Humorous
Little Lulu's Pal Tubby Volume 4: The Atomic Violin and Other Stories
By: John Stanley
With the biggest adventures, the biggest schemes, and the biggest appetite, there has never been another troublemaker quite like Tubby Tompkins! Already beloved for his incredible run on Little Lulu, all-time great John Stanley brought the same...
Published: Sep 2011
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 216
Lost in Las Vegas
By: Avery Cardoza
This offbeat, dark comedy follows John and Ludo, two hapless vacationers in Las Vegas, through a series of misadventures as their world collapses around them and their lives spiral downward into the seedy and treacherous underbelly of Sin City. As...
Published: Sep 2012
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 413
Love Among the Chickens
By: P. G. Wodehouse
Long before there was Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse wrote hilarious comic novels about upper-class British characters, including Ukridge, who never quite comes to grip with reality. Ukridge contacts his old friend, Jeremy Garnet (who has been trying to...
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 180
Love Me
By: Garrison Keillor
In this charming departure from Lake Wobegon, bestselling author Garrison Keillor tells a hilarious and heartwarming tale of ambition, success and failure, and the virtues of real love. Aspiring writer Larry Wyler leads a quiet, decent life...
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 272
Lucky Change
By: Susan Law Corpany
After a fluke lottery win, Karen Donaldson - the ward charity case - is determined to use her millions to pay back all the kindness she's received. But the future holds a few more surprises for Karen, her neighbors, and someone she thought was gone...
Published: Nov 2010
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 231
Lumby on the Air
By: Gail Fraser
Fifth in the acclaimed series set in the enchantingly offbeat town of Lumby. Pam and Mark Walker are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary with a week-long family reunion and a ceremony renewing their vows. But when Mark's...
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 496
Lunatics
By: Dave Barry
Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids' soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls' ten-and-under soccer league,...
Published: Dec 2012
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 352
Malavita
By: Tonino Benacquista
A savagely funny Mafia farce-soon to be a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones The Blakes are newcomers to a small town in Normandy. Fred is a historian researching the Allied...
Published: Jun 2013
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 288
Malice in Blunderland
By: Jonny Gibbings
For fans of Irvine Welsh and Chuck Palahniuk, this brash comedic farce is narrated in a unique politically incorrect manner—not for the faint-of-heart, but very, very funny Our unnamed hero is about to experience the worst week of his...
Published: Jun 2012
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 240
Mathematicians in Love
By: Rudy Rucker
Reality is never more unpredictable than when two mathematicians are in love with the same girl, and can change the world to get her.Bela and Paul, two wild young mathematicians, are friends and roommates, and both are in love with Alma,...
Published: Jul 2008
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 368
Maverick Jetpants in The City of Quality
By: Bill Peters
PIWhich I expect to be Toby, with his Colonel-Hellstache shaved head and his milkbag fat bulked around him. But instead, it's some shaved-headed guy who I don't even know. He's wearing a wifebeater and a leather vest, and these Army pants tucked into...
Published: Oct 2012
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 240
May Contain Traces of Magic
By: Tom Holt
From the master of comic fantasy, a new reason to find technology terrifying There are all kinds...
Published: Aug 2010
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 339
Megabelt
By: Nick May
MEGABELT is about a boy named Gil, growing up in the religiously over-saturated Southern region of America known as "The Bible Belt". Gil faces many humorous and sobering characters and situations in his transition from church...
Published: Oct 2009
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 126
Michael Martone: Fictions
By: Michael Martone
Michael Martone' is its own appendix, comprising fifty 'contributors notes,' each of which identifies in exorbitant biographical detail the author of the other forty-nine. It is full of fanciful anecdotes and preposterous reminiscences. Michael...
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 190
Mike Nelson's Death Rat!
By: Michael J. Nelson
What if an aging, unsuccessful Minnesota author of history books with names like Old von Steuben Had a Farm: The German-American Settlement of the Midwest decided he could write a book every bit as vapid and ridiculous as the books that sold four...
