I’m looking for books with excellent humour, but they don’t necessarily have to be comedies (but very much welcome). They can belong to any category or genre: thriller, autobiographical, historical, science fiction, etc. I’m open to both fiction and non-fiction.
I really appreciate smart, well-written humour, it can be dry, dark, observational, absurd, or even woven subtly into more serious narratives.
I’ve read and enjoyed David Sedaris, so I’m definitely open to essay-style humour or autobiographical storytelling too.
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*Bad Monkeys* or *Fool on the Hill* by Matt Ruff
Straight Man by Richard Russo
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
Three men in a boat Jerome k Jerome
Nevernight trilogy by Jay Kristoff. High fantasy about a training school for assassins. As you might expect, lots of people die violently. Nails the dry, ironic aside like I haven’t seen since I was a kid reading Lemony Snickett.