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"A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest man." (Roald Dahl, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory)


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A

Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe, & Everything
So Long, & Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Robert Asprin
Another Fine Myth
Hit or Myth
Little Myth Marker
Myth Alliances, with Jody Lynn Nye
Myth Conceptions
Myth Directions
M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action
M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link
Myth-ing Persons
Myth-ion Improbable
Myth-nomers & Im-pervections
No Phule Like an Old Phule, with Peter J. Heck
Sweet Myth-tery of Life

Raymond Atkins
Camp Redemption



B

Simon Brett
Blotto, Twinks, & the Ex-King's Daughter

S.G. Browne
Breathers: A Zombie's Lament

Karen Mueller Bryson
Hey Dorothy, You're Not in Kansas Anymore



D

Peter David
Howling Mad
Knight Life
One Knight Only
Tigerheart

Gideon Defoe
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics

Larry Doyle
I Love You, Beth Cooper

Tim Dorsey
Orange Crush
Triggerfish Twist

Roddy Doyle, et al
Yeats is Dead!

Mark Dunn
Ella Minnow Pea: a Progressively Lippogrammatic Epistolary Fable
Ibid: A Life, A Novel in Footnotes



E

Tristan Egolf
Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf & Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt



F

Jasper Fforde
Jack Spratt Investigates: The Big Over Easy
Jack Spratt Investigates: The Fourth Bear
Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair
Thursday Next: Lost in a Good Book
Thursday Next: The Well of Lost Plots
Thursday Next: Something Rotten

Esther Friesner, editor
Chicks in Chainmail
Chicks 'n Chained Males
Did You Say Chicks?!
The Chick is in the Mail



G

Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Good Omens

William Goldman
The Princess Bride



H

Carl Hiaasen
Basket Case
Skinny Dip
Strip Tease

Lynne M. Hinkey
The Un-Familiar: A Tale of Cats & Gods

Tom Holt
Djinn Rummy
Doughnut
Expecting Someone Taller
Faust Among Equals
Flying Dutch
Grailblazers
Little People
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
My Hero
Nothing But Blue Skies
Only Human
Open Sesame
Overtime
Paint Your Dragon
The Portable Door
Snow White & the Seven Samurai
Valhalla
When It's a Jar
Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
Wish You Were Here

Tanya Huff
The Keeper's Chronicles #1: Summon the Keeper
The Keeper's Chronicles #2: The Second Summoning
The Keeper's Chronicles #3: Long Hot Summoning



I

Eric Idle
The Road to Mars



J

Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!)

Diana Wynne Jones
Dark Lord of Derkholm
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Terry Jones & Brian Froud
The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins
Strange Stains & Mysterious Smells



K

Julie Kenner
Carpe Demon

Rob Kroese
The Force is Middling in This One



L

Joe R. Lansdale
Zeppelins West

Batton Lash
Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre: Case Files, Vol. II

Denise Little, editor
Twice Upon a Time

Dean Lorey
Jack Icefloe Jackson's Romance for Men: Pandora's Box



M

Katie Macalister
Aisling Grey, Guardian #1: You Slay Me
Men in Kilts

J.L. Miles
Divorcing Dwayne

Christopher Moore
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
Coyote Blue
A Dirty Job
Fluke
Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
Practical Demonkeeping
The Stupidest Angel
You Suck

James Morrow
Only Begotten Daughter

Maria Murnane
Perfect on Paper: The (Mis) Adventures of Waverly Bryson



N

Jody Lynn Nye
Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear, editor
Myth Alliances, with Robert Asprin



P

Terry Pratchett
The Carpet People
Diggers
Discworld #1: The Colour of Magic
Discworld #2: The Light Fantastic
Discworld #3: Equal Rites
Discworld #4: Mort
Discworld #5: Sourcery
Discworld #6: Wyrd Sisters
Discworld #7: Pyramids
Discworld #8: Guards! Guards!
Discworld #9: Eric
Discworld #10: Moving Pictures
Discworld #11: Reaper Man
Discworld #12: Witches Abroad
Discworld #13: Small Gods
Discworld #14: Lords & Ladies
Discworld #15: Men at Arms
Discworld #16: Soul Music
Discworld #17: Interesting Times
Discworld #18: Maskerade
Discworld #19: Feet of Clay
Discworld #20: Hogfather
Discworld #21: Jingo
Discworld #22: The Last Continent
Discworld #23: Carpe Jugulum
Discworld #24: The Fifth Elephant
Discworld #25: The Truth
Discworld #26: Thief of Time
Discworld #28: The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents
Discworld #29: Night Watch
Discworld #30: The Wee Free Men
Discworld #31: Monstrous Regiment
Discworld #32: A Hat Full of Sky
Discworld #33: Going Postal
Discworld #34: Thud!
Discworld #35: Wintersmith
Discworld #36: Making Money
Discworld #37: Unseen Academicals
Good Omens, with Neil Gaiman
Johnny & the Bomb
Johnny & the Dead
Only You Can Save Mankind
Truckers
The Unadulterated Cat
Wings



R

Robert Rankin
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

Craig Rondinone
Ten Tales to Make Your Head Explode



S

Mark Salzman
The Laughing Sutra

Nancy Springer
Fair Peril



T

Keith Thomson
Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal



W

Leonard Wibberly
The Mouse That Roared

Connie Willis
Bellwether
To Say Nothing of the Dog

P.G. Wodehouse
The Adventures of Sally
A Damsel in Distress
The Girl on the Boat
Love Among the Chickens
A Man of Means
My Man Jeeves
Piccadilly Jim
Right Ho, Jeeves
The Swoop!, or How Clarence Saved England
Three Men & a Maid
Uneasy Money
William Tell Told Again

Steven Wright
Harold: A Novel