This year I've made my way through Dante, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Middlemarch, and The Forsyte Saga. I need a break from wisdom. I am yearning for something light, fun, and slightly silly but still well-written. Like Cold Comfort Farm, Three Men in a Boat, Miss Buncle's Book, Hitchhiker's Guide, or Georgette Heyer's Regency romances.
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To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. It’s a bit of an homage to Three men in a Boat and is very funny.
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase.
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford.
Porterhouse Blue
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
Try anything by Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
Jeeves and Wooster
a play: You Can’t Take It With You
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith has a quirky vibe similar to Cold Comfort
The 13 1/2 Lives Of Captain Bluebear
The Gormenghast trilogy. Mervyn Peake
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