Hilarious eBooks That Will Raise Laugh from Readers

Comedy eBooks relieve stress and boost your mood. They can also improve your body’s immune system and relieve pain. Here are some eBooks that will fire up the reader’s sense of humor.

The Sellout – Paul Beatty

“The Sellout” won the 2016 Man Booker Prize. The eBook tells the story of a young man who resigned to his lower-middle-class upbringing in Dickens, California. He becomes the subject of several racially charged psychology studies under the upbringing of a controversial sociologist. His father is killed in a police shoot-out, and Dickens, California, is to be remembered. The hilarious chapters make the book even more enjoyable.

Made for Love – Alissa Nutting

Originally published on July 4, 2017, this eBook follows the story of an unfortunate young woman who returns home to stay with her dad to escape her sinister husband. She finds her dad cohabiting with a freakishly life-like sex doll named Diane. To make matters weirder, a handsome con man finds himself developing a fetish for sea animals like dolphins. To see more about this eBook, sign up with Readro.

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

This is one of the most iconic comic books of the twentieth century and a true classic of American fiction. Set in the early 1960s, a thirty-year-old crank called Ignatius lives with his mother in New Orleans. He sets out on a reluctant quest for employment and gets mixed up in all manner of hijinks.

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3 Best Funny Audiobooks You Should Listen to on Your Next Road Trip

Thinking about taking a long trip and need something to help pass the time? Listening to funny audiobooks will ensure that you have a memorable road trip. Let’s take a look at some of the most amusing eBook you might want to listen to on your next adventure.

Missions Accomplished – Tim Jenkins

Everyone wants their experience on road trips to be exhilarating. Unfortunately, things don’t always pan out the way you had planned. This audiobook comprises a collection of anecdotes and lessons learned while on the road. The author draws his own experiences making the audiobook both educational and hilariously funny. Christopher Corey Smith is the narrator of this audiobook. Get this audiobook at Readro.

The Humor Code – Peter McGraw

Initially released in 2014, this audiobook is designed for people of all ages. The narrator of this audiobook is Peter Berkrot. The Humor Code has dozens of interviews with comedians, cartoonists, researchers, and more. You can download this audiobook after registering an account on Readro.

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo – Author F.C. Yee

Completing high school studies and trying to get into the right college is a challenging experience. Demons from Chinese folklore invade Genie Lo’s sleepy town. According to the new transfer student, she has the power to beat back the demonic invasion. Her attempts to keep getting good grades will make you love this audiobook.

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Relieve Stress With These AudioBooks

The technological revolution has played a huge role in the current era. With so many people owning a smartphone device, accessing and listening to audiobooks has become easier. Here are some of the best audiobooks you should listen to.

Locke and Key

This book is about a brutal and tragic event that drives away the Locke family from their home town, California. They run for safety in their ancestral estate in Lovecraft. Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode Locke discover an abandoned old house with powerful keys and beautiful doors. The doors can transform all who dare to walk through them. Also, they end up realizing that the house was home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will stop at nothing but opening the most terrible door.

Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart talks about the calm, good-humored character. He experiences the prime of his political career when he is picked to be the prime candidate for bedtime stories. The sleep timer is set and he sleeps deeply after four years of cruelty and chaos.

Troy – Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry published his book Troy almost immediately after releasing his best-selling tales of Greek Mythology. In this eBook, he mentions the kidnapping of the famous Helen and the long historical war that took place. Troy battles against all odds and emerges as the hero of the story. The book has themes of love, war, and power.

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eBooks That Are Guaranteed to Give You an Adrenaline Overdose

Some eBooks were written to give readers adrenaline and make the experience exciting. You will not be bored while cooped up inside for so long. Take a look at some of the best eBooks that will get your adrenaline running.

People like us- Dana Mele

Written by Dana Mele, People Like Us is a psychological thriller debut. Kay Donovan starts a murder investigation after a girl’s body appears on Bate’s Academy lake and the appearance of a revenge blog that contains a scavenger hunt reappears. Kay races with time to prevent more deaths from happening in Bates Academy.

