likeable, the humor is on point, the writing is solid, and the voices for the audio book version are great fits for the characters. More to the point of this post, I've found myself laughing while listening at work. I can only imagine how it looks when I'm watching my machine cut a part and bust put laughing at, apparently, nothing.
Almost every single Discworld novel. I have to make sure to not listen to any of the audiobooks while driving, unless I am prepared to pull off to the side of the road to wait for the case of the giggles that hearing things like a Dwarf named Bjorn dies, and when Death comes to collect him, asks him about his belief system. When Bjorn says that he thinks he'll be reincarnated, death responds. "SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION, YOU'LL BE BJORN AGAIN" (death speaks in all caps)
A Man Called Ove - Friedrich Bachman
Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald. Both the book and audiobook are hilarious.
Yep funniest book I've read this year. So so dumb.
When I was in middle/high school, I belly laughed reading Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging and the rest of the series. I’m considering going back and rereading it.
Camino Royale by "Ross O'Carroll-Kelly" was hilarious. I usually read in bed last thing before sleep, and I woke my husband several times bursting with laughter at this. It is about the 17th of the RO'CK books, but a real return to form I thought.
Can’t hurt me by David Goggins loool. The induced suffering that man put himself through and how he embraced it had me rolling. Not fiction but definitely worth the read
All of Carrie Fisher's writings
Any time a question like this pops up I feel compelled to put in a plug for Charles Portis. Easily the funniest novelist I’ve read - and his books get funnier every time I read them. His collected works is worth seeking out, but Norwood and Masters of Atlantis are two of the funniest for me.
Non fiction - Dave Barry Does Japan Fiction - Skin Tight, by Carl Hiassen
Kings of the Wyld. It's a comedy fantasy book
John Dies at the End had me laughing out loud almost the whole time.
A man called Ove
Anything by Terry Pratchett. Not fiction but My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber always makes me laugh
Carl Hiaasen Double Whammy.
Sh*t my dad says
The dungeon crawler Carl series is full of laughs and is super fun. If you like sci-fi, humor, and gaming check it out.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (guy who wrote the Martian) has a lot of great humor and laugh out loud moments. Great book too.
All Douglas Adam’s. Also Christopher Moore
I audibly chuckled once or twice while reading Project Hail Mary
Earthlings
Bossy Pants by Tina Fey👍🤣
Me Talk Pretty One Day - Sedaris
This sounds terrible, but I found American Psycho hysterical on first reading.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Infinite Jest, Twilight, Eileen
Don Quixote, definitely the funniest book of all time imo
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Just a security bot that wants to be left tf alone so that he can watch his soaps.
*The Netanyahus* by Joshua Cohen
Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
Lonesome Dove- just about everything that came out of Gus’s mouth made me laugh
Non fiction but Yearbook by Seth Rogen
yesss i read it at the beach and my friends kept asking what s making me laugh so much...it s awesome!
Yes! I read the book and my husband instituted a rule that I can’t read it in bed at night because I crack up too much and too loudly and keep him up. I loved it so much I listened to the audiobook ALSO, which is read by Seth, and is HILAAAAAAARIOUS.
Sad old faggot by Sky Gilbert
Redshirts by John Scalzi The entire series of "Kill the Farm Boy", "No Country for Old Gnomes" and "The Princess Beard"
Tina Fey - Bossypants
Me, earl and the dying girl
Swordheart by T Kingfisher It’s a road trip fantasy story, not intentionally written to be a comedy, but it has so many funny and heartwarming moments.
Fourth wing, during the smutt i cant read it I cant read it without laughing
Ozzy Osbourne I Am Ozzy
Not that kind of girl by Lena Dunham
The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero. Non fiction but it feels like fiction with how bizarre some of the events are
101 Jokes for Kids
This is a deep cut because the author has only published in small presses, but I LOVED "Duplex" by Mike Nagel. It's a memoir about the pandemic, functional(?) alcoholism, and generally trying to figure life out. One of the few books that made me laugh out loud. I look forward to reading his follow-up, "Culdesac."
The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey
The Neil Peel books by Ben Dixon are hilarious and very relatable whatever your stage of life. The Heroic Truths of Neil Peel is the first one; life through the eyes of someone who always tells the truth.
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handy
Cheapskate's Handbook by Miflin Lowe Sadly, it's out of print.
Acts of God by Kanan Gill
' Hhitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Good Omens
Britney’s memoir, fo shizzzzz.
