Books that made you laugh out loud

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Please can you suggest a book that made you laugh out loud. I need more laughter in my life right now, and I am bored of streaming TV/film

Spectacles - Sue Perkins autobiography

Adam Kay " This is going to hurt".

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Deaf Sentence by David Lodge

@Lovingtheglitter

Emma Kennedy's ' the tent the bucket and me' has got to be the funniest laugh out loud book I have ever read! One of those books I wish I could forget so I could read it again

It's hilarious, I've bought it for so many friends who have all loved it too. Bill Bryson early books are brilliant too.

Bill Bryson - just makes me snort. One of his paragraphs from his Australia book got my husband into reading - I was laughing so much- my late husband wasn’t an avid reader but he just had to see what was so funny.

Another vote for Bill Bryson - Neither Here nor There is hilarious - I remember reading it on a train and had someone ask if I was okay as the tears streamed down my face. Might re-read it - I wonder if it has aged well.

@Lovingtheglitter

Emma Kennedy's ' the tent the bucket and me' has got to be the funniest laugh out loud book I have ever read! One of those books I wish I could forget so I could read it again

I bought this book on the back of recommendations on here previously.

I found it faintly amusing but totally predictable. So much so, I actually gave up reading it about 3/4 way through.

I enjoyed round Ireland with a fridge mentioned up thread. I shall try Bill Bryson next.

Eleanor Olliphant is completely fine

Ooooh following!

Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace - Are you Dave Gorman?
Bill Bryson as mentioned above
Tony Hawks - Round Ireland with a fridge, and Playing the Moldovans at tennis

Seeds of Greatness by Jon Canter. One of the funniest novels I've ever read.

NB not to be confused with the website seedsofgreatness.org, which apparently concerns itself with building strong Christian families and developing leadership. Very worthy I'm sure, but fewer lolz

Yes to Bill Bryson and Janet Evanovich ( Stephanie Plum series)
Also Gerald Durrell "My family and other animals" and the sequel "Birds,Beasts and Relatives"

Yes, the opening chapter of Notes From a Small Island, where he stayed at a horrible boarding house in 70s Dover. It sounded so awful that I'm surprised he stayed in the UK for so long!

I had tears running down my cheeks the first time I read Lucky Jim. I was about 15 at the time. Now I'm older, I can see that there's some troubling misogyny in there, but I still think some of the comic set-pieces have never been equalled. I smile whenever I think about it.

Jasper Fforde - The Thursday Next series and the Nursery Crimes books. Shades of Grey, The Big Sleep and The Constant Rabbit all deal with apocalyptic futures so maybe not what you want right now.

Compton McKenzie - Monarch of the Glen - nothing like the tv series that was based on it.

After a recommendation from here I started reading Ascent of Rum Doodle and am loving it all.

If you like Wodehouse then I recommend the Mapp and Lucia by E F Benson.

A bit more modern is David Nobbs - Reginald Perrin series.

Another vote for early bill bryson. Especially neither here nor there. I also struggled to read it on the tube. I love that so many others have said the same.

Definitely the Bill Bryson ones. The really did make me laugh out loud with awful regularity!
Really great books!

A few years old now but one of the funniest books that I had to stop reading on the tube was Charlie Brooker's "The hell of it all".

Second From Last in the Sack Race (you can buy the trilogy in one book: The Complete Pratt).

Also the Hitchhiker's Guide series.

Lots of Bill Bryson recommendations - think I'll try one of his next 😊

Adrian Mole. Any of them!

Yup, Bill Bryson. Seconding Allie Brosh.

I second the chronicles of St Mary by jodi Taylor

Another one for Bill Bryson. Many of his books had me snorting with laughter which wasn't great on the 7.20 to Waterloo. Also Adam Kay, This is going to hurt, though there are also some very sad parts to this one.

Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason