Books: What to Know
Old Books That Are Actually Funny
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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4,111 humour
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Aunt Affable's Story of Old Mother Bantry and Her Cat
poetry
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Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John
L. Frank Baum · novel
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Aunt Jane's Nieces out West
L. Frank Baum · novel
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Aunt Jo's scrap bag, Volume 2
Louisa May Alcott · novel
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Aunt Jo's scrap-bag, Volume 3
Louisa May Alcott · short story
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Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs
W. S. Gilbert · poetry
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Bab: A Sub-Deb
Mary Roberts Rinehart · novel
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Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
F. Anstey · novel
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Baby Mine
Margaret Mayo · novel
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Back at School with the Tucker Twins
Nell Speed · novel
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Back to back [Night watches, Part 1.]
W. W. Jacobs · short story
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Back to the Woods: The Story of a Fall from Grace
George V. Hobart · novel
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Bad Medicine
Robert Sheckley · short story
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Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing
Charles Dudley Warner · travel
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Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's "Leaves o' Grass"
Bill Nye · novel
The story in one page
Barchester Towers
A bishop dies, a chaplain overreaches, and the cathedral close descends into polite, high-stakes misery.
Anthony Trollope · novel
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Bardell v. Pickwick
Percy Fitzgerald · novel
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Barks and Purrs
Colette · novel
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Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer; or, The Cruise of the Queer Fish
Herrick Johnstone · novel
The story in one page
Barry Lyndon
An Irish adventurer tries to marry his way into the British peerage without a single redeeming quality.
William Makepeace Thackeray · novel
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Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy
Ben Jonson · play
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Bat Wing Bowles
Dane Coolidge · novel
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Be young again!
Murray Leinster · novel
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Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 5
poetry
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Bealby; A Holiday
H. G. Wells · novel
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Bearly Reasonable
W. C. Tuttle · novel
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Beasley's Christmas Party
Booth Tarkington · novel
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Beasts and Super-Beasts
Saki · short story
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 02 of 10: the Humourous Lieutenant
John Fletcher · play
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 08 of 10
Francis Beaumont · play
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Beaver: An Alphabet of Typical Specimens
John Kettelwell · novel
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Bedridden and the Winter Offensive
W. W. Jacobs · novel
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Beer-Trust Busters
A. R. Stuart · short story
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Beggars on Horseback; A riding tour in North Wales
Martin Ross · travel
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Behind the Beyond, and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge
Stephen Leacock · short story
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Behind the Bungalow
Edward Hamilton Aitken · ideas
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Being a Boy
Charles Dudley Warner · novel
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Believe You Me!
Nina Wilcox Putnam · novel
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Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts
A. A. Milne · play
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Belly Laugh
Randall Garrett · short story
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Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G.
John Leech · history
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Berry and Co.
Dornford Yates · novel
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Best laid schemes
Meredith Nicholson · short story
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Best Short Stories
Thomas L. Masson · collection
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Betsey Bobbett: A Drama
Marietta Holley · play
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Betsy Baker! or, Too Attentive by Half; A Farce, in One Act
John Maddison Morton · play
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Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat), Wife of Jobe Gaskins (Republican)
W. I. Hood · novel
The story in one page
Betty Wales, Senior
The Merry Hearts face their final term, and the reality of leaving campus is surprisingly inconvenient.
Edith K. Dunton · novel