https://pithybooks.com/tags/comedy/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “comedy”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:10 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/the-color-of-magic/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-color-of-magic/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-importance-of-being-earnest/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-importance-of-being-earnest/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jack and Algernon invent Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily until fiction collapses. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-flatshare/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-flatshare/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two strangers share one bed on opposite shifts and fall in love through notes left around the flat. https://pithybooks.com/books/love-theoretically/ https://pithybooks.com/books/love-theoretically/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adjunct physicist Elsie Hannaway fake-dates for rent money until Jack Smith, an MIT experimentalist, stands between her and her dream job. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-midsummer-nights-dream/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-midsummer-nights-dream/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four lovers flee to a forest where fairies mix them up, while workmen rehearse a play for a duke's wedding. https://pithybooks.com/books/crazy-rich-asians/ https://pithybooks.com/books/crazy-rich-asians/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rachel Chu flies to Singapore with Nick Young and learns his family is not just rich but dynasty rich, with mothers, aunties, and weddings testing every bond. https://pithybooks.com/books/love-on-the-brain/ https://pithybooks.com/books/love-on-the-brain/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bee Konigswasser lands her dream NASA neuroengineering lead and must co-lead with grad-school nemesis Levi Ward, while her equipment fails and someone sabotages the project. https://pithybooks.com/books/one-for-the-money/ https://pithybooks.com/books/one-for-the-money/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Janet Evanovich's One for the Money fully retold: Stephanie Plum's first bounty hunt, Morelli on a murder charge, Ranger, Lula, Ramirez, and why Trenton still charms. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-rosie-project/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-rosie-project/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Melbourne genetics professor Don Tillman launches the Wife Project to find a partner by questionnaire, then meets chaotic Rosie Jarman and agrees to help her find her biological father. https://pithybooks.com/books/whered-you-go-bernadette/ https://pithybooks.com/books/whered-you-go-bernadette/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bee compiles emails to find architect mother Bernadette missing before Antarctica. https://pithybooks.com/books/yes-please/ https://pithybooks.com/books/yes-please/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Amy Poehler moves from Boston childhood through UCB and SNL to Parks and Recreation in this 2014 memoir. Funny essays on work, motherhood, divorce, and saying yes. https://pithybooks.com/books/anxious-people/ https://pithybooks.com/books/anxious-people/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A failed bank robber takes eight strangers hostage at an apartment viewing, and nobody is who they seem. https://pithybooks.com/books/born-a-crime/ https://pithybooks.com/books/born-a-crime/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid, raised by a fearless mother in Soweto. https://pithybooks.com/books/confessions-of-a-shopaholic/ https://pithybooks.com/books/confessions-of-a-shopaholic/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Becky Bloomwood hides maxed cards while chasing a finance writing job. https://pithybooks.com/books/funny-story/ https://pithybooks.com/books/funny-story/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dumped Daphne moves in with her ex's new fiancee's ex, Miles, and they fake-date for revenge. https://pithybooks.com/books/good-omens/ https://pithybooks.com/books/good-omens/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT An angel and demon team up to stop the apocalypse and save Earth. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hating-game/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hating-game/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two executive assistants share an office, a rivalry, and a promotion neither will concede without a fight. https://pithybooks.com/books/bossypants/ https://pithybooks.com/books/bossypants/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tina Fey moves from Pennsylvania childhood through improv and SNL to 30 Rock in this funny 2011 memoir. Expect backstage stories, jokes about work and motherhood, and sharp asides. https://pithybooks.com/books/bridget-joness-diary/ https://pithybooks.com/books/bridget-joness-diary/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thirty-something Bridget Jones logs calories, cigarettes and bad dates in London while torn between Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy. https://pithybooks.com/books/emma/ https://pithybooks.com/books/emma/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Emma Woodhouse matchmakes Harriet Smith in Highbury while missing Mr Knightley beside her.