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

MechantGourmet get the two follow ups as well. I didn't find the second one quite as good as the first but the final one is brilliant.
Honestly I'm 53 and haven't laughed as much in years..

Granted this is a Fanfiction not a book but my immortal is hilarious it’s rather dark but so funny, cried from laughter while reading it

www.fanfiction.net/s/6829556/1/My-Immortal

Theres also a reading of it unfortunately incomplete which is brilliant
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB68C79C86B664E01

Lost it at ‘how Voldemort was defeated by an Asda lorry’ earlier lockdown has been boring as shite
www.fanfiction.net/s/1757394/1/How-voldemort-was-defeated-by-an-asda-lorry

It really is a laugh out loud book, isn't it @JimmyJabs ?

I thought it might be as it talked about the era I grew up in, but my adult dc loved it too.
Literally crying at some things. In fact, I might have to start reading it over again now.

Daft wee Stories by Limmy

So bloody funny

Everyone's contributed so thoughtfully to this thread and yet it looks as if the OP never came back, unless they name changed to do so!

I wonder why some people start threads!

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'Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior's by Judith Martin. Very clever, very tongue in cheek.

@mathanxiety

'Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior's by Judith Martin. Very clever, very tongue in cheek.

Oh yes, Math! I have that and also her Guide to Rearing Perfect Children! Both very American of course - I’m always surprised how obsessed some Americans are with etiquette - but still, wildly entertaining

Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St Mary's, starting with Just One Damned Thing After Another.

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross

Everyone's contributed so thoughtfully to this thread and yet it looks as if the OP never came back, unless they name changed to do so!

I wonder why some people start threads!

She's too busy reading!! And laughing her head off

@StillMedusa I'm going to read it myself, once I've finished rereading Good Omens.

Bill Bryson has often had me in stitches.

The Wrong Boy by Willie Russell is a book I read years ago, and I remember DH banning me from reading it in bed because I was shaking so much with laughter!

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

Doreen Tovey - the cat and donkey books are available in Kindle, but alas Life with Grandma seems not to be.

@toomanyspiderplants

Are you experienced by William Sutcliffe. ..its quite old now though!

This book! When he described the food poisoning 😂. I think I need to read this again

Cold Comfort Farm
Diary of a Nobody

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis. It won the Canada Reads competition in 2011. It references politics but as Canada's system is so similar to the UK it should cross over nicely.

Mrs Pettigrew lives for a day , by Winifred Watson. Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons. Boating for Beginners, by Jeanette Winterson, all funny books that made me laugh. Trying to pick ones not mentioned yet, but I love the Stephanie Plum books, the James Herriot ones, Mapp and Lucia and Adrian Mole, too.

Dawn O Porter. The Cows.

John Niven - The Second Coming. Not for the easily offended!

Good omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Are you Dave Gorman? - Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace.

What everyone else has said plus This Is Your Life by John O'Farrell. I laughed at everything, the concept, the character and the writing.

Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson. It's funny in a sort of tragic, jaw-dropping way, but the bit where she describes her mother mass-buying pineapple for when she had a black friend to stay took the biscuit.

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@GiantKitten, yes indeed, but I think she was gleefully poking fun at the obsession.

Anything by David Sedaris. He is absolutely hilarious.