Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

Welcome to Sedaris' deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds.

Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor

Keillor's touching and funny novel brilliantly captures a newly minted America and delivers an unforgettable comedy about the universal aspects of adolescence-from first loves to fear and fascination with bodily functions.

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

Wanted: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless-bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived pre-schooler. Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his Park Avenue family. Any takers?

Bride of the Fat White Vampire by Andrew Fox

A vampire investigator in New Orleans seeks to get to the bottom of crimes against his people. A cast of hilarious supernaturals populate this sequel.

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The deliciously witty and delightfully dishy novel explores life at the top of a glamorous fashion magazine. Bitchy and brilliant.

Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin

Freddy is the Prince of Wales, Fredericka his troublesome wife. An overeducated, bumbling anachronism, Freddy commits one glorious gaffe after another, for which he is massacred daily in the British press. Golden-haired Fredericka is frivolous, empty-headed, and fond of wearing spectacular clothing with revealing necklines. Because of the epic public relations disasters caused by these wayward heirs to the throne, they are sent, in a little-known ancient tradition, on a quest to colonise a strange and barbarous land: America.

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Ignatius J. Reilly, a grossly overweight medieval scholar who lives with his mother, is forced to seek employment when she can no longer tolerate his laziness. His disdainful encounters with the modern culture of New Orleans, his habitual misunderstanding of its inhabitants and his often hypocritical efforts at scholarly success make him one of the most memorable comic characters of modern literature.

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Bundren family takes Addie, their matriarch, to Mississippi for burial. A shiftless father, spiteful brothers, and a pregnant sister makes this story the darkest comedy imaginable, but fiercely funny.

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross

Southern gentleman Wesley Lloyd Springer passes away and leaves his wife two legacies: his sizable estate and his bastard son. Now this longtime pillar of the community finds herself in the center of an unseemly scandal--and the guardian of a wan nine-year-old whose mere presence will turn her life upside down.

Thud! A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win ... It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium ... It's the unsettling sound of history about to repeat itself ... THUD! It's the most extraordinary, outrageous, provocative, insightful, and keenly cutting flight of fancy yet from Discworld's incomparable supreme creator...

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