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Everyone loves to laugh, and we’ve got funny books to get you there, whether you’re looking for a comedy book from your favorite comedian or joke books to make you popular at parties. Spice up your bird watching with Matt Kracht’s field guides to dumb birds or let Chelsea Handler take you to laugh town in I’ll Have What She’s Having.
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Dog Only Knows: The Dog Portraits of Alison Friend
By Alison Friend
This delightful book is perfect for dog lovers, art enjoyers or anyone looking to smile.
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That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
By Elyse Myers
Bold, relatable and laugh-out-loud funny. The internet's BFF delivers a collection of personal stories, hilarious anecdotes and intimate reflections from her life as a viral sensation.
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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 Eric 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
- That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
- Dog Only Knows
- Human History on Drugs
- The Language-Lover's Lexipedia
- Big Dumb Eyes
- A Load of Old Balls
- The Secretest Secret of Secrets
- Does Anyone Else Feel This Way?
- Steve Martin Writes the Written Word
- Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass