Which books made you laugh out loud?

[Sonilaa]

• Water method man - John Irving

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

EF Benson - Mapp and Lucia + prequels/sequels.

Makes you cringe and laugh at the same time.

Franks Skinner's autobiog, and his book about his revival tour. Never saw him when he was in his heyday, probably a good thing as don't think I would ahve liked his stand-up persona, but he is very erudite, and writes incredibly funnily (he also has a column in the Times on Fridays which I avidly look forward to)

Bill Bryson. I now longer read his books in public, having done both the 'hide your face in the book, shoulders heaving' and the more subtle 'twist your mouth like you're in a gurning competition in a vain attempt to stop laughing' type thing.

Also, not a novelist but the marvellous Charlie Brooker sometimes has me bent double with laughter over his columns.

The tent, the bucket and me- pure genius about family camping holidays in the 1970's,

Another vote for Catch 22

Jonathan Coe's early books are the only ones I can think of to really have made me properly laugh.

Catch 22 also
and A Confederacy of Dunces

Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
Kinky Freidmans Crime Club - ascerbic texan jewish new yorker country singing slueth..

Stargazing is good
A prayer for owen meany by john irving
Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum books

Prayer for Owen MEany
The camping book- the tent, bucket and me.

'Billy Liar' by Keith Waterhouse