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Need a good book? Browse through our extensive reading lists created by your APL librarians.

LIBRARIANS' LISTS: FICTION | NONFICTION | AUDIO | TEENS

Humorous Fiction

Alamo House, Sarah Byrd, 1986

All Hat, Brad Smith, 2003

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon, 2000

Bad Boy, Olivia Goldsmith, 2001

The Bear Went Over the Mountain, William Kotzwinkle, 1996

Bandbox, Thomas Mallon, 2004

Catch 22, Joseph Heller, 1961

Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980

Drop Shot, Harlan Coben, 2000

Evolution Man: or How I Ate My Father, Ray Lewis, 1960

How to be Good, Nick Hornby, 2001

Jennifer Government, Maxx Barry, 2003

Handling Sin, Michael Malone, 1986

Happiness Sold Separately, Lolly Winston, 2006

The Kalahari Typing School for Men, R.A. Mcall Smith, 2003

Laughing Gas, P.G. Wodehouse, 1936

Last Manly Man, Sparkle Hayter, 1998

Little Big Man, Thomas Berger, 1964

Little Children, Tom Perrotta, 2004

Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde, 2002

Love Me, Garrison Keillor, 2003

The Loved One, Evelyn Waugh, 1948

Lucky Jim , Kingsley Amis, 1978

Modern Baptists, James Wilcox, 1984

Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey, 1975

One for the Money, Janet Evanovich, 1994

Road to Wellville, T.C. Boyle, 1993

Sick Puppy, Carl Hiassen, 2000

Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins, 1990

Simon Silber: Works for Solo Piano, Christopher Miller, 2002

The Sot Weed Factor, John Barth, 1960

Straight Man, Richard Russo, 1997

Therapy, David Lodge, 1995

Tales of the City, Maupin Armistead, 1978

Thank you for Smoking, Christopher Buckley, 1994

Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris, 2007

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl, Fannie Flagg, 1998

You Suck: A Love Story, Chrisropher Moore, 2007

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