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Letters From a Nut by Ted L. Nancy is solid gold. To get the full effect, I highly recommend reading it out loud with a partner.

For solo guffawing, I enjoy This is a Book by Demetri Martin.

Or if I'm in a comic strip mood, anything by Bill Watterson or Gary Larson does the trick.

I just finished Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris and loved it! It's important to note that I listened to the audiobook, read by the author. This made all the difference for me since I had tried to read the book book when it first came out and couldn't get into it. The audiobook made allll the difference. There really are parts that were not that funny until you heard Sedaris put his spin on it. I highly recommend it!

Dave Barry's Insane City. Even better, listen to the audiobook. Slightly raunchy, but a really funny book.

You can't go wrong with Dave Barry & his latest You Can Date Boys When You're Forty made me smile a lot!

Two of the funniest books I've ever read are Kick Me by Paul Feig (creator of Freaks and Geeks and Bridesmaids) and A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole. Hilarious in different ways, but I think about the latter one about once a week...and I read it nine years ago!

Thanks, everyone, for these suggestions. Great thread!

I also have to second Erin's recommendation of "A Confederacy of Dunces", a truly funny book, one of my favorites. Bonus points for setting (New Orleans).

Other funny titles I'd recommend:

-Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff

-Sarah Vowell's last few books, if you want real history peppered with observational, often deadpan, humor. (Her collection of essays, "Take the Cannoli" is also very good)

-Year of Living Biblically, Know it All, Drop Dead Healthy, Guinea Pig Diaries -- all by AJ Jacobs. These books generally follow the "I'm going to do something for a year and write about it" model, but the author is really funny and puts himself (and his family) in some ridiculous situations.

-New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker (memoir)

-Fresh off the boat by Eddie Huang (memoir...do yourself a favor and get the audiobook read by the author)

I recently finished Carl Hiaasen's newest book "Bad monkey." It's hilarious. Anything by Hiaasen is laugh out loud funny. His young adult novels, "Hoot," "Flush," "Scat," and "Chomp" are great reads as well.

I always fondly remembered reading Reader's Digest jokes in the dentist's office or at my grandparents' house as a kid, so I smiled when I saw Reader's Digest Laughter Still Is the Best Medicine on our new shelf. Promising "More than 1,000 all-new laughs", this book delivered with reader-submitted jokes and cartoons on subjects such as "Mars and Venus", "At Work", "Friends and Family", and "Life and Death". If you need a lift, pick up this little book and open to any page.

I read two books for this challenge. I listened to "I'm A Stranger Here Myself" by Bill Bryson. Now, I thought his "A Walk In the Woods" was absolutely hilarious, but this one to me wasn't as funny. There were humorous moments, but because these pieces on American oddities were originally written as newspaper columns, I didn't feel like the narrative had a very good flow. I just finished reading Bill Cosby's short book on aging, "Time Flies." I enjoyed that one and appreciated his humorous take on a hard subject.

I absolutely agree - I loved "A Walk in the Woods", but couldn't even finish "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." I think part of the problem was that it was obvious that it was written for a British audience and mocked Americans in a way that didn't seem funny to an American.