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jillelvish's "Uproariously Funny Books"

I’ve read most of these; am dying to read the rest as I have it on good authority that they are really funny.
1. Decline and Fall
by Evelyn Waugh
  
2. Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
by Dave Barry
  
3. Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Dover Value Editions)
by Jerome K. Jerome
  
4. The Egg and I
by Betty MacDonald
  
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 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Neil Gaiman
  
6. Getting Even
by Woody Allen
  
7. I'll Always Have Paris
by Art Buchwald
  
8. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld Novels (Paperback))
by Terry Pratchett
  
9. Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
by Kingsley Amis
  
10. Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home
by Dave Barry
  
11. The Code of the Woosters (Collector's Wodehouse)
by P.G. Wodehouse
  
12. I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
by Laurie Notaro
  
13. The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Literary Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
14. Heartburn
by Nora Ephron
  
15. Right Ho, Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
  
16. Side Effects
by Woody Allen
  
17. Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
by Patrick Dennis
  
18. Life among the Savages
by Shirley Jackson
  
19. The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
  
20. Dave Barry Does Japan
by Dave Barry
  
21. My Life and Hard Times (Perennial Classics)
by James Thurber
  
22. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
  
23. Memoirs of a Mangy Lover
by Groucho Marx
  
24. The Pickwick Papers (Oxford World's Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
25. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
26. The Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
by Bill Bryson
  
27. A Friend of the Earth
by T.C. Boyle
  
28. The Mouse that Roared: A Novel
by Leonard Wibberley
  
29. The Road to Wellville
by T.C. Boyle
  
30. Without Feathers
by Woody Allen
  
31. Plague And I (Common Reader Editions)
by Betty MacDonald
  
32. Witches Abroad
by Terry Pratchett
  
33. Guards! Guards!
by Terry Pratchett
  
34. The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
by William Goldman
  
35. A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Evelyn Waugh
  
36. Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father
by Roy Lewis
  
37. Pure Drivel
by Steve Martin
  
38. A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
  
39. Mapp & Lucia
by E. F. Benson
  
40. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Enriched Classics Series)
by Mark Twain
  
41. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain Library)
by Mark Twain
  
42. The Eliza Stories (Prion Humour Classics)
by Barry Pain
  
43. A Marriage Made in Heaven: Or Too Tired for an Affair
by Erma Bombeck
  
44. Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
by P. J. O'Rourke
  
45. Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway: A Vicious and Unprovoked Attack on Our Most Cherished Political Institutions
by Dave Barry
  
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Created by jillelvish on Sep 24, 2008.