Any light/uplifting/funny reading recommendations?

[vgj1981]

Hi all,

Hoping for some cheery/light/fun reading recommendations to see me through the next few weeks/months. Anything that would lift the spirits.

Recent favourites have included:

Where The Crawdads Sing

The Flatshare

Between The Stops

The Thursday Murder Club

Sweet Sorrow

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. Thanks :-)

[womanofdulwich]

The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell |, true story easy read. Light and interesting

[siousxiesue]

Not fiction but I LOVE reading David Sedaris. Witty and poignant

[Nigello]

The Mapp and Lucia series by E F Benson

[Froglander]

Check out Anne Tyler?s books. She?s recently published a new one. The Accidental Tourist is wonderful and how I discovered her.

[Chick]

Any thing by Bill Bryson.

[Chick]

Notes from a Small Island is good, funny and uplifting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_from_a_Small_Island

Also The Road to Little Dribling, interesting and funny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Little_Dribbling

Good reading!

[sjsl]

Anything by Nina Stibbe, particularly loved Man at the Helm, but they're all good ? it probably helps if you grew up in the sixties though.

[heartblock]

Rivers of London books on audible, narrated by the amazing Kobna Holdbrook-Smith.

[KidKruger]

The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle

[Sue]

I just re-read Metamorphosis (Kafka).

Suggest you don't 🤣

[hpsaucey]

Great thread!

Comfort re-reading all the Lindsey Davis 'Falco' series. Also the perennial Terry Pratchett.

Dickens 'Pickwick Papers' lined up. A joyous read.

HP

[Seabag]

siousxiesue Wrote:

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> Not fiction but I LOVE reading David Sedaris.

> Witty and poignant

Definitely this ☝️

[Effra]

Try...

Holidays in Hell by P J O'Rourke

[holloway]

This time of year I read 'A Christmas Carol'. This Thursday however, is the release of Jack Charlton's autobiography, I can't wait...

[siousxiesue]

The Tales of the City set, Armistead Maupin.

Or anything by him

[wee quinnie]

Seabag Wrote:

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> siousxiesue Wrote:

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> > Not fiction but I LOVE reading David Sedaris.

> > Witty and poignant

>

> Definitely this ☝️

Was coming onto suggest this myself.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'm reading "The Princess Bride" at the moment, quite amusing but the foreword is dire.

This bit made me smile, though probably for the wrong reasons:

"Why do you wear a mask and hood?" Fezzik asked.

"I think everybody will in the near future" was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable."