English wit and humor

169 books

Moomin

Tove Jansson

2007 ★ 4.2

The Hunting of the Snark

Lewis Carroll

1876 ★ 4.8

1066 and All That

Walter Carruthers Sellar, Robert Julian Yeatman

1930 ★ 4.4

The plays of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

1905

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Jerome Klapka Jérôme

1880 ★ 3.6

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Charles Dickens, Frank Stone, John Tenniel

1848

The unadulterated cat

Gray Jolliffe, Terry Pratchett

2002 ★ 3.2

Weird things customers say in bookshops

Jen Campbell

2012 ★ 3.7

The Deeper Meaning of Liff

John Lloyd, Douglas Adams

1990 ★ 3.9

Poems by Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood

1800

A book of nonsense

Edward Lear

1900

The meaning of Liff

John Lloyd, Douglas Adams

1983

Round Ireland with a fridge

Tony Hawks

1999 ★ 3.5

The Smashing Saxons (Horrible Histories) (Horrible Histories)

Terry Deary

2007 ★ 4.3

The rose and the ring

William Makepeace Thackeray

1854

Talk to the Hand- The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

Lynne Truss

2005 ★ 3.5

Flanimals

Ricky Gervais

2004

A Slip of the Keyboard

Terry Pratchett

2014

The amazing book is not on fire

Dan Howell

2015

In-laws and outlaws

C. Northcote Parkinson

1962

The young visiters [sic], or, Mr. Salteena's plan

J. M. Barrie, Daisy Ashford

1919

The World According to Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson

2004 ★ 3.7

Maeves Times Selected Irish Times Writings

Maeve Binchy

2013

Parkinson's Law

C. Northcote Parkinson

1993 ★ 3.4

Roald Dahl's Marvellous Joke Book

Roald Dahl

2012

Parkinson's Law

C. Northcote Parkinson

1977

And Another Thing

Jeremy Clarkson

2007 ★ 3.0

Aspects of verbal humour in English

Alexander, Richard.

1997

The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth and marvels

Richard Harris Barham, Thomas Ingoldsby

1837

Paperweight

Stephen Fry

1992