I struggle to find fiction that is genuinely very funny.
Douglas Adams was great. Terry Pratchett was too, but I do need to read more of his stuff. Some of Irvine Welsh's could make me laugh.
Most I find on lists don't make me laugh at all.
Any suggestions?
by Pinkse361
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Yahtzee Croshaw
I really enjoyed The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. It’s a very English style of humor, which I love.
Clovenhoof by Heide Goody
Anything by Simon Rich
John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces
Magnus Mills – The Restraint of Beasts
literally any book by PG Wodehouse
Demon copperhead is a very serious book – but it is also very funny
Portnoys complaint – it’s immature but it’s hilarious
And tortilla flat by Steinbeck
Just finished Sure I’ll Join Your Cult! by Maria Bamford and laughed myself silly. Highly recommend.
Joe R. Lansdale. Almost everything he’s written and he’s written a lot. Funny, profane, humane, action-packed.
I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney
Redshirts and/or Starter Villain by John
Scalzi
Any book by Ken Dorsey or Carl Hiassen.
David Sedaris
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Two Truths and a Lie by Cory O’Brien
Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
If you’re okay with a mystery series, check out Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books.
Fool by Christopher Moore
Fletch by Gregory McDonald
Anything by Christopher Moore. Especially Lamb.
The 100 year old man who climbed out of a window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The last book I read that made me chuckle out loud was *Clockwork Boys* by T Kingfisher. It is not a comedy, but the line was, “Time passed, like a kidney stone.”
As for comedies proper, the Ciaphas Cain series by Sandy Mitchell is my go-to. It’s a little bit like if Terry Pratchett wrote Blackadder, and set it in space.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
Patrick McManus writes humorous outdoor short stories. Collections include The Grasshopper Trap and Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink. He also wrote a series of humorous crime stories before his death. The Sheriff Bo Tully series starts with The Blight Way.
For humorous non-fiction How to fight presidents: Defending yourself against the badasses who ran this country by Daniel O’Brien. A collection of interesting facts about past US presidents.
I can also second the above recommendation of Yahtzee Croshaw.
Vonnegut