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What's the funniest book you've ever read?

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Haven't read a funny book for ages...but I read "The Single Girl's To-Do-List" by Lindsey Kelk a few years ago. Load of trash but gave me a great chuckle :3
Bridget Jones's Diary
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Knocked out by my nunga nungas and Angus thongs and full frontal snogging by Louise rennison. I read them when I was younger and they made me laugh so much.
I haven't read a book in my life.
The Bible or The Quran
'How to Be a Woman' by Caitlin Moran is hilarious at points. Also 'Letters of a Lovestruck Teenager' by Claire Robertson has me weeping with laughter every time - it's the most 90s thing you'll ever read in your life, but I just adore it.

Also - Louise Rennison. :smile:
The funniest book I have ever read is 'The concise Chinese- English dictionary for lovers' so funny on so many levels. Definitely worth a read
Original post by ThatDisneyObsess
'How to Be a Woman' by Caitlin Moran is hilarious at points. Also 'Letters of a Lovestruck Teenager' by Claire Robertson has me weeping with laughter every time - it's the most 90s thing you'll ever read in your life, but I just adore it.

Also - Louise Rennison. :smile:


How to be a woman is epic! I loved that book. Every page made me laugh
'Tickling the English' by Dara O Briain is fantastic.
Pants are everything:when you're definitely not a nudist.

highly recommended.
Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall - Spike Milligan

Unreliable Memoids - Clive James (should be popular with TSR because he ends up getting into Cambridge)
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I find Just William books hilarious! People always look at me weirdly in the train when I laugh out loud though... :mmm:


Oh my, me too! :colondollar:
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
May contain traces of magic and the portable door by Tom Holt. A very funny author!
Original post by Numberwang
I'm currently chortling my way through I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan which I somehow hadn't gotten around to reading until now, and it's probably the funniest book I've ever read. Literally laugh-a-page stuff.

I'm a fan of Charlie Brooker's books too, but I'm not sure they count as they've essentially been taken from his Guardian columns.

I find the written comedy just as funny as TV comedy and wondered whether anyone had any other recommendations? The wackier the better... :smile:

My Comedy Book Bucketlist
DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little
Squire Haggard's Journal
Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island
Danny Wallace's Yes, Man
Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller
Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim
John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
Charlie Croker's Lost in Translation


Thanks for starting this thread, I'm always looking for decent, well-written books with a fair amount of comedy. So many new titles, although great are all a bit 'doom and gloom'.
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Frankie Boyle's "My **** Life So Far" had me in tears. Jon Richardson's "It's Not Me, It's You" was hilarious too.
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Lolito by Ben Brooks, or Submarine by Joe Dunthorne. Unbelievably realistic and biting turn of phrase.
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Lolito by Ben Brooks, or Submarine by Joe Dunthorne. Unbelievably realistic and biting turn of phrase.


I forgot about submarine. Got to agree it's very funny. Have you seen the film?
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I forgot about submarine. Got to agree it's very funny. Have you seen the film?


Of course! Huge fan of Ayoade's work.

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