I’m interested in reading some humor. Doesn’t have to be a comedy book, just something with comedic elements. Preferably something a bit dark. Recently i’ve read (and enjoyed):
\-Quichotte – Salman Rushdie
\-Nobody’s Fool – Richard Russo
\-A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
\- Confederacy of Dunces – John Toole
\- Sabbath’s Theater – Phillip Roth
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Tik Tok, by John Sladek … you wanted dark
The Hitchhiker’s Guide through the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide through the Galaxy.
Dresden files
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.
Cry Wolf – it’s about 3 people trying to smuggle weapons into Ethiopia just before Italy invades in 1935 and it has some dark moments and some gut busting laugh out loud moments.
John Scalzi’s books Android’s Dream and Starter Villain. Also great on Audible if you aren’t bothered by Wil Wheaton. I love his narration but some people don’t like him.
Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. Also great on Audible, narrated by Fisher Stevens.
These aren’t a laugh a minute, but do have a lot of humor…
Straight Man by Richard Russo – I thought it was lighter/funnier than Nobody’s Fool (loved them both though)
Up Jumps the Devil by Michael Poore
French Exit by Patrick deWitt
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Lamb by Christopher Moore (or any other book by him)
witches abroad by terry pratchett
“Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World” by Lucy Ives
The exploding detective
**one fine day in the middle of the night by Christopher Brookmyre**. the jacket blurb said “very violent, very funny” and it wasnt lying.
I’ve heard quite a few people say they found **filth by Irvine Welsh** very funny. I’m not one of them but fwiw.
**success** and **London Fields** by Martin Amis are more my speed. success is one of the dankest, most awful, most despair-inducing novels I’ve ever read. but, damn amis’ eyes, it is also genuinely funny.
**the loved one** and **vile bodies** by Evelyn Waugh. they both qualify on both counts.
The Space Adventures Of Commander Laine
{{girl who saved the king of sweden}}
{{Beat the Reaper}}
Im reading Tales From The Gas Station and it has the perfect balance between dark comedy and weird shit.
*The Great Shark Hunt,* Hunter S. Thompson.
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
Everything Terry Pratchett wrote. That’s about 70 books.
First Law series is a great blend of grim dark and humour.
{{cold comfort farm}}
great american novel – roth
{{someone who will love you in all your damaged glory}} is a book of short stories written by the creator of Bojack Horseman, super funny and if I remember correctly, a bit dark!
Nightbitch
A Very Punchable Face,
How to Fight Presidents,
John Dies at the End
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Pretty much anything by Terry Pratchett or…
**Just Another Roadside Attraction**
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What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller is fully capable of simultaneously eating a literary hot dog and eroding the borders of the mind.
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Me talk pretty one day David Sedaris
“Big Trouble” by Dave Barry
Vacationland and Medallion Status by John Hodgman had me laughing out loud.
Seth Rogans memoir “Yearbook” had me loling. Also Trevor Noah’s biography “Born a Crime” has some hysterical parts to it
The Thursday Murder Club series had me laughing out loud
The Gates by John Connolly. It’s the first book in a trilogy but I always thought it stood well on its own as a single novel.
A young boy decides to practice trick-or-treating a few days before Halloween to get a jump start on things and accidentally disrupts his neighbors summoning Satan from Hell.
Try anything by PG Wodehouse, especially his books on Jeeves and Wooster.
I’m surprised I didn’t find it in the comments
Dante’s Inferno
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
Anxious people and My grandmother told me to tell you she’s sorry by Frederick Backman.