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20 Books Guaranteed to Make You Laugh Out Loud
Need a good chuckle? This week we asked on Facebook and Twitter: What book always makes you laugh out loud? Check out the top answers below!
Did your favorite funny book not make the list? Then share it with us in the comments!
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Catch 22 did not make me laugh; it made me sleep.
Skullduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series!It deals with monsters,gods ,battles and serious stuff in a lighthearted and humorous manner.I never imagined Greek myths could be so much fun before I read Percy Jackson.
Just added everybook in here to my "to read" list , surprisingly i have only read Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened and it did make me LOL
The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella!
You missed one of the funniest books ever... "P. S. Your Cat is Dead" by James Kirkwood, Jr., ("A Chorus Line").
Tales of the Ketty Jay by Chris Wooding. One of the funniest series I have ever read.
Cold Comfort Farm and the Winnie the Pooh books made me laugh.
The Tartan Special One by Barry Phillips made me shriek with laughter so much I had to stop reading it on the bus.
Full Moon by Wodehouse is hilarious! : )
"The Undomestic Goddess" by Sophie Kinsella is extremely hilarious
I have to agree and disagree with the list. What is funny can be very subjective. One example is I enjoyed the "Phule" series by Robert Asprin and the Undead and Unwed 1st book. I have tried Good Omens and just consider it so so. Some writers try too hard to be funny and then fail in the process.Putting humor into a words is a challenging process because you cannot physically see the humor, example such as a person falling on banana peel type joke. Which is why I agree and disagree with the list. A better title would have been "20 Books that may make you laugh out loud" not "Guarantee".
These two by Jeff Strand are twisted and very funny:Wolf Hunt
I Have a Bad Feeling about This
Most of Christopher Moore's books are very funny but for me Lamb was my least favorite of his books.
"Can you keep a secret" by Sophie Kinsella is so funny!
No Jenny McCarthy or Felicia Day? Disappointed...
Anybody else a bit weirded out that there was no Kurt Vonnegut? That hurts my soul that no one would put him on a list of funny books. He is the literal king of Satire! #Where'sMyVonnegut
Ah, a list where I have read some of the books.Totally agree with The Rosie Project but The Rosie Effect was my most disappointing read from last year.
& I loved One For the Money but Two for the Dough was even better! Gave up on the series at about Five.
I do love Wodehouse & my favourite is Frozen Assets
Okay...Where are High Fidelity, A Dirty Job and Gil's All Fright Diner?
All of the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. Three of my favorites:
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Personally, I enjoy the puns in Piers Anthony's Xanth series.
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell was the funniest book I have ever read and I read a few on this list.
Surf Mama by Wilma Johnson. Some of it is so funny and a great read as well!!
What about "nice girls don't live forever" or anything by Molly harper
Funniest books ever are the Adrian Mole diaries by Sue Townsend. Can't believe they're not in this list!
I just started with "Furiously Happy' and I laughed with every page. Also Miranda Hart's book: Is it just me, is hilarious.
I thought Sue Townsend's The Queen and I was hilarious, but my granddaughter thought it was just so-so. Guess dry British wit isn't for everybody.
Reading Faerie wrote: "Full Moon by Wodehouse is hilarious! : )"So does "Right Ho, Jeeves". I have no idea why Wodehouse didn't make to the list. He is the best!
How about When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d'Art, and The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? And then there are A Short History of Nearly Everything and At Home: A Short History of Private Life and The Gun Seller :)
Donald Westlake's Dortmunder series, starting with The Hot Rock. There is something wrong with your funny bone if you don't laugh while reading these.
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.
What about Jerome's Three Men in a Boat ?
The late Robert Asprin's Myth series and its spin-off, M.Y.T.H. Inc., are must-reads for me.
Christina wrote: "The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella!"Those books are really funny!
These are the laugh out loud (numerous times) books I've listened to so far this year: 
It's such a pitty most people don't unerstand greek and will never really know how it feels to laugh so hard that you can't breathe with Auguste Corteau's books. Even if they get translatted it wn't be the same.
The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure by Jack Handey
I must read "Losing it." I'm a soon-to-be 25 year old virgin so this should be right up my alley. I expect lots of tears, both happy and sad. Anyone read this before?
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson. Cracks me up each time I read it.
Any book from the "Bruno and Boots" series by Gordon Korman (but Go Jump in the Pool! is one of the best) and any book of the Corfu trilogy by Gerald Durrell(My Family and Other Animals; Birds, Beasts, and Relatives; and The Garden of the Gods).
The first in the list, very funny... especially if you've been to Bali.I've read other books by Dave Barry, Janet Evanovich, Wodehouse and Bryson, and they are all very funny.
But what about the Corfu trilogy of Gerald Durrell? My family and other animals, etc. They are sweet, funny and interesting (it's a true story).
I find most of Roald Dahl's also funny.
I really like this list and comments, to search for new books that make me laugh. I wish I remembered some other books that annoy other people because they get so jealous of you laughing...
Christina wrote: "The Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella!"Love this series and thoroughly enjoyed it!!!!
Sophie Kinsella's ' Twenties girl "
Sex Lives of Cannibals by Martaan Troost and Cold Comfort Farm
Ah yes...Love and lists. Loved that one!
Try Abertwp Awake, by Ray Noyes. This is a humorous 'Under Milk Wood-style' story set in a quiet, Welsh mining village. The central character is a self-deluded, Quixotic character - Horatio ap Llewelyn Evans - a self-appointed leader of men, convinced that the sleepy valley town needs waking up and converting to communism. In fact he wants it to become a fully independent soviet socialist republic.
Horatio may be only the driver of a refuse vehicle, but he has unbounded ambitions for the town. Unfortunately, they are not shared by anyone else.
Abertwp has more than its fair share of eccentric characters and this first volume in the series The Abertwp Chronicles introduces many of them. Being an introduction, it focuses on Horatio's early days: from his conception to a deluded DIY husband and father of two girls. But his schemes are starting to take shape and he is appointed to the town council, there to wreak havoc.
The interaction between Horatio and the rest of the town has echoes of the way the mayor in Don Camilo battles against the church. Horatio too fails to implant communism in the town.
This is the first in a series of four books to be published as the Abertwp Chronicles. The second, to be published later this year, is the Abertwp Uprising: the creation of an independent soviet!
Hilarious series!