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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