Start with high-confidence humor books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats
Edward McPherson
Everything Is Going to Be Great
Rachel Shukert
Waiter Rant
Steve Dublanica
A Christmas Cornucopia
Mark Forsyth
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson
Tinsel
Hank Stuever
How to Invent Everything
Ryan North
The Know-it-all
A. J. Jacobs
Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy
Conor Riordan, Gemma Correll
Thurber on Crime
James Thurber, Robert Lopresti
Arbitrary Stupid Goal
Tamara Shopsin
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This
Bob Newhart
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
Thomas Oléron Evans, Hannah Fry
Maphead
Ken Jennings
The World According to Kaleb
Kaleb Cooper
Big Baby
Kevin James Thornton
The Reluctant Tuscan
Phil Doran
Girl Walks Into a Bar . . .
Rachel Dratch
The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Jerome K. Jerome, Mint Editions
Taskmaster
Alex Horne
