Ultimate Summer Reading List: 149 Great Reads

149 books summer reading list

This year, we forgot to put together our new “Summer Reading List” in time for memorial day, but we’ve got something much better than a new list. We’ve put all of our old lists in one place including our 2012 and 2013 lists put together by our team of writers, our 2014 list put together by Liberty Hardy, and our Christmas Gift List of great books by comedians put together by Andrew Farignoli.  You can order each book by just clicking on them. Enjoy and have a great summer.

From Andy Farignoli’s 2014 Christmas Gift Guide: 23 Comedy Books

Megan Amram,  Science…For Her!
Bob Odenkirk,  A Load of Hooey (Odenkirk Memorial Library).
Kasper Hauser, SkyMaul 2: Where America Buys His Stuff.
Mike Thomas, You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman.
,  The Filthy Truth.
Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life As a Humble Comedy Legend.
Amy Poehler, Yes Please.
Dick Cavett,  Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks.
Jim Gaffigan, Food: A Love Story.
,  Diary of a Mad Diva.
Aasif Mandvi,  No Land’s Man.
John Cleese,  So, Anyway….
Scott Saul, Becoming Richard Pryor.
Richard Zoglin, Hope: Entertainer of the Century.
James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales,  Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests.
Brian Abrams, AND NOW…An Oral History of “Late Night with David Letterman,” 1982-1993 (Kindle Single).
Patton Oswalt, Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film.
Paul Reiser,  How To Get To Carnegie Hall (Kindle Single).
Bob Saget,  Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian.
Chelsea Handler,  Uganda Be Kidding Me.
Andrea Martin,  Lady Parts.
B.J. Novak,The Book with No Pictures.
Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, and Jonathan Krisel,  The Portlandia Cookbook: Cook Like a Local.

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2014’s Liberty Hardy’s Perfect Summer Reading List: 42 Comedy Books

Fobbit by David Abrams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood by Dave Barry
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
Last Words by George Carlin
America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t by Stephen Colbert
What’s So Funny? My Hilarious Life by Tim Conway
Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? By Billy Crystal
It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs by Rodney Dangerfield
Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. By Rob Delaney
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him by David Henry and Joe Henry
Love All the People: The Essential Bill Hicks
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Texts from Dog by October Jones
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness by Julie Klam
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood by Drew Magary
Handling Sin by Michael Malone
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
xkcd: volume 0 by Randall Munroe
Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants by The Oatmeal
Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia Of Existing Information by The Onion
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests by Tom Shales
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation by Aisha Tyler
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death by Colson Whitehead

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2013’s 42 Books For Your Summer Reading List

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Corrections: A Novel
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Deliverance by James Dickey
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Jurassic Park by Michael Crighton
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kids  by Bill Bryson
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Misery by Stephen King
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Porno by Irvine Welsh
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack by Mark Leyner
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Ulysses by James Joyce
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman

2012’s 42 Books For Your Summer Reading List

Freedom: A Novel , by Jonathan Franzen.
2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac.
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera.
A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy Toole.
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1) by Cormac McCarthy.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Mother Night: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving.
Gravity’s Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Thomas Pynchon.
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart.
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Signet) by Ken Kesey.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
The Stranger by Albert Camus.
1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell.
American Pastoral by Philip Roth.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman Capote.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson.
Ender’s Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card.
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel by Arthur Golden.
In One Person: A Novel by John Irving.
Native Son by Richard Wright.
The Handmaid’s Talee by Margaret Atwood.
Fight Club: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk.
The Roadby Cormac McCarthy.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel by Tracy Chevalier.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson.
The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo.
American Tabloid by James Ellroy.
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis.

 

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