Any laugh-out-loud books out there?

Have you read P.G. Woodhouse? His Bertie and Jeeves books definitely qualify.

In another thread, @Darwin and I were discussing Gerald Durrel. Start with My Family and Other Animals.

Also Saki (H.H. Munro).

Carl Hiaasen, the Floridan author and journalist. Try “Sick puppy”.

Anything written by Christopher Moore.

Terry Pratchett’s discworld series.
Tanya Huff’s Summon The Keeper series.

Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames both by David Sedaris.

Most of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books will get me laughing out loud. Good Omens with Neil Gaiman is a masterpiece of which I never tire.

Catch-22 was by far the most lols per chapter for me (isn’t for everyone). But, later, learning how there’s reality to even the most unjust-but-absurd scenarios there, i suspect if you have a sense of that history, you’d be more apt to cry (at least inside) than LOL.

Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson

All of Bill Bryson’s books are funny.

@Lightlyseared – Yeah, I love everything I’ve read by him so far. I have yet to read A Short History of Nearly Everything, though I do own it (just need the time to read it).

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is laugh out loud funny.

The Bible.

I laughed out loud at The Book of Bunny Suicides!

I just finished Stephen Colbert’s I Am America- And So Can You! Hilarious.

@bea2345
I can second the recommendation of Hiaasen! If you’re looking for novels rather than sketch comedy, you can’t do much better.

If you like comics and have a dog, Paul Gilligan is the cartoonist for you. He really has their psychology down pretty well. Here’s an Amazon search for his books: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_1_7?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pooch+cafe+paul+gilligan&sprefix=pooch+c&sprefix=pooch+c

Elvis, Jesus, and Coca-Cola by Kinky Friedman.

A Man in Full by Thomas Wolfe

Primary Colors by Anonymous

Dead Solid Perfect by Dan Jenkins

@crisw Sometimes there is a passage that deserves to be in an anthology of comic writing. Hiaasen’s description of the rhinoceros hunt (Sick Puppy) is a classic.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost, definitely.

Ooh! OOh!
Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series. It’s a must if you like seriously witty humor and literature. Its… honestly one of the funniest things that I’ve ever read.

@Blondesjon THE BIBLE?? lol u just cracked me up

@MCBeat…thank you. that is a compliment i will always take…

Lamb by Christopher Moore. I couldn’t control myself, I was reading it out loud to whoever was near by so they could enjoy it too.

@forestGeek It’s a great book – you should read it, if you’re so inclined! Not sure if it’s exactly so LOL as his other, as the subject’s quite different… but the subject’s fascinating, the way it’s presented.

I look very forward to it!

I second Lamb – as long as you don’t mind a little irreverence (okay, it’s really a LOT of irreverence), it’s by far one of the funniest books you’ll ever read.

@adreamofautumn – I had to restrain myself from reading it out loud, ‘cause the rest of my family hadn’t read it yet – there were a few times that I had to go hide in my room so I wouldn’t spoil it for them!

@sdeutsch I could pretty much guarantee nobody around me was going to read it anyways so I could just read it out loud all I wanted haha.

@delirium Our local library has only one of his books – I can’t wait for some more.

@sdeutsch @adreamofautumn I’ve read Lamb at least 4 times…for that matter I’ve read all of his books except for the newest, “fool”, which I just received. I can’t wait to dig in!!

Fight Club…by Chuck Palahniuk.

don’t let the movie make up your mind

Of course there are still the classics: Mark Twain (The man who corrupted Hadleyburg), Aubrey Bierce (the Devil’s Dictionary), Charles Dickens (Pickwick Papers), – they are still funny after all these years – to name a few examples.

Lamb, the Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore