Which books made you laugh out loud?

[Sonilaa]

• Water method man - John Irving

• The Little Mole Who Knew it Was None of His Business -

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome

Unreliable memoirs - Clive James

Admittedly I was 16ish, but still, the only other reading matter that has made me laugh out loud is MN

Oh yes, Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith

Neither here nor there - Bill Bryson

The first few Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series

I still remember not being able to breathe for laughing the first time I read about J and the cheese (Three Men in a Boat). Must read again

Ooh yes. Lots of Bill Bryson's books have loud sniggering stuff in them

Three Men in a Boat - here too, but attempted re-read as an adult and ... not so much.

Wolf Hall, surprisingly, had a lot of laughs in it.

I lolled at some bits in Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man (Fanny Flagg) and ditto to some bits in a Rachel Cusk one the name of which escapes me. Character spends time minding/tutoring a disabled youth ... there's a car driving bit which made me roar.

Mil Millington's latest "Instructions for Living Someone Else's Life" had me laughing out loud quite a few times, as well as an awful lot of sniggering.

Yes again to Three Men in a Boat - and possibly Three Men on the Bummel even more so.

Quite a few bits of Georgette Heyer esp Devil's Cub and These Old Shades

William Sutcliffe. His early stuff

Derec Longdens autobiographies

Kate Atkinson - Jackson Brodie trilogy

Chris Stewart 'Driving over Lemons'

Agree Bill Bryson esp 'Notes from a Small Island'

Alexander McCall Smith - 44 Scotland Street series

Gervaise Phinn

'Stargazing' by Peter Hill

I second David Sedaris...I've laughed until I cried.

Bill Bryson

Stephanie Plum series

Carl Haissen

David Sedaris - the Santaland Diaries are a work of genius.

The Mortdecai Trilogy by Kyril Bonifiglioli (like PG Wodehouse but darker and dirtier)

The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe (and it also made me cry; loved it)

(The Wrong Boy is amazing; such a lovely book - that made me cry too)

Bill Bryson. And a lot of David Lodge's stuff

Lamb: the gospel according to Biff.

Have never met anybody else who has read it but I laughed out loud in public reading this. Story of Jesus's best friend, Biff. Funny funny funny.

Ooh, Stargazing is a great book, LightShines.

Was pondering this thread last night, and remembered Local Hero too - the David Benedictus book of the film. It's a little gem - funny, and also moving, and I think, rather important.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Bill Bryson