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A Good Humorous Novel

To find funny stories, you can use the heading humorous stories. There is also a heading for black humour - fiction.
See also our Good Humorous Novels in Large Print and If you like Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.

Try one of these authors.

  • Douglas Adams
  • Kingsley Amis
  • Dave Barry
  • Colin Bateman
  • William Boyd
  • Malcolm Bradbury
  • Christopher Buckley
  • Justin Cartwright
  • Mavis Cheek
  • Roddy Doyle
  • Nick Earls
  • Ben Elton
  • Fannie Flagg
  • Stephen Fry
  • Carl Hiaasen
  • James Hamilton-Paterson
  • Tom Holt
  • Nick Hornby
  • Howard Jacobson
  • Clive James
  • Jerome K Jerome
  • Garrison Keillor
  • Marian Keyes
  • Eric Kraft
  • Kathy Lette
  • David Lodge
  • Paul Magrs
  • Jill Mansell
  • Spike Milligan
  • Mil Millington
  • Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Robert Rankin
  • Tom Sharpe
  • Sue Townsend
  • Lou Wakefield
  • Mary Wesley
  • Donald Westlake
  • P G Wodehouse

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