Best Funny Short Stories - April 2024

Uncommon Type: Some Stories

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture in... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06WP988TB
• ASIN: B06WP988TB
• Brand: Knopf
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Laughter Really Is The Best Medicine: America's Funniest Jokes, Stories, and Cartoons

Collected from one of the omst popular features of Reader's Digest magazine, this compliation of more than 1,000 all-new jokes, quotes, anecdotes, quips, and cartoons is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud each day.This collection of laugh-out-loud jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life-drawn from Reader's Digest magazine's most popular humor columns-is sure to tickle the funny bone. Packed with more than 1,000 jokes, anecdotes, cartoons, quotes, quips, funny things kids say, and stories contributed by professional comedians, joke writers, and readers of the magazine, th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1606522043
• ASIN: 1606522043
• ISBN: 9781606522042
• Manufacturer: Reader's Digest

Laughter the Best Medicine: A Laugh-Out-Loud Collection of our Funniest Jokes, Quotes, Stories & Cartoons(Reader's Digest)

Laughter the Best Medicine is a collection of Reader's Digest magazine's funniest jokes, quotes, stories, cartoons, anecdotes, and laugh-out-loud captions.  A little chuckle every day will keep the doctor away.This hilarious collection offers up some of the funniest moments that get us through our day, in the form of jokes, gags and cartoons that will have readers laughing out loud. Editors have mined the Reader’s Digest archives to bring readers Laughter the Best Medicine, All-Time Faves, a collection of the most hilarious jokes and anecdotes we’ve come across over the years. As you... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0895779773
• ASIN: 0895779773
• ISBN: 9780895779779
• Brand: Reader's Digest
• Manufacturer: Reader's Digest

The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library (Hardcover))

The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume.  The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller.  They are tales in his most mellow, humorous, and ironic moods.  They give the full range and flavor of the man born William Sydney Porter but known throughout the world as O. Henry, one of the great masters of the short sto... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679601228
• ASIN: 0679601228
• ISBN: 0679601228
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

Nine Perfect Strangers

• ASIN: B07C75GRLY
• ASIN: B07C75GRLY
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)

• ASIN: B000XUDHNE
• ASIN: B000XUDHNE
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

The Wedding Trap (Second Service, Book 1)

Beth Bradley has a problem. Everyone is expecting her successful music executive boyfriend, Charlie, to be her date for her best friend’s wedding. There’s one hitch: Charlie doesn’t exist. Unless she can think of something fast, she’s headed for the most humiliating weekend of her life.Alex Tanner has a problem. The former Navy SEAL's search for a double agent lands him at the Kensington Hotel, and he needs a cover to finish the job. When the sexy maid of honor blackmails him into pretending to be her lover, he thinks he's been handed the solution.Except Beth has a way of stumbling int... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00DRFQRIO
• ASIN: B00DRFQRIO
• Manufacturer: Adrienne Bell

August Origins (An Action Mystery (Mackenzie August series) Book 1)

AN AMAZON MYSTERY BEST SELLER★★★★★ "A rousing crime novel." - Amazon Top ReviewerMack August, frustrated Los Angeles police detective, moves to a smaller city in Virginia to start over. Rather than join the force, he opens his own P.I. shop and hires out to local attorneys--until Sheriff Stackhouse comes calling, a stunner in designer khakis. Trouble has arrived, she explains, in the form of a gang general from the West Coach. He's galvanizing the drug trade using vicious strong-arm tactics, and the police can't identify him.The Sheriff begs Mackenzie to take a temporary assignment t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06WRSNML4
• ASIN: B06WRSNML4
• Manufacturer: Sparkle Press

A Short History of Nearly Everything

• ASIN: B000FBFNII
• ASIN: B000FBFNII
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Secret Games

