I'm looking for something funny to read. Any recs?

[bif]

I seem to be reading a lot of serious and somewhat depressing books these days. Fire away!

[dameatball]

1. "Lamb" by Christopher Moore

bif meet Biff

[bif]

16. That was good!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett.

[Twoflower]

5. For just plain fun anything by Terry.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. For a fact. I've been "lost" in Discworld many times.

[Twoflower]

9. Me too just look at my name.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I noticed that when I posted my reply. Do you have luggage?

[Twoflower]

11. Yep a big steamer trunk and way more flip flops than I could ever count.

[bif]

17. I'll look into him/her

[jmbar2]

3. Anything by David Sedaris

[bif]

18. Huge fan!

I've read everything he's ever written.

[StClone]

4. "My Family and Other Animals" by Gerald Durrell

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/gerald-durrell-6/my-family-and-other-animals-2/

[ChazInAz]

6. Anything by Carl Hiaason.

[Laffy Kat]

13. LOL, I posted the same thing below.

Great minds and all.

[DEbluedude]

8. Trumps impeachment defense briefs. n/t

[Laffy Kat]

12. Any novel by Carl Hiaasen. nt

[bif]

19. He's pretty amusing

Although I couldn't finish his latest book.

[Laffy Kat]

21. "Squeeze Me"?

That's too bad. I was looking forward to the paperback being released. His novels are all formula with basically the same plot, but it works.

[bif]

23. That's the one.

Part of it was tRump and Melanoma are characters in the book. But to each his/her own. A lot of folks enjoyed it.

[Phoenix61]

14. The Sweet Potato Queens!

If you’re from the south it’s even funnier.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. Redshirts by John Scalzi.

The Rosie Project by Grame Simsion.

Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson. Most of his books are quite amusing, but I laughed out loud many times reading that one.

[bif]

20. I'll look into these.

I love Bryson. I think I've read everything he's written. As an Anglophile, I can totally relate to his books about Britain.

[Staph]

22. Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series

It begins with Crocodile on the Sandbank, and continues for a total of 20 books. The later ones get a bit more serious as the world heads to the first world war, but there are still great moments of humor amid the mysteries.

[ChazInAz]

24. Oh, yes!

Barbara Mertz was one of my favorite authorities on Egyptology. A hobby of mine.
When she branched out into fiction, I naturally followed. Loved all of her books, and still miss her amiable writer's voice.

[Staph]

25. I met her at a book signing fifteen or twenty years ago.

She was as charming and funny in person as she was on the page!

[ChazInAz]

27. She was!

She was one of the guides on a very expensive Nile cruise I took. Her erudition and sly humor made her the highlight of the tour. Got her to sign my treasured old copy of "Red Land, Black Land" for me!

[krispos42]

26. Give "The Big Over Easy" by Jasper Fforde a try

It's imaginative and amusing and very well written.

Per Wikipedia:

The book is satirical, based on many nursery rhymes, fables, and the like. The main character Jack Spratt is based on Jack Sprat, and the secondary character is Mary Mary, both from nursery rhymes. They investigate events such as the Three Little Pigs and Humpty Dumpty. People from such sources are known in the book as PDRs, "persons of dubious reality".

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. Confederacy of Dunces

[bif]

29. Read it when it first came out

[yellowdogintexas]

30. Auntie Mame, Around the World With AUntie Mame and The Joyous Season

all written by Patrick Dennis.

[yellowdogintexas]

31. The Stephanie Plum books are very funny. nt

[LearnedHand]

32. If you like light sci-fi

The “Murderbot Diaries” series by Martha Wells. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries