Popular European Humor Books

Find humor books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (69)

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Manalive by G. K. Chesterton EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Description:
Light-hearted work introduces Innocent Smith, a bubbly, eccentric gentleman of questionable character, into the lives of a group of young disillusioned people -- and the result is inspired, high-spirited nonsense.

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Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams EN

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Adams is back with the amazing, unprecedented, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, has grown up on a remote world at the edge of the universe. Now she sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. . . . Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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My Family Right Or Wrong by Ephraim Kishon EN

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Country: Europe / Hungary flag Hungary
Description:
A collection of short humorous stories involving the author and his family.


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Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe EN

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Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of Naive. Super quits university in an attempt to discover a raison d'etre. He recounts a series of anecdotes, which culminate in a trip to stay with his brother in New York. He writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it.

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Natural Novel by Georgi Gospodinov EN

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Country: Europe / Bulgaria flag Bulgaria
Description:
Resembling the complex and fragmented way a fly's eye works, Natural Novel contains a myriad of storylines, reflections, and digressions, including a history of toilets and the graffiti found there, a meditation on the relationship between bees and language, and an attempt to write a book using only verbs. Incredibly funny at times, this novel is driven by the narrator's need to come to terms with his dissolving marriage and his wife's infidelity with their close friend. Gospodinov's first novel is both broad in scope and intensely personal, illustrating the impossibility of presenting life tr... continue

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Novelle fatte a macchina by Gianni Rodari IT

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
Un coccodrillo sapiente che si presenta al Rischiatutto, Marco e Mirko contro la temibile banda del Talco, Grillo, il postino di Civitavecchia che solleva navi e Colosseo, Piano Bill, il cow-boy musicale, il sior Tòdaro, che per timore che Venezia possa affondare da un momento all'altro si trasforma in un pesce…: ecco alcuni dei personaggi del nuovo libro di Gianni Rodari, "Novelle fatte a macchina". "Che cosa succederebbe se", chiave magica e apriti Sesamo per penetrare il mondo della fantasia e dell'immaginazione, è l'interrogativo che ... continue

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Petersburg Tales: New Translation by Nikolai Gogol EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine
Description:
Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Overcoat’). Also including the ‘Diary of Madman’, thes... continue

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Popmuziek uit Vittula by Mikael Niemi NL

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Een voorval in Nepal doet een jongeman denken aan zijn jeugd in het hoge noorden van Zweden