Tag: comedy
114 books with this tag.
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A novelist facing fifty runs from a wedding invite through world travel, and learns what his funny sad trip means.
2,458-word summary · 11 min read
Hyperbole and a Half
Stick-figure stories about dogs, cake, and depression that turn small mess into big laughs.
2,103-word summary · 9 min read
High Fidelity
Dumped record shop owner Rob remakes top five lists to learn why every relationship failed.
1,935-word summary · 9 min read
Guards! Guards!
A drunk captain, his last two guards, and an earnest recruit face a summoned dragon in Ankh-Morpork in Pratchett's funny eighth Discworld book.
2,307-word summary · 10 min read
China Rich Girlfriend
Rachel Chu meets her birth father and enters Shanghai high society while Nick, Astrid, and Eleanor face weddings, money, and old family claims.
2,861-word summary · 13 min read
The World According to Garp
Writer Garp navigates fame, marriage, and loss with bears and wrestling.
2,072-word summary · 9 min read
Remember Me?
Lexi wakes after an accident missing three years, with a polished new life and a husband she does not recall, and must work out which parts she wants to keep.
2,390-word summary · 11 min read
Much Ado About Nothing
Beatrice and Benedick are tricked into love in Messina while Don John ruins Hero and Claudio's wedding with a cruel window trick.
2,275-word summary · 10 min read
Mort
Death hires apprentice Mort in this 1987 Discworld comedy, where a spared princess splits reality and duty bends for love, with no Rincewind.
2,386-word summary · 11 min read
Life, the Universe and Everything
Arthur in slippers must stop cricket robots from rebuilding the Wikkit Gate.
2,216-word summary · 10 min read
I've Got Your Number
Bride to be Poppy borrows stranger Sam phone and snoops wedding chaos.
2,078-word summary · 9 min read
The Soulmate Equation
Statistician Jess matches a genetics grump at top score ever, then tests dating by data.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read
The Princess Diaries
Fourteen year old Mia learns she is heir to Genovia and gets posture lessons with pastries.
2,032-word summary · 9 min read
The Undomestic Goddess
A burned out London lawyer flees a career mistake and takes a housekeeper job she cannot do.
2,943-word summary · 13 min read
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Arthur Dent flees Vogons, dines at Milliways at the end of time, and strands on prehistoric Earth in Adams' sharp 1980 sequel.
2,749-word summary · 12 min read
Good in Bed
Dumped in print by her ex, reporter Cannie Shapiro faces pregnancy, family mess and a fresh start in Philadelphia.
2,713-word summary · 12 min read
A Confederacy of Dunces
Ignatius J. Reilly, jobless and full of opinions in New Orleans, meets work, his mother, and the law in Toole's posthumous Pulitzer winner.
3,089-word summary · 14 min read
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack and Algernon invent Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily until fiction collapses.
2,538-word summary · 11 min read
The Color of Magic
A failed wizard guides a tourist across a flat world on a turtle, with comic fantasy chaos.
2,032-word summary · 9 min read
The Flatshare
Two strangers share one bed on opposite shifts and fall in love through notes left around the flat.
2,793-word summary · 12 min read
Love, Theoretically
Adjunct physicist Elsie Hannaway fake-dates for rent money until Jack Smith, an MIT experimentalist, stands between her and her dream job.
2,308-word summary · 10 min read
Yes Please
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…
2,668-word summary · 12 min read
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Bee compiles emails to find architect mother Bernadette missing before Antarctica.
2,121-word summary · 9 min read