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Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in US History

by Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos

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Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in US History

by Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos

Are you ready for the truth? [Insert laugh track here.] Birds are nothing more than a Deep State conspiracy. This hilarious trip down a wormhole of alternate facts will have you falling over laughing (or might just blow your mind).

Lighten up with our wide selection of the best humor books running the gamut from the riotous slice of life essays of Samantha Irby to picture books for adults like Go The F**k to Sleep. Get caught up on Dave Barry’s hilarity or delight in the visual honesty of Roz Chast.

If you’re looking for personal narratives mixed in with humor, look no further than David Sedaris. If you prefer dad jokes, we have a whole line of the best dad joke books. And if you’d like to read a book by famous comedians, check out Keegan-Michael Key’s History of Sketch Comedy or Ertic Andrée’s Dumb Ideas.

While the humor section pertains to nonfiction titles, finding funny books is not limited to this space. You can find all the laughs of screwball characters in the Rom-Com section—provided you like a little love story with your laughter. You can find hilarious novels scattered around different genres as well. Good Omens and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy are both speculative but lean heavily on humor and while Confederacy of Dunces has been around for decades, it has lost none of its luster. Christopher Moore has an entire brand of spoofy novels, and you’ll find plenty of laughter in modern titles like Where’d You Go Bernadette, The Sellout or Pulitzer-prize-winning Less, by Andrew Sean Greer.

What can I read for fun?

If you love listening to stand-up comedy and watching Saturday Night Live, you will enjoy reading funny books too. The best comedy books can be anything from personal essays to comic strips. If you’re not sure where to start, David Sedaris and Samantha Irby are staples on the humor scene with their funny personal essays. Or get hypothetical with Randall Munroe’s ridiculous What If? Books. You can stock up on Far Side or Calvin and Hobbes or start a new comedic comic book series like Lumberjanes or Curse Words. And for more funny novel recommendations, check out any novel by Patrick DeWitt or Fannie Flagg. If you don’t mind a little macabre with your comedy, you’ll love My Sister, The Serial Killer or Dial A for Aunties. If you want a story that goes completely off the rails, try The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

10 Best Comedy Books to Read for Fun

There Are Moms Way Worse Than You by Glenn Boozan
Uncle of the Year by Andrew Rannells
You Can't Joke About That by Kat Timpf
Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book by Scott Aukerman
Be the Bus: The Lost & Profound Wisdom of The Pigeon by Mo Williams
Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession by Erma Bombeck
Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht
Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst by Laura Belgrey
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

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