Can anyone recommend a good funny book please

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I've nearly finished The Storyteller and I'm in need if a little light relief. TIA

Whenever anyone sakes for funny books I always recommend Christopher Brookmyre, especially his earlier ones.
The humour can be a bit dark or gruesome though

Tim Moore - Frost On My Moustache

My Family and Other Animals -Gerald Durrell
First time I read this I actually cried with laughter.

David Sedaris - guaranteed to make you laugh.

Janet Evanovich - the Stephanie Plum series beginning One For The Money. Laugh out loud funny.

"The Giles Wareing Haters Club" by Tim Dowling is the funniest modern novels I've read for years. Highly recommended!

David Sedaris is definitely worth a look, before you commit to buying a book you could listen to one of his shows on Radio 4.

Some of the Laurie Graham books make me giggle.

Jeeves & Wooster.

Second EllisIsland - came on to recommend that one. All the anecdotes involving Larry are hilarious; I got a stitch laughing at the Dandy Dinmont chapter.

I actually find a lot of Hardy very funny - Under the Greenwood Tree I just read and it held my attention, as well as making me laugh a lot; very dry. Some Dickens is also hilarious; Martin Chuzzlewit in parts, although quite a big book for 'light relief'...

I still like Bridget Jones 2.

And of course, the entire Hitchhiker's 'trilogy of five'. Also Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman is good and amusing.

Lucky Jim
James Herriot series
Jeeves and Wooster
Bill Bryson

Adrian Mole

Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen.
Second Lucky Jim and several by Tom Sharpe - Wilt, Porterhouse Blue.

Mark Haddon's 'A Spot of Bother'.

The 100 year old man who disappeared.
Any Bill Bryson.

The Rosie Project, hilarious and tender too.

Daisy - I love the Giles Wareing Haters' Club too. Never met anyone else who had read it!

Bill Bryson is v funny. So is David Sedaris, though I've only heard the books on the radio, not read them. I love Nick Hornby's books too - they're not really laugh out loud funny but they make you smile.

Agree Sick Puppy made me laugh out loud.
Bill Bryson is more wry smile of recognition.

Bill Bryson, Gerld Durrell, Janet Evanovitch all made me laugh out loud. Less well known but side-splittingly funny for me is a book called On the Origins of Findo Gask, by David McCreight.

Marian Keyes, definitely. Also Nancy Mitford.

'Are you experienced' - William sutcliffe. I was reading it once almost vomiting with laughter in an airport and someone asked me what I was reading as she had never seen someone burst out laughing reading a book. It may be a bit dated or too young - about a bloke travelling on his year out.

YY to Jeeves and Wooster! Reading those books is like comfort food to me - so lovely and escapist but so bloody, proper funny.

In a similar vein, I'd say Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. I LOLed at that on the bus.

Going a bit more recent, Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor is really funny. It's like a fictionalised memoir of growing up in Minnesota, with lots of odd types.

Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate
The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin
Cold Comfort Farm
Anything by Jane Gardam or Marina Lewicka (spelling possibly wrong)

How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran made me cackle like a fishwife.