Humorous category: 20629 books

Lance spends too much time thinking about all the ways life would be different if our eyes were on the top of our feet as opposed to perched over our noses.Shoes for instance…Or karate.He doesn’t enjoy thinking thoughts like these, but grow them as he might, the beards never help. So off they...

Scholars and fans often divide the career of Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) into three periods--early, middle, and late. The early and late periods tend to get all the attention, but in fact Dazai was at his very best in the middle period, which corresponds roughly to the years of the Pacific War. All the stories...

Awarded 1st Place in the Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Mystery & Mayhem Awards, Humor Category. In this 1st Place award-winning humorous chick-lit mystery, a former best-selling romance writer tries to pick up the pieces of her life after getting her heart stomped on by her lying, cheating boyfriend,...

Two short stories: Black-Tie Dance: an undercover caper that sends an agent running for his life, dangling from a windowsill and visiting the morgue. Let's hope he makes it out of there alive. Bingo: Not your average deal with the devil.

Collection of humorous articles from several newspapers.

Not George Washington is a semi-autobiographical novel by P. G. Wodehouse, written in collaboration with Herbert Westbrook. It was first published in the U.K. in 1907. The book is a humorous, fictionalized account of Wodehouse's early years as a journalist (Wodehouse edited the By The Way column for...

A wildly inventive and deeply humorous collection of literary delights by one of the great contemporary masters of the short story. A hypothetical episode of Batman hilariously slowed down to soap-opera speed. A game of baseball as played by T. S. Eliot and Willem Big Bull de Kooning. A...

A humorous long short story, in which Levi takes a fateful ride with a girl from Mississippi. Meet her family of characters around the old plantation house - mother Seamoan, crazy Aunt Tallulah, and a harsh talking servant. Featuring a family ghost, a chaotic courtroom, and truckload of watermelons, this story will keep your smiling to the end!

Living on a farm with four hundred goats and a cantankerous carnivore isn’t among vegan chef Brie Hooker’s list of lifetime ambitions. But she can’t walk away from her Aunt Eva, who needs help operating her dairy. Once she calls her aunt’s goat farm home, grisly discoveries offer ample...

In Mudfog and Other Sketches, Dickens describes a filthy, nasty little town in glowing terms, as though it were the most picturesque locale in all England. Readers who enjoy Dickens's use of irony will appreciate his descriptions of the unusual town of Mudfog in humorous story.

Barney's Guide to Training Humans: An owner's manual for cats is a humorous exploration from a cat's perspective on the proper training and management of humans. As humans we have clearly only survived through time with the guidance and magnanimity of our patient four-legged masters.The...

“A merry satire about the smart, moneyed, and demanding retirees living in a gated community . . . Scintillating on the surface and churning with danger below” (Booklist). From a National Book Award–winning author, this is a collection of “nine darkly comic stories set in a gated community...

The first novel in a delightful new series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn Newly qualified teacher Tom Dwyer has been given his first post in Risingdale, a sleepy little village at the very top of the Yorkshire Dales. Unsure if he'll ever fit into this close-knit community, Tom joins...

A humorous satire and loving tribute to science fiction that delves into the tenuous relationship between science and the humanities by asking, What does it mean to be human? A genderless alien from Ellipsia, a planet whose inhabitants have no concept of individuality, comes to Earth on an...