#honorable mention to all of the Percival Everett books I’ve read this year
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Top 9 books I read in 2024
#don’t see this changing drastically unless something hits it out of the park in the next month#no real order in this other than the fact that I would consider the top 3 books my favorites#I feel like I’ve read a ton but genuinely it was hard to trim it down to this!!! like I’ve read some very good books#honorable mention to all of the Percival Everett books I’ve read this year
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100 MUST-READ HILARIOUS BOOKS
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1. Is everybody Hanging Out while not Me? (And different Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
2. Has Anyone Seen My Pants by wife Colonna
3. Neil Patrick|St. Patrick|Apostle|patron saint} Harris: opt for Your Own life story by Neil Patrick Harris
4. The transient Wondrous lifetime of honor Wao by Junot Bartholomeu Dias – This one has each mirth and poignancy, therefore it’s a small amount a lot of mixed than another title on this list.
Crazy wealthy Asians5. Crazy wealthy Asians by Kevin Kwan
6. A enter The Woods by Bill Bryson
7. symptom by Nora Ephron
8. Varano by César Aira – Translated from Spanish, it’s got a small amount of Monty Python-esque shtick hidden in beautiful prose.
9. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves #1) by P.G. Wodehouse
10. Gil’s All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez
11. the way to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston
12. mindlessness by Horatio Castellanos Moya
13. Texts from Jane Eyre: And different Conversations together with your Favorite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg and Madeline Gobbo
See You Next Tuesday14. See You Next Tues by Jane Mai
15. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
16. Bossypants by Tina Fey
17. solace Farm by Frank Stella Gibbons
18. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
19. Go the Fuck To Sleep by Adam Mansbach
20. to mention Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis
21. Misconceptions by Blu Daniels
22. Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
23. The poor Diaries: The fully True and humourous Misadventures of a decent woman Gone poor by Angela Nissel
24. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
25. a foul plan I’m on the point of Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and spectacularly Awkward journey by Chris Gethard
the lake affair by opaque gem Fforde26. The lake Affair by opaque gem Fforde (a whole awing series!)
27. The blue blood Bride by William Emma Goldman
28. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by easy lay Brooks
29. the way to Be a lady by Caitlin Moran
30. Blonde Bombshell by Tom Holt
31. The perfidy by Paul Beatty
32. exaggeration and a 0.5 by Allie Brosh
33. I speak Pretty in some unspecified time in the future by David Sedaris
Lamb34. Lamb: The Gospel consistent with Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Saint Christopher Moore – the sole Good Shepherd comedy I do know that's beloved by nonbelievers and Christians alike.
35. The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage – This book honestly had ME in stitches. If you liked A Confederacy of Dunces, browse this one.
36. The company by easy lay Barry
37. You Can’t bit My Hair And different Things I Still need to justify by Phoebe Robinson
38. the color of Magic (Discworld #1) by Terry Pratchett (You don’t even have to begin at #1 in Discworld; I believe I started with #33 and it was extremely pleasurable. There’s a graphic here that outlines the various sub-series and their 1st books, just in case you wish to leap around.)
39. smart Omens: the great and correct Prophecies of Agnes oddball, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
40. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by The Little Giant Adams
41. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Such a fairly Fat42. Such a fairly Fat: One Narcissist’s Quest to get if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look huge, or Why Pie isn't the solution by Jen Lancaster
43. Don Quixote by Miguel Diamond State Cervantes Saavedra
44. Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
45. Typical Yankee by Gish Jen
46. The Importance of Being Earnest by writer
47. I used to be Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
48. life story of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a fake Adulthood by Laurie Notaro
49. The Regional workplace Is beneath Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
50. trendy Romance by Aziz Ansari
Adulthood may be Myth51. Adulthood may be a Myth: A “Sarah’s Scribbles” assortment by wife Hans Christian Andersen
52. What If Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd hypothetic queries by Randall Munroe
53. somebody may Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century parentage by role player Magary
54. The Adventures of Holly White and also the unimaginable Sex Machine by Krissy Kneen
55. Killing aunty by Andrzej Bursa
56. I'm Not thespian by Percival Everett
57. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
58. The Grass is often Greener Over the storage tank by Erma Bombeck
59. Shrill by social dancing West
60. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
61. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
62. the net may be a Playground by David Thorne (side-splittingly funny)
63. A summer solstice Night’s Dream by a poet (SHAKESPEARE IS HILAIRE)
64. Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
65. Let’s fake This ne'er Happened by Jenny Lawson
I Hate Fairyland66. I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young
67. Mother, are you able to Not? by Kate Siegel
68. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
69. The Misadventures of Awkward Black woman by Issa Rae
70. saint Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
71. It Gets Worse by Shane town
72. Octopus Pie by Meredith grandmother (fave webcomic ever . . . perhaps favorite comic ever)
73. Redshirts by John Scalzi
74. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
75. Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
76. ar You There, Vodka? It’s ME, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
77. Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed by Lance Carbuncle
78. The completely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
79. vocalizer and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
80. I'm America (And therefore will You!) by author sauce
Dora A Headcase81. Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch
82. the space by Jonas Karlsson
83. American state Roadkill by Tim Dorsey
84. associate degree simple Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington
85. The Gun merchant by Hugh Laurie
86. The unabridged Devil’s wordbook by Ambrose Bierce
87. I’m judgment You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
88. Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
89. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Clown Girl90. Clown woman by Monica Drake
91. this is often wherever I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
92. biscuit by Fran Ross
93. The Sugar opaque Nutsack by Mark Leyner
94. part Blues by patron saint Wensink
95. The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle
96. The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Hector Hevodidbon Hernandez
97. a woman Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
98. Job: A Comedy of Justice by Henry M. Robert Robert Anson Heinlein
99. Ella cyprinid fish Pea: A increasingly Lipogrammatic epistolatory Fable by Mark Dunn
100. Super unhappy True story by point of entry Shteyngart
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