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

Love Nina

Phineyj I came on here to say Cold Comford Farm and Love in a Cold Climate. Love them both. Also like a bit of Jeeves and Woosters.

Tristram Shandy is very funny but you have to be in the mood for it, watch a Cock and Bull story first to prepare for it.

The Mapp and Lucia novels are very funny

The Diary of a Nobody

The Bear Went Over the Mountain (not sure if it is published in the UK - didn't exactly make a splash in the US but it is very funny)

Evolution Man or How I Ate My Father

The Diary of a Nobody

Augustus Carp Esq

If you like PJ Wodehouse or Cold Comfort Farm, you might like the above

Bits of Robertson Davies' books are also very funny.

Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse - by Paul Carter.

Supposedly a memoir of an oil rig worker, my cousin who works in the industry informed me that it's more a collection of urban myths but I still cried with laughter reading it. In fact I may have to go and read it again now!

James Herriot books (although those are a mixture of funny/sad/happy). Agree with Gerald Durrell, I still laugh out loud reading those.

Yesterday I rediscovered (at back of bookshelf) "The Papers of AJ Wentworth BA" and have been reading bits out to dh (again - benefit of a long marriage, your husband forgets). It is really funny. Think it was originally in Punch - and think they may have made a series from it at point.

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.

i must be a weird person because I can't stand him on radio, but really like his books.

Any book by David Sedaris.

Love, Nina is hilarious.
My Family and Other Animals
Winterdance by Paulsen
Round Ireland with a fridge

I second The Giles Waring Haters' Club.

It's made all the funnier, given Tim Dowling's experience of self-googling and finding us talking about him...

The Rosie Project

Lets Pretend This Never Happened thebloggess.com/lets-pretend-this-never-happened-a-mostly-true-memoir/

Bossy Pants by Tina Fey

Caitlin Moran has 3 books, all 3 very funny.

I love Evelyn Waugh's "Sword of Honour" trilogy. Great oddball characters recurring.

Came on to say E.F Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels, Nancy Mitford and Cold Comfort Farm, but they've all been covered so will exit stage left.

More recent stuff: Kathy Lette, early ones in the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series and Jen Lancaster's "Bitter is the New Black" all had me laughing out loud when I first read them, but I don't tend to return to them as much as the others.

Deaf Sentence - David Lodge. I laughed out loud several times.

Another vote for How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran, and I'm reading Jennifer Saunders autobiography Bonkers at the moment and that's very funny too

Jenny Lawson is hilarious. Her book 'Let's pretend this ever happened' is brilliant.

I second Adrian Mole. Even I laughed.

Three Men in a Boat.

Fortysomething by Nigel Williams. Snorted my way through that one.

Good Omens by Gaimen (sp) and Prattchet.

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

Anything by Augusten Burroughs. Vv funny and awful at the same time, quite dark humour so not for everyone. "Dry" is brilliant.

Deric Longden, a mix of funny, happy and sad. Also good if you like cats!

Not fiction but I recently read War Reporting For Cowards by Chris Ayres. It's a true story of a Hollywood reporter reluctantly going to Iraq as an embedded journalist with an American artillery unit.

Did Augusten Burroughs do 'running with scissors' tams?

It was similar to my experiences growing up ...

Bill Bryson, particularly Down Under and A Walk In The Woods.

I like Marion Keyes too, Rachel's holiday is my favourite of her's.

Georgette Heyer is good, more amusing than hilarious. The Grand Sophy made me laugh out loud though.