Humour & Riddles Books

Hints On Dog Breaking is a book written by William Floyd and first published in 1882. It is a comprehensive guide to training dogs for hunting, focusing on the breaking process, which involves teaching the dog to obey commands and behave appropriately in...

Here Lies is a book compiled by Walter Henry Howe in 1900, consisting of a collection of ancient and modern, humorous and queer inscriptions from tombstones. The book is a fascinating glimpse into the epitaphs and final words of the deceased, providing...

Heads and Tales: Or Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts is a book written by Adam White and published in 1870. The book is a collection of anecdotes and stories about various animals, including dogs, cats, horses, elephants, lions, and...

Hamlet Travestie, In Three Acts: With Burlesque Annotations, After The Manner Of Dr. Johnson And George Steevens And The Various Commentators (1814) by John Poole is a satirical play that parodies William Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Hamlet. The book is...

Grandma and Standarditis is a book written by William V. Casey and published in 1917. The book is a humorous take on the increasing obsession with standardization and efficiency in American society at the time. The story revolves around a grandmother who...

Grammar Land: Or Grammar In Fun For The Children Of Schoolroom-Shire is a book written by M.L. Nesbitt and published in 1878. The book is a fun and engaging way for children to learn grammar. The story follows a group of children who are transported to...

Gems of Irish Wit and Humor is a book published in 1906 by H.P. Kelly. The book is a collection of humorous stories, anecdotes, and witty sayings from Irish authors and personalities. The content is divided into various categories, including love,...

Fun And Work is a book written by M. A. H. and published in 1882. The book is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between work and play, and how both are essential for a fulfilling life. The author argues that while work is necessary for...

""Freaks and Follies of Fabledom: A Little Lempriere"" is a book written by E. L. Blanchard and published in 1852. The book is a collection of stories and anecdotes about mythical creatures and legendary beings from various cultures and traditions. It is...

""For People Who Laugh: Showing How, Through Woman, Came Laughter Into The World"" is a book written by Adair Welcker and published in 1904. The book explores the history and origins of laughter, tracing its roots back to ancient times and examining the...

Flitters, Tatters And The Counsellor, And Other Sketches is a collection of short stories and sketches written by Mary Laffan Hartley and published in 1881. The book features a diverse range of characters and settings, including a group of street...

Fly Leaves (1884) is a collection of humorous and satirical poems by Charles Stuart Calverley. The poems cover a wide range of topics, including politics, society, literature, and everyday life. Calverley's wit and clever wordplay are on full display in...

""Fingere Per Godere: Comedia Per Music"" is a play written by Tomaso Mariani in 1736. The title translates to ""Pretending to Enjoy: Musical Comedy"" in English. The play is a comedic exploration of the theme of pretending to be happy in order to fit in...

Facetiae Cantabrigienses is a book published in 1825 and written by Richard Gooch. The book is a collection of anecdotes, smart sayings, satirical remarks, and retorts, all related to or by celebrated Cantabs. Cantabs refers to students or alumni of the...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Excursions Into Puzzledom is a book of puzzles and brain teasers written by Thomas Hood and published in 1879. The book contains a variety of challenging and entertaining puzzles, including charades, acrostics, enigmas, and conundrums. Each puzzle is...

AK-47 in a Wild Why World is a collection of essays on political and socio-economic condition of the Modern Africa, humour and poetry with a nationalistic touch. The approach, very blunt and sometimes acerbic. The book argues about an unknown fear...

Life is too short. Let's enjoy the life we are given and give life to those that are living. That is how I have tried to live my own life, and perhaps, why I have been able to laugh through my life that was not always it should have been. Having a...

NC-17 is the third, and finest, installment in my series of literature. Well, maybe not the finest, but it's still good. It's better than my first two anyway. I think my fourth book will better. Yeah, buy this one, and then in a few years, buy my...

His pants are haunted. A drug addict tries to frame him. The fast food industry is out to sabotage him. He receives a mysterious phone call to attack his faith and pulls himself through life's ups and downs. Even his own ...

Being the authors first work, it is an exceptional eye opener and often hiliarous look into the world of being a limousine driver. Initially as a professional chauffeur for a limousine company and later as a private chauffeur he met a wide variety of...

