The Jokezine Humor Guides

Jokezine Book Guide for humorous fiction/non-fiction: P-S

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967)

The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944)

S. J. Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979)

Terry Pratchett (1948-)

Discworld series

Joe Queenan

Non-fiction:

Red Lobster, White Trash, & the Blue Lagoon
Balsamic Dreams : A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation
Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler : Celluloid Tirades and Escapades


Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 - July 3, 2001)

The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
The Street (1969)
St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
Barney's Version (1997)

Philip Roth (1933- )

Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

Richard Russo (1949-)

Nobody's Fool (1993)
Straight Man (1997)
Empire Falls (2001)

Saki (December 18, 1870 – November 14, 1916), the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro,

The Westminster Alice (with F. Carruthers Gould) (1902)
Reginald (1904)
Reginald in Russia (1910)
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
The Unbearable Bassington (1912)
Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914)

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 - October 29, 1995)

Flash and Filigree (1958)
Candy (with Mason Hoffenberg) (1958)
The Magic Christian (1960 )
Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes (1967)
Blue Movie (1970)
Texas Summer (1992)

Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745)

Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726.
A Modest Proposal (1729)