Favorite Humorous Fiction
Discover the best humorous fiction books with our curated list of favorites! Dive into witty, laugh-out-loud stories that will brighten your day. Perfect for comedy lovers!
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Snow White and the Seven Samurai
by Tom Holt
Once upon a time (or last Thursday, as it's known in this matrix) everything was fine: Humpty Dumpty sat on his wall, Jack and Jill went about their lawful business, the Big Bad Wolf did what big bad wolves do, and the wicked queen plotted murder most foul. But the humans hacked, cried havoc, shut down the wicked queen's system (mirrors 3.1) and corrupted her database - and suddenly everything was not fine at all. But at least we know that they'll all live happily ever after. Don't we? Computers and fairy tales collide to hilarious effect in the latest sparkling cocktail of mayhem, wit and wonder from the master of comic fantasy. More information on this book and others can be found on the Orbit web-site at www.orbitbooks.co.uk
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Falling Sideways
by Tom Holt
From the moment the first Homo Sapiens descended from the trees, possibly onto their heads, humanity has striven towards civilisation. Fire. The Wheel. Running Away from furry things with more teeth than one might reasonably expect - all are testament to man's ultimate ascendancy. It is a noble story, a triumph of intelligence over adversity and so, of course, complete and utter fiction. For one man has discovered the hideous truth: that humanity's ascent has been ruthlessly guided by a small gang of devious frogs. More information on this book and others can be found on the Orbit web-site at www.orbitbooks.co.uk
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Little People
by Tom Holt
I was eight years old when I saw my first elf.' ... And for unlikely hero Michael it wasn't his last. Michael's unfortunately (but accurately) named girlfriend Cruella, doesn't approve of his obsession with the little people, but the problem is that they won't leave him alone. And who can blame them when it is his own stepfather who is responsible for causing them so much misery. Oh yes. Daddy George knows that elves can do so much more than the gardening. Find out more about this and other Orbit titles at www.orbitbooks.co.uk
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Nothing But Blue Skies
by Tom Holt
There are many reasons why it rains so often in Britain, many of which are either scientific, mad, or both - but all of them are wrong. The real reason why it rains perpetually is, of course, irritable Chinese water dragons.
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A Dirty Job
by Christopher Moore
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . . People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it. Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.
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Bloodsucking Fiends
by Christopher Moore
Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all that changes when a beautiful undead redhead walks through the door ... and proceeds to rock Tommy's life -- and afterlife -- in ways he never imagined possible.
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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
by Christopher Moore
The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave, and a beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what's wrong and what, if anything, to do about it.
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Chronicles of a Curate
by Fred Secombe
This is an omnibus edition of the first three books in Fred Secombe's entertaining and nostalgic series. It comprises How Green Was My Curate, A Curate for All Seasons and Goodbye Curate.
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Chronicles of a Vicar
by Fred Secombe
This is the long-awaited collection of Fred Secombe's three vicar stories: Hello Vicar!, A Comedy of Clerical Errors and The Crowning Glory. Newly appointed as vicar of Pontywen in South Wales, Fred throws himself into the responsibilities his post entails. The new vicar finds himself in trouble with a curate of his own, the Reverend Barnabas Webster, a man in love with status. He gets entangled in an argument over a sermon condemning corruption in the town council; and he counsels a young organist who behaves too affectionately toward a choirboy. Fred's happy marriage to the capable doctor Eleanor is a source of comfort and hilarity, especially when the rural deanery decides to venture into sex education, with Eleanor placed in the unenviable position of giving the talk.
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A Comedy of Clerical Errors
by Fred Secombe
The fifth book in this series finds Fred, a vicar of some experience trying to cope with his eccentric Welsh village and the misadventures of his curate, Charles Wentworth-Baxter.
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Pastures New
by Fred Secombe
Fred Secombe is back again with a seventh instalment of fictionalized memoirs about parish life in South Wales. Many new characters are introduced, such as Amos Perkins, a Hitler lookalike and Fred's arch enemy on the parish council, and Dai Elbow and his wayward greyhound Bella.
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Hello, Vicar!
by Fred Secombe
This is the fourth in a series of fictionalized memoirs set in the small Welsh town of Pontywen. Newly married and promoted to vicar, Fred is rightly pleased with life, but he soon finds that his elevation exposes him to new problems.
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An Alien at St Wilfred's
by Adrian Plass
Best-selling author Adrian Plass tells the humorous and poignant tale of a small alien who comes to live in a parish church.
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View from a Bouncy Castle
by Adrian Plass
A book which takes a wry look at faith and its self-inflicted problems from the pleasurable but insecure viewpoint of an inflated bouncy castle at a children's fairground. The author tells of his own bounces and his belief that God still loves and catches people each time they bounce and fall.
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Cabbages for the King
by Adrian Plass
Adrian Plass is an eccentric Christian with an eye for seeing the holy in the most down to earth aspects of life. This is a collection of jokes, stories, sketches and verse that he has flung at people over the last few months. Most of them are humorous, a few sad or serious and the rest, he says, are beyond definition.
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The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, on Tour
by Adrian Plass
The hilarious journal of Sacred Diary's Adrian Plass which documents the mishaps and successes of his seven-day speaking tour.
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Stress Family Robinson
by Adrian Plass
The Robinson Family -- mother, father, two teenage sons and a six-year-old daughter who is everyone's favourite -- are a typical Christian family -- or are they'.
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The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass (age 37 3/4)
by Adrian Plass
'Feel led to keep a diary. A sort of spiritual log for the benefits of others in the future. Can't think of anything to put in today. Still, tomorrow's Sunday. Must be something on Sunday, surely?' So opens the book that has become a firm favourite with readers of all ages. Here for the first time are Adrian's long-suffering wife and outrageous son, Gerald. Here are the stalwarts of his church: tippling Leonard Thynn, the Flushpools and peerless young feminist Andromeda Veal.
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The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass
by Adrian Plass
This is the book that all Adrian Plass fans have been waiting for--the sequel to the book that launched him as the UK's best-selling Christian author.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Adams's beloved and enduring sci-fi/comedy classic is now available in this beautiful, clothbound, elegantly presented book, filled with never-before-published material, original scripts from the BBC radio series, and much more to please any fan.
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Sherman Oak and the Magic Potato
by S. William Shaw
On the last day of school, Sherman Oak is given an atomic wedgie in front of hundreds of cheering students. Upon returning home, Sherman wishes for courage. A plain baked potato in an aluminum foil wrapper explodes with green light, and grants Sherman his wish. Sherman Oak is taken away against his will to a strange land. There, he must complete a journey filled with mosquito skeletons, snakes that wind from the sky, a haunted cottage, cactus outlaws, and a one hundred foot pus-oozing behemoth. If Sherman fails, his family and school mates will remain trapped in the land forever.