Which books have made you laugh out loud?

[Shandyleer]

Have just been re-reading the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, and had forgotten how much they made me giggle. Tried to explain to DH what was so funny but he just looked bemused. Which books have made you laugh?

[LyraSilvertongue]

Sorry, wrong thread.

[squilly]

Marian Keyes, Watermelon

Kathy Lette, Mad Cows

I do read more sophisticated stuff than this, honest , but it rarely makes me laugh. That's why I call it my serious reading

[TsarChasm]

Yes, Starter for Ten, great book, but the film was such a disappointment. How did that happen?

I watched it a couple of months back v excited that there was a film of it, but it didn't make me laugh like the book did. Books are so often better than the film.

[weblette]

Lots of Terry Pratchett's stuff makes me chortle.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

The Liar by Stephen Fry

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Class by Jilly Cooper

[Heated]

Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair and the rest of the series
and
Janet Evanovich, like the OP suggested

I reread them every year.

[SweetestThing]

Lucky Jim
Wilt by Tom Sharpe
Bill Bryson
Adrian Mole

[EachPeachPearMum]

Also Daniel Pennac

[InSearchOfLostKeys]

Chortled through A Year in the Merde, Merde actually et al by Stephen Clarke

Also a slightly obscure book that gave me the giggles was Esprit De Corps by Lawrence Durrell (sp?).

[MayorNaze]

right - giggling in the shrubbery has just dropped through my door (thank you postie!)...

i'm warning you all...this had beter be worth £2.75 the vast sum i paid for it...

[Jenbot]

Jonathan Coe makes me laugh, except that non-funny one 'the rain before it falls' (which made me yawn a bit ).

[piratecat]

Alan Carr's biog, he makes me laugh.

Ginger the 3 legged cat.

[joben]

anything by Kate Atkinson, especially her latest 'when will there be good news? Warning: not advised for those who don't like the macarbre!
Also 'A Short history of Tractors in Ukranian' (Marina ?. Don't let the title put you off!

[MaryQueenofArkansas]

Definitely PJ O'Rourke and Clive James, as previously mentioned

Also Joe Queenan about films "If You're Talking to Me Your Career Must be in Trouble"

William Sutcliffe: Are You Experienced? about backpacking round India

Martin Amis: The Rachel Papers

[MaryQueenofArkansas]

Oh God molesworth, Lucky Jim is cruelly funny! That scene where he sets fire to the bedroom...

[slackrunner]

MaryQueenofArkansas - Are you Experienced yet? is brilliant. Reminded me of all the people who turned up for first year of Uni having spent their gap year in India darling. Also reminded me of all the weirdies that I met travelling during summer hols.

Adrian Mole makes me LOL.

[TheYearOfTheCat]

The Contented Little Baby Book . . . . .

On a seriously funny note - anything by Carl Hiaasen. Colin Bateman very funny too.

A Spot of Bother, although bittersweet, had extremely funny bits to it.

If you are in the mood for it, Is It Just Me, Or Is Everything Shit?, by somebody Lowe, was hilarious, in an unrelentingly miserable way.

[TheYearOfTheCat]

I forgot, The Ivy Chronicles, can't remember who by, was one of the funniest books I have ever read.

[glitteryb6]

For a light read, I almost wet myself at "Delete this at your peril" by Bob Servant, one mans fearless exchanges with the internet spammers, also a good visual laugh is "The bumper book of bunny suicides"

[maggiethecat]

Small Island by Andrea Levy. I remember reading it on the tube a few years ago and cracking up - people must have thought I was looney.

[simpson]

Just read the title of this thread in active convos and immediately thought of Stephanie Plum books too

Also agree with Adrian Mole books and also Sue Townsend's book about the Royal Family was very funny!!

[OhBling]

Janeit: If you haven't left the thread from Monday (I know, I'm SOOO behind) just wanted to tell you that the three witches scene is one of my favourites and that I snorted tea all over my work keyboard when I read your post. Still hilarious.

I'm seconding Stephanie Plum (I think I'll start rereading them in fact) and Hitchhiker but have to add Good Omens - one of the all time laugh out loud in an embarrassing way on the train books!

[patriciawentworthheroine]

I third BilL Bryson. I have had to ban myself from reading him on the tube/train because I invariably snort and giggle like a loon.

For ref, I think The Lost Continent (in which he takes apart the US of A) is the best, followed rapidly by Notes from a Small Island (Britain), Neither Here Nor There (Europe), A Walk In The Woods (the American wilds) and Down Under (Australia).