Recent Humor Fiction

The Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger

From Kirkus Reviews
A junior assistantship to the editor of the world’s top fashion magazine ("The job a million girls would die for") provides endless fodder for a one-note but on-the-money kiss-and-tell debut. Andy, or, as her boss from hell calls her: "Ahn-dre-ah," harbors dreams of writing for The New Yorker, but her luck runs out—or runs high, depending on your priorities—when her first job interview lands her at Runway magazine, beholden to Miranda Priestly, "solely responsible for anticipating her needs and accommodating them."

Nanny Diaries
Emma McLaughlin

From Publishers Weekly
Two former Manhattan nannies blow the lid off of the private child-care industry with a hilarious debut that pulls no punches as it recounts the travails of Nan, a hip Mary Poppins looking for a job to fit around her child-development classes at NYU.

Villa Incognito
Tom Robbins

From Booklist
Robbins opens with a folkloric tale, set in Japan, of a tanuki--a raccoonlike wild dog with enormous testicles and a thirst for sake--who marries a woman and sires a daughter before angry gods break up the union.

Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde

From Hybridmagazine.com
If Kurt Vonnegut, Mel Brooks, Agatha Christie, Anne Rice and Dr. Hurley (my college English professor) had a literary love child it would look quite similar to "The Eyre Affair" an uproarious read-in-one-sitting ride by Japer Fforde.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore

From Publishers Weekly
A childhood pal of the savior is brought back from the dead to fill in the missing 30-year "gap" in the Gospels in Moore's latest, an over-the-top festival of sophomoric humor that stretches a very thin though entertaining conceit far past the breaking point.