John Irving   'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a...

Samuel Shem, MDNow a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as...

Jonas Jonasson It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to...

Elinor Lipman This "tale of delicious revenge" ( USA Today ) is also "a punchy little comedy of manners.... Think Jane Austen in the Catskills" ( Chicago Tribune ).It's 1962 and...

Mark Twain A travel book by Mark Twain, published in 1869. A must read. February 1, 1966 by Signet Classics

Kathi WagnerThe Jokiest Joking Joke Book Ever Written . . . No Joke!: 2,001 Brand-New Side-Splitters That Will Keep You Laughing Out LoudThe Jokiest Joking Joke Book Ever Written ....

Alexander McCall Smith   Life is never without its problems. Will Precious Ramotswe’s delightfully cunning and profoundly moral methods save the day? Find out in this, the fourth volume in...

Edited by Russell Davies Following the publication of "The Kenneth Williams Diaries", this is a collection of his letters. Corresponding with all manner of people, including Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith,...

Anthony Horowitz When Guy Fletcher scoffs at a feeble joke he overhears in his local pub, he finds himself, in quick succession, head-butted and struck by an idea. Is it...

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the WorldA.J. JacobsPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious,...

Paul E Erdman When businessman Frank Rogers travels to Europe to finalize a multibillion-dollar missile deal, he finds himself in the middle of a wide-ranging bribery scheme which threatens to...

Lynn Freed A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed “old bags” who run off to a Greek islandSince their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to...