Best Humorous Books
Fiction, non fiction, anything that makes the reader laugh and smile.
1 The Hitchhiker's Guide to t...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 515,928 ratings
2 Good Omens
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 145,075 ratings
3 Lamb: The Gospel According ...
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 69,412 ratings
4 Me Talk Pretty One Day
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 346,267 ratings
5 The Princess Bride
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 325,323 ratings
6 Catch-22
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 271,903 ratings
7 A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 96,781 ratings
8 A Dirty Job
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 44,772 ratings
9 A Walk in the Woods: Redisc...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 107,535 ratings
10 America (The Book): A Citiz...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 50,260 ratings
11 Bridget Jones's Diary (Brid...
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 392,375 ratings
12 Dress Your Family in Cordur...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 116,863 ratings
13 Naked
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 124,149 ratings
14 The Importance of Being Ear...
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 95,363 ratings
15 The Essential Calvin and Ho...
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4.64 of 5 stars 4.64 avg rating — 42,272 ratings
16 One For The Money (Stephani...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 189,795 ratings
17 The Ultimate Hitchhiker's G...
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4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 114,744 ratings
18 I am America
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 47,018 ratings
19 The Color of Magic (Discwor...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 92,076 ratings
20 Breakfast of Champions
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 101,457 ratings
21 When You Are Engulfed in Fl...
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3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 91,043 ratings
22 The Restaurant at the End o...
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 75,939 ratings
23 The Eyre Affair (Thursday N...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 55,026 ratings
24 Three Men in a Boat
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 13,514 ratings
25 Angus, Thongs and Full-Fron...
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 49,976 ratings
26 Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 8,308 ratings
27 Mort (Discworld, #4)
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 49,989 ratings
28 Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6)
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 31,936 ratings
29 Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The ...
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 47,835 ratings
30 The Stupidest Angel: A Hear...
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 21,766 ratings
31 Fool
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 22,634 ratings
32 High Fidelity
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 94,123 ratings
33 Green Eggs and Ham
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 277,763 ratings
34 Are You There Vodka? It's M...
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 69,556 ratings
35 Holidays on Ice
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 55,582 ratings
36 Can You Keep a Secret?
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 121,194 ratings
37 Confessions of a Shopaholic...
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3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 308,849 ratings
38 You Suck (A Love Story, #2)
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 26,626 ratings
39 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 117,476 ratings
40 Carry on, Jeeves (Jeeves, #3)
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 7,571 ratings
41 Smashed, Squashed, Splatter...
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 487 ratings
42 SantaLand Diaries
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 20,867 ratings
43 Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, #6)
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 61,770 ratings
44 The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
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4.8 of 5 stars 4.80 avg rating — 15,957 ratings
45 Candide
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 77,744 ratings
46 Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 41,556 ratings
47 The World According to Garp
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 100,489 ratings
47 Slaughterhouse-Five
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 470,324 ratings
49 In a Sunburned Country
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 33,105 ratings
50 Cat's Cradle
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 128,871 ratings
51 I'm a Stranger Here Myself:...
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 26,444 ratings
52 Alice's Adventures in Wonde...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 194,175 ratings
53 The Curious Incident of the...
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 424,215 ratings
54 The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeev...
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 6,951 ratings
55 The Code of the Woosters (J...
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4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 8,421 ratings
56 Hogfather (Discworld, #20)
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 28,438 ratings
57 Going Postal (Discworld, #33)
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 38,971 ratings
58 Dirk Gently's Holistic Dete...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 50,064 ratings
59 Harry Potter and the Sorcer...
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4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 1,793,619 ratings
60 Notes from a Small Island
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 34,663 ratings
61 Straight Man
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 11,694 ratings
62 Life, the Universe and Ever...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 63,632 ratings
63 The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The...
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4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 15,559 ratings
64 Three to Get Deadly (Stepha...
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 70,288 ratings
65 Skinny Dip
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 19,026 ratings
66 Bridget Jones's Diary and B...
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 4,433 ratings
67 Don Quixote
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 64,981 ratings
68 Big Trouble
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 6,913 ratings
69 Running with Scissors
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 172,322 ratings
70 High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5)
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 60,643 ratings
71 Witches Abroad (Discworld, ...
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 25,057 ratings
72 If Life Is a Bowl of Cherri...
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 6,429 ratings
73 Assassination Vacation
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 21,815 ratings
74 The Wee Free Men (Discworld...
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 32,691 ratings
75 A Connecticut Yankee in Kin...
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 46,519 ratings
76 Pride and Prejudice
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 969,491 ratings
77 Bitter is the New Black
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 25,794 ratings
78 Anansi Boys
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 82,698 ratings
79 Cold Comfort Farm
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 13,634 ratings
80 The Man Who Never Was
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
81 The Life and Times of the T...
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 23,245 ratings
82 The Long Dark Tea-Time of t...
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 33,997 ratings
83 My Family and Other Animals...
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 9,393 ratings
84 Coyote Blue
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 12,868 ratings
85 Life With Jeeves
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4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 2,423 ratings
86 Jitterbug Perfume
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 33,078 ratings
87 Midnight in the Garden of G...
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 88,579 ratings
88 Bossypants
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 209,636 ratings
89 Guards! Guards! (Discworld,...
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 46,668 ratings
90 Sh*t My Dad Says
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 46,816 ratings
91 Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs...
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 38,103 ratings
92 Balloon Animals
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4.61 of 5 stars 4.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
93 Side Effects
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 3,312 ratings
94 Fiji: A Novel
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 118 ratings
95 Charlie and the Chocolate F...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 227,429 ratings
96 Lucky Jim
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 8,862 ratings
97 Our Dumb Century: The Onion...
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 6,335 ratings
98 My Horizontal Life: A Colle...
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 57,845 ratings
99 Cheaper by the Dozen
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 14,821 ratings
100 Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7)
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 59,980 ratings
1,871 books · 3,698 voters · list created July 16th, 2008 by Steven Harbin (votes) .
Tags: fun, funny, humor
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message 1: by Debbie (new)