Almost Legal Humor is the way defense trial lawyer Stephen R. Crislip describes his book, Down to the Hard Road. Operating upon the premise that the most difficult lawyers (or people generally) are those born without humor, he reports from the road...

Sliced Bread is a collection of humorous, entertaining and educational stories gleaned from years of experience in wholesale and retail, commercial bread sales. Here is a glimpse of how things were and how the industry evolved over time. Sliced Bread...

I May Be Big But I Didn't Cause That Solar Eclipse is award-winning Canadian humorist Gordon Kirkland's fifth book. Three of his previous books received Canada's prestigious literary award, The Stephen Leacock Award of Merit For Humour. His syndicated...

Paget's Progress is the true story of a man emerging from humble beginnings to a life packed with adventure and variety in Africa. Dick's varied career has included being an army Medic; running a rehabilitation centre for army casualties; outward bound...

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOLThis year I am six years old. My parents are delighted. Today is my first day of school, But they're the ones excitedThey're dancing around the kitchen, And I would like to know: Are they happy school is starting, Or just glad to see...

Sippin' Southern Sunshine was written as a legacy to my children and blossomed. As you grow older, wisdom takes hold and you come to many realizations. Besides the wrinkles on your face and the grey hairs on your head, you discover that no matter how...

Life On Grayson IslandHave you ever found yourself in a situation that defies all you've learned or been taught? Or been involved in an instance that tests your perception of reality where you say, "What the hell just happened?"Welcome to Grayson Island...

Nita's excellent gift for storytelling is evident in this drama that leaves the reader vacillating between the abyss of human emotions. With blunt depths, she portrays the thoughts of an addict with all their characteristics of blame, rage, denial and...

With tongue in cheek -- but not too firmly -- the author offers a simple, but humorous review of the current political landscape and harmlessly detonates the landmines the Democratic Party has left lying around in its attempt to indoctrinate us and our...

This book is fairly lighthearted and consists of various satires, observations and personal pet peeves of American Society in the 21st Century. It is intended to make you chuckle at yourselves and all the crazy stupid things we do everyday.

An ordinary day is about to spell disaster for Flight Three-Alpha-Nine. *Author's note: not actually spell disaster, it's not like an anagram or anything. 'Ride tass' is an angram of disaster but that bears no realtion to anything in the story.Look...

A collection of humor, poetry, and recipes channeled from the apparition of a beautiful Indian maiden named Tuwallomie O'Toole.The Red Haynes Trilogy is a humorous composition of the tales of a detective who is somewhat intellectually-challenged, but...

War On Xmas - The Field Official Manual is a 'phony' manual purportedly followed by secularists and liberals to wage a 'war' on the Christmas holiday. Right Wing commentators and slicked-back evangelical ministers, who contrived the phony war, have...

A Musician's Story tells the intriguing tale of the often hilarious life of John David, small-time musician. Based loosely on the author's life and exploits, this touching journey moves from his innocent Mennonite childhood through his rock-and-rolling,...

Hopeful Gardens is an extremely humorous, bizarre voyage into the concealed world of a nursing home! It is the real nursing home story, written and illustrated by Sandra Stack, BSN, RN. The incidents in this book occurred over seven years ago. No staff...

A life: a shared time of feelings. What is it in reality?Could our just being here, be but a memory. "Heaven forbid". But in our world, can we place ourselves in memory? She lives for the laughter; the people who walk in her world.the stories become...

Sandi Humphreys hilarious reflections on everything from male pattern baldness (not even on the list of reasons women reject men) to headcheese (whens dinner?) in this compilation of over sixty humour columns will yield oodles of laughter! Thats...

Help! My Planet is Melting!: Here comes Global Warming is a light-hearted look at global warming, and some of the weird and wonderful things people are doing about it.

Humor is the hammer author/philosopher Styx Mundstock uses to bash the political, historic and religious ideas of his day.

"SEXUAL SATANISM or HOW TO SEDUCE WOMEN BY MAGIC is an outrageous and hilariously funny How To manual, supposedly intended to instruct the socially inept and sexually deprived male in the art of seduction; but in reality is more likely to titillate and...

"Find out how a man can sit in the woods or in a boat all day and call it fun. This may be the funniest outdoor book ever written!"

A tongue-in-cheek list of quotations by old and new philosophers, and celebrities for bachelors to see the good, the bad and the ugly about women, love and marriage.