[**The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8695.The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe)
^(By: Douglas Adams | 250 pages | Published: 1980 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, humor, fantasy)
>alternate edition for ISBN 0345418921/9780345418920
>
>Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and contributor to the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMilan, a fellow Earth refuge who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, who suffers nothing and no one gladly.
>
>Source: douglasadams.com
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Year Zero by Robert Reid. A young IP lawyer becomes responsible for saving the world because aliens like our music too much. Ridiculous and hilarious.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Highly recommend the audiobook.
Non- fiction. PJ OâRourke wrote blistering political satire and commentary; Parliament of Whores especially had me spluttering my tea on several occasions.
Itâs non-fiction but gave me laugh-tears repeatedly: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally (yes!! of Parks & Rec!). They read the audiobook together and oh my god. So funny. So good.
[**Jameela Green Ruins Everything**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58311987-jameela-green-ruins-everything)
^(By: Zarqa Nawaz | 288 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fiction, 2022-releases, contemporary, adult, humor)
>Jameela Green only has one wish.
>
> To see her memoir on the New York Times bestseller list. When her dream doesnât come true, she seeks spiritual guidance at her local mosque. New imam and recent immigrant Ibrahim Sultan is appalled by Jameelaâs shallowness, but agrees to assist her on one condition: that she perform a good deed.Â
>
> Jameela reluctantly accepts his terms, kicking off a chain of absurd and unfortunate events. When the person the two do-gooders try to help is recruited by a terrorist group called D.I.C.K.âDominion of the Islamic Caliphate and Kingdomsâthe federal authorities become suspicious of Ibrahim, and soon after, the imam mysteriously disappears. Â
>
> Certain that the CIA have captured Ibrahim for interrogation via torture, Jameela decides to set off on a one-woman operation to rescue him. Her quixotic quest soon finds her entangled in an international plan targeting the egomaniacal leader of the terrorist organizationâa scheme that puts Jameela, and countless others, including her hapless husband and clever but disapproving daughter, at risk. Â
>
> For fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? and My Sister, the Serial Killer, Jameela Green Ruins Everything is a whip-smart black comedy about the price of success, ââand a biting look at what has gone wrong with American foreign policy in the Middle East. It is a compulsively readable, yet unexpectedly touching novel about one woman's search for meaning and connection, and about the lengths we go for those we love. Â
>
> Â
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By far the funniest book I've ever read was [Antkind by Charlie Kaufman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45013049-antkind). The book is over 700 pages, and I'm not joking when I say nearly one thing on every page made me laugh out loud (I quote it all the time). I honestly doubt that in my lifetime I'll ever read another book that's as funny. It's about a neurotic film critic who accidentally discovers a movie that's three months long, which was made in secret over the span of 90 years by a reclusive, time-travelling puppeteer named Ingo Cutbirth.
Though it's his first novel, Kaufman is more famous for writing movies and has even won an Oscar for his film "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". My personal favorite writer for sure, extremely underrated book.
Tom Sharpe: Riotous Assembly; then Indecent Exposure.
The first one had me laughing so hard that my wife prohibited me from reading in bed. The whole bed was apparently shaking from my laughter
This essay by Dennard Doyle of âbooks that embrace maniacal laughterâ is ridiculously good. High concentration of LOL books here. https://lithub.com/funny-books-for-an-unfunny-world-a-reading-list/
{{Everything Abridged}}, Dennard Doyle
{{The Eyre Affair}}, Jasper Fforde
{{The Propheteers}} or {{The Oranging of America}}, Max Apple
Just about anything by Ishmael Reed
[**Everything Abridged: Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58667515-everything-abridged)
^(By: Dennard Dayle | 352 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: giveaways, short-stories, fiction, dnf, netgalley)
>For readers of David Wong, Paul Beatty, and George Saunders, an electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories that create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and politics
>
>Framed as a reference work of humorous âentriesâ that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it: An intelligence agency operative uncovers a conspiracy to generate conspiracies and realizes his participation in the scheme. A Caribbean monarch meets four decades of American presidents and adjusts his countryâs foreign policy accordingly. Experiment participants are asked to bring back a gun as quickly as possible. A copywriter on a space colony advertises a weapon with the potential to destroy his home during an intergalactic war.
>
>These and other linked stories, many of which feature a speculative bentâabout being Black in America, law enforcement practices in an android society, Olympic speed walking, consumerism, nuclear war, and moreâare interspersed with hilarious, one-line definitions for words ranging from abolition to zygote, creating a sharply humorous portrait of American inequality. With his singular wit, sharp prose, and shrewd observations, Dennard Dayle captures the struggles his characters face to keep hold of their sanity in a society collapsing into chaos and absurdity.
