Humorous fiction Books

Jane Austen did not die in 1817. Her head and neck were miraculously preserved at a Cryonics facility in Zurich, Switzerland (formerly Swisserland). Recently discovered (September 10, 2010), the famed authoress has been revived and has returned to reside...

In The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, P.G. Wodehouse delivers a delightful collection of witty, humorous tales filled with eccentric characters, romantic entanglements, and sharp social satire. Each story showcases Wodehouse's trademark charm and...

Life with Mother by Clarence Day offers a delightful portrayal of family life in early 20th-century New York. Through humorous vignettes, Day captures the quirks and charm of his spirited mother, creating a timeless, heartwarming tribute to the enduring...

Hirri Nino is a talented Sioken, someone who can control the minds of other humans. Unfortunately his brain has been damaged and is augmented by AI. He has lost part of who he is. The pressure of his job and the ghost pains from fragmented memories have...

Tragic accident . . . or murder?  Kat Harper's visit to Jessie's Diner ends abruptly when the man at the next table drops dead. She soon discovers the victim is none other than Aaron Moskowitz, a caustic food critic known for thrashing restaurants...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's comedy THE CASE IS ALTERED. Reading this retelling first will make reading and understanding the original play much easier. In this retelling, as in all my retellings, I have tried to make the work...

Nin is huge, all-powerful, and determined to claim her.Rae worked for a bosshole at a marketing agency and survived an expensive and crappy divorce. Suddenly a light flashed, and not one but three alien men crashed in her backyard with a mission that...

Space is big--and collects a lot of junk. Trust the former space janitor to clean it up.When the station board of directors sends former maintenance technician Triana Moore to Lewei, she expects to bump knuckles with a few dignitaries, tell a couple of...

Thailand's Underbelly Beckons in a Heart-Pounding Tale1980s Thailand. Sun-drenched beaches hide a sinister reality. Here, Camilla, a fearless motorbike-riding reporter, navigates a web of secrets, one closer to her than she dares to imagine. Her uncle, a...

It's the end of the world – but not as we know it.A woman wakes up in a motel on the outskirts of a remote Oregon city with no memory who she is and a gun at her bedside. As she explores the world around her it seems that civilization has come to a...

This is my first attempt at writing a laugh out loud comedy. It is a satirical look at what it's like for your average eighteen-year-old who joins the elite British Army Parachute Regiment. From the initial shock of leaving home to the pride on donning...

This wonderfully inventive collection of stories displays American absurdist (MEP) at its perplexing and hilarious best. Inside you will find micro-fiction, short stories, and all in between chronicling the encounters, desires, and violence of America's...

Shaukat Thanvi, the prominent humorist of the Urdu world, had full access to many genres of Urdu literature at the same time. He was a prolific journalist, columnist, novelist, fiction writer, dramatist and radio feature writer. His style of writing is...

Shaukat Thanvi, the prominent humorist of the Urdu world, had full access to many genres of Urdu literature at the same time. He was a prolific journalist, columnist, novelist, fiction writer, dramatist and radio feature writer. His style of writing is...

Shaukat Thanvi, the prominent humorist of the Urdu world, had full access to many genres of Urdu literature at the same time. He was a prolific journalist, columnist, novelist, fiction writer, dramatist and radio feature writer. His style of writing is...

In the olden times there sat a man in a smoking room filled with peebles whom was all movie around in rythm to a tinny sort of nose emitting from a rotating, flat sphereoid.The man signed deeply, for he had a habitat of doing so...In the 23 different...

Ce récit humoristique raconte l’aventure de deux paysans vaudois, jamais sortis de leur coin de pays, qui montent à Paris pour voir l’Exposition universelle de 1878 à Paris. Délicieux récit d’un choc...

Wer kennt sie nicht, die Zeitgenossen, die einfach nerven, Pläne umstossen und von denen auch sonst nichts Gutes zu erwarten ist? Diese Spezies ist bekanntermaßen wahlweise dumm, neidisch, überheblich oder alles zusammen. Die 14 Autor:innen nähern sich...

Der Roman "Urlaubsroman Erst Scheidung, dann Liebe" beschreibt auf humorvolle Art die Erlebnisse der Hauptperson "Otto" im Singleurlaub.Dort lernt er einen Feuerwehrmann, einen Psychologen und eine Urologin kennen, die verrückte und lustige Geschichten...

Nachdruck der Radiokolumne im Berliner Kneipen-Slang. Kleine launige Betrachtungen über die Einkommen ungelernter Politiker, das Pupsen, was nach dem Tode von uns bleibt, über Roboter und Cyborgs, über Dicke und Russen, über Jogginghosen und Kolibrihüte,...

Oskar, ein frisch geworfener Brandenburger Beagle, kommt kurzerhand als Ersthund in eine ostfriesische Familie und wird so vom Ossi zum Wessi. Das Buch beschreibt die täglichen Höhen und Tiefen des Lebens und die absonderlichen Verhaltensweisen der...

Da geht jemand in Braunschweig spazieren und erzählt Geschichten. Das hat inzwischen Tradition in unserer Stadt. Einst ging ein Herr Leue durch die Stadt und berichtete darüber in der Braunschweiger Zeitung und vor langer, langer Zeit erzählte ein...

Warum gehen immer wieder so viele Menschen irgendwelchen Hetzern auf den Leim? Warum folgen sie immer wieder theatralischen Auftritten, hinterhältigen Lügen und hohlen Versprechungen irgendwelcher Möchtegernführer? Warum drängt es die Menschen immer...

Ein Fernsehteam lädt vier besondere Menschen auf ein schottisches Schloss ein: einen Philosophen, eine Neuropsychologin, einen indischen Mönch und eine Samuraikriegerin. So verschieden die Teilnehmer sind - sie alle haben eines gemeinsam: Alle glauben,...

