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Funny Reads

A list of books to keep you laughing through the summer.

"Everywhere I look," one reader wrote into the Wall Street Journal, "There's is bad news... Let's have a column on funny books to be read and enjoyed—with a long list." What ensues is a long list of trusty works of comedy, from the dog-eared to the newly published. From Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, to Mil Millington's Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About, to, of course, A Confederacy of Dunces, this list of old favorites and discoveries will keep you laughing through the summer.

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