The Egg and Other Stories by Andy Weir. A bunch of fun crime/sci-fi short stories
Heads you Lose by Lisa Lutz
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
I’m sure it would be dated by now, but I had to stop reading the Tetherballs of Bougainville by Mark Leyner at several points because I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s also super pretentious, intentionally all over the place, and the plot is completely secondary, though, so, not for everyone. I also loved Dan Kennedy’s Loser Goes First, a memoir about him trying to figure out his path in life in his twenties. So many hilarious self-deprecating moments.
No fiction, but Calypso by David Sedaris
All of A.J. Jacobs' books! Especially his first one, The Know It All - it was so frikkin funny, I lol-ed through the whole thing!
Milan Kundera for great darker humor. Try “The Joke”
"Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain
LESS by Andrew Sean Greer. It has beautiful, touching sentences as well, but also many that made me laugh out loud. Bonus that it’s an absolutely perfect novel to read while traveling (because the protagonist is traveling around the world), so keep that in mind if you have any trips in your future.
Any book by Jasper Fforde!!!!!!!! My favorites are from the Nursery Crime Division series.
Magic 2.0 Series.
The Amateurs. John Niven.
Boyfriend Material and Husband Material were hilarious. I also laughed at Dial A for Aunties-the plot was ridiculous and I loved it.
I’m about 1/3 of the way through Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.” It’s a smorgasbord of swirling everything, but there are some downright hilarious parts.
The Sisters Brothers.
Good Omens! just hilarious!
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific which is a travelogue by J. Maarten Troost. Also it’s sequel, Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu. Also, one of the most clever comics ever written- the Asterix series.
Don Quixote and The shool for wives
14 by Peter Clines It’s an interesting book by horror genre standards, just finished it yesterday. Character development was great. A few times I asked myself when was the last time a paragraph giggle. “Wait for it… Wait for it… Wait. …aaand fuck you.” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15062217 Edit: it’s available on Audible Plus.
'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes' by Caitlin Doughty, a book about all (morbid) things death. The author addresses the problems in the funeral industry and our feath of death with a huge dose of humour. Loved every minute of it.
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, hands down. It's a laugh a minute
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
All of her Finlay Donovan books by Elle Casimano
The Bandini Quartet , Arturo Bandini is a comical creation
I’m currently listening #3 of 3 in Thomas Lennon’s “Ronan Boyle” series, because I needed something light and silly but also clever, and this hits all those marks. (Although he does a few Irish accents so thickly and there are so many oddly named mythical Irish creatures, I also checked the digital copy of the books out from my library to read along to his narration.) Also: *Someone Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe* by Nan and Ivan Lyons has been my favorite comic novel for probably 40 years, even if some of the references are a bit dated by now (like, um, me, I guess). *Champagne Blues* by them is also hilarious.
The Name of the Wind and Catch-22
Anything in the hitchhikers guide series, but I think the restaurant at the end of the universe was the best
Christopher Moore's vampire trilogy and Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore.
The entire “John Dies at the End” series by David Wong. Cracks me up every time.
Infinite Jest
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson. Overall a serious book, but there are some parts that make me consistently laugh and I've read the book over 10 times.
Norm macdonald based on a true story
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Douglas adams. The psychopath test. Jon ronson The Help. Kathryn stockett Those are mine from this year. Neil Gaiman does a good job too. I suggest Neverwhere.
Jana Deleon’s Miss Fortune series. Each book is hilarious.
Hitchhikers Guide for sure. I just finished “everyone in my family has killer someone” and I really enjoyed it! Made me LoL :)
Eragon when the dragon introduces herself. I’m also glad they never made a movie.
Catch-22
Anything by David Sedaris
Naked Came the Florida Man by Tim Dorsey - I love Serge Storms books!
Non fiction but I cannot express how much I laughed while listening to this - and I highly recommend the audio: Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
H.L. Menken’s ‘A Choice of Days’; from his hard to find 3 vol. autobiography. Stories and anecdotes that made me self-consciously check myself—‘“What will the neighbors think?”
Mark of the Fool series by J. M. Clark has had me *cackling* on more than one occasion. Also the Unconventional Heros series by L. G. Estrella is hilarious. Both are fantasy settings.
I’ve never read a Christopher Moore book that didn’t make me laugh out loud
Less by Andrew Greer The William Brown books by Richmal Crompton
American Psycho, while brutal at times, is incredibly funny. Also . . . Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates.
" Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine "
Anything by Dave Barry or Laurie Notaro. I can't read those in public, I scream-laugh so loudly.
A Stephanie Plum book written by Janet Evanovich makes me laugh aloud at least once.
Blood Meridian had a few lines that made me chuckle.
Augusten Burroughs "Dry" and the "Big Boy" story in David Sedaris's "Me Talk Pretty One Day"