"Ein wirklich unterhaltsam geschriebener Roman verknüpft mit einem ernsten Thema zu einer viel diskutierten ethischen Frage in Deutschland." (derm 1/2022)Inhalt: 1986. Der 19-jährige Skip ist ein selbsternannter Poser aus Heidelberg. Sein Leben dreht...

In seiner alltagsphilosophischen Betrachtung bringt Bruno H. Bürgel, der "Weise aus Babelsberg", die Schwächen seiner Mitmenschen auf den Punkt. Der Kampf mit den Widrigkeiten des täglichen Lebens glich offenbar zu seiner Zeit dem unserer Tage. Mit viel...

Alles nur Theater! Das sind 3 Rollenspiele die einfach Spaß machen sollen. Sie sind lustig modern, und altmodisch ritterlich. Aber alle 3 sollen zum schmunzeln einladen.

Oma Josie und ihre beste Freundin Luzi reisen mit einem Mietwagen durch den amerikanischen Westen. Die beiden Rentnerinnen sind Ende sechzig, sehr unternehmungslustig und noch ziemlich rüstig. Auf ihrer turbulenten Abenteuertour rutschen sie von einem...

Justus Bölling, für seine Freunde, wenn er denn noch welche hätte, einfach nur Böller, ist ein nerdiger Verlierertyp, der in eine tiefe Sinnkrise stürzt. Verantwortlich dafür sind 3 Dinge, sein nahender 40. Geburtstag, der Tod seines Vaters und die...

Das bekanntestes Werk des Erasmus von Rotterdam ist die Satire Lob der Torheit (Laus stultitiae) aus dem Jahr 1509.Tief verwurzelten Irrtümern tritt er mit Spott und Ernst in seiner "ironischen Lehrrede" entgegen und setzt sich ein für vernünftige...

"Meine morgendliche Euphorie erhält einen herben Dämpfer, als ich die vier Hunde vor der Herberge entdecke. Sie haben einen perfekten Halbkreis gebildet, sämtliche Fluchtwege sind verstellt. Wie es aussieht, haben die Köter nur auf diesen Moment gewartet...

Hacker and thief Zoe Zimmerman and her team have been responsible for some of the most inexplicable and ingenious heists of the last few of years but what does a professional criminal do for Christmas?Zoe uses her ill-gotten gains to take her decidedly...

You have heard of dad jokes; well, I have compiled a long list of these jokes to entertain even the simplest of minds. Dad jokes are notorious for being an eye-rolling experience, but here the goal is to have you rolling around on the floor laughing out...

"HILARIOUS YET HEART-WARMING STORY."FIVE STARS READERS FAVOURITEChristina Langdon dreamed of being a model when she was a little girl.Now she's overweight, in a dead end job and looking for something more...When she's offered a once in a lifetime...

Animal Farm, George Orwell's satirical political fable, tells the story of a group of barnyard animals who overthrow their human masters in hopes of fashioning for themselves an egalitarian society. As their rebellion germinates and eventually fails in...

Brian and Stéphane Are Back!Mischief & Mayhem Follow in Their Wake!Dive into the uproarious world of Brian and Stéphane in The Lady in Gray & the Bessie Mae Diamond, the dazzling fourth installment of the Twilight Manors cult series...

She's determined to keep her family home. He won't let his friend down. Will conflicting interests shatter their chances of happily ever after?Finley Fox refuses to give up her life's work. With her family's cabin rental business at risk of going under,...

When an old church is torn down in the small Florida town of Toad Springs, a trunk full of stories written by the inhabitants in the 1930s is discovered in the attic.You'll meet Midge and Smitty Mallet, who end up in Toad Springs after being led astray...

SUICIDE TANGO is a novel about love and suicide.Tripsy South is a super-smart and thinking seventeen-year-old girl with a hyperkinetic knowledge of suicide in teens, especially girls. She “suffers” from a laundry list of maladies, including...

Working as a servant to the super-rich has its challenges, but it’s a job, even if you do have a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Melody just wants to keep her head down, do the work, and survive with her integrity intact. And she certainly...

Trez Evans is so drunk and so sick of her novel that one hot September morning, she sets up portable barbeques on her tennis court and burns all 5000 pages. Not only does she set fire to various drafts written over the past ten years, but she also tosses...

Too tough to be aborted, Super Fetus fights back!He's a fetus growing in the womb of a whiny white trash whore of a mother. His problem: she wants to have him aborted. But what this bitch doesn't know is that she isn't pregnant with some mild-mannered...

A creepy cute, voodoo cartoon set in a world of ghouls, witches, and pink monkeys. Slub Glub (a blue glob-like creature) has awoken to find his world has been flooded by the tears of the Weeping Willows. His quest to help cure the sadness of the...

If you could be someone else, who would you choose? Twenty-somethings Trent, Shanti and Gavin launch a start-up that allows almost anyone to rent a stranger's life for a week.Not their apartment. Not their car. Their entire life.The trio risk...

Damaged yet unbroken, Sebastian is a B-grade golfer assisted by Donnie, a wounded pelican, who shows him how to use the wind's power for flight, for golf and for life.But before Sebastian has even completed Hope, the first hole at Desolation Point,...

Evil Overlord in training? Check. Successfully hidden the true depths of her powers for four years so no one kills her? Check. Graduating at the top of her class from the Evil Overlord Academy so she can acquire her castle? ...Uncertain. And...

"The Loved One is not only satire at its most ferocious. It is a macabre frolic filled with laughter and ingenious devices. It is devilishly clever, impishly amusing." - The New York Times, 1948.A sad irony of life: People pay thousands to bury...