Tag: comedy

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Funny Story

Emily Henry · 2024

Dumped Daphne moves in with her ex's new fiancee's ex, Miles, and they fake-date for revenge.

1,937-word summary · 9 min read

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah · 2016

Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid, raised by a fearless mother in Soweto.

1,980-word summary · 9 min read

Anxious People

Fredrik Backman · 2019

A failed bank robber takes eight strangers hostage at an apartment viewing, and nobody is who they seem.

1,918-word summary · 9 min read

The Unhoneymooners

Christina Lauren · 2019

Olive Torres takes her sister's Hawaii honeymoon with enemy Ethan Thomas after food poisoning ruins the wedding.

2,864-word summary · 13 min read

Emma

Jane Austen · 1815

Emma Woodhouse matchmakes Harriet Smith in Highbury while missing Mr Knightley beside her.

3,369-word summary · 15 min read

Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding · 1996

Thirty-something Bridget Jones logs calories, cigarettes and bad dates in London while torn between Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy.

2,293-word summary · 10 min read

Bossypants

Tina Fey · 2011

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…

2,301-word summary · 10 min read

The Love Hypothesis

Ali Hazelwood · 2021

Love Hypothesis retold: Olive fakes dating Adam, lab hijinks, consent talks, Boston fall.

2,009-word summary · 9 min read