Funny books
Books with a humorous or satirical tone in their reading profiles. Check each guide for the kind of humor and any content notes.
602 book guides · Showing 481–528

Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon
Effort 34/100

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
Effort 22/100

The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
Effort 84/100

J R
William Gaddis
Effort 85/100

Empire Falls
Richard Russo
Effort 47/100

Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
Effort 44/100

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Ian Mortimer
Effort 36/100

Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One
Jack Townsend
Effort 27/100

The Tunnel
William H. Gass
Effort 93/100

Everything and More
David Foster Wallace
Effort 77/100

The Dog of the South
Charles Portis
Effort 24/100

The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
Effort 48/100

The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Effort 64/100

The Sundial
Shirley Jackson
Effort 42/100

The Ax
Donald E. Westlake
Effort 27/100

A Universal History of Iniquity
Jorge Luis Borges
Effort 44/100

Changing Places
David Lodge
Effort 46/100

Columbus Day
Craig Alanson
Effort 19/100

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
Simon Singh
Effort 29/100

The Hot Rock
Donald E. Westlake
Effort 22/100

Pastoralia
George Saunders
Effort 38/100

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Eric Newby
Effort 26/100

Bill Bryson's African Diary
Bill Bryson
Effort 17/100

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo
Effort 59/100

Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo
Effort 43/100

Oblivion
David Foster Wallace
Effort 71/100

The Road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson
Effort 24/100

Vacationland
John Hodgman
Effort 24/100

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
B. S. Johnson
Effort 45/100

Blott on the Landscape
Tom Sharpe
Effort 33/100

Foreign Affairs
Alison Lurie
Effort 40/100

London Fields
Martin Amis
Effort 64/100

The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace
Effort 74/100

The Reivers
William Faulkner
Effort 45/100

Life for Sale
Yukio Mishima
Effort 25/100

Rites of Passage
William Golding
Effort 58/100

The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington
Effort 44/100

The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
Ian Mortimer
Effort 30/100

Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Effort 66/100

A Bell for Adano
John Hersey
Effort 35/100

In Persuasion Nation
George Saunders
Effort 41/100

The Green Man
Kingsley Amis
Effort 34/100

The Nineties
Chuck Klosterman
Effort 47/100

Maphead
Ken Jennings
Effort 22/100

Alice Adams
Booth Tarkington
Effort 38/100

The Late George Apley
John P. Marquand
Effort 44/100

Honey in the Horn
H. L. Davis
Effort 38/100

The Burnt Orange Heresy
Charles Willeford
Effort 34/100