Can I Find Hilarious Novels On Kindle Unlimited?

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Kindle Unlimited just opened up a sea of stories, but I crave a read that leaves me in stitches. Are there actual laugh-out-loud gems buried in the KU library?

baliw daw · Answer

Kindle Unlimited has a huge selection of comedy novels, including parodies and very, very snarky rom-coms. Although my algorithm is keeping recommending me romances to read, browsing by subgenre is really fun. This came up in my searches for romances: ‘SINFUL PLEASURES: Short Filthy Stories’. It looks very intense from the title but actually is very sharp and very situational humor, with each short story being another very absurd take on a different modern dating trope.

Rowan · Answer

First off, I have to give a giant thank you to Kindle Unlimited for their AMAZING comedy section. I’ve already recommended ‘Hyperbole and a Half’ by Allie Brosh to you all before. Although it is not a novel, her incredible illustrated essays on dealing with depression with the help of dogs are just the right length for a quick read to get you going again. And, for those that are looking for some longer comedies, I highly recommend ‘The Martian’ by Andy Weir. For some strange reason, I found Mark Watney’s logs from Mars to be quite funny as we followed him trying to survive on the barren planet.

There are plenty of romantic comedies on Kindle Unlimited including The Hating Game by Sally Thorne, which is a great office romance that features a lot of witty repartee between the two main characters. For something more absurd, consider Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Lost Dog, Omnisitted by Christopher Moore. This very funny book reimagines the childhood of Jesus with the help of his best friend, a delinquent. Kindle Unlimited is very good at mixing mainstream humor with more niche or obscure fare, so you are bound to find something that will make you laugh.

Piper · Answer

So as part of my never ending research on Kindle Unlimited, I have spent HOURS browsing through the thousands of titles available. After a long search, I can safely say that Kindle Unlimited is a treasure trove of hilarious books. For starters, ‘The Spellman Files’ by Lisa Lutz is absolutely amazing and funny. It is a mystery novel with a quirky family that will have you snorting your coffee. I also recommend ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ by Sophie Kinsella which is hilarious and relatable in a painful kind of way. If you’re into dark humor then ‘John Dies at the End’ by David Wong is a great choice too. Also, while most people would associate Kindle Unlimited with light romance novels, there is actually a great deal of variety, including satirical science fiction like ‘Will Save the Galaxy for Food’ and absurdist comedy such as ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. The best part is that you can read as many of them as you like without feeling guilty because you’ve paid for them as part of your subscription.

Yara · Answer

I have found so many treasures within Kindle Unlimited’s vast repository of humour. ‘Good Omens’ is a towering giant of comedic writing by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Yes, an angel and a demon join forces to prevent the apocalypse. And they manage to have lots of fun along the way. It’s a very funny, deep and leisurely read. Another classic on dating disasters by women is ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ by Helen Fielding, another masterly funny book that is so good it has lasted for decades on end.

There are plenty of fantasy titles as well. Nicholas Eames’s ‘Kings of the Wyld’ is a hilarious fantasy following the adventures of a group of retired mercenaries who come out of hiding for one last adventure, full of humor, action and even some monster trucks. For something a bit lighter ‘The Rosie Project’ by Graeme Simsion is a funny and sweet story of a socially awkward professor who develops a robotic search for love.

Indie authors can also be treasures hidden among Kindle Unlimited’s thousands of novels, and one such gem is ‘The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant’, much better than many bestsellers. Alas, Amazon’s algorithm hides such treasures in the depths of Kindle Unlimited. Look for them!

Angelice Damon · Answer

What I have found most enjoyable about my KU subscription is the introduction to many different styles of humor, found in translations of humorously entertaining books published in other countries: hilarious Korean novels about gaming, very entertaining Japanese isekai novels about the lives of salarymen, and bleakly humorous novels by European authors, dryly and absurdistly witty. On digital platforms like KU there is a lower bar to translation and distribution of many written works than on the physical shelves of local bookstores. Thus the joke about bureaucratic red-tape told by a British author is experienced differently than that same type of joke told by an author writing from within corporate America, and reading through many different styles of humor has been very entertaining for me, greatly broadening my understanding of what is funny in a novel and how that can differ from what is amusing within my own culture.

Gail Crosby · Answer

Most of my reading on KU is humorous sci-fi. I’m currently enjoying a stream of ‘popcorn’ sci-fi/fantasy, written by a growing number of talented indie authors. Most of these stories are ‘lite’ reading, ‘pretty lightweight’, easily consumed in a single sitting and full of both humor and heart. (Their inspiration appears to be Marie Tuttle’s famous contrast between the ‘serious’ and ‘literary’ Murderbot Diaries and “real” literature.) Since none of these stories aim to be literary masterpieces, they are able to be wildly and wackily inventive and funny. A recent sample included a sentient starship who wanted to be a gardener; a wizard who sends out his spells to be dealt with by a call center; and a huge, powerful barbarian hero struggling to file his tax returns as a citizen. These are just the sort of stories that KU is perfect for: light, quirky, genre-bending tales that might be considered too strange for the mainstream market.

