Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud

Happy Top Ten Tuesday over at That Artsy Reader Girl!

I know I've done similar topics before, so while David Lebovitz or Jen Lancaster can always get me to laugh, I'm focusing on books I've read in the past couple of years. Happy reading!

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking book cover featuring a gingerbread man wielding a knife

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
Black Widow by Leslie Gray Streeter
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List ed. Alana Newhouse
Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day
Howl's Moving Castle by Dianne Wynne Jones
The Boy Who Steals Houses by C.G. Drews
Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

Comments

Lydia said…

I've heard good things about The Boy Who Steals Houses~

My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-that-made-me-laugh-out-loud/

February 23, 2021 at 1:06 PM

Judy Krueger said…

Good list. I see some here I must investigate.

February 24, 2021 at 1:08 PM

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