The Merciless- Danielle Vega

Merciless is a story of a young lady called Brooklyn Stevens, who sits tied up and gagged in blood. She sits there screaming, but no one knows she’s there. Three friends, Alexis, Grace, and Riley, are on a mission to save Brooklyn. The three friends are going to perform an exorcism, and they have invited Sofia to come along, but along the way, she wants out. But there is no getting out. Prepare yourself for a heart rate spike.

The Valiant- Lesley Livingston

This is your book if you are looking for romance, action, and danger. Fallon is a smaller sister to a legendary fighter called Sorcha and the daughter of a Celtic King. The armies of Julius Ceaser killed Sorcha when Fallon was still young. On her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is captured and sold to none other than Julius Ceaser. She is put in an elite school that trains female gladiators. Fallon’s only hope of survival might be through the man who destroyed her family, Julius Ceaser.

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Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone on Moving Their Family to Australia

Now available digitally through HBO Max, Superintelligence is the latest Melissa McCarthy film that’s set to give you a good laugh. It also marks the fourth time McCarthy collaborated with director Ben Falcone, who just happens to be her husband. For the couple, comedy is a family affair, one that includes their daughters Vivian, 13, and Georgette, 10. Recently interviewed for the New York Times to promote their new film, the couple was asked about a recent family move to Australia, here’s an excerpt:

How much does family figure into your career choices?

MELISSA McCARTHY The carnival moves as one. Where we can do that, we pack up the tent and we all go together, and that’s usually what presents itself as the winning solution.

Australia, for instance?

BEN FALCONE We had just finished a superhero movie called “Thunder Force.” We had just come home and we promised our kids, “That’s it.” And then Covid hit.

McCARTHY: Then I got a call saying, “Would you consider going to Australia to shoot ‘Nine Perfect Strangers?’” [That series is based on the novel by Liane Moriarty and also stars Nicole Kidman.] And I said, “I can’t move my family across the globe.” We were both like: “This is madness. This is impossible to do.” And our oldest daughter came out for lunch from her Zoom class, and without a second’s hesitation she said, “We should leave today.”

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The Funnier Side of Despots and Dictators

You can make almost anything a laughing matter, so why not look at the funnier side of history’s despots and dictators for a good laugh? The team here at Readro dug into our collection of ebooks and audiobooks to bring you the following fun facts:

Delicious dairy. Fidel Castro held a tight grip over Cuba, ruling first as Prime Minister then as President, although many considered him to be little more than a dictator throughout. But Castro held more than just a tight grip over his people, he also held a deep love for all things dairy, especially ice cream. In fact, Castro had a breed of cow genetically engineered from two other breeds that would be resistant to Cuba’s heat and would produce plenty of milk.

A lover of the Opera. Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s enigmatic Supreme Leader from 1994-2011 was actually born Yuri Irsenovich Kim in 1941 in the Soviet village of Vyatskoye, near Khabarovsk. A strict dictator by most accounts, Kim Jong Il had a softer side too, one that included a great love of opera. In fact, Il actually wrote six operas himself while in office.

A second career. Known primarily as the fascist dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini had a reputation for being harsh and occasionally cruel. But before his life in politics Il Duce had a brief career in journalism, and even wrote a romance novel. Yes, a romance novel. Entitled The Cardinal’s Mistress, the historical romance novel can still be ordered online to this very day, although it is apparently quite awful.

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“Seriously Funny” is a Lot More Than Just Funny

Author and journalist Gerald Nachman has had an impressive career, writing for such famed publications as The New York Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, all while publishing six books on an array of topics. One of his more notable books, Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s, published by Pantheon Books in 2003 is nothing short of a must-read for those interested in comedy’s rich history. In the book, Nachman tells of the biggest names in comedy, performers who were nothing short of revolutionary, and how they forever influenced the genre. Touching on everyone from Mort Sahl to Ernie Kovacs, with a lot of notable names in between, Nachman paints a surprisingly detailed picture of each comedian as well as the comedy landscape on the whole. From the book, here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite:

“Nobody saw Mort Sahl coming. When he arrived, the revolution had not yet begun. Sahl was the revolution, at first, although he had no such grand idea in mind. He wasn’t plotting the violent overthrow of the conservative comedy government. He was never a rebel, deep down. In thought, yes, but rarely in deed. His secret desire-a pipe dream, really-was to work somewhere as a comedian. He had no experience and little idea where to go to be funny, other than parties and all-night campus hangouts, where he held forth in his motormouth manner.”