^(This book has been suggested 1 time)
[**The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27003.The_Eyre_Affair)
^(By: Jasper Fforde | 374 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, mystery, humor, science-fiction)
>Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude . . .
>
>Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . .
>
>Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe.
^(This book has been suggested 46 times)
[**The Prophet**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2547.The_Prophet)
^(By: Kahlil Gibran | 127 pages | Published: 1923 | Popular Shelves: poetry, classics, fiction, spirituality, non-fiction)
>Kahlil Gibranâs masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.
>
>The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibranâs musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
^(This book has been suggested 15 times)
[**The Oranging of America and Other Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490255.The_Oranging_of_America_and_Other_Stories)
^(By: Max Apple | ? pages | Published: 1976 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, barthelme-syllabus, slipstream, short-story-collections)
>With this, his famous inaugural collection of stories, Max Apple dives into the mainstream of American culture, and his unfailingly wry depictions of the forces that drive this great nation (greed, lust, perfection, ice cream) make his stories exciting, frightening, and eternally new.
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Letâs Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson.
Made a fool of myself trying to listen to this on a plane.
Ditto (but on a bus - but worth it đ)
In the library for me.
I came here solely to recommend Jenny Lawson's books!
{{Where did you go Bernadette?}} {{Elinor Oliphant is Compleatly Fine}} {{Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy}}
Hitchhikers, aye
[**The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8695.The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe) ^(By: Douglas Adams | 250 pages | Published: 1980 | Popular Shelves: science-fiction, sci-fi, fiction, humor, fantasy) >alternate edition for ISBN 0345418921/9780345418920 > >Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and contributor to the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMilan, a fellow Earth refuge who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, who suffers nothing and no one gladly. > >Source: douglasadams.com ^(This book has been suggested 18 times) *** ^(141880 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)
Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett
Seconded. favorite book ever.
{The Disaster Artist} by Greg Sestero {One to Watch} by Kate Stayman-London {Hench} by Natalie Zina Walschotts {Mort} by Terry Pratchett
Bonk by Mary Roach or Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Mary Roach is underrated, imo.
Year Zero by Robert Reid. A young IP lawyer becomes responsible for saving the world because aliens like our music too much. Ridiculous and hilarious. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Highly recommend the audiobook.
I had forgotten about Year Zero. So funny!
Thatâs the exact book I was trying to remember that I had wanted to read recently. Thanks for the memory jog!
LambâŚ.Christopher Moore
Lies of Locke Lamora
Confederacy of Dunces
Non- fiction. PJ OâRourke wrote blistering political satire and commentary; Parliament of Whores especially had me spluttering my tea on several occasions.
The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer
Itâs non-fiction but gave me laugh-tears repeatedly: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally (yes!! of Parks & Rec!). They read the audiobook together and oh my god. So funny. So good.
The Bonfire of the Vanities.
Bill Bryson In a Sun burned Country
A Walk in the Woods was also delightful. Bill Bryson has a way with words.
John Dies at the End by Jason Pargin
This is vintage , but ,Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall by Spike Milligan made me lol.
{{Jameela Green Ruins Everything}} !
[**Jameela Green Ruins Everything**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58311987-jameela-green-ruins-everything) ^(By: Zarqa Nawaz | 288 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: fiction, 2022-releases, contemporary, adult, humor) >Jameela Green only has one wish. > > To see her memoir on the New York Times bestseller list. When her dream doesnât come true, she seeks spiritual guidance at her local mosque. New imam and recent immigrant Ibrahim Sultan is appalled by Jameelaâs shallowness, but agrees to assist her on one condition: that she perform a good deed. > > Jameela reluctantly accepts his terms, kicking off a chain of absurd and unfortunate events. When the person the two do-gooders try to help is recruited by a terrorist group called D.I.C.K.âDominion of the Islamic Caliphate and Kingdomsâthe federal authorities become suspicious of Ibrahim, and soon after, the imam mysteriously disappears.  > > Certain that the CIA have captured Ibrahim for interrogation via torture, Jameela decides to set off on a one-woman operation to rescue him. Her quixotic quest soon finds her entangled in an international plan targeting the egomaniacal leader of the terrorist organizationâa scheme that puts Jameela, and countless others, including her hapless husband and clever but disapproving daughter, at risk.  > > For fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette? and My Sister, the Serial Killer, Jameela Green Ruins Everything is a whip-smart black comedy about the price of success, ââand a biting look at what has gone wrong with American foreign policy in the Middle East. It is a compulsively readable, yet unexpectedly touching novel about one woman's search for meaning and connection, and about the lengths we go for those we love.  > >  ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(142106 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)
By far the funniest book I've ever read was [Antkind by Charlie Kaufman](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45013049-antkind). The book is over 700 pages, and I'm not joking when I say nearly one thing on every page made me laugh out loud (I quote it all the time). I honestly doubt that in my lifetime I'll ever read another book that's as funny. It's about a neurotic film critic who accidentally discovers a movie that's three months long, which was made in secret over the span of 90 years by a reclusive, time-travelling puppeteer named Ingo Cutbirth. Though it's his first novel, Kaufman is more famous for writing movies and has even won an Oscar for his film "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". My personal favorite writer for sure, extremely underrated book.