Gritha Viljoen · Answer

So while I acknowledge that reading Kindle Unlimited books to get laughs is not everyone’s cup of tea, for me and I suspect for a lot of other readers, KU offers the potential to read an almost limitless quantity of very funny fiction by many different writers. Typically the books in a long KU series are structured like a TV show, with a core cast of characters in each book, and with many running gags which get funnier as they are repeated over the books. By the time I’m reading the seventh book of a series by a single author, there are sometimes jokes from the first book that still make me laugh. It’s a very unusual but very great strength of KU as a platform for comic fiction. So if you read fiction of this kind, looking for a long funny “show” to read rather than a single comic “film”, then yes, I think KU is a goldmine.

Charilyn Bino · Answer

It’s a playground for situational comedy. Often these are experimented with for a new premise that can be developed into a full-length novel. They are KU books, and their comedic engine relies on the escalating absurdity of the core idea. Some ideas can be very funny: a dungeon core trying to run a peaceful bed and breakfast for adventurers, for example; or a superhero with the power of absolute luck, but it only manifests in very minor ways. It’s a very unusual and particular sort of humor that requires the author to be fully committed to the comedic notion in the story. If done well it’s incredibly funny and you’ll want to read more and more of it. If it falls flat then it can start to feel repetitive and even a bit thin. Read the sample and see if the author has fully committed to the premise in the first chapter. If they have then you can expect a lot of laughs.

Jack Jack van der Steen · Answer

Tropes. KU depends heavily on tropes (enemies to lovers, fake relationship, grumpy/sunny character, etc). These can be very funny, when used well, as they are comedy shorthand. We know that a ‘cozy mystery with a talking cat and a bakery’ is going to be a gentle, quirky read. And that’s exactly what KU serves up – comfort food comedy. Sure, you know the basic components, but an author can be very funny indeed by using them in novel and interesting ways. So don’t be put off by the fact that KU is full of tropes. Instead, think of them as your map through the wilderness. Enjoy!

Duncan Oalo · Answer

I’ve found Kindle Unlimited is a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to seeking out funny novels. As noted above, the platform really delivers for witty, humorous novels in certain genres, such as romantic comedies with wonderful dialogue, lighthearted superhero parodies, and those isekai-style stories where a modern, disgruntled hero critiques a particular fantasy tropes in a bizarre, often interesting, location. Unfortunately, much of Kindle Unlimited novels rely on the same tired methods of trying to elicit laughter, such as using slapstick or basically hoping the reader cringes at a misperception held by a main character or characters for long stretches of time. But for those of you seeking books that contain humor of some sort, I highly recommend using lists compiled by bloggers as well as threads on subreddits such as the r/RomanceBooks community who have frequently issued calls for ‘funny with smart dialogue’ KU books and have delivered some really wonderful options in that search. In short, yes, Kindle Unlimited does contain plenty of hilarious novels but you must use external resources in order to wade through the numerous, often poor options available in that vast library.

Aron Aveunalliv · Answer

For hilarious novels, KU is a pretty fail. Oh sure, some of them are tasty little morsels of amusements, but so much of it is absolute amateur hour, trying to be funny in the worst way possible. Just this morning I finished up a novel supposedly satirical of office politics. Oh boy. Stereotype after horribly exaggerated stereotype, but no real substance, no real insight, just lots of space to chew on where things went wrong. And it’s such a low bar to entry on KU that anyone and I mean anyone can churn out some somewhat fictional-ish ‘amusing’ short piece of-work that gets pumped up by a handful of relentlessly positive reviewers to near the top of the charts, and you’re left reading page after pretty weak page of fictional tomfoolery that might have passed for a high schooler’s writing assignment. Look for traditionally published humorists in your library’s catalog on the Libby app, like David Sedaris or Samantha Irby for some real and cleverly-written humorous novels and short stories. I read on KU for a couple of paranormals and a bunch of detective stories, but comedic writing is just too signal-heavy for me on this platform.

Louie · Answer

The quality of quantity in KU writing is just incredible. There are thousands of titles here. To make sure that every humor-seeker can find something that appeals to them, no matter how narrow or specific their humor is, there are lots of mainstream comics and bestsellers in the biggest categories for general humor. But the real depth of the long tail of content in KU means that in order to find the most peculiar, offbeat, funny book ever written, you have to plunge into the many lesser categories or search using very specific keywords. Humor is peculiar, and often even too weird for mainstream authors and even most mainstream published books. But often a book that is written specifically for you, even and especially in oddity, will be just too your cup of tea. You’ll have to be an adventurer with an open mind, but you will find it.

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