Tell me about the funniest book you've read!

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I'm completely fed up and need a good giggle. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Ta

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“You Had Me At Hello” by Mhairi Mcfarlane. That’s probably spelled wrong. Hilarious.

Plus all the Bridget Jones books, of course.

It’s self-help, but “Not Tonight Mr Right” by Kate someone is funny.

Hope you feel better soon!

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
How to be a Husband by Tim Dowling

'One Man and His Bog'.

It has me in stitches

It's about someone walking the Pennine Way. You don't have to be a keen walker (or even an unkeen walker) to enjoy it.

Hope you feel better soon.

Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe is a lovely, warm and funny book about her time working as a Nanny with a literary family in London in the 80s. I really recommend it as a light, easy and amusing read.

The tent, the bucket and me by Emma Kennedy. It’s an autobiographical tale of her disastrous childhood holidays throughout the 70s and 80s.

Emma Kennedy - The Tent, The Bucket and Me. I was in hospital recently having an operation and I was howling with laughter whilst in bed. It tells the story of the disastrous family camping holidays she had as a child, it's proper laugh out loud funny!

Hellraisers - The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed by Robert Sellers.

This one, loved by me and my teenagers. Tales of a junior doctor.

This is Going to Hurt

Adrian Mole diaries - Sue Townsend
Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman - Sue Townsend
Bridge Jones - Helen Fielding
Blott on the Landscape - Tom Sharpe

Definitely Adrian Mole - brilliant.
Anything by David Sedaris.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Bill Bryson is wryly amusing rather than laugh out loud but would definitely cheer you up if you haven’t already read them

Trainspotting and Catcher in the Rye are funny but not exactly escapism!

A slightly obscure one, but 'Dead Cat Bounce' by Damien Owens is one of the few books that makes me laugh aloud.

Wow! thank you all for the recommendations. I'll take a look.

Rosie is my relative by Gerald Durrell. It is about a man who inherits an elephant.
All the Gerald Durrell family books. Much better than the tv series.

l agree about the Emma Kennedy book. l loaned mine to someone years ago and never got it back.
My personal funny 'don't dare read this in public' one is The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson.

Eleanor oliphant is completely fine

I loved all the Alan Partridge autobiographies, although DH was less impressed

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. An utter joy! Anything by Caitlin Moran (I have been known to laugh embarrassingly loudly on public transport while reading).

This is very obscure but the funniest book I’ve ever read was a travelogue (not a genre I usually read) called Honeymoon in Purdah. It’s about a woman who goes travelling in Iran in the 1980sish with a male friend and pretends that they are on honeymoon as women were not allowed to travel alone.

Her descriptions of miscommunication and clashing cultures are hilarious and moving. I’m going to dig it out now for a re-read.

Thanks all. These should keep me going for a while!

@grombre@ I came on to sat Love, Nina ...” It was all ok until somebody mentioned Rome”

Another vote for the tent, the bucket and me. It's my go to when I want a belly laugh.

Cold Comfort Farm is hilarious.
I also recommend Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, really funny and heart warming.
Ultimate laugh out loud funny is The Diary of a Nobody. It did the rounds of our whole office a few years ago and I reread it whenever I need cheering up

Bossy Pants by Tina Fey
Me talk pretty one day by David sedaris

Dress your family in denim & corduroy by David sedaris