I stopped reading/watching /discussing the news about 5 years ago. It’s been very good for my mental health. This week I read it anyway.
There aren’t enough cat videos on r/eyebleach to counterbalance the horror.
I read a lot of grimdark fantasy and a lot of of post apocalyptic fiction. When I feel down I go for funny books and cozy mysteries. .I’m a big fan of Terry Pratchett, Alexander C. Kane, Fredrik Backman (who can also make me weep.)
I would love some suggestions on novels that are funny. Bonus if they’re silly without being stupid. Fiction, SFF, Cozy Mysteries. I just need a mood lifter.
by Debbborra
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**Codename Cupcake**
By: Jillian Green DiGiacomo
**Publisher’s summary**
Frazzled mom Molly Peterson is zapped by an “enhancement-ray” and recruited by a super-spy agency to infiltrate the PTA and save the world.
Molly loves her new superpowers and is more than happy to save the world….
It’s the PTA she dreads.
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**Bricking It**
By: Nick Spalding
**Publisher’s summary**
When siblings Dan and Hayley Daley inherit their late grandmother’s derelict Victorian farmhouse, it seems like a dream come true. All they have to do is fix the place up and sell it for a tidy profit!
Except – as anyone who has renovated an old house knows – things are never that easy.
The walls are rapidly crumbling around them, the architect is a certified lunatic, the budget is spiraling…and then there’s the disturbingly intelligent cow to worry about.
On top of all this, the renovation is being featured on a daytime reality TV show, and as soon as Great Locations presenter Gerard O’Keefe catches sight of Hayley’s first-floor balcony, he’s determined to woo her out of her ban on romance, whether she wants him to or not.
Will Dan and Hayley survive and sell up? Or will the whole thing collapse on them like a ton of bricks?
From bestselling author Nick Spalding comes a hilarious tale of life, love, and dodgy plumbing.
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**Dads vs. Zombies**
Dads vs. Series, Book 1
By: Benjamin Wallace
**Publisher’s summary**
John, Chris, and Erik are neighbors in the quaint subdivision of the Creeks of Sage Valley, Phase II. The three men happily live the typical suburban family life. Their only real problems have been with each other and the draconian rules of the HOA. But, all that changes when the dead rise from their graves and walk the Earth.
Now, they must reluctantly join together to survive the spreading apocalypse and find their families. Personal fears, long buried secrets, and their own personalities threaten to tear the group apart as they make their way across the zombie-ridden landscape in Dads vs. Zombies.
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**Medium Dead**
By: Chris Dolley
**Publisher’s summary**
Medium Dead is a fun urban fantasy chronicling the crime fighting adventures of Brenda – a reluctant medium – and Brian – a vigilante demon with an impish sense of humour. Think Stephanie Plum with magic and a dash of Carl Hiaasen.
Brenda Steele is smart, funny and out of her depth. A Vigilante Demon called Brian wants her to find murdered spirits and help him track down their killers. But Brian doesn’t just catch criminals, he likes to play with them first, and make the punishment fit the crime. As he tells Brenda, “if all you did was turn up, capture the bad guy then leave – century after century – you’d die of boredom.”
He’s also reckless – his last partner died during one of his takedowns. Along the way, Brenda discovers that Brian isn’t as old, or as powerful, as he led her to believe. He might even be human. Whereas the murderer they’re hunting, and the child he’s holding prisoner, might not.
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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.
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree – an orc adventurer retires to start a cafe
The Dreamhealers Series, starting with Mindtouch, by MCA Hogarth – in a far-future, Star Trek like society filled with genetically engineered variations of human, a genetically engineer centaur and elf who go to university together form a mental bone and a committed friendship
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells – funny, action packed, relatable POV
Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking is amazing, warm, cozy and hilarious.
Also House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
And Two Necromancers, A Beaurocrat and an Elf
The Spellman Files
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove – what if instead of Cabot Cove, Murder She Wrote took place in a small town that all went off their meds at the same time?
Jack Spratt Investigates – mythical creatures, space aliens, Greek Titans and Nursery Rhyme characters, they all need someone to take their murders seriously, even if funding is hard to come by
Threadbare litRPG – golems are hard immortal magical slaves, except when they are soft and alone and need all the luck they can get to survive
Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia C Wrede and Caroline Stevermer.
Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse.
The Affair of the Blood-Stained Egg Cosy by James Anderson.
I feel you. I’m a sensitive person who avoids world news and politics for this very reason. Hope you’re feeling better soon <3
You might enjoy [‘An Orc on the Wild Side’](https://www.waterstones.com/book/an-orc-on-the-wild-side/tom-holt/9780356506715) by Tom Holt; I find his writing and humour similar to Terry Pratchett 🙂
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