Books to Make You Laugh on The Point

This morning on The Point with Mindy Todd we discussed books that make us laugh. Joining Mindy were Jill Erickson, Head of Reference and Adult Services at FPL and Vicky Titcomb of Titcomb’s Bookshop in East Sandwich. We hope you'll now be able to start your new year with a chuckle! Below are our lists, as well as listener picks. Mindy's Picks Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: understanding philosophy through jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: understanding political doublespeak through philosophy and jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Craig Kingsbury Talkin' by Kristen Kingsbury Henshaw Vicky's Picks Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey One Man’s Meat by E. B. White Theft by Finding Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris The Inevitable Guest by Marcia Monbleau Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance by Bill McKibben Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman Empire Falls, Nobody’s Fool, Everybody’s Fool and The Straight Man by Richard Russo Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion The Tao of Martha: my year of living; or, why I'm never getting all that glitter off of the dog by Jen Lancaster Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Jill's Picks The Complete Peanuts 1950 - 1952 by Charles M. Schulz The Complete Peanuts 1963 - 1964 by Charles M. Schulz The Awdrey-Gore Legacy by Edward Gorey (Also available in the Gorey collection Amphigorey Also.) Home Cooking: a writer in the kitchen by Laurie Colwin Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse Vacationland: true stories from painful beaches by John Hodgman The 50 Funniest American Writers edited by Andy Borowitz Listener Picks How Not to Do Things by Susan Blood Himself  by Jess Kidd I'm a Stranger Here Myself and A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson