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

I can still remember reading the Bridget Jones Diaries on the plane to Ibiza when I was a teenager and laughing out loud it was so funny 😂

The pursuit of love is not an odd suggestion, it’s an absolute classic and hilarious!

The Loaded Dog by Henry Lawson. A short story rather than a novel but is one of the funniest stories I've ever read so had to mention it.

Tom Stoppard's books
The more recent books by Gules Curtis

YY to Diary of a Nobody and Three Men in a Boat. And if you like that sort of humour, have a look at The Thurber Carnival. James Thurber deserves to be much more widely known. The author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, he also wrote short humorous pieces (for the New Yorker I think)

Oh, and not to forget the Molesworth series of books, really funny (as any fule know)

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thank you for reminding me. Thurber's cartoons and his short pieces are absolutely hilarious. I am going to go back to his work. Do you remember, the 'husband who just kept counting things under his breath'?

@TheSandman love Three Men in a Boat, the tin of pineapple bit is great but the bit that always makes me laugh out loud is when George’s shirt gets dropped in the river
Can recommend Full Metal Cardigan by David Emery as well about working in NHS mental health as a social worker, heart warming and sort of horrifyingly hilarious at the same time...especially if you work in a similar field and can relate too well to some of the scenarios

• The Diary of A Nobody

- Sue Limb's Bad Housekeeping books (another diary-style set of books) - The Diary of a Provincial Lady (ditto with the diaries. A lot funnier than the title suggests)

• Cold Comfort Farm

- Murphy (Samuel Beckett)

Also used to LOVE the Jennings books when I was little (Anthony Buckeridge), and E Nesbit's The Treasure Seekers books. All laugh-out-loud funny.

Laurence Durrell’s Antrobus stories

Came on to recommend Mil Milington's 'Things my girlfriend and i have argued about'. See prettyfly and coddlemoddle beat me to it though!

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas -Adam Kay audible version.
It’s short but a hilarious insightful Christmas Special sequel to This Is Going To Hurt .

The Plague and I by Betty Macdonald is v funny in places. True story of her time in a TB sanatorium in Washington State in the 1930s (I think, might be 40s)

If you like Nancy Mitford you might well enjoy her sister Jessica's memoir - you can spot some similar content.

Persephone has reprinted Miss Buncle's book - I found that very funny too.

Some of Muriel Spark's novels - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Just purchased the tent, the bucket and me, looking forward to reading it

Upbeat Dolores how nice to meet another Thurber fan! I had a falling-apart paperback that I'd read to bits until I found a hardback copy of The Thurber Carnival in a second-hand shop, so I will look up "the husband who kept counting things under his breath".

The short story that sticks in my mind is "The Night the Bed Fell" - still makes me laugh after reading it many times.

"I should have seen it coming when the rabbit died". It's an old book, might need to find a second hand one but so, so funny. It's written by a woman who had ten kids and details what they were up to and what went wrong. I'll never forget the chapter where her house was hit by a tornado (she was american) and all the rooms were wrecked except for the basement where one of her teenage sons lived. When the insurance company came they reacted shocked because they could see the tornado had even gone through the basement...

I loved Dear Lupin
Also, My Little Armalite by James Hawes

Cold Comfort Farm is my go-to when I am feeling down. Also loved This is Going to Hurt.

Jodi Taylor's St Marys series.

@pooptastic Loved Kill Your Friends but your post reminded me of the book that made me properly laugh out loud - The Second Coming, also by John Niven. Again, not for the easily offended given its content!

Reasons To Be Cheerful by Mark Steele. All about the political landscape of the 1980s and his foray into socialism. Gives a sombre (but also hilarious) account of the times.

Live Bait by Fabio Genovesi.
I remember regularly bursting into laughter whilst reading this book.

I also had a book as a child about a naughty young medieval girl who lived in a castle with her family and she was bethrohted to the son of another wealthy family, but didn’t like him so set the toilet of the castle on fire whilst her fiancee was on it. I don’t remember the name of the book but I thought it was hilarious.

The Timewaster Letters and The Timewaster Diaries by Robin Cooper.

Agree re Adam Kay's books - both brilliant. Also loved Narrow Dog to Carcassone by Terry Darlington. Love Bill Bryson, Nina Stibbe, Mil Millington and Sue Townsend too.

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