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John Mortimer
(English, legal, humor / mystery)
- Rumpole for the Defense
- Rumpole on Trial
- Rumpole's Last Case
Peter Mayle
(foreign culture, humor)
- Hotel Pastis
- Encore Provence
- A Dog's Life
- Aquired Tastes
Yogi Berra
(baseball great - funny speech)
- Ten Rings
- When you Come to a Fork in the Road, Take it!
- What Time is it: You Mean Now?
P. G. Wodehouse
(pre-war English society)
- Jeeves, and the Tie that Binds
Carl Hiaasen
(Florida-living humor)
- Sick Puppy
- Basket Case
- Naked Came the Manatee
Lorna Landvik
(women's humor)
- Oh My Stars
- Patty Janes House of Curl
- Tall Pine Polka
Bailey White
(southern family humor)
- Quite a Year for Plums
- Mama Makes up her Mind
Andy Rooney
(CBS "60minutes" star, American humor)
- Not that you Asked
- Sweet and Sour
- Common Nonsense
Lewis Grizzard
(southern humor)
- I Took a Lickin and Kept on Tickin
- Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night
- It Wasn't Always Easy, But I Sure Had Fun
Fanny Flagg
(southern humor)
- Coming Attractions
- Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
- Redbird Christmas
Bill Cosby
(popular performer, family-life)
- Fatherhood
- Childhood
- Love and Marriage
Erma Bombeck
(family humor)
- Forever Erma
- The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
- A Marriage Made in Heaven
Dave Barry
(American life humor)
- Dave Barry's Money Secrets
- Tricky Business
- Dave Barry's Bad Habits
Nancy Atherton
(Aunt Dimity ghost detective)
- Aunt Dimity Takes a Vacation
- Aunt Dimity, Detective
- Aunt Dimity, Snowbound
Donald Westlake
(New York detective humor)
- Put a Lid on it
- Road to Ruin
- Bad News
Al Franken
(political humor & satire)
- Why not Me (Al Franken Presidency)
- Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
- Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot
Molly Ivins
(Texas political humor)
- Bushwhacked
- Shrub
Garrison Keillor
("Prairie Home Companion," midwest)
- The Book of Guys
- Wobegon Days
- Love Me
Steve Martin
(movie star, zaney humor)
- Shop Girl
- The Pleasure of My Company
- Pure Drivel
Will Rogers
(1930's American social humor)
- Will Rogers: Reflections and Observations
David Sedaris
(zaney contemporary humor)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Mark Twain
(19th Century, classic American)
- Echoes of Laughter / Short Stories
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Life on the Mississippi
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
Lois Wyse
(women, family)
- You Wouldn't Believe what My Grandchild Did
- The Granddaughter
- Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother
Bob Hope
(classic Hollywood humor)
- Bob Hope: My Life in Jokes
- Don't Shoot, It's Only Me!
- Confessions of a Hooker
Charles Osgood
(CBS commentator, American life)
- Funny Letters from Famous People
- See You on the Radio
- Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
Robert Dole
(political wit/humor)
- Great Political Wit
- Great Presidential Wit
James Herriot
(1930s English veterinarian life)
- Vets Might Fly
- Vet in a Spin
- James Herriot's Favorite Cat/Dog Stories
Art Buchwald
(human nature, satire, politcal humor)
- I'll Always Have Paris
- Stella in Heaven
- I Think I Don't Remember
Rebecca Wells
(southern humor)
- Little Altars Everywhere
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Ya-Ya's in Bloom
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