I'm looking for suggestions for my husband. He filtered by "humorous" on Libby and it suggested a lot of romance and kids books, which he isn't interested in. Any other genre is ok
David Sedaris writes some great stuff! That whole family is very quirky and he tells a lot of stories about his life.
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Tom Segura’s “ I’d Like to Play Alone, Please” had a few genuine laugh out loud moments
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The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran
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PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves books (farce)
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series (fantasy)
Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (scifi)
CT Phipps’s Space Academy Dropouts (scifi)
Alex Gilbert’s The Calamitous Bob series (litrpg)
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Apathy and other Victories by Paul Nielan
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Literally anything by Terry Pratchett.
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Going Postal by Terry Pratchett – great intro to that world
How to Invent Everything by Ryan North – technically nonfiction, but interesting and very funny
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Gerald Durell corfu trilogy.
Callahans Cross time Saloon and sequels by spider Robinson
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Lamb by Christopher Moore
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinninan
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Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
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The Martian by Andy Weir
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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
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Does he like non-fiction? He might like If It Sounds Like a Quack: a Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz Hetling. It’s about the spread of the medical freedom movement, bizarre ‘miracle’ cures (eg leeches) and the people who peddle them. It also makes some compelling points about the inaccessibility of healthcare and how those conditions create a breeding ground for both misinformation and opportunism. I wouldn’t describe it as pure humor, but it’s definitely very entertaining and the author has a great sense of humor. I ended up reading huge chunks of it out loud to my boyfriend and he loved it!
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John Scalzi – Starter Villain. A guy randomly inherits an uncle’s villain empire. There are unionized communicating dolphins with attitudes. Hilarity ensues
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The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht
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Non-fiction **What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions** by Randall Munroe.
It consists of a series of questions on pop-sci and pop-culture, each answered in one or two paragraphs. The answers are hilarious in a dry-humored way.
An example question is: What would happen if you hit a baseball pitched at 90% of the speed of light?
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Starter Villain by John Scalzi. Also Red Shirts by John Scalzi (the latter if he likes Star Trek)
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Any Hiassen or Dorsey book. Both write with a humorous style poking fun at the ‘Florida Man’ phenomenon before it was a thing.
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Ball Four. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Myth series by Robert Asprin. Castle Perilous series.
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I read a lot of books with my family (5 adult men 3 adult women). Here’s some of my top recommendations. Duegon Crawler Carl (you will not be disappointed), Cooking with Disaster, and Noobtown. All 3 of these of are lit RPGs and quiet funny. My family has been on a bit of a lit RPG kick for a couple of years. They’re light, fun, and entertaining. Often they are hilarious. The 3 I recommended are my personal 3 favorites, but I have at least 15 more series that are decent in the genre if he likes them
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If you want stupid humour and a mix of horror – Jon dies at the end. To give an idea – one of the first monster they run into is made up of meat from a freezer and it has a turkey as a head.
Discworld- fantasy saitre if your new to it i would rec starting with either Mort or going postal if you’re not familiar.
The dark profit saga – also saitre and fantasy but quite different. Made me laugh so hard I cried while still telling a fantastic story.
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David Sedaris writes some great stuff! That whole family is very quirky and he tells a lot of stories about his life.
Tom Segura’s “ I’d Like to Play Alone, Please” had a few genuine laugh out loud moments
The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran
PG Wodehouse’s Jeeves books (farce)
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series (fantasy)
Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (scifi)
CT Phipps’s Space Academy Dropouts (scifi)
Alex Gilbert’s The Calamitous Bob series (litrpg)
Apathy and other Victories by Paul Nielan
Literally anything by Terry Pratchett.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett – great intro to that world
How to Invent Everything by Ryan North – technically nonfiction, but interesting and very funny
Gerald Durell corfu trilogy.
Callahans Cross time Saloon and sequels by spider Robinson
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinninan
Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Once Upon a Tome by Oliver Darkshire
The Martian by Andy Weir
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
Does he like non-fiction? He might like If It Sounds Like a Quack: a Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz Hetling. It’s about the spread of the medical freedom movement, bizarre ‘miracle’ cures (eg leeches) and the people who peddle them. It also makes some compelling points about the inaccessibility of healthcare and how those conditions create a breeding ground for both misinformation and opportunism. I wouldn’t describe it as pure humor, but it’s definitely very entertaining and the author has a great sense of humor. I ended up reading huge chunks of it out loud to my boyfriend and he loved it!
John Scalzi – Starter Villain. A guy randomly inherits an uncle’s villain empire. There are unionized communicating dolphins with attitudes. Hilarity ensues
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht
Non-fiction **What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions** by Randall Munroe.
It consists of a series of questions on pop-sci and pop-culture, each answered in one or two paragraphs. The answers are hilarious in a dry-humored way.
An example question is: What would happen if you hit a baseball pitched at 90% of the speed of light?
Starter Villain by John Scalzi. Also Red Shirts by John Scalzi (the latter if he likes Star Trek)
Any Hiassen or Dorsey book. Both write with a humorous style poking fun at the ‘Florida Man’ phenomenon before it was a thing.
Ball Four. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Myth series by Robert Asprin. Castle Perilous series.
I read a lot of books with my family (5 adult men 3 adult women). Here’s some of my top recommendations. Duegon Crawler Carl (you will not be disappointed), Cooking with Disaster, and Noobtown. All 3 of these of are lit RPGs and quiet funny. My family has been on a bit of a lit RPG kick for a couple of years. They’re light, fun, and entertaining. Often they are hilarious. The 3 I recommended are my personal 3 favorites, but I have at least 15 more series that are decent in the genre if he likes them
If you want stupid humour and a mix of horror – Jon dies at the end. To give an idea – one of the first monster they run into is made up of meat from a freezer and it has a turkey as a head.
Discworld- fantasy saitre if your new to it i would rec starting with either Mort or going postal if you’re not familiar.
The dark profit saga – also saitre and fantasy but quite different. Made me laugh so hard I cried while still telling a fantastic story.