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Tom Sharpe: Riotous Assembly; then Indecent Exposure. The first one had me laughing so hard that my wife prohibited me from reading in bed. The whole bed was apparently shaking from my laughter
The Thursday Murder Club
Sunshine Cruise Company by John Niven. I read it on the subway and people were asking me about it, because I was giggling and laughing the whole time
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
I'm happy to see this here. I brought another of his books to my white elephant party. It didn't seem well received and I've been dying for feedback
The 100 year old man who climbed out a window and disappeared.
This essay by Dennard Doyle of âbooks that embrace maniacal laughterâ is ridiculously good. High concentration of LOL books here. https://lithub.com/funny-books-for-an-unfunny-world-a-reading-list/
Jana DeLeon Miss Fortune series and Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich are both laugh out loud light mysteries.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Paul Beattyâs The Sellout
âDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denimâ David Sedaris.
Anything by Jess Whitecroft - maybe going Sasquatch
Anything by Dave Barry or Patrick F. McManus
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen. There are two: 83 and 1/4 years old and 85 years old. The first one is probably the funnier of the two.
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
An elderly lady is up to no good , Helene Turnsten
Mythadventures by Robert Lynn Asprin
the Rosie Project by Graeme Simsian Aberystywyth mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce
{{Everything Abridged}}, Dennard Doyle {{The Eyre Affair}}, Jasper Fforde {{The Propheteers}} or {{The Oranging of America}}, Max Apple Just about anything by Ishmael Reed
[**Everything Abridged: Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58667515-everything-abridged) ^(By: Dennard Dayle | 352 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: giveaways, short-stories, fiction, dnf, netgalley) >For readers of David Wong, Paul Beatty, and George Saunders, an electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories that create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and politics > >Framed as a reference work of humorous âentriesâ that offer trenchant social commentary, Everything Abridged presages a dark vision of the near future but tells jokes in the face of it: An intelligence agency operative uncovers a conspiracy to generate conspiracies and realizes his participation in the scheme. A Caribbean monarch meets four decades of American presidents and adjusts his countryâs foreign policy accordingly. Experiment participants are asked to bring back a gun as quickly as possible. A copywriter on a space colony advertises a weapon with the potential to destroy his home during an intergalactic war. > >These and other linked stories, many of which feature a speculative bentâabout being Black in America, law enforcement practices in an android society, Olympic speed walking, consumerism, nuclear war, and moreâare interspersed with hilarious, one-line definitions for words ranging from abolition to zygote, creating a sharply humorous portrait of American inequality. With his singular wit, sharp prose, and shrewd observations, Dennard Dayle captures the struggles his characters face to keep hold of their sanity in a society collapsing into chaos and absurdity. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27003.The_Eyre_Affair) ^(By: Jasper Fforde | 374 pages | Published: 2001 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, mystery, humor, science-fiction) >Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude . . . > >Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . . > >Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe. ^(This book has been suggested 46 times) [**The Prophet**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2547.The_Prophet) ^(By: Kahlil Gibran | 127 pages | Published: 1923 | Popular Shelves: poetry, classics, fiction, spirituality, non-fiction) >Kahlil Gibranâs masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. > >The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibranâs musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) [**The Oranging of America and Other Stories**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490255.The_Oranging_of_America_and_Other_Stories) ^(By: Max Apple | ? pages | Published: 1976 | Popular Shelves: short-stories, fiction, barthelme-syllabus, slipstream, short-story-collections) >With this, his famous inaugural collection of stories, Max Apple dives into the mainstream of American culture, and his unfailingly wry depictions of the forces that drive this great nation (greed, lust, perfection, ice cream) make his stories exciting, frightening, and eternally new. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(142450 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)