Which books made you laugh out loud?

[Sonilaa]

• Water method man - John Irving

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

bill bryson, esp the thunderbolt kid
david sedaris

Redcharity the Rachel Cusk book you mention is called 'Country Life' and is one of my all-time faves - fantastic. The driving scene made me weep with laughter.

Big thumbs up for Carl Haissen. 'Sick Puppy' in particular. I also love the Elvis Cole series of detective novels and Kate Atkinson's 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum'.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young. Mind you, Emma (Jane Austen) made me laugh out loud the other day. A wry laugh though - not a lot in people's behaviour has changed since her day.

Stuart Maconie's Pies and Prejudice. also by him 'Cider with Roadies'

Diary of a Nobody (especially if you imagine the main character with a Victor Meldrew voice!)

Mark Radcliffe's 'Thank you for the days'

oh and tall man in a low land...life amongst the belgians by harry pearson

and god knows by joseph heller

Bill Bryson. Particularly Notes from Bi Country. The one about the snowmobile had me weeping with laughter. And my boss when I lent it to him on the train to London

Riught ho, Jeeves
Very good Jeeves, any Jeeves really

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
(and in fact many other of his books too)

Fried Green Tomatoes at the WhistleStop Café by Fannie Flagg - the bit where she smashes the young girls' car in the carpark. Can't remember any specifics from Daisy Fay to say that made me laugh.

Several of Georgette Heyer's books - not just you, Takver - but especially Frederica, Arabella, The Grand Sophy, and some of the detective ones.

Bill Bryson but I am to admit I can't remember which

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole made me laugh when I was younger; Bridget Jones' Diary when I was older.

Something by Michael Palin but cannot for the life of me remember what - but I was nearly bursting with trying not to laugh out loud on the plane!

PG Wodehouse - usually raises a smile and sometimes a snigger

Marian Keyes - Further Under the Duvet (second of her autobiog/article books) - her description of the Irish Embassy in London when trying to get a new passport is brilliant!

Country Life! So it is! Thanks kitstwins!

Rosie Meadows regrets.

And anything by John Mortimer. And Decline & Fall by Evelyn Waugh.

Anything by Bill Bryson. Recently- dear fatty by Dawn French

The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by AJ McKinnon. Haven't laughed so much in decades.

Bill Bryson definitely, also Roddy Doyle (who wrote the Committments).

A weird book called the Restraint of Beasts has some very funny scenes too.

the girl with dragon tattoo - stieg larssen
it was so bad it was hilarious

PG Wodehouse
James Herriot
Cold Comfort Farm
Molesworth
Mr Gum
Cressida Cowell

The tent, the bucket and me by Emma Kennedy -confirms exactly why I shall never go camping

Behind the scenes at the museum by Kate Atkinson - my favourite book ever, a true original

And of course Bill B, esp. Notes from a Small Island when he arrives in UK and encounters Mrs Smegma and her grotty B&B

A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz - one of my recent bestest reads.

Billy Liar on the Moon - Keith Waterhouse. Also all of the Adrian Mole books when I was younger.

Everything I've read of Tim Moore's. Frost On My Moustache in particular still makes me practically puke from laughing too hard, and I must have read it ten times.

The White Boy Shuffle, by Paul Beatty.

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady - Florence King.

A Cat Called Birmingham - Chris Pascoe

Adrian Mole.

How to Kill Your Husband by Kathy Lette

oooh and

I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk

The Peculiar Memoirs of Owen Meany, John Irving.

Anything by Christopher Moore; especially Lamb; A Gospel According Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. Very funny.