Can you suggest a book that makes you laugh, a fun and relatively easy read to put you at ease before falling asleep?
I like reading before bed and recently have been reading some pretty heavy fiction. I think it’s messed with my mental a bit and I’d like to start reading some happier, perhaps funnier prose if you have any suggestions!
Andy Weir is amazing – I routinely read and/or play the audiobook of his **Project Hail Mary** to fall asleep. Funny, inventive sci-fi comedy with a big heart.
**The Princess Bride** by S Morganstern is phenomenal. The perfect funny-yet-still-totally-epic fairy tale for any age. Still fantastic even if you’ve seen the movie. Maybe even better.
Not necessarily “funny,” but I love Neil Degrasse Tyson’s books. **Astrophysics for People in a Hurry** or the kids’ version, **Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry** are both great, fast reads with a ton of ultra-accessible answers (or at least explanations) of the universe’s biggest mysteries. I got both books since I had a fifth grader at that time and he loves science stuff. But I loved the kids’ version too and am glad I have both. Plus, he narrates the audiobooks, and if you can’t fall asleep to NDT’s voice, you might be dead and in hell already.
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I read a lot of David Sedaris at night.
Alexander McCall Smith is my go to for this
Richard Osman is a close second
Bill Bryson, David Sedaris
Andy Weir is amazing – I routinely read and/or play the audiobook of his **Project Hail Mary** to fall asleep. Funny, inventive sci-fi comedy with a big heart.
**The Princess Bride** by S Morganstern is phenomenal. The perfect funny-yet-still-totally-epic fairy tale for any age. Still fantastic even if you’ve seen the movie. Maybe even better.
Not necessarily “funny,” but I love Neil Degrasse Tyson’s books. **Astrophysics for People in a Hurry** or the kids’ version, **Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry** are both great, fast reads with a ton of ultra-accessible answers (or at least explanations) of the universe’s biggest mysteries. I got both books since I had a fifth grader at that time and he loves science stuff. But I loved the kids’ version too and am glad I have both. Plus, he narrates the audiobooks, and if you can’t fall asleep to NDT’s voice, you might be dead and in hell already.