Dante Vanderbilt. 6”4. Muscular. Sexy hazel eyes. Dark silky hair. The sort of man that no woman wants to say no to. And he knows it. He’s cocky, arrogant, and the most handsome man I’ve ever met in my life.I’m not the sort of girl to have a one night stand. I’m not the sort of girl that hooks up in someone’s office, but when I met Dante, I no longer recognized the sort of girl that I was. I decided to let caution sail to the wind and go with the flow and submit everything to him.But then, Dante did something unexpected. Suddenly he turned the heat to up 100 and I’m left hanging ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07KG77J9M
• ASIN: B07KG77J9M

DIRTY, LAZY, KETO: Getting Started: How I Lost 140 Pounds

#1 New Release, #1 Best Seller. Stephanie Laska lost 140 pounds, roughly half of her body weight, by following a ketogenic inspired diet. She figured out the secret to losing weight without the crazy restrictions of a traditional keto diet by following a "dirty" and "lazy" version of keto.Stephanie spent most of her adult life in the Morbidly Obese Class III BMI category. Hovering close to 300 pounds, she avoided booths at restaurants and feared not fitting into amusement park rides. "I once hid my jacket over my lap so the flight attendant wouldn't see that my seatbelt wouldn't close," she ad... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H3F4VLS
• ASIN: B07H3F4VLS

Big Little Lies

• ASIN: B00HDMMISA
• ASIN: B00HDMMISA
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Avengers: Heroes Welcome #1

The Avengers and Nova by the all-star team of Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Brooks! What is a hero? When Sam Alexander, a.k.a. Nova, has a bout of doubt on how to best use his newfound powers, he gets advice from the experts: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Featuring Captain America, Thor, the Wasp, Luke Cage, She-Hulk and Iron Man!

• ASIN: B00ZNZFYYO
• ASIN: B00ZNZFYYO
• Manufacturer: Marvel

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold.The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and any... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MAWT2MO
• ASIN: B01MAWT2MO
• Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic.The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Devastating lo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451696191
• ASIN: 1451696191
• ISBN: 9781451696196
• Brand: MTV Books
• Manufacturer: MTV Books

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together (Paperback)

The fourth entry in the irresistible You Read to Me collection now offers scary fun with the addition of spooky tales just right for Halloween or any other spook-tacular day. Full

• UPC: 4170497
• Rating: 4.333

It's Kind of a Funny Story

The author of "Be More Chill" takes a poignant look at teenage depression in this remarkably moving and authentic picture of the physicality, the despair, and even the hilarity of

• UPC: 122937754
• Rating: 3.955

Selected Tales and Sketches (the Best Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry

• UPC: 6105733
• Rating: 5.0

Funny Girl : Funniest. Stories. Ever.

A collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic

• UPC: 55425594
• Rating: 4.0

Best Russian Short Stories - eBook

For centuries, critics and fans alike have extolled the virtues of the Russian masters of fiction, with many ranking them among the foremost literary artists the world has ever produced. This volume collects finely crafted

• UPC: 699648974
• Rating: 3.5

Funny School Stories: Learning to Read Box Set : 5 Fun-Filled Adventures!

Featuring five beloved I Can Reads, this collection of favorite easy-to-read stories is full of familiar faces and new friends, all in hilarious school adventures. This Level One box set with handle is perfect for

• UPC: 49745149

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9781420938036

• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever. (Paperback)

9780147517838

• UPC: 293982601
• Rating: 4.0

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short

• UPC: 55971052
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2005

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from

• UPC: 34682001
• Rating: 3.75

+300 Best Jokes: Dirty One-Liners and Funny Short Stories Col... by Shaw, Donald

• UPC: 392043858575
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 23 USD

300 Clean Jokes for Kids: Best One-Liners and Funny Short Stories Collection,D

• UPC: 372500809894
• Category: Non Fiction
• Price: 2 GBP

300 Clean Jokes for Kids: Best One-Liners and Funny Short Stories Collection

• UPC: 292977802517
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 3 GBP

150+ BEST JOKES 2016: FUNNY SHORT STORIES AND MEMES FOR LAUGH OUT By Matthew NEW

• UPC: 183855850193
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 21 USD

+300 Best Jokes : Dirty One-Liners and Funny Short Stories Collection

• UPC: 143184186849
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 26 USD