Funny Fiction on Audio

Hissy Fit  by Mary Kay Andrews
Keeley Murdock's wedding should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance doing the deed with her maid of honor at the country club rehearsal dinner, all bets are off. And so is the wedding. Keeley pitches the hissy fit of the century, earning herself instant notoriety in the small town of Madison, Georgia. Only a designing woman like Keeley Murdock can find a way to clear her name and give her cheating varmint of an ex-fiance the comeuppance he so richly deserves. And only Mary Kay Andrews can deliver such delicious social satire.

Crazy In Alabama  by Mark Childress
Childress delivers the touching and vastly entertaining tale of Peejoe, an orphan boy who comes of age during a racially restless summer in the Deep South, and Lucille, his zany aunt who flees from a soul-numbing marriage – a union she can't entirely escape in the end. For both Lucille and Peejoe, the summer of '65 will live on as the time when everybody went crazy in Alabama.

The Fourth Bear  by Jasper Fforde
Here is the second story in the Nursery Crime series featuring Detective Jack Spratt and his partner Mary Mary. Spratt must track down a legendary violent criminal known as the Gingerbreadman, a "seven-foot biscuit with a bad attitude." But, before Jack can start his investigation, he is forced to take a leave of absence when his very sanity is questioned. Meanwhile investigative reporter Henrietta "Goldilocks" Hatchett has gone missing. The last to see her alive were three bears ... but was there a fourth? Also try Fforde’s Thursday Next novels: The Well of Lost Plots.

Basket Case  by Carl Hiaasen
Jack Tagger, once an investigative reporter, is now reduced to writing obituaries. One day, he catches the scent of a real news story in a death notice. Jimmy Stoma, a lead singer of the once-notorious Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, has died in a scuba-diving accident. Sensing foul play, Jack is soon tracking down Jimmy's not-so-grieving widow. Also try Hiaasen’s other novels on audio, including Skinny Dip.

How to be Good  by Nick Hornby
How to Be Good has the ironic, funny, startlingly accurate take on our modern selves and our modern world that has become Hornby's turf as a chronicler of our popular culture—but this time he tackles it all with more richness and depth, and carries his readers beyond the comic confines of the novel to a bigger truth about themselves. It's a story about how to wreck your marriage, how to help the homeless, how not to raise your kids, how to find religion . . . and how to be good. Also try A Long Way Down.

Watermelon  by Marian Keyes
At 29, fun-loving, good-natured Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James visits her in the recovery room to inform her that he's leaving her. Claire is left with a beautiful newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a body that she can hardly bear to look at in the mirror. So, in the absence of any better offers, Claire decides to go home to her family in Dublin. To her gorgeous man-eating sister Helen, her soap-watching mother, her bewildered father. And there, sheltered by the love of an (albeit quirky) family, she gets better.

Confessions of a Shopaholic  by Sophie Kinsella
Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it — not any of it. She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky's only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something.... Also try Shopaholic Take Manhattan.

The Pleasure of My Company  by Steve Martin
A slave to his obsessive-compulsive disorder, Daniel Pecan Cambridge is a young recluse whose lonely, pathologically structured existence is unexpectedly turned around by Clarissa, a psychiatry student and social worker who's been studying his complex peculiarities. When her abusive ex-husband tries to take away her son, Teddy, Daniel steps in to protect the boy. From this single, uncharacteristic moment of courage and involvement, Daniel soon grows to care deeply for Clarissa and Teddy, until they both become an essential part of his life. Read by Steve Martin.

Nostradamus Ate My Hamster  by Robert Rankin
They're making a movie in Brentford and all the film greats are there – all the dead ones anyway. And it's not just any movie either, this is the movie that will change the world forever! Robert Rankin writes as if he's half Terry Pratchett, half Jasper Fforde and half Douglas Adams. Throw in some time traveling Nazis, a pub that's atomized off the face of the earth and plenty of British wit and humor read by the author and you've got one hilarious book! Also try Rankin’s The Witches of Chiswick.

Bubbles Unbound  by Sarah Strohmeyer
Convinced there's more to life than giving blue dye jobs at Sandy's House of Beauty, Bubbles sets her sights on a career in journalism. If her on-the-job training at the local newspaper isn't enough to make her break a nail, she's also got her wacky family to deal with – from her bottom-feeding, social-climbing ex-husband, to her precocious teenage daughter, Jane, to her gun-toting, shoplifting mother, LuLu, who's recently hijacked the shuttle bus from the senior center. The Bubbles series continues with Bubbles in Trouble.

Breakfast of Champions  by Kurt Vonnegut
Dwayne Hoover, a Midwestern automobile salesman with a troubled marriage, meets Vonnegut's famous character, the hack writer Kilgore Trout, on the eve of Trout's receiving the Nobel Prize. Breakfast of Champions is another of Vonnegut's savage satires of middle American values and their racketeering. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

Thank You Jeeves  by P.G. Wodehouse
A full cast of Wodehouse creations – including tyrannical relatives, beastly acquaintances, demon children, and literary fatheads – return for further near catastrophes and sparkling comedy. Lord ‘Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves in Thank You, Jeeves, while pursuing the love of his life, but when he finds out that Jeeves's employer, Bertie Wooster, was once engaged to Pauline himself, fearsome complications develop. Also try the rest of the Jeeves and Wooster series, including Right Ho, Jeeves.