Books That Make Me Laugh Out Loud

I don't know about you, but after the stresses of the last eight years, I could use a few books that make me laugh out loud.

And what makes me laugh out loud? Some odd juxtaposition of jocularity, unexpectedness, and great truth.

Here are a few that worked for me...

Sci fi/Fantasy: Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic and Small Gods; Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Princess Bride.

Nonfiction: A.J. Jacobs' Drop Dead Healthy, It's All Relative, and The Year of Living Biblically; Dreyer's English; All Creatures Great and Small.

Light Fiction: Life According to Lubka; A Breath of French Air; The President's Hat; The Switch. 

Comics: Strange Planet and Stranger Planet.

Classics: Three Men in a Boat; Italo Calvino's The Cloven Viscount and The Nonexistent Knight; The Importance of Being Earnest; Don Quixote; Excellent Women; Gulliver's Travels; Candide; James Thurber's The Wonderful O and The 13 Clocks; Tom Sawyer; A Confederacy of Dunces.

Kid books: Hank the Cowdog; Sideways Stories from Wayside School; The BFG: Winnie-the-Pooh; The Wind in the Willows; The Adventures of Treehorn; Where the Sidewalk Ends; Anne of Green Gables.

Picture books: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus; The Monster at the End of This Book; Diary of a Worm; I Want My Hat Back; Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes; A Kiss for Little Bear; King Bidgood's in the Bathtub.

And don't forget my favorite joke book, A Pretty Good Joke Book.

I'd love, love, love to have you share a few of your favorites. Share them in the comments, please.

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