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Now I'll move on to books in other categories.

“Kim” (1901) by Rudyard Kipling is the story of a boy coming of age in colonial India. Kipling grew up in India himself, and the sheer richness of the many cultures that Kim experiences as he travels across India and up into the lower Himalayas with a Tibetan llama is mind-blowing. Meanwhile Kim is drawn into the "Great Game" of spying between the European powers. It's a deeply moving and beautiful book. Best of all, you can download it for free in all the major ebook formats! https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudyard-kipling/kim

Set in New Orleans in the early 1960s, "A Confederacy of Dunces" (1980) by John Kennedy Toole is funny as hell. Outraged by the decadence of the modern world, Ignatius J. Riley wages a one-man war against _everything_. Twisted, but funny. It’s a modern classic.

If you've read Frank Herbert's "Dune", "National Lampoon's Doon" (1984) is a brilliant parody. I recently reread it, and I found myself laughing out loud on just about every page. It's the best parody I've ever read!

"Bored of the Rings" (1969) by the Harvard Lampoon is a classic parody of "The Lord of the Rings".

Did you know that Phillip Jose Farmer actually wrote a book _as_ Kilgore Trout (with Vonnegut's permission)? It was called "Venus on the Half-Shell" (1975).

You might look up P.G. Wodehouse. His humor was quintessentially English. You can get a lot of his books free on Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/783) or Standard Ebooks (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=Wodehouse)

Try "Leave It to Psmith" (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-g-wodehouse/leave-it-to-psmith) (1923), by P. G. Wodehouse. It’s incredibly witty and laugh-out-loud funny. Plus it’s available free in all the major ebook formats.

I could recommend more (I've written many hundreds of recommendations, and stored them in a file over the years), but I think I might have already overdone it. So I'll stop there.

Happy reading! 🤓📖

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On to fantasy:

"Bridge of Birds" by Barry Hughart is the first of three books in that series, and it won the World Fantasy Award in 1985. Set in "an ancient China that never was", it's the story of a young peasant man who's as strong as an ox, and an ancient sage with a slight flaw in his character. It draws on Chinese folk tales and history, as well as a bit of Sherlock Holmes. It's a mystery with magic, humor, adventure, and it's simply mind-blowing.

Barry Longyear's "The God Box" (1989) is a fantasy about a rug merchant who gains a very strange inheritance that sends him on a trip through time as well as across the world. His travels are exciting, funny, enlightening and in the end deeply moving. He learns how to cope with his inner demons in a way that works for the reader, too. The concept of the "god box" has stuck with me ever since I read this book. I highly recommend it.

Try "A Fine and Private Place" (1960) by Peter S. Beagle. It's the story of a man (a modern man) who lives in a cemetery where he witnesses (and helps facilitate) love between ghosts. It's very memorable and different.

Steven Brust's "To Reign In Hell" (1984) has the honor of being the most frequently-stolen (i.e. borrowed and never returned) book in my collection. It's one of his earlier novels, a stand-alone that retells the Judeo-Christian story of the creation of Heaven, Earth, and Hell from a very different viewpoint. It's extremely clever, funny, and imaginative. You'll have to get your own copy, though, because mine isn't available for borrowing any more.

Speaking of Hell, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote a modern retelling of Dante's _Inferno_ called simply "Inferno" (1976). It is, as you might guess, the story of a science fiction writer in Hell. There are tinges of Niