Humor Books
Books tagged with humor use comedy as a primary tool, whether through witty dialogue, absurd situations, or a narrator with impeccable timing. The tone can range from lighthearted and whimsical to bitingly sardonic, but the goal is always to make you laugh.
128 books

Comedy
A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces

Comedy
A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch

Literary Fiction
A Long Way Down

Philosophy
A Short History of Nearly Everything

Non-Fiction
A Walk in the Woods

Non-Fiction
Acid for the Children

Comedy
Anansi Boys

Non-Fiction
Artemis

Young Adult
Better Than the Movies

Fantasy
Beware of Chicken

Comedy
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

Comedy
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

Big Swiss

Romance
Black Sheep

Romance
Booth

Bridge of Birds

Young Adult
Bud, Not Buddy

Romance
Butcher & Blackbird

Historical Fiction
Captain Blood

Comedy
Captain Underpants

Comedy
Captain Underpants

Comedy
Choke

Non-Fiction
City of Thieves

Comedy
Closing Time

Comedy
Dealing with Dragons

Comedy
Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Comedy
Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid

Fantasy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Comedy
Dork Diaries

Comedy
Dork Diaries

Science Fiction
Dungeon Crawler Carl

Literary Fiction
Eligible

Contemporary Fiction
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Contemporary Fiction
Everything Is Illuminated

Non-Fiction
Everything, Everything

Romance
Forever Never

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Go Hex Yourself
Go Hex Yourself

Comedy
Going Postal

Comedy
Guards! Guards!

Fantasy
He Who Fights with Monsters

Young Adult
Holes

In a Jam

Literary Fiction
It Happened One Summer

Comedy
It's Kind of a Funny Story

Comedy
James and the Giant Peach

Non-Fiction
Kitchen Confidential

Lease on Love

Romance
Leather & Lark

Historical Fiction
Lessons in Chemistry

Romance
Lights Out

Romance
Lights Out

Romance
Lights Out

Literary Fiction
Listen for the Lie

Non-Fiction
Living with a SEAL

Love at First Spite

Literary Fiction
Love on the Brain

MASH

Comedy
Made in America

Literary Fiction
Margo's Got Money Troubles

Comedy
Matilda

Comedy
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Comedy
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Romance
Mile High

Romance
Morbidly Yours

Comedy
Nine Goblins

Literary Fiction
Nothing to See Here

Historical Fiction
Off to Be the Wizard

Fantasy
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Payback's a Witch

Fantasy
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Practice Makes Perfect

Pretend I'm Dead

Romance
Pucked Over

Non-Fiction
Say Nothing
Sinners Retreat
Romance
Sinners Retreat

Science Fiction
Small Gods

Stiff

Non-Fiction
Stumbling on Happiness

Comedy
Take a Hint, Dani Brown

Comedy
The 13-Story Treehouse

Fantasy
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

The American Roommate Experiment

Comedy
The BFG

Mystery
The Bandit Queens

The Big Over Easy

The Bodyguard

Comedy
The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

Romance
The Burnout

Literary Fiction
The Canterbury Tales

Fantasy
The Colour of Magic

Romance
The Decameron

Young Adult
The Do-Over

The Fake Mate

The Good Soldier Svejk

Science Fiction
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Young Adult
The Impossible Fortress

The Innocent

The Light Fantastic

Romance
The Love Hypothesis

Science Fiction
The Martian
The Mayor of Noobtown
Fantasy
The Mayor of Noobtown

The Paradise Problem

Fantasy
The Phantom Tollbooth

Non-Fiction
The Plot

Fantasy
The Primal Hunter

Romance
The Princess Bride

Fantasy
The Rosie Project

Literary Fiction
The Sellout

Romance
The Spanish Love Deception

Self-Help
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mystery
The Thursday Murder Club

Contemporary Fiction
The Wedding People

Comedy
The Wee Free Men

Comedy
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

Comedy
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

Comedy
Tom Gates: The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

Mystery
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Science Fiction
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Literary Fiction
We Were the Universe

Comedy
Wonder Boys

Literary Fiction
Written in the Stars

Fantasy
Wyrd Sisters

Non-Fiction
Year Zero

Yearbook

Romance