I want to laugh smile and giggle. But my humor is awful. Many of the books I found suggested on Amazon under comedy are not funny to me.
I really liked “I’m the evil overlord of an intergalactic empire” which I describe as an ironic comedy of MC trying to be a villain but unknown to him he is actually helping people while laughing maniacally and being afraid of women.
Looking for someone else to make me laugh or smile like this book did. Also don’t be afraid to suggest something you think is main stream my book knowledge is not a lot. I’m 20s male idk if that matters though
Thanks for any suggestions you have!
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Lamb The Story of Biff Christ’s Childhood Friend by Christopher Moore. It fills in the years of Jesus’s life that the Bible doesn’t have, from when he’s 12 or so, up to 30 when he was known as the Messiah. Not so much dark, but blasphemously hilarious
The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie. Glokta should give you that humour.
If that’s too subtle a type of humour, try his Devils, that’s more slapstick.
You may enjoy Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. I’ve only read Guards! Guards! But it was a fun fantasy book with a lot of British kind of tongue in cheek humor. I’d put it in a similar vein to Monty Python. It wasn’t particularly dark, but maybe someone else has read something of his that is.
Lala Pipo (forgot author) is an extremely cynical black comedy about the shittiest people in a Japanese city
If you are in the service industry you need to read the blog turned book titled **Waiter Rant** by **Steve Dublanica**.
For Thriller Suspense + comedy (thrillomedy if you will) anything by **Carl Hiaasen**. 35+ books that all take place in the great (and crazy state of Florida. Nearly all are stand alone books about developers despoiling Florida, eco-terrorists, anti-tourist radicals, and so much more. One of the few authors I have actually spit my coffee out (all over my dashboard) while driving.
Naturist-biographies – **Walk in the Woods** by **Bill Bryson**. His account of his attempt to walk the entire Appalachian trial. Truly laugh out loud funny.
If you are a military minded, google **213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army.** there is a blog that goes with it (or there used to be that goes into some detail of the items, but for a quick hilarious read its quite good).
#170 Not allowed to ‘defect’ to OPFOR during training missions, still makes me laugh knowing someone actually did this.
Maybe you’d like Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I found it hilarious and it can be pretty dark.
In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash
Was the inspiration for a Christmas story although that is really just a tiny tiny sliver of the book. Gene Sheppard is the author and narrator of that movie. The book is very sweet and quite funny all the way through
Definitely a thread I’m saving. I love all these dark comedy suggestions. I feel like I haven’t gotten into a really good book lately. I’ll be choosing one or two from this thread.🎉
– Carl Hiaasen : terrible Florida people living (and grotesquely dying) through interesting events and ridiculous crimes.
– TC Boyle 1: very dry humor about idealists in the real world : A Friend of the Earth and When the Killing’s done.
– TC Boyle 2: a hilarious and ridiculously well written romp about various Englishmen’s misadventures looking for the source of the Niger – Water Music
– Matthew Kneale, English Passengers: intense English gentry is carried by unlucky Welsh smugglers to look for the Garden of Eden in Tasmania. The bad guys are laughed at and the good guys are laughed with. It’s also a really good novel.
– Christopher Buckley, Thank You for Smoking is a dark, darkly funny novel about the lobby industry
Nevernight trilogy by Jay Kristoff is dark high fantasy. Very, very bloody – literal pools of blood – and a level of dry humor I hadn’t encountered since Lemony Snickett. Highly recommend reading in hard copy, you want all the footnotes in their intended places instead of dumped together at the end of an ebook chapter.
The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fford
*Ending Up* – Kingsley Amis
*The Wasp Factory* – Iain Banks
*The Butcher Boy* – Patrick McCabe
*Rejection* – Tony Tulathimutte (didn’t love this one tbh)
*Victorian Psycho* by Virginia Feito and its inspiration of course – *American Psycho* by Bret Easton ellis
Monstrilio *- Gerardo Samano Cordova*
*Havoc* – Christopher Bollen
*Requiem for a Dream* has its moments – Hubert Selby JR
*Penance* – Eliza Clark
*High Rise* – JG Ballard
and finally my current read – *Crime and Punishment*
Edit – I guess perhaps two other classic Russian novels *The Master and the Margarita* and *Oblomov*
Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw
You might like How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying by Django Wexler.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Mort Terry by Pratchett
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett