You need a good laugh. This is a quick update - in no particular order - of an ever-growing list of books that are good for your spirits. Please submit other choices. What's missing?
- Tourist Season by Carl Hiassen
- Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
- Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
- Popcorn by Ben Elton
- Skin Tight by Carl Hiassen
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
- Big Trouble by Dave Barry
- Dead Famous by Ben Elton
- I Was Dancing by Edwin O'Connor
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Fong and the Indians by Paul Theroux
- The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Stormy Weather by Carl Hiassen
- The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
- Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
- The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
- Soulless by Gail Carriger
- The Making of Henry by Howard Jacobson
- Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser
- A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
- The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry
- Any of the Dortmunder novels by Donald Westlake
- Company by Max Barry
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
- The Joyous Season by Patrick Dennis
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
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