Funniest novels?

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I am looking for a good old laugh.

I've previously loved all the Jeeves and Wooster stories, Three Men In A Boat, Starter For Ten, Snobs, Diary of a Nobody, Diary of a Provincial Lady... Would maybe like some more modern comic novels if poss. Any recommendations?

thanks

Terry Pratchett often makes me laugh out load - as do the Janet Evanovitch Stephanie Plum novels (the early ones particularly)

Tom Sharpe's Wilt had me laughing out loud on a very long coach journey to Devon in 1983 :-) Carl Hiaasen 'Sick Puppy' is also very funny.

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Some David Lodge books as well

Oh yes, David Lodge is great - esp How Far Can You Go.

Ooh good, never heard of some of these. More please :)

Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy

Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham is a diary written by the 'Duchess of Windsor's best friend' and covers the period leading up to the abdication. It is really funny; not laugh out loud but in the same vein as the 'Diaries' that you like. This book is always to hand when I have nothing else to read. Recommended!

Microserfs by Douglas coupland
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

I'll second pratchett and Willy Russell as well.

Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin is the funniest book I have every read.

Jonathan Coe is also clever and funny. Try 'What A Carve Up' first. Then 'Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim'.

I also second Carl Hiaasen. My fave is 'Skin Tight' but all of his are funny.

For smthg highbrow and funny: 'Confederacy of Dunces'.

The Best a Man can Get by John 0'Farrell, also, May Contain Nuts, same author. Had me shaking and weeping with laughter.

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals and the two sequels. I first read these when I was about twelve and I still love them now. They can still make me howl with laughter, even though I've read them so many times. They are just brilliant
Some of Tom Holt's books are funnier than others but they are all amusing, and some of the puns and plays on words he has in there are truly groan-making.

Bill Bryson makes me laugh.

Oh Pom I love My Family and Other Animals. Read it when on holiday in Corfu as a teenager. Margot, Leslie and Larry remind me of my stepsiblings.

The thought gang by Tibor Fischer also good for highbrow and funny.

I take it you've read the Wodehouse Psmith books OP?

Mark Haddon's 'A Spot of Bother'.

Jasper Fforde is good

Or Janet Evanovich - try the Stephanie Plum series about an inept bounty hunter v funny

Bad Housekeeping by Sue Limb (and the follow-up) is a more recent version of Diary of a Provincial Lady. Very funny.

The "Lucia" books by EF Benson. Now collected as two trilogies: Lucia Rising and Lucia Victrix. Utterly utterly fab.

Another vote for Bryson, Pratchett and Fforde!

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse.

If you can get hold of it - he also wrote a marvellous spoof of Diary of a Nobody: Mrs Pooter's Diary (title is self-explanatory)

Psmith by Wodehouse, I agree, also all the Blandings Castle ones. Yes to the Lucia books also. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is one of the funniest books ever I think. 'I saw something nasty in the woodshed'.

More modern, Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre by Philippa Gregory, also her Perfectly Correct. V funny.

The tent, the bucket and me....can't remember who wrote it.

I agree with the Lucia books, I remember reading them all when I was about 15 and loving them.

Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford.