Comedy & Humor

I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone....

The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse....

Madigan Wicked’s heart is not up for grabs. She’s been there, done that, and she’s not going back for seconds....

These hilarious essays on life inside and outside a Zen monastery make up the spiritual memoir of Shozan Jack Haubner, a Zen monk who didn’t really start out to be one.....

Paradise is supposed to be a short-term stop. Until Thor shows up. Okay, not the real Thor. But replace the hammer with a dog who won't stop barking, and Adam Thomsen is definitely long-haired Thor's doppelganger. Too bad for me, he's decided I'm the villain in his story. Too bad for him, his...

The demons who once ran amok down there, torturing lost souls, were easy enough to subdue. The damned, left without their tormentors, have been put to work on cotton and tobacco plantations. As for the colonists, it takes all sorts to give up the comforts of home and make new lives on the infernal frontier.

Love is not complicated, people are! Pyaar, Mohabbat, Ishq, junoon—love has its own Synonyms. The four-letter word, easy to spell and easier to say, is far more complicated when the brain and heart play their parts in a relationship. Aditya, a nerd, falls head over heels in love with Rutuja, who happens to be the eye candy of the college. Rutuja loves books and wants Aditya to pen down a story. Will Aditya, a non-reader, manage to write a novel? Just when their relationship goes on a roller-coaster ride for the worse, Aditya decides to attempt suicide. Can a relationship make you weak?

Blackwood has a serial killer problem. Lucky for her, one of them is obsessed with her. After her messy divorce, Sienna Blake is done with men. She’s trading her wreckage for a sun-drenched future in California until a violent Montana storm sends her car skidding off the road and straight into...

For fans of Ashley Poston and The Love of My Afterlife comes a clever and swoony novel about an aspiring New York lifestyle influencer who gets trapped in her own “day in the life” video, with only a mysterious stranger to help her break out. Get ready with me… to break out of the...

Truth is stranger than fiction. In this wickedly funny sequel to the Arabian Nights, Edgar Allan Poe lets Scheherazade embark on a thousand-and-second night, spinning the untold final adventures of Sinbad. Sea monsters with blazing eyes, islands built by tiny engineers, forests of stone, rivers...

A hilarious journey with Tom Sharpe's characteristic wit, adventure, and outrageous humour. Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as...

All three series of the comedy about an older couple getting to grips with the absurdities of the modern world, starring Jeremy Front and Rebecca Front - with audiobook-exclusive introductions from Jack & Millie themselves Jack & Millie is the brainchild of Jeremy Front who, with his sister...

In a gleefully self-deprecating mystery, three estranged sisters meet in LA for the making of a documentary, learning the depth of their family dysfunction is nothing compared to social media obsession. Another long weekend, another family reunion for the Finch sisters. This time, Venice Beach...

A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2026 A She Reads Most Anticipated Fiction of Fall 2026 A pair of estranged brothers drive their father’s cryonically frozen body across a divided America to its final resting place in this darkly comic novel about masculinity and grief—a 21st-century update...

On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write. Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood.

One overlooked clerk. One diary. A mind coming apart. Experience Nikolai Gogol's psychological classic through a human-narrated performance by Luke Meinier Dalofin—not a synthetic AI voice. A low-ranking government clerk begins recording everyday frustrations, workplace humiliations, and his...

From the international bestselling author of The Door-to-Door Bookstore comes a delicious, heartwarming story of a has-been ballerina who takes up a temporary job in a bakery, finding purpose in every loaf she bakes, for readers of Fredrik Backman and Robin Sloan. What ingredients does a good...

‘There’s just one other thing I need to ask you about, our Thursday night Slow Cooker Supper Club…’ When professional housesitter Erin moves into Marie’s cosy home at Station Cottages while the widow takes a four-month cruise, the job seems pretty easy: 1. Stay in the house to take...

A government official wakes one morning and discovers something impossible: his nose is gone. Major Kovalyov is horrified by its disappearance, but matters become even stranger when he discovers that his missing nose has taken on a life of its own. Dressed in an impressive uniform and carrying a...

A dramatisation of A. A. Milne’s only detective novel, plus two of his sparkling comedies A.A. Milne achieved lasting fame as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, but he was much more than just a children’s writer. A prolific novelist, playwright and humorist, he penned numerous works for adults...

What happens when classic characters outlive their copyright… and someone decides that's unacceptable? Meet the Executor: a man tasked with "protecting culture" by eliminating anything that slips into the public domain. Armed with absolute certainty, questionable logic, and a trench coat...

Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter Anne, delicate, sixteen years old, and totally lacking in confidence. When Anne makes friends with...

The perfect book for motor enthusiasts, thrill seekers and anyone who loves a good yarn. ‘Fear and I started our long relationship at a very early age, and every time we met, I think we worked together to thicken my skin a little.’ As a veteran of the famous (some would say infamous) Targa...

Edwin Lark works in a quiet corner of a system built to finish things.At the Office of Unresolved Matters, his job isn’t to solve problems—it’s to hold them. Letters never sent. Conversations that ended too soon. Decisions that don’t sit right.But a new initiative changes everything.The...

Welcome to another escapade brought to you from the usual suspects. Let’s dive back into the wonderful universe of the McFlipperties! It’s the freezing winter of 1987. Outside, the notorious “Big Freeze” has blanketed the country in twenty inches of Siberian snow. Inside a tiny...

When Ludwig Bemelmans encounters the dashing yet penniless Comte de St. Cucuface aboard a Paris train, he is swept into a deliciously absurd adventure through 1950s France. Under the Count's mischievous tutelage, Bemelmans assumes the role of a German prince, hoodwinking strangers with...

Amanda Keeler is a bestselling novelist, famed for her martini-soaked parties. It's a glamorous life, paid for in full by marriage to a tedious, teeth-grinding newspaper tycoon. When a meek friend from her provincial past arrives in Manhattan, Amanda plots to use her as cover for an affair-until...

Sheila Hahn knows how to run a world.As a house manager to the ultra-wealthy, she’s the one everyone looks to, the person who has the answers, anticipates the needs, and keeps the wheels turning invisibly. But after years of managing other people’s lives across the country, Sheila returns...

Paddock Close is the sort of quiet English street where nothing much happens — at least, that is what the four families who live there would like everyone to believe.Four houses. Four gardens. One immaculate run of white picket fencing, lovingly painted every spring by Ted Buckley, the quiet...

Ever sat through a meeting and wondered what everyone was actually talking about?Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate nonsense.Somewhere between “let's circle back,” “let's leverage our bandwidth,” “take this offline,” and “let's boil the ocean,” ordinary workplace...