Book Genre: Humor and Comedy

As a child I would plop myself down infront of the TV to watch Mystery on PBS, now it wasn’t because I was a huge fan of mysteries but because I was a huge fan of those creepy, chilling, and strange illustrations that introduced the show, it was only like ten or fifteen seconds of cartooning but...

James Thurber is under appreciated in this day and age. A long time contributor to the New Yorker his strange stories about strange people and the even stranger drawings humored generations. Take him home and read him aloud to a crowd. Don’t be surprised when people begin laughing loudly. These...

I've been waiting for this book to come out ever since I heard Madeline George read a hilarious make out scene where the kisser's skills were compared to a piece of cut cantaloupe (ew!). It's finally out and it's awesome! Anyway... Jesse (haircut courtesy of her Swiss Army Knife, giant boots,...

Mr. Putney has lots of animal friends with unusual names. Can you guess their names? Who wakes up Mr. Putney in the morning? An ALARMADILLO! What do you call Mr. Putney's messy lobster lunch companion? A SLOBSTER! Readers are given clues to help them guess the name of each animal friend. After...

Alexia Tarabotti is not the proper Victorian Englishwoman. She is well read, opinionated, half-Italian, unmarried, and she uses her parasol as a weapon. And that's not the worst: she's preternatural, that is, she can turn a vampire or werewolf into a normal human while she is in physical contact...

What would you do if you overhead two of your teachers talking in what sounds like a made up language? Well, Jim and Charlie decide they have to find out what's going on, and that leads to an adventure of a scale they'd never imagined! You'll be laughing all the way through this adventure that...

Twelve-year-old Liam is tall for his age; in fact, he often gets mistaken for a grown-up. So when Liam is mistaken for a father and is offered a top-secret trip to the best theme park ever, he immediately accepts! Now he just has to convince his own parents that he's really going on a week-long...

Katarina Bishop is trying to get out of the family business. This isn't as easy at it might sound, especially when your family is in the business of planning heists, pulling off cons, and robbing art museums. Kat has conned her way in to an exclusive boarding school and thinks she has a chance...

Joey Comeau writes cover letters to potential employers as a means of expressing his frustration with the current job market and as a vehicle for exploring his feelings about life in general. Hilarious, horrible and sometimes terribly sad, Overqualified, is a joy to read.

Learn about seven dinosaurs -- Pteranodon, Deinonychus, Mononykus, Diplodocus, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Kronosaurus -- in this colorful and humorous book of poems. You will laugh aloud as you read where these dinosaurs lived, what they ate, and how they got around.

Stick Man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three. One day he wakes early and goes for a jog. Stick Man, oh Stick Man, beware of the dog! Poor Stick Man leaves his home and is forced to go on many adventures when all he wants to do is get back home. He is...

Somewhere between a road trip and just plain tripped out, somewhere between Mad Cow Disease and madness, somewhere between life and death, you'll find Going Bovine. Cameron has just found out that he has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, aka Mad Cow disease. He's dying. Cameron hasn't done all that...