Published: Apr 2003
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 336
Monsieur (Dalkey French Literature) (Dalkey French Literature)
By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Meet Monsieur, your hero, a successful young executive in Paris whose daily life you will follow in precise detail. He is nothing if not unremarkable. Meet his secretary, his nieces, his fiancee and her parents, his neighbor whose scientific reports...
Published: Jun 2008
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 107
Monsieur Pamplemousse Afloat
By: Michael Bond
The garlic-laden winds of change are blowing through the vineyards of Burgundy, and Monsieur Pamplemousse, along with his faithful companion Pommes Frites, will find skullduggery aplenty among the vines. Under threat from the increasing...
Published: Nov 2012
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 288
Monsieur Pamplemousse and the French Solution
By: Michael Bond
When Monsieur Pamplemousse got an urgent summons from the Director of Le Guide, he knew that there was trouble at the top. His faithful canine companion, Pommes Frites, noticed it too. But neither of them expected that the trouble would involve a nun...
Published: Sep 2010
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 220
Monsieur Pamplemousse on Vacation
By: Michael Bond
Monsieur Pamplemousse is looking forward to a well-earned break in the South of France courtesy of his employer all he has to do is collect a piece of artwork for Le Guide's Director. But when his contact fails to show and a dismembered body is...
Published: Nov 2012
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 288
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
By: Ben Tanzer
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine takes place in an early nineties New York City and follows the romance between Jen and Geoff the novel's two main characters. It is a story about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, the value of...
Published: Aug 2008
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 180
Mouthing the Words
By: Camilla Gibb
By turns harrowing and hilarious, this adroitly narrated winner of the Toronto Book Award re-creates the world in the imagination of Thelma. IIt's a world in which she can escape some of her more painful childhood realities, like those games her...
Published: Jan 2002
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 192
Mrs. Candy and Saturday Night
By: Robert Tallant
One evening unravels a house full of secrets. Mrs. Candy is a kind-hearted widow who rents rooms to a house of interesting boarders on New Orleans' Cairo Street in the 1940s. When she falls for one of them, she accepts dating advice from her dearly...
Published: Jan 2012
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 280
Mrs. Candy Strikes It Rich
By: Robert Tallant
Loveable Louisiana humor from a literary master. This comic novel about life in the French Quarter features Mrs. Eustacia Candy Petit, who crashes into Crescent City society after oil is discovered on her husband's property. Money appears to change...
Published: Oct 2012
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 256
My Life on A Plate
By: India Knight
Optioned for film and published in sixteen countries, this British sensation explodes the myth that all people need to be truly happy is love and marriage. Meet thirty-three-year-old Clara Hutt: irreverent, sometimes unkind, always self-deprecating....
Published: Aug 2001
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 224
Namedropper
By: Emma Forrest
Meet Viva Cohen: her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an aging rock star. She lives...
Published: Aug 2000
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 239
New Taboos (Outspoken Authors)
By: John Shirley
Mixing outlaw humor, sci-fi adventure, and cutting social criticism, this collection draws upon John Shirley's entire arsenal. The title essay, "New Taboos" is his prescription for...
Published: Apr 2013
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 128
Nine Wives
By: Dan Elish
Tired of watching everyone he knows get married, thirty-three-year-old bachelor Henry Mann struggles to transform his life, put his follies and foibles behind him, find the right woman, and settle down into a mature relationship, but he soon...
Published: Aug 2005
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 276
Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction
By: Jake Silverstein
"The road novel—or the road half-novel—has rarely been funnier or more appealing."—Benjamin Moser, Harper's In the great American tradition of funny road narratives— from Mark Twain to Hunter S....
Published: May 2011
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 256
Notting Hell
By: Rachel Johnson
EVERY CITY HAS A NOTTING HELL . . .'A spot of extramarital nookie with a close neighbor is one thing. We're all grown-ups here. But selling a rare-to-the-market mid-Victorian house -- not merely a house but our children's ancestral family home --...
Published: Apr 2008
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 352
Novel
By: George Singleton
Struggling to write his autobiography from a motel room, a professional snake handler named Novel inadvertently uncovers a decades-old town secret with potentially explosive ramifications for his neighbors. By the author of the Half-Mammals of Dixie....
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 352