(Compiled by the staff of Jestreport.com)
Douglas Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (1984)
Mostly Harmless (1992)
The Dirk Gently series
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg on December 1, 1935)
Getting Even (1971)
Side Effects (1980)
Without Feathers (1975)
Kingsley Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995)
Lucky Jim (1954)
The Old Devils (1986)
David Barry, Jr. (born July 3, 1947-)
Collected columns:
Dave Barry’s Bad Habits: A 100% Fact-Free Book (1987)
Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits (1988)
Dave Barry Talks Back (1991)
Max Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 – May 20, 1956)
Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story (1911)
A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm (1912)
Seven Men (1919), which includes the absolutely brilliant
Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945)
The Benchley Roundup
Ambrose Bierce (June 24, 1842–1914?)
The Devil’s Dictionary
Edward Frederic Benson (July 24, 1867 – February 29, 1940)
Queen Lucia (1920)
Miss Mapp (1922)
Lucia in London (1927)
Mapp and Lucia (1931)
Lucia’s Progress (1935)
Trouble for Lucia (1939)
Roy Blount, Jr. (1941-)
Bill Bryson (born December 8, 1951-)
The Palace Under the Alps and Over 200 Other Unusual, Unspoiled, and Infrequently Visited Spots in 16 European Countries (1985)
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (1989)
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe (1991)
Notes from a Small Island (1995)
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998) (highest recommendation)
I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away (US Edition) / Notes From a Big Country (UK Edition) (1998)
In a Sunburned Country (US edition) / Down Under (UK edition) (2000)
Bill Bryson’s African Diary (2002)
Walk About (2002)
Christopher Buckley (1952-)
The White House Mess (1986)
Thank You For Smoking (1994)
Florence of Arabia: A Novel (2004)
Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (1891, Kiev – March 10, 1940, Moscow)
The Master and Margarita
Stanley Elkin (May 11, 1930 – May 31, 1995)
Boswell: A Modern Comedy (1964)
Stanley Elkin’s Greatest Hits (1980)
George Mills (1982)
George MacDonald Fraser (born 1926 in Carlisle, England)
chronicler of Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman V.C. K.C.B.
Flashman (1969)
Royal Flash (1970)
Flash for Freedom! (1971)
Flashman at the Charge (1973)
Flashman in the Great Game (1975)
Flashman’s Lady (1977)
Flashman and the Redskins (1982)
Flashman and the Dragon (1986)
Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1991)
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1996)
Flashman and the Tiger (1999)
Flashman on the March (2005)
Ian Frazier (1951-)
Dating Your Mom (1986)
Nobody Better, Better than Nobody (1987)
Great Plains (1989)
Family (1994)
Coyote v. Acme (1996)
On the Rez (2000)
The Fish’s Eye (2002)
Gone to New York: Adventures in the City (2005)
Graham Greene (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991)
Our Man in Havana
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (April 1, 1809 – March 4, 1852)
The Nose (1836)
The Inspector General (1836)
Dead Souls (1842)
Jaroslav Hašek (April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923)
The Good Soldier Švejk
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999)
Catch-22 (1961)
Carl Hiaasen (1953-)
Skin Tight (1989)
Native Tongue (1991)
Strip Tease (1993)
Stormy Weather (1995)
Lucky You (1997)
Sick Puppy (2000)
Basket Case (2002)
Skinny Dip (2004)
Nick Hornby (April 17, 1957-)
High Fidelity (1995)
About a Boy (1998)
How to Be Good (2002)
A Long Way Down (2005)
Non-fiction
Fever Pitch (1992)
Fran Lebowitz (1950-)
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Mark Leyner (1956-)
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (1993)
Et Tu, Babe (1993)
The Tetherballs of Bougainville (1998)
David Lodge (1935-)
His hilarious trilogy of academic life:
Changing Places — 1975
Small World: An Academic Romance 1984
Nice Work — 1988
Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964)
Wise Blood (1952)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1955)
The Violent Bear It Away (1960)
Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965)
P.J. O’Rourke (born November 14, 1947- )
Republican Party Reptile (1987)
The Bachelor Home Companion (1987)
Holidays in Hell (1988)
Modern Manners (1990)
Parliament of Whores (1991)
Give War a Chance (1992)
All the Trouble in the World (1994)
Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut (1995)
The American Spectator’s Enemies List (1996)
Eat the Rich (1999)
The CEO of the Sofa (2001)
Peace Kills: America’s Fun New Imperialism (2004)
George Orwell – Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
Animal Farm (1945)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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)
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