I’m not necessarily looking for a comedy book but I’ve read books in the past that are history books but are written by someone that incorporates some humor and jokes within their writing that makes me feel like I’m learning about something interesting and joking about it with a friend. A bit of an odd request but if anyone has any ideas I’d really appreciate it 🙂
by gracefullyanna
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Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman was funny. She had another one called Sex with the Queen but I haven’t read that one yet so I can’t speak for that one.
*Get Well Soon*, by Jennifer Wright, is a history of a number of plagues. Some of them might correspond to those eras.
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is pretty humorous
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy.
The brilliant series by Connie Willis about time travelling Oxford historians:
She is a witty and wise writer. To say nothing of the dog is particularly funny though some of the others are more serious
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Willis
Several of her works feature time travel by history students at the future University of Oxford, called the Time Travel series[9] or the Oxford Time Travel Series.[10] They are the short story “Fire Watch” (1982, also in several anthologies and the 1985 collection of the same name), the novels Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog (1992 and 1997), and the two-part novel Blackout/All Clear (2010).[9] All four won the annual Hugo Award, and Doomsday Book and Blackout/All Clear won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards,[5] making her the first author to win Hugo awards for all books in a series.