Romance
My Comedy Book Reviews
My favourite comedy books
| Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | British dry humour. Timeless observational comedy; still laugh out loud 130 years later. |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Absurdist scifi comedy. Brilliantly witty, surreal, and quotable; a landmark in comic writing. |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | Satirical war comedy. Dark, circular humour exposing the madness of bureaucracy. |
| Good Omens | Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | Comic fantasy. End of the world farce with razor sharp British wit. |
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | Academic farce. A masterpiece of cringe comedy and social awkwardness. |
| Right Ho, Jeeves | P.G. Wodehouse | British upper class comedy. Wodehouse at his best: perfect timing, perfect silliness. |
| Bridget Jones’s Diary | Helen Fielding | Modern British humour. Self deprecating, relatable, and sharply funny. |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | Character driven farce. One of literature’s great comic creations. |
| The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ | Sue Townsend | British diary humour. Deadpan, painfully honest, and brilliantly observed. |
| The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett | Comic fantasy. Introduces Discworld with satire, slapstick, and clever parody. |
| The Rosie Project | Graeme Simsion | Romantic comedy. Charming, warm, and genuinely funny character based humour. |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | Autobiographical humour. Sharp, self mocking essays; Sedaris is a modern humour master. |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | Comedy of manners. One of the wittiest plays ever written; sparkling dialogue. |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | Parody of rural novels. A wonderfully dry send up of melodramatic countryside fiction. |
| The Princess Bride | William Goldman | Adventure comedy. Swashbuckling, romantic, and knowingly funny. |
| My Family and Other Animals | Gerald Durrell | Memoir comedy. Warm, chaotic, and full of eccentric characters. |
| Bossypants | Tina Fey | Modern comedic memoir. Sharp, self aware humour from one of America’s top comedy writers. |
| The Sellout | Paul Beatty | Satirical comedy. Bold, biting humour that won the Booker Prize. |
| The Code of the Woosters | P.G. Wodehouse | British farce. Another Wodehouse gem; perfect comic plotting. |
| The Uncommon Reader | Alan Bennett | Gentle British humour. Witty, charming novella imagining the Queen as a book addict. |
