📚 Humor

Writing meant to be funny: essays and comic novels, and the serious anatomy of a joke.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject humor in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow	Jerome Klapka Jérôme	1880	433
	The Devil's Dictionary	Ambrose Bierce	1840	312
	Мастер и Маргарита	Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков	1966	237
	James and the Giant Peach	Roald Dahl	1961	167
	1066 and All That	Walter Carruthers Sellar	1930	88
	Good Omens	Terry Pratchett	1990	73
	Mort	Terry Pratchett	1987	61
	Cabin Fever	Jeff Kinney	2007	59
	Is sex necessary?, or, why you always feel the way you do	James Thurber	1929	43
	Carry On, Jeeves	P. G. Wodehouse	1925	42
	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney	2009	41
	Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!	Mo Willems	2003	35
	La Guia Facil del Sexo for Dummies	Ruth K. Westheimer	1995	32
	Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim	David Sedaris	2004	32
	Me Talk Pretty One Day	David Sedaris	2000	29
	Born a Crime	Trevor Noah	2016	27
	Red, White & Royal Blue	Casey McQuiston	2019	23
	The Zombie Survival Guide	Max Brooks	2003	21
	Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia	Peggy Parish	1977	18
	Motel of the mysteries	David Macaulay	1979	10
	The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book	Bill Watterson	1989	8
	America (the book)	Jon Stewart	2004	8
	Poor Charlie's Almanack	Charles T. Munger	2005	8
	The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	Bobby Henderson	2006	8
	Hyperbole and a Half	Allie Brosh	2013	7
	All My Friends Are Dead	Avery Monsen	2010	6
	Position of the day	Emma Taylor	2003	3
	How to Date Men When You Hate Men	Blythe Roberson	2019	3
	The Cheat Sheet	Sarah Adams	2021	3
	Creepy Susie	Angus Oblong	1999	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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