Here are ten books to tickle your funny bone - whether they fall into the humor fiction camp or are just hilarious works of nonfiction, they will laugh the soda right through your nose.
1. Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
David Sedaris' Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim, another collection of essays based on the diary he has kept every day for some thirty-odd years. While most of these stories have seen print already in Esquire, GQ and the New Yorker, Sedaris' work is so contained and addictive, you can't eat just one.
2. Fat White Vampire Blues by Andrew Fox
Like many Americans today, Jules Duchon is obese, and like many Americans he believes it is the fault of his environment and not a personal weakness. Late night eating because of odd working hours; However, Jules' eating disorder is different from most because his obesity was caused from drinking the blood of the overweight denizens of New Orleans.3. Fluke by Christopher Moore
A chance encounter with a whale with disturbingly peculiar markings on its flukes and a predilection for pastrami on rye sets these four mismatched companions on an increasingly bizarre adventure that can only culminate in a showdown with the origins of life on earth itself.4. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23½ hours of your day.5. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore's irreverent, iconoclastic, and hilarious tale of the early life of Jesus Christ as witnessed by his boyhood pal, Biff.6. Naked by David Sedaris
Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his bout with obsessive behavior in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story, in which he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic.
