13. Mary Jane (Jessica Anya Blau) Books that are very funny but also very serious: 1. The Trees (Percival Everett) 2. Heaven and Earth Grocery Store and Deacon King Kong (both by James McBride) What are some of your favorite funny literary books? - ThreadSky

rlmaizes.bsky.social • 41 days ago

13. Mary Jane (Jessica Anya Blau)

Books that are very funny but also very serious:
1. The Trees (Percival Everett)
2. Heaven and Earth Grocery Store and Deacon King Kong (both by James McBride)

What are some of your favorite funny literary books?

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jennanewman.bsky.social•39 days ago

❤️ any/all short story collection of Lorrie Moore

rlmaizes.bsky.social•39 days ago

Hell yes.

paulawhyman.bsky.social•38 days ago

Love this list! I'll add Straight Man by Richard Russo and The Information by Martin Amis.

rlmaizes.bsky.social•38 days ago

Haven't read either! Thanks!

lantern-light.bsky.social•40 days ago

Both Rental House by Weiki Wang, and Big Swiss by Jen Beagin made me laugh out loud.

rlmaizes.bsky.social•40 days ago

Haven’t read either! Thank you.

erikadreifus.bsky.social•39 days ago

I'd add *Please Be Advised* (Christine Sneed)

shannonwright.bsky.social•40 days ago

Just finished this and it’s a delight!

rachelvardeman.bsky.social•40 days ago

Non-fiction but I laughed very hard the entire way through, Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore by Emma Southon. Absolutely brilliant and so accessible!

toddpetersen.bsky.social•39 days ago

I would add to this The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. It slays.

rlmaizes.bsky.social•39 days ago

That’s a great one.

aaronburch.bsky.social•41 days ago

All Lipsyte, all Bachelder (but esp THROWBACK SPECIAL, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout…

rlmaizes.bsky.social•41 days ago

I have some reading to do. Thanks.

aaronburch.bsky.social•41 days ago

I replied largely cause I like so many on your list so much! (LOVE all things Kevin Wilson, love The Trees and Etgar Keret too, among others!)

rlmaizes.bsky.social•41 days ago

Same re Kevin Wilson. I laughed/gasped (glasped?) out loud on a plane reading one of his.

susanperabo.bsky.social•40 days ago

Nothing to See Here is, for my money, the funniest book of the last decade.

rlmaizes.bsky.social•40 days ago

It was such a risky book, and not easy to pull off, which I think I could say about most of his books.

rlmaizes.bsky.social•40 days ago

It’s brilliant.

arleneinohio.bsky.social•40 days ago

📌

ancaszilagyi.bsky.social•41 days ago

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy is fun. I'm listening to Hangsman by Shirley Jackson and it is wonderfully weird and fun.

rlmaizes.bsky.social•41 days ago

What a great title (Avocado). I haven't read either of these. Thank you!

ancaszilagyi.bsky.social•41 days ago

Moving The Trees up in my queue! I loved Long Division, by Kiese Laymon, and the The Trees was recommended to me by a bookseller when I asked what else I could read like it.

rlmaizes.bsky.social•41 days ago

The Tree is simply brilliant. Hilarious and brutal.

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