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A Book that Made You Laugh: 2021 Reading Challenge

Brosh, Allie

Solutions and Other Problems

The creator of the award-winning Hyperbole and a Half presents a new collection of comedic, autobiographical and deceptively illustrated essays on topics ranging from childhood and very bad pets to grief, loneliness and powerlessness in modern life.


Gelman, Laurie

You’ve Been Volunteered: A Class Mom Novel

A follow-up to Class Mom finds Jen Dixon agreeing to school-parent her son’s third-grade class only to find herself overwhelmed by her husband’s late hours, her daughters’ early adulthood and the needs of her aging parents.


Jost, Colin

A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir

In a collection of humorous essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor tells the story of his life so far. Illustrations.

Kalb, Bess

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as told to me) Story

The award-winning Jimmy Kimmel Live writer reflects on her relationship with her loving grandmother, the daughter of immigrants from 19th-century Belarus whose hardships, sacrifices and headstrong nature shaped the author’€™s perspectives on family and career

Lauren, Christina

The Honey-Don’t List

Accompanying a reality-show couple on a book-signing tour, a country girl who desperately needs her job and an MIT engineer fall for each other behind the scenes while struggling to keep their employers’€™ rocky marriage intact.


Moore, Christopher

Shakespeare for Squirrels

An uproarious hardboiled mystery inspired by Shakespeare’s most-performed play finds The Serpent of Venice‘s Pocket of Dog Snogging assuming the duties of a murdered Puck to identify hidden adversaries who have complicated an arranged marriage.


Sedaris, David

The Best of Me

Two former high school sweethearts return to their hometown for the funeral of a mentor and confront the choices they have made since they last met.


Seinfeld, Jerry

Is This Anything?

Collecting material from half a century in comedy, a chronologically arranged selection of favorite skits and memories by the iconic funnyman and author of the best-selling Seinlanguage includes selections from his original “€œCatch a Rising Star”€ performance.


Wong, Ali

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living your Best Life 

Collects the standup comedian’s humorous and heartfelt letters to her daughters, covering everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession and how she trapped their dad.

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