If I liked Adrian Mole what else will I like?

[seperatedmum]

just that really, obviously I'm an adult I've just read the "lost diaries" for the umpteenth time and I'm sad it's over, I like this level of humour and peril, I'm not having the greatest time right now... I can read thrillers like "the guilty couple" well I listened to that but that's not my usual thing, and I listened to "time after time" but that's as twee as I can handle I couldn't go any further down that road 😬 I do like a journal format and I liked Sue Townsend RIP I've read most of the books, any ideas please? I did Google but it kept leading back to teen books. thanks

Nick Hornby, starter for 10

Try the Henry Pratt novels by David Nobbs. The first one is called Second From Last In The Sack Race. Brilliant, moving and hilarious.

And you might like Tom Sharpe

funnily enough I've read stater for 10 and I've read some Tom Sharpe; a boy that dyed his hair with carpet dye rings a bell? thanks for the reminders and I can reserve Second from last in the sack race 🙏🏽

Perigrine wasn't it?

I love Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith.

How about the year in the merde series by Stephen Clarke

Bridget Jones

Diary of an Edwardian gentlewoman is amusing.

for something more modern, Bridget Jones Diary? Or Why Mummy loves Gin series.

Oh also Louise Rennison’s Georgia Nicholson books for more teen angst.

Patricia Fisher cruise ship mysteries - Steve Higgs , cosy mysteries series, not heavy, slight touch of humour

Frank n Stan Bucket list - (can’t remember the author)

Bridget Jone diaries

You might like John O' Farrell. There's a lot of humour in both his fiction and his non fiction.

If you've read Starter for 10, you might like some of his other books. I enjoyed The Understudy, Sweet Sorrow and Us. One Day was ok but I didn't like it as much as the others (although I know it has a lot of fans).

If you like a journal format, try Shaun Bythell's Bookseller series. It would help a lot if you've ever had an unfulfilled yearning to run a bookshop.

Willy Russel - The Wrong Boy

Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston.

No one is like Sue Townsend. I loved her so much and god I wish she was still around so we could hear Adrian commenting on some of the awfulness of the past few years.

I've recently enjoyed Sorrow and Bliss which has humour along with the sadness and is a good read.

I also love Diary of a Nobody which has been recommended up thread.

Graham Norton's books are also good.

Just checking that you know about Sue Townsend's The Queen and I?

thanks for all the replies and @NashvilleQueen 👊🏽

I've got it downstairs thanks we actually read it with our mum around the millennium if memory serves and I often re-read I thought of Harris and the "ret" the other day when I saw one outside 🙊

If you like Sue Townsend, what about The Queen & I? It is funny & so out of reality.

Have you read Adrian Mole the prostrate years op?

Think that's one of my favourite books ever.

The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe. A bit darker but genuinely funny and well written through the eyes of a teenage schoolboy.

Nina Stibbe