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You Should Get to Know Fanny Brice

Long before Betty White became a pioneering trailblazer in the world of film and comedy, there was Faniah Borach, better known by her stage name, Fanny Brice. In a manner of speaking, Brice was showbusiness personified. The actress, comedienne, and singer wowed audiences in the theatres, on radio, and even in the early days of television.

“I’ve done everything in the theatre except marry a property man,” Fanny Brice once boasted. “I’ve acted for Belasco and I’ve laid ’em out in the rows at the Palace. I’ve doubled as an alligator; I’ve worked for the Shuberts; and I’ve been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I’ve painted the house boards and I’ve sold tickets and I’ve been fired by George M. Cohan. I’ve played in London before the king and in Oil City before miners with lanterns in their caps.”

Barbra Streisand did much for Fanny Brice when she portrayed the star on stage and screen in the 1964 hit musical Funny Girl, its subsequent film adaptation in 1968, and its sequel, Funny Lady, in 1975. But where Streisand’s portrayal left gaps, biographer Herbert G. Goldman filled them in with his account of Brice’s life and impressive career. The biography was first released back in 1992 but subsequent publications in various formats, including ebook, have made it more accessible than ever, and it’s well worth a read for any fan of comedy!

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Nora Ephron Didn’t Like Looking at Mirrors

Perhaps best remembered for her timeless romantic comedies like When Harry Met Sally… (1989) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Norah Ephron was a gifted writer, journalist, and filmmaker. Though she was taken from us far too soon, she managed to accumulate an impressive amount of awards and accolades for her work, including three Academy Awards, two BAFTA awards, a Golden Globe, and a Tony, just to name a few. Fans still love and adore her work to this very day, and even though she died back in 2012 at the age of 71 after a battle with leukemia, tributes continue to pour in regularly. Ephron approached nearly everything with some degree of humor. Take, for example, this excerpt from a 2006 NPR interview in which she talked about passing mirrors, and the reality of getting older.

“If I’m following a young person down the street and the young person passes a mirror, I see the fabulous way he or she turns toward it and kind of smiles and checks himself/herself out and they know what they’re going to see. We don’t know. There’s a certain moment where you’re just terrified about what you’re going to see. So if you are forced to look at a mirror, you squint and then gently open your eyes to see if it’s safe. And if it’s not, you close them and walk on.”

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Christopher Moore Gets Practical About Vampire Books

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to think that authors put out books only when creativity strikes? Alas, the realities of the publishing world differ from that dream, and perhaps few know it better than Christopher Moore. A successful author by all accounts, Moore has 20 novels under his belt, including 3 within the Vampires in San Francisco series: Bloodsucking Fiends (1995), You suck (2007), and Bite Me (2010). Back in 2010 Moore sat down for an interview with Express. Asked about when he first thought of expanding his initial vampire story, here’s what he had to say:

“I would think it almost had to be 10 years ago. You’d love it all to be creatively motivated, but the fact is, publishers would like you to put out a book a year when you’re a popular fiction author. And there are some books that I just can’t put out that quickly. They require too much research. So I thought I could do a big book then a little book. And the vampire books made sense — they’re set in a town that I’m very familiar with and they’re full of characters I’m very familiar with. So I proposed it to my publisher maybe nine years ago as a way to expand it. Now, I always thought I could do a sequel to the original book, which I wrote in 1994 and published in ’95, but I hadn’t actually proposed it as a bigger piece of work — a trilogy — until several years later. But basically, I thought I could write these books quickly enough that I could satisfy deadlines to the publisher.”