Debbie this books do look funny and im going to try to read so more of them




message 2: by Beverly (new)

Beverly It's massively funny. Try lots of his books.


message 3: by Nadita (new)

Nadita All his books are great, especially anything that features Skink!


message 4: by Nadita (new)

Nadita A lovely change from his previous books.


message 5: by Nadita (new)

Nadita Surely we can all identify with Walter.


message 6: by Nadita (new)

Nadita I read this the first time sitting on a mattress on the floor in a small room in La Paz, Bolivia at a time when I needed a little joy in my life. I also read "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom at the same time and they both remain two of my favorite books ever!


message 7: by Lilliansara (new)

Lilliansara I vastly enjoyed all of Rowena Cherry's books. Had a good time giggling at some of the antics of her characters. Would recommend her books to anyone who can read, write, and even do small mathematical sums in their heads.

Lilliansaracauldwell


message 8: by Catherine (new)

Catherine Did I miss seeing Bill Bryson's Neither Here Nor There? I read it a long time ago. It's probably a bit dated now, but it was really funny.


message 9: by Asta (new)

Asta Nyssönen No John Green? really?



message 10: by Valerie (new)

Valerie I don't get some of these books. I mean The Great Gatsby? I Capture the Castle? There not even supposed to be funny.


message 11: by Melody (new)

Melody Mixed there are a number of duplicates on this list and I shure have a different idea of humour than a lot of these people because while I thought the books were good I didn't find quite a few on this list funny. well it takes all kinds


message 12: by Steve (new)

Steve If you're looking for fun...The Adventures of Jonny Law! Read it, you'll see.


message 13: by Shauna (new)

Shauna I don't remember Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil being funny ...


message 15: by Jacob (new)

Jacob this is G


message 16: by Jacob (new)

Jacob AY


message 17: by Jacob (new)

Jacob jonny is G And F


message 18: by Jacob (new)

Jacob jonny m is a turd


message 19: by Jonny (new)

Jonny I DO NOT LIKE TO READ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
LALALALALALALALALAL
VAVAAVAVAAVAVAVAVAVAVAVVAVAVAVAVVA


message 20: by Jonny (new)

Jonny Nadita wrote: "I read this the first time sitting on a mattress on the floor in a small room in La Paz, Bolivia at a time when I needed a little joy in my life. I also read "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom ..."
YOU USE BIG words it is funny you are a nerd


message 21: by Foxontherun (new)

Foxontherun Ant Farm is literally the funniest book I've ever read. Good to see "Three Men in a Boat" on there, too.


message 22: by Steve (new)

Steve I agree with the above comment, some of these books are in the wrong category. Once again...The Adventures of Jonny Law. It belongs on the list. Read the review posted by ReadingForSanity.blogspot...oh yeah.


Maricar Anna Lorraine Spud by john van de ruit, that was entertaining.


Angie (Mind Malfunction) I voted for:

One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
Two for the Dough, Janet Evanovich
Three to get Deadly, Janet Evanovich
Sucks to be Me, Kimberley Pauly
Still Sucks to be Me, Kimberley Pauly

One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2) Three To Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3) Sucks to Be Me  The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe) Still Sucks to be Me  More All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton Smith, Teen Vampire (Sucks to be Me, #2)


message 25: by Sana (new)

Sana Beverly wrote: "It's massively funny. Try lots of his books."

Who's books?


message 26: by Melissa (new)

Melissa Dee I am really disturbed by what makes some people "laugh and smile"!


message 28: by Jonathan (new)

Jonathan Dunne Balloon Animals B009JUBC2W - Hilarious, Touching, Quirky


message 29: by Madalitso (new)

Madalitso The Adrian diaries should be in this list.


message 30: by Peculiarblend (new)

Peculiarblend Lucky Jim!


message 31: by Jack (new)

Jack Hi everyone,

I have created a new group called Goodreads All Sorts and I'd love for people to join it or just even just give it a look. It's a group that discusses anything and everything. There will be monthly group reads, movies, and music. There is a folder for everything you could think of. I'd really like if people could spread the word because I'd love for the group to be a success. Here is the link to the group:

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/9...

Thanks very much,
Jack :-)


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