Everyone loves to laugh, and the hardest thing we might ask of a book is to make us laugh. So in this article, we find the solution and suggest our 10 best funny books that make you laugh out loud. Surely after reading these books, you will feel healthier and happier.
#1 A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
About the book
Title: A Dirty Job
Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages: 387
Goodreads Rating: 4.03/5
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who loves him for his normalcy. They’re even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie’s doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.
Why do we recommend this book?
A Dirty Job is a book about death, and it’s extremely funny, making it one of our highly recommended books for everyone.
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#2 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
About the book
Title: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Author: Marina Lewycka
Publisher: Penguin Group
Pages: 326
Goodreads Rating: 3.43/5
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewycka’s debut novel, which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Lewycka tells the side-splittingly funny story of two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who join forces against their father’s new, gold-digging girlfriend.
The sisters must set aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her penchant for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth.
But the sisters’ campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe’s darkest history, and sends them back to roots they’d much rather forget.
Why do we recommend this book?
It’s rare to find a first novel that gets so much right. Lewycka is a seriously talented comic writer, and this book is an enjoyable read that yields a golden harvest of family truths.
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#3 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
About the book
Title: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Author: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages: 491
Goodreads Rating: 4.25/5
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter—the world’s only reliable guide to the future, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday. Just after tea. People have been predicting the end of the world almost since its beginning, so it’s only natural to be skeptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day.
This time though, the armies of Good and Evil do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons—one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel—would like the Rapture not to happen.
Why do we recommend this book?
Good Omens is a lot of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of excellent writing and characterization indeed a fun read for everyone.
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#4 I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker
Charlie Brooker
About the book
Title: I Can Make You Hate
Author: Charlie Brooker
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages: 404
Goodreads Rating: 4.01/5
Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight? Who wouldn’t? Keep dreaming, imbecile. In the meantime, keep holding this book if you’d like to read something that alternates between laugh-out-loud-funny and apocalyptically angry. Steal it if necessary.
In his latest collection of rants, raves, hastily spluttered articles, and scarcely literate scrawl, Charlie Brooker proves that almost nothing in this universe, big or small, can’t reduce a human being to a state of pure blind hatred.
Why do we recommend this book?
It won’t help you lose weight, feel smarter, sleep more soundly, or feel happier about yourself. This book will provide you with literally hours of distraction and merriment. It can also stun an intruder if you hit him with it correctly (hint: strike hard, using the spine, on the bridge of the nose). Only a prick wouldn’t buy this book. Don’t be that prick.
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#5 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
About the book
Title: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Author: Mindy Kaling
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Pages: 222
Goodreads Rating: 3.87/5
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her bike, a Ben Affleck-impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?”
Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all older adults in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you’ve come to the right book, mostly!
Why do we recommend this book?
In “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling is just a Girl Next Door—not so much anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely, if you live in India or Sri Lanka.
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#6 Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
About the book
Title: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Author: Jenny Lawson
Publisher: Amy Einhorn: Putnam
Pages: 318
Goodreads Rating: 3.90/5
Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are, in fact, the ones that define us. Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor.
Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel,”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband,”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.” Pictures with captions (no one would believe these things without proof) accompany the text.
Why do we recommend this book?
The surprising discovery is that the most human moments we want to pretend never happened are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. If you’re into funny books with a personal touch, you should definitely try this.
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#7 Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
Monica Heisey
About the book
Title: Really Good, Actually
Author: Monica Heisey
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages: 384
Goodreads Rating: 3.35/5
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel of comedian, essayist, and award-winning screenwriter Monica Heisey, about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup. Maggie is fine. She’s doing well. Sure, she’s broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days.
Still, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a surprisingly Young Divorcée. Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and “get back out there” sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her newly divorced friend, Amy; and her group chat (naturally), Maggie barrels through her first year of single life, intermittently dating, occasionally waking up on the floor and asking herself tough questions along the way.
Why do we recommend this book?
Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with sharp observations, Really Good, Actually is a tender and bittersweet comedy that lays bare the uncertainties of modern love, friendship, and our search for that thing we like to call “happiness.” This is a remarkable debut from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.
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#8 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
About the book
Title: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Del Rey
Pages: 193
Goodreads Rating: 4.23/5
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
These dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide (“A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have”) and a galaxy full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod’s girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.
Why do we recommend this book?
Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches, and, most importantly, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything now, if you could only figure out the question you should read this book.
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#9 The Unproposed Guy by Bhavik Sarkhedi, Suhana Bhambhani
About the book
Title: The Unproposed Guy
Author: Bhavik Sarkhedi, Suhana Bhambhani
Publisher: Inkstate
Pages: 188
Goodreads Rating: 4.42/5
There has been no significant change in the life of Kevin—a monotonous routine, ordinary family, and miserably failing relationships—until he finds out he is going through something abnormal: “Existential Crisis.”
He has always been a marvelous entertainer but has a mysterious way of putting off girls. The talent in him is growing creatively and abundantly, but his inability to impress a girl keeps pulling him down slowly. He realizes he can be any guy’s best friend, but he also seems to be every girl’s worst nightmare.
Hop onto the rollercoaster journey of Kevin’s life as he navigates through mocking friends & family, emotions he’s never experienced before, and a sudden desire to take up a stand-up comedy and rapping career.
Why do we recommend this book?
The Unproposed Guy is a mixture of passion, determination, love, stand-up comedy, existential crisis, and sarcasm!
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#10 Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy, and Stupid by Denis Leary
About the book
Title: Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy, and Stupid
Author: Denis Leary
Publisher: Viking Books
Pages: 240
Goodreads Rating: 3.66/5
In Why We Suck, Leary’s famously smart style and sardonic wit have yet to find their fullest and fiercest expression. Zeroing in on the ridiculous wherever he finds it, Leary unravels his Irish Catholic upbringing, the folly of celebrity, the pressures of family life, and the great hypocrisy of politics with the same bright, savage, and profane insight he brought to his critically acclaimed one-person shows “No Cure for Cancer” and “Lock ‘n Load,” and his platinum-selling song, “Asshole.” Proudly Irish American, defiantly working class, with a reserve of compassion for the underdog and the overlooked, Leary delivers blistering diatribes that penetrate social commentary with no holds barred.
Why do we recommend this book?
Leary’s book will find broad appeal among people who want to laugh out loud or find a guide who matches their view of what’s wrong in America and the world-at-large; and fans of his one-person shows, his many movies, and “Rescue Me,” Leary’s Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated television show. Why We Suck is the latest salvo from one of America’s most original and biting comic satirists.
Together with “Why We Don’t Suck: And How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches,” these books are an extremely funny read.
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Lastly, we hope our recommendations make you happy, and reading all these funny books will make you laugh out loud. Do tell us your favorite books from our list that you found to be really funny.
| 1 | A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore | Buy now |
| 2 | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka | Buy now |
| 3 | Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman | Buy now |
| 4 | I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker | Buy now |
| 5 | Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling | Buy now |
| 6 | Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson | Buy now |
| 7 | Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey | Buy now |
| 8 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | Buy now |
| 9 | The Unproposed Guy by Bhavik Sarkhedi, Suhana Bhambhani | Buy now |
| 10 | Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy, and Stupid by Denis Leary | Buy now |
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