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Have just been re-reading the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, and had forgotten how much they made me giggle. Tried to explain to DH what was so funny but he just looked bemused. Which books have made you laugh?

Lucky Jim made me snort out loud on the tube

Julian Barnes' The Pedant in the Kitchen is also very funny.

March's book club book (What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn) made me snigger on the first page.

Adrian Mole all of them.

David Sedaris (any of his books ) I re-read him about once a year

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, I could do with some levity right now. I feel a trip to Waterstones coming on

Oh yes, Adrian Mole and David Sedaris: both brilliant!

Geoff Dyer - out of Sheer Rage, bloody hilarious.

Anything by Bill Bryson.

Magnus Mills - The Restraint Of Beasts.
Quite dry humour and then sudden, unexpected hyseterical bits.

Derec Longdens autobiographies the are very sad but also very funny.

A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving. A modern epic. I laughed, I cried. It's a BRILLIANT BOOK.

India Knight's two novels - v silly but also v funny
Anything by Gerald Durrell
How to be Topp and Back in the Jug Agane

Tony hawks- round Ireland with a fridge and playing the moldovians at tennis

Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson. Although it's set in the 70s, it's so reminiscent of university life that it makes me HOWL with laughter. I totally recommend it.

I second Bill Bryson.

All of the Adrian Moles, Diary of a middle aged woman most things by Sue Townsend

PG Wodehouse.
And 3 men in a boat
Even bits of most of Bret Easton Ellis books

Rachels Holiday by Marian Keyes....all emotions covered here!

i second Tony Hawks...Hillarious book,
also 2nd anything by Bill Bryson, brilliant.

the fat ladies club is funny...(until the end!)

Anita and Me by Meera Syal

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear and Volokhonsky trans.), although I bet the original Russian is also funny if you can read Russian.

dh laughed out loud a lot at Catch-22. I didn't even realise it was funny

I heartily embarassed myself at the poolside of a ritzy hotel in New England by completely rolling hysterically round on my beach chair at least 10 times reading The Thunderbolt Kid.

A random stranger came up to ask me what I was reading.

Christy - I so agree, I giggled and laughed out loud at all of them, from the rose on the tray at breakfast to the vets that wasn't a vets at all They are das but so very funny.

Lucky Jim definitely
Fiona Gibson the Fish Finger Years - there is a bit about a crap holiday that just made me completely incapable with laughter.

Marian Keyes, - Is their anybody out there, some bits very funny.