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Funny books based upon legitimate history. Nonfiction only. No fiction, science fiction, or current events.
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Uncle John's iFlush: Hurtling thru History Bathroom Reader For Kids Only!
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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Civil War Humor
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F*ck: The History of the World in 65 Unfortunate Incidents
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Warrior Queens: True Stories of Six Ancient Rebels Who Slayed History
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3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Reflections of the Civil War in Southern Humor
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Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II
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A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals
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De Loss Ernest Bell's Treasury of Civil War Humor: A Very Rare Collection of Jokes, Anecdotes, Riddles, Funny Stories, and Poetry of the Most Famous Time in American History
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Would you buy a used war from this man?: A collection of political humor from National lampoon
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Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
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Hunter S. Jones (Goodreads Author)
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New England Humor: From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War
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Humor of the Old Southwest
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Hennig Cohen (Editor)
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Great Tales from British History: Was Queen Victoria Ever Amused? and 39 Other Intriguing Historical Questions Answered
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Stories Anecdotes and Humor From The Civil War
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Southern Frontier Humor: An Anthology
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M. Thomas Inge (Editor)
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Strange History
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4.06 avg rating — 391 ratings
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The Signet Book of American Humor
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life
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Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor
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Ignorance is Blitz: Mangled Moments of History From Actual College Students
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Herblock Through the Looking Glass
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Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
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Jason Porath (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 3,458 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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Sam Kean (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 55,689 ratings
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If It Ain't Baroque: More Music History As It Ought To Be Taught
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David W. Barber (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 160 ratings
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A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors
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Michael Farquhar (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 4,559 ratings
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Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
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Kenneth C. Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 8,980 ratings
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128 books ·
63 voters ·
list created February 21st, 2012
by P.J. Sullivan (votes) .
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Boris wrote:You should restore Alex Letner’s books which I vote for, or remove my votes from this list."
Alex Letner wrote fiction. This list is for nonfiction books about real history. Try a list for fiction.
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1- Those that are more funny than factual (Richard Armour)
2- Those that are more factual than funny (Larry Gonick)
3- Those that are both factual and funny (Will Cuppy)