47 Best Humor Books
Goal: Find the best Humor books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best humor books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
47 Best Humor Books
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
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Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
And Other Concerns
by Mindy Kaling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Also recommended by:
Elon Musk, Shah Rukh Khan, Naval Ravikant, Seth Rogen, Richard Branson, Tim Ferriss, Evan Goldberg, Zack D'Aleo, Jack Edwards, Sahil Lavingia
Born a Crime
Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
Also recommended by:
Hyperbole and a Half
Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
by Allie Brosh
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I Feel Bad About My Neck
by Nora Ephron
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
by Jenny Lawson
Priestdaddy
A Memoir
by Patricia Lockwood
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Three Men In A Boat
(To Say Nothing of the Dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Essays
by Samantha Irby
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing, Book 1
by Hunter S. Thompson
Also recommended by:
A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
by Tanika Gupta
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Essays and Arguments
by David Foster Wallace
Bridget Jones's Diary
A Novel
by Helen Fielding
Carry On, Jeeves
Jeeves, Book 3
by PG Wodehouse
Cool, Calm & Contentious
Essays
by Merrill Markoe
Dear Committee Members
A Novel
by Julie Schumacher
Funny in Farsi
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas
Hark!
A Vagrant
by Kate Beaton
I Can't Date Jesus
Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
by Michael Arceneaux
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley
Lamb
The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
My Sister, the Serial Killer
A Novel
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo
Right Ho, Jeeves
Jeeves, Book 6
by PG Wodehouse
Shrill
Notes from a Loud Woman
by Lindy West
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
by W. Kamau Bell
The Collected Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker
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The Importance of Being Ernest
The Life of Actor Jim Varney (Stuff that Vern Doesn't Even Know)
by Justin Lloyd
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
by Issa Rae
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Adrian Mole, Book 1
by Sue Townsend
The Wangs Vs. The World
by Jade Chang
Vacationland
True Stories from Painful Beaches
by John Hodgman
You Can't Touch My Hair
And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
by Phoebe Robinson
Sources
- 1
45 Of The Funniest Books Ever Written | Esquire
esquire.com
- 2
Books guaranteed to make you laugh | Funniest books of all time
penguin.co.uk
- 3
Funny Books: NPR's Readers Pick The Best : NPR
npr.org
- 4
Humor - 35 Hilarious Books Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud - Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
hwpl.org
- 5
70 Funny Books to Get You Laughing in 2023 | Funniest Books of All Time
rd.com
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