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Various types of short story collections that include some degree of humor.
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Stories and Scripts: an Anthology
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Zack Love (Goodreads Author)
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
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So it Goes: a Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut
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Elven Silver: The Irreverent Faery Tales of Zardoa Silverstar
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NGLND XPX
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Ian Hutson (Goodreads Author)
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Tales of Sex & Suburban Lunacy
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Helen Argiro (Goodreads Author)
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Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
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Tom Carter (Editor)
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The Collected Short Stories of Saki
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The Chronicles of Clovis
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Impromptu Scribe
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Alex Morritt (Goodreads Author)
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29 Very Short Stories
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P. Canole (Goodreads Author)
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Offbeat Love Stories and More
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Jennifer K. Lafferty (Goodreads Author)
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Little Leaves That Never Appeared in The New Yorker
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Henry F. Mazel (Goodreads Author)
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Death on Holiday
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B.V. Lawson (Goodreads Author)
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Pork
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Sweepstakes
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Follow the Money
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Ross Cavins (Goodreads Author)
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Life Bits and Other Chunks: Memoirs of an Untrained Man
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Stephen L. Wilson (Goodreads Author)
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Observation City
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Four Eyes Were Never Better Than Two
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Kelly Coleman Potter (Goodreads Author)
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Are We Normal? Funny True Stories from an Everyday Family
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Christina Scalise (Goodreads Author)
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LOL Romantic Comedy Anthology, Volume 1
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Elle Casey (Goodreads Author)
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The reincarnation office (Acoustic Funambulist #7)
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Jean-Yves Crozier (Goodreads Author)
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Offensive As Hell: The Joys of Jesus Freak Bagging
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Leslie Fish (Goodreads Author)
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Ain't but Two Days in a Month: The First and the Fifteenth
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I'll Drink To Divorce (Larry's Journal, #1)
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L.J. Dickles (Goodreads Author)
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Fried Zombie Dee-light! Ghoulish, Ghostly Tales
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Susan Abel Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
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Lost Journal Vol. 1: Confessions of a Failed Paperboy
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The Dark Side of William Dean Hamilton: Genre Short Stories
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William Dean Hamilton (Goodreads Author)
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On A Bender Abroad
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Mike Lemcke (Goodreads Author)
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The Fabulous Feminist
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Shelter and Other Stories
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Macabre Tales
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Tony Thorne (Goodreads Author)
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Without Expiration: A Personal Anthology
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Love Me Dead & Other Stuff
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My Life As A Woman: World Edition: Women Inspiring Women In 2020 And Beyond
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The Girl in Kyoto: Bittersweet Memories of One Traditional Family in Japan
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Hidemi Woods (Goodreads Author)
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#ShidduchCrisis: Short Stories
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Penina Shtauber (Goodreads Author)
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Buttered Side Down
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The Works of Anton Checkov (100+ stories and plays with an active table of contents)
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Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea
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Nine Stories
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The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
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Shiver: 13 Sexy Tales of Humor and Horror
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Belle Aurora (Goodreads Author)
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Larry's Journal: A Halloween Special
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Lost Journal Vol. 2: Five Older Brothers, Twenty Bad Jobs, and Zero Dates
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The Irish R.M.
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I Remember Mama: Play in Two Acts
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Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side
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LOL Romantic Comedy Anthology - Volume 3 - Sixteen All-New Romance Stories by Bestselling Authors!
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Melanie Marchande (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 281 ratings
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Prom Nights from Hell
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
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Lost Journal Vol. 3: Some Lives Are Funnier than Others
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Selected Stories of O. Henry (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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Holidays Are Hell
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Kim Harrison (Goodreads Author)
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Hotter Than Hell (The Hollows, #4.5)
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Grandmother and the Priests: Stories
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Dates from Hell
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Kim Harrison (Goodreads Author)
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by Jennifer Lafferty (votes) .
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Jan 10, 2012 08:51AM
I think any by LM Montgomery are good, well written, and show humor. I just added two of her short story collections.
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Humor is so personal; what makes one person laugh is a dead bore to the other.
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