Humorous Fiction Humorous Fiction Humorous Fiction Contemporary Contemporary Romance Gloria Nagy Bailey White Eva Ibbotson • A House in the Hamptons (1990) • Quite a Year for Plums (1998) • A Company of Swans (1985) C.D. Payne Effie Leland Wilder Betina Krahn • Youth in Revolt: the journals of Nick • Out to Pasture: but not over the hill • Caught in the Act (1990) Twisp (1993) (1995) • Over What Hill?: notes from the Elizabeth Cadell Paul Rudnick pasture (1996) • Mrs. Westerby Changes Course • I’ll Take It (1989) (1968) Max Shulman Richard Russo • Anyone Got a Match? (1964) Cathie Linz • Straight Man (1997) • Wildfire (1996) LP Roy Blount, Jr. • Tender Guardian (1996) LP Art Buchwald • First Hubby (1990) • Stella in Heaven (2000) Teresa Medeiros Tom Bodett • One Night of Scandal (2003) Karen Karbo • The Free Fall of Webster Cummings • Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me (1996) Suzanne Finnamore (2000) • The End of the Road (1989) (also • Otherwise Engaged (1999) audiobook) Garrison Keillor - Lake Wobegon series Jane Austen Jerome K. Jerome • Persuasion (1950) Steve Martin • Three Men in a Boat (1964) • The Pleasure of My Company (2003) Western Clyde Edgerton Kathleen Karr Lauren Weisberger • In Memory of Junior (1992) • The Great Turkey Walk (1998) J Fic • The Devil Wears Prada (2003) Stephen McCauley Charles Portis Ann B. Ross - Miss Julia series • The Man of the House (1996) • True Grit (1968) Calvin Trillin Joe Keenan Thomas Berger • Tepper Isn’t Going Out (2002) • Putting on the Ritz (1991) • Little Big Man (1964) Jean Ferris Joan Bauer Joe R. Lansdale • Love among the Walnuts (1998) - • Hope was Here (2000) YA Fic - • The Magic Wagon (1986) recommended for teens recommended for teens Silas Bronson Library . Waterbury, Conn. 8/20/2012 dml Silas Bronson Library . Waterbury, Conn. 8/20/2012 dml Silas Bronson Library . Waterbury, Conn. 8/20/2012 dml Humorous Fiction Humorous Fiction Humorous Fiction Historical Fantasy/Science Fiction Christian Fiction Charles E. Mercer Connie Willis • Pacific (1981) • To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998) Philip Gulley - Harmony series YA Fic Robert Nye • Falstaff (1976) Terry Pratchett - Discworld series • Truth (2000) Thomas Pynchon • Jingo (1997) • Mason and Dixon (1997) Kage Baker John Barth • In the Garden of Iden: a novel of the • The Sot-weed Factor (1960) Company (1997) T. Coraghessan Boyle Douglas Adams • The Road to Wellville (1993) • Hitchhiker’s Trilogy (2000) SciFic - Recommended for teens Joe David Brown • Addie Pray (1971) also LP Diana Wynne Jones • Howl’s Moving Castle (1985) Fant Mark Twain Fic - recommended for teens • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the adventures of Huckleberry Finn Spider Robinson - Callahan series Jane Duncan - My Friend series Lois McMaster Bujold - Vorkosigan sa- • My Friends George and Tom (1976) ga Mark Childress Robert Asprin • Crazy in Alabama (1993) • Phule’s Company (1990) Sci Fic Sholem Aleichem Steven Brust • Some Laughter, Some Tears (1968) • Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar and Grille (1990) YA Brendan O’Carroll • The Mammy (1999) John DeChancie • The Chisellers (2000) • Living with Aliens (1995) YA Silas Bronson Library . Waterbury, Conn. 8/20/2012 dml Silas Bronson Library . Waterbury, Conn. 8/20/2012 dml Silas Bronson Library . Waterbury, Conn. 8/20/2012 dml Humorous Fiction Humorous Fiction Humorous Fiction Mystery Mystery Mystery Donald Westlake - Dortmunder series & Kerry Greenwood - Phryne Fisher series • Put a Lid on It (2002) - Mys Fic - Mys Fic David Rosenfelt (historical, set in Austrailia) - One Dog Night (2011) and other titles Harold Adams - Carl Wilcox series - in the Andy Carpenter series (Dog some in Adult, some in Mys Fic Sophie Littlefield - Stella Hardesty lovers will love his golden retriever series - Mys Fic sidekick.) Pete Hautman (contemporary, set in Missouri) • Doohickey (2002) Marshall Karp Claire Matturo - Lilly Cleary series - The Rabbit Factory (2006) and other Lindsey Davis - Marcus Didius Falco - Mys Fic titles in the Biggs and Lomax police series - some in Adult, some in Mys Fic (contemporary, set in Florida, features a procedural mystery series. sassy woman lawyer) (Los Angeles) Janet Evanovich • Ten Big Ones (2004) Mys Fic Sandra Scoppettone - Faye Quick Alex Bledsoe series - Mys Fic - Burn Me Deadly (2009) Tim Cockey (historical, set in 1940’s New York) Part Arthurian Fantasy, part mystery. • The Hearse You Came In On (1999) - Mys Fic Sparkle Hayter - Robin Hudson series - Mys Fic (woman journalist) Mary Daheim - Bed and Breakfast series - Mys Fic Thomas Kaufman - Drink the Tea (2010) Mys Fic Diane Mott Davidson - Goldy Bear (Washington, D.C. - political corruption) Series - Mys Fic David Housewright Anne George - Jelly’s Gold (2009) and other titles in • Murder Makes Waves (1997) - Mys the Mac MacKenzie series (retired cop- Fic St. Paul, Minnesota) Nancy Martin - Blackbird Sisters series - Richard Belzer Mys Fic - I am Not a Cop (2008) and other titles in the Detective John Munch series Silas Bronson Library . 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