Humorous Books
No joke--these books are funny! From Jane Austen's wit to the absurdity of the Onion, these titles are guaranteed to leave you laughing out loud--or at least inwardly smiling. All are part of Thomas Ford Library’s collection.
Nonfiction and Memoirs
America: A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart
A Girl Named Zippy and its sequel,
She Got Up Off the Couch
Haven Kimmel
A Hearbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
Amy Sedaris
In a Sunburned Country (also on ipod) and
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
Our Dumb Century: One Hundred Years of Headlines from America's News Source
Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace
Novels
Bet Me
Jennifer Crusie
Bridget Jones’ Diary and its sequel
The Edge of Reason
Helen Fielding
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
The Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger
High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel In Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Laura Esquivel
Mississippi Writings
Mark Twain
One for the Money
Janet Evanovich
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Austen
Trading Up
Candace Bushnell
Skinny Legs & All
Tom Robbins
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Without Feathers
Woody Allen
Kristin Schar, August 2007
