What’s the funniest book you remember reading?

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What’s the funniest book you remember reading?

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For me, it’s gotta be A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. It might be because I’m a backpacker so I could really relate to it.

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dear sir - jonathan ames

dear committee members - julie schumacher

do the windows open? - julie hecht

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Agree! Bill Bryson is a funny guy, and A Walk in the Woods was a hoot, complete with terrific factual info about the Appalachian Trail. Loved it.

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I also enjoyed the dry humor in The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett about the Queen discovering a fascination with books.

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“Right Ho, Jeeves” by PG Wodehouse is so funny and had me in stitches! “Heartburn” by Nora Ephrom and “Duane’s Depressed” by Larry McMurtry both are laugh out loud books for me. (I wonder if Duane’s Depressed” holds up in 2026.)

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I absolutely loved ‘Nothing to see here’ by Kevin Wilson. And of course anything David Sedaris.

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How to grow old Disgracefully

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I found The Egg & I by Betty MacDonald (written in 1945 and the basis for the Ma & Pa Kettle movies) hilarious on my first reading because of the similarities to my growing up on a farm in the 1950s-60s, but on second reading 25 years later the racism toward Native Americans was really upsetting. Why didn’t I see that on the first read? Sherman Alexie’s The Full-Time Diary of a Part-Time Indian was another book with laugh out loud scenes. It’s interesting that both of those books include Native American characters and are set in the Pacific Northwest.

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GUNCLE by Stephen Rowley.

His description of the nephew and the toilet made me

chuckle for days. There were several funny parts when I laughed out loud…but also

emotionally moving parts.

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Lana, It’s so true how a second reading of a book can be a totally new, eye opening experience.

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Donald Westlake’s Dortmunder series. And of course, Wodehouse, especially the Mr Mulliner books.

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I adore this book! Claire Pooley is a great author and so sharp and witty and funny and fun! I could go on and on. I was sooooo happy to see this book mentioned. I have added her other books to my hit list. Thank you.

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Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Superb and funny and unexpected.

Is she really going out with him? By Sophie Cousens.

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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.

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I loved all Patrick McManus, especially A Fine and Pleasant Misery. We used to read them aloud on car trips with our 3 boys. Also Being Dead is No Excuse by Hayden and Metcalfe still makes me laugh (but it helps to be from the South!)

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Any of the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich. I would sit on the DC metro reading on my Kindle, and laugh out loud.