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

Lilian Beckwith's books set on a Scottish island. I remember reading them in my teens and being vastly amused
I've just finished The Hills is Lonely and loved it!
Another vote for The Tent, the Bucket and Me - brilliant! I especially love the trip to Wales and the French camping trip - brings back memories although thankfully our holidays weren't quite so disastrous!

P G Wodehouse. At his best he can reduce you to tears of laughter.

The Bridgerton series. Honestly I laughed till I cried, very entertaining books.

Bricking it, Love from both sides and Fat Chance by Nick Spalding are all brilliant.

Never hit a jellyfish with a spade is a collection of hilarious 'how to' columns.

Or my favourite book of all time which I suspect no one will have ever heard of The Battle for Dole Acre by Ian Marchant.

If you like Diary of a Nobody try and track down Augustus Carp by H H Bashford, it’s in the same vein. You can find it free online IIRC

Round Ireland with a fridge had people edging away from me on the bus, I was laughing so hard to myself. It was pre social media though, so there have been so many of those type of capers now on youtube etc, So not sure how it would hold up. It was pretty unique at the time.

Yes to Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, although can be polarising. Terry Pratchett later ones are less funny, but you care about the characters more.

This other Eden by Ben Elton.

@MirandaMarple

Toast - Nigel Slater. Also quite sad in parts. I often go back to the sections which are funny just for an instant giggle.

I found this book to be one of the most miserable depressing reads ever, sadly.

I found Toast quite sad, but it is so evocative, and I was glad I read it.

The Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison are really funny. They are aimed at teenagers and I started reading them when I was about 14 but my mum read them all and loved them. I remember her reading them and attracting dodgy looks for laughing out loud at the poolside on holiday

Winterdance. Story of a husky race that went terribly and hilariously wrong.

Round Ireland with a fridge is wickedly funny.

I've recently started rereading the James Herriot books, which are laugh out loud funny (and can also be incredibly moving). Just lovely.

Michael Moore: Stupid White men. I remember being in hospital reading it, and I had to abandon the book until weeks after I was discharged. I was laughing so much, my abdominal stitches nearly went!! 😂

Also, anything by Jeremy Clarkson (if you can bear him) will have you laughing too...

@MechantGourmet

I found Toast quite sad, but it is so evocative, and I was glad I read it.

I thought it was really quite unpleasant, the venom he directed at his stepmother for reasons that seemed quite weak. There were definitely some funny bits but there was an undercurrent of spite that I didn't enjoy at all.

Yes yes to Bill Bryson, all the travel ones. All Creatures Great and Small series. And just started reading 'Hungry by Grace Dent, really witty and warm, have snorted a few times

Sue Perkins autobiography is brilliant. There's a specific anecdote that involves her driving past someone in another car....well I don't want to give it away but good God I was crying with laughter!

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin and some of the Scotland Street books by Alexander McCall Smith. Also Bill Bryson.

Agree with many of these, and would add Me by Elton John, which made me laugh out loud several times.

And there is a Garisson Keillor one in which he was engaged in a war of attrition with a dog. I was reading it on a train and when I got off my legs were so weak with suppressed laughter that I could hardly walk.

@dementedma

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"

I'm so pleased to see this @dementedma! My Family and Other Animals makes me laugh every time I've read it doesn't have the same effect on anyone else I've recommended it to. Fillets of Plaice made me laugh too.

@YouAintKingDingALing

Many of Bill Brysons earlier books. I had to stop reading them on the Tube as I laughed so much. I must've looked a little crazy!

@YouAintKingDingALing

Please can you give me the titles of his earlier books?
I’ve heard they were funny, but I don’t know much about his work.

Early Janet Evanovitch, anything in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett especially the early ones

To the Gerald Durrell fans, if you haven't read 'The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium' then please seek it out - specifically the titular recounting of the 'Picnic.' Dorset, not Corfu.

I came on specifically to say Bill Bryson. In fact once I was laughing so hard I spilt hot chocolate all over my feet and got third degree Burns!!!

The Rosie project

The Antrobus stories by Laurence Durrell