Independent Reading Round 3

For the third round of choose-your-own- book, we will stick with the theme of humor. Choose a book with a strong element of comedy, humor or absurdity. Here are some suggestions:

--a biography or memoir about a comedian
--Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift (a wonderful story and good piece of satire)
--a collection of stories or essays by James Thurber or another humorist (e.g. David Sedaris)
--almost anything by Kurt Vonnegut
--almost anything by Mark Twain
--A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
--one of the two books by Sherman Alexi
--a Tom Robbins novel (warning--sometimes sexually explicit)
--Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
--The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde (a great comic play)
--an absurdist play by Beckett, Ionesco, or Edward Albee

There are some helpful lists of humorous books to be found online, as well.

If you choose a book and it turns out not to be funny to you, no problem. Read it anyway. As we've discussed, humor is subjective.