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Read for the Fun of It

In the mood to read something fun, light, charming, or humorous? Here are some titles suggested by our staff.

Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen

Last Bite, Nancy Verde Barr

A Spoonful of Poison: An Agatha Raisin Mystery,* M.C. Beaton

The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett

Jane Austen in Boca, Paula Marantz Cohen

Sweet Revenge,* Diane Mott Davidson

Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable, Mark Dunn

Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris

The Eyre Affair,* Jasper Fforde

Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, Fannie Flagg

Cream Puff Murder,* Joanne Fluke

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax,* Dorothy Gilman

Dumping Billy, Olivia Goldsmith

Playing for Pizza, John Grisham

Austenland, Shannon Hale

The Prop, Pete Hautman

Mummy Dearest,* Joan Hess

A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby

The Fairy Godmother, Mercedes Lackey

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, Lorna Landvik

There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm’s Story, Gary Larson

Love Over Scotland,* Alexander McCall Smith

Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O’Nan

Making Money: A Novel of Discworld,* Terry Pratchett

Miss Julia Delivers the Goods,* Ann B. Ross

Straight Man, Richard Russo

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer

The Cinderella Pact, Sarah Strohmeyer

An Irish Country Doctor,* Patrick Taylor

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, Kaavya Viswanathan

What’s So Funny?,* Donald Westlake

*part of a series

I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood, Gulley, Philip  242 GUL

Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer: A Memoir, Claire Lewis  770.92 LEW

Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom, CeliaRivenbark  814.6 RIV

Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), Dave Barry 818.54 BAR

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir, Bill Bryson  910.4092 BRY

In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson  919.4 BRY

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana, Haven Kimmel  B Kimmel

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