The Greatest Humor Books Since 1990

Click to learn how this list is calculated.

This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

View: List Grid Table
Filter by: Genres Dates Countries

Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
641 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 1996 British English
890 High Fidelity Nick Hornby 1995 British English
1039 Birds of America Lorrie Moore 1998 American English
1111 Get Shorty Elmore Leonard 1990 American English
1565 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace 1997 American English
1895 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris 2000 American English
1907 Consider The Lobster David Foster Wallace 2005 American English
2223 Good Omens Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 1990 British English
2534 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
2638 The Adventures of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey 1997 American English
2680 Generation X Douglas Coupland 1991 Canadian English
3063 Home Land Sam Lipsyte 2004 American English
3178 Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood 2017 American English
3204 Fever Pitch Nick Hornby 1992 British English
3234 Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner 2005 American English
3382 Like Life Lorrie Moore 1990 American English
4096 Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall 2020 British English
4365 Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain 2000 American English
4369 Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan 2013 American English
4537 Stiff Mary Roach 2003 American English
4632 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle 1993 Irish English
4679 Skippy Dies Pauli Murray 2010 Irish English
4980 I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen 2011 Canadian English
5033 I Feel Bad About My Neck Nora Ephron 2006 American English
5409 Last Days of Summer Steve Kluger 1998 American English
5413 Bad Science Ben Goldacre 2008 British English
5435 The Office J.J. Voskuil 1996 Dutch Dutch
5605 Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs Chuck Klosterman 2003 American English
5619 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney 2007 American English
5651 Nothing To See Here Kevin Wilson 2019 American English
5705 Mondscheintarif Ildikò von Kürthy 1999 German German
5719 Manhood For Amateurs Michael Chabon 2009 American English
5743 Can You Keep A Secret? Sophie Kinsella 2003 British English
5751 Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison 1999 British English
5811 John Dies At The End David Wong 2007 American English
5949 Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon 2009 American English
6153 CivilWarLand in Bad Decline George Saunders 1996 American English
6162 Arguably Christopher Hitchens 2011 British English
6362 The Restraint Of Beasts Magnus Mills 1998 British English
6531 Born A Crime Trevor Noah 2016 South African English
6567 Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming László Krasznahorkai 2016 Hungarian Hungarian
6737 Titmuss Regained John Mortimer 1990 British English
6737 The Wimbledon Poisoner Nigel Williams 1990 British English
6737 My Misspent Youth Meghan Daum 2001 American English
6831 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2007 British English
6905 The Van Roddy Doyle 1991 Irish English
6974 The Good Life Elsewhere Vladimir Lorchenkov 2008 Russian Russian
7053 The Divine Ryans Wayne Johnston 1990 Canadian English
7056 Write To Kill Daniel Pennac 1990 French Unknown
7062 Then We Came To The End Joshua Ferris 2007 American English
7588 Moo Jane Smiley 1995 American English
7615 Don't Get Too Comfortable David Rakoff 2005 Canadian English
7628 The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett 2003 British English
7691 Heroes Like Us Thomas Brussig 1995 German German
7691 Das Superweib Hera Lind 1995 German German
7811 Shrill Lindy West 2016 American English
7831 Elling Ingvar Ambjørnsen 1996 Norwegian Norwegian
7844 The Accidental Ali Smith 2005 British English
7914 How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read Pierre Bayard 2007 French French
7956 Das Frühstücksei. Gesammelte Dramatische Geschichten Loriot 1997 German German
7984 B. Proudew Irena Dousková 1998 Czech Czech
8004 There Are Little Kingdoms Kevin Barry 2007 Irish English
8075 The Mighty Walzer Howard Jacobson 1999 British English
8075 The Great Derangement Matt Taibbi 2008 American English
8170 A Long Way Down Nick Hornby 2005 British English
8243 Bully For Brontosaurus Stephen Jay Gould 1991 American English
8248 Always Unreliable Clive James 2001 British English
8249 Funny in Farsi Firoozeh Dumas 2003 Iranian English
8267 That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon Kimberly Lemming 2022 American English
8292 Fredman's Epistles Carl Michael Bellman 1999 Swedish Swedish
8321 The Truth Terry Pratchett 2000 British English
8370 The Lecturer's Tale James Hynes 2001 American English
8410 Lost In A Good Book Jasper Fforde 2002 British English
8428 To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis 1997 American English
8444 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8444 Russian Disco Wladimir Kaminer 2000 German German
8465 The Fiddler In The Subway Gene Weingarten 2010 American English
8547 Down Under Bill Bryson 2000 American English
8615 Civilisation Steve Braunias 2012 New Zealand English
8629 The 13 Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths 2011 Australian English
8680 In Defense Of Sanity G. K. Chesterton 2011 British English
8708 Journey To The Land Of Flies And Other Travels Aldo Buzzi 1996 Italian Italian
8748 Reaper Man Terry Pratchett 1991 British English
8864 Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman 2020 American English
8896 Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It Geoff Dyer 2003 British English
8961 A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis 1994 American English
8972 A Short History Of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson 2003 American English
8989 Less Andrew Sean Greer 2017 American English
9021 The Extra Man Jonathan Ames 1998 American English
9021 Memories Of My Father Watching Tv Curtis White 1998 American English
9054 Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes Billy Collins 2000 American English
9109 The Collected Short Stories Of Roald Dahl Roald Dahl 1991 British English
9125 Lumberjanes Noelle Stevenson 2014 American English
9178 The Cocktail Collection Alice Clayton 2016 Unknown English
9179 Off To Be The Wizard Scott Meyer 2013 English
9218 Eats, Shoots and Leaves Lynne Truss 2003 British English
9237 Lightning Rods Helen DeWitt 2011 American English
9240 Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 British English
9261 Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast 2014 American English
9261 Absurdistan Gary Shteyngart 2006 Russian English
9307 The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger 2003 American English
9312 White Man Falling Mike Stocks 2006 British English
9340 Suzy Zeus Gets Organized Maggie Robbins 2000 American English
9345 Hera Lindsay Bird Hera Lindsay Bird 2016 New Zealand English
9372 Oh My God What A Complete Aisling Emer McLysaght, Sarah Breen 2017 Irish English
9538 Two Cures For Love Wendy Cope 2008 British English
9569 Pucked Helena Hunting 2015 Canadian English
9593 Písničky Bez Muziky Emanuel Frynta 2010 Czech Czech
9603 Hogfather Terry Pratchett 1996 British English
9608 Leonard And Hungry Paul Rónán Hession 2019 Irish English
9619 We Are Never Meeting In Real Life. Samantha Irby 2017 American English
9642 Josh And Hazel's Guide To Not Dating Christina Lauren 2018 American English
9682 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
9820 Mean Boy Lynn Coady 2006 Canadian English
9850 Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim David Sedaris 2004 American English
9889 Round Ireland With A Fridge Tony Hawks 1998 British English
9954 Big Girl, Small Town Michelle Gallen 2020 Irish English
9961 Winner Of The National Book Award Jincy Willett 2003 American English
9973 Where’d You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple 2012 American English
9979 This Inevitable Ruin Matt Dinniman 2024 Unknown English