The Jokezine Humor Guides

Jokezine Book Guide for humorous fiction/non-fiction: T-Z


James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894–November 2, 1961)

My Life and Hard Times, 1933
The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1935
The Years With Ross (1959)

John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969)

A Confederacy of Dunces

Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

Fiction
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884)
Pudd'n'head Wilson (1894)

Non-fiction:

Roughing It (1872)
Life on the Mississippi
(1883)

Voltaire (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778)

Candide (1759)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (born November 11, 1922-)

Mother Night (1961)
Cat's Cradle (1963)
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade (1969)
Galápagos (1985)

Auberon Waugh (November 17, 1939 – January 16, 2001)

The Foxglove Saga (1960)
Path of Dalliance (1963)
Who Are The Violets Now? (1965)
Consider the Lilies (1968)
A Bed of Flowers (1972).

Non-fiction

Private Eye Diaries:
Four crowded years 1972-1976
The turbulent decade 1976 -1985
Will This Do?

Evelyn Waugh (October 28, 1903 – April 10, 1966)

Decline and Fall (1928)
Vile Bodies (1930)
Black Mischief (1932)
A Handful of Dust (1934)
Scoop (1938)
Put Out More Flags (1942)
The Loved One (1947)
Brideshead Revisited (subtitled The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder) (1945)
Sword of Honour Trilogy:
Men at Arms (1952)
Officers and Gentlemen (1955)
Unconditional Surrender (1961)

Nathanael West (October 17, 1903 - December 22, 1940)

The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931)
Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)
A Cool Million (1934) (highest recommendation)
The Day of the Locust (1939)

Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)

The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Sir Pelham Grenville ('P.G.') Wodehouse October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975)

highest recommendation:

Psmith in the City (1910)
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
Leave it to Psmith (1923)
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
Pigs Have Wings (1952)

Psmith:

Mike (1909) – Reissued in two parts as Mike at Wrykyn and Mike and Psmith
Psmith in the City (1910)
Psmith Journalist (1915)
Leave it to Psmith (1923)

Blandings Castle:

Something Fresh (1915) (U.S. title: Something New)
Leave it to Psmith (1923)
Summer Lightning (1929) (U.S. title: Fish Preferred)
Heavy Weather (1933)
Blandings Castle (1935)
Lord Emsworth and Others (1937)
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
Full Moon (1947)
Nothing Serious (1950)
Pigs Have Wings (1952)
Service With a Smile (1961)
Galahad at Blandings (1965)
Plum Pie (1966)
A Pelican at Blandings (1969)
Sunset at Blandings (1977)

Jeeves:

The Man With Two Left Feet (1917)
My Man Jeeves (1919)
The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)
Carry on, Jeeves (1925)
Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
Thank You, Jeeves (1934)
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934)
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
Joy in the Morning (1946)
The Mating Season (1949)
Ring for Jeeves (1953)
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)
A Few Quick Ones (1959)
Jeeves in the Offing (1960)
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
Plum Pie (1966)
Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (1974)

Uncle Fred:

Young Men in Spats (1936)
Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939)
Uncle Dynamite (1948)
Cocktail Time (1958)
Service With a Smile (1961)

Mr Mulliner:

Meet Mr Mulliner (1927)
Mr Mulliner Speaking (1929)
Mulliner Nights (1933)
Blandings Castle (1935)
Young Men in Spats (1936)
Lord Emsworth and Others (1937)
Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets (1940)
A Few Quick Ones (1959)

Toby Young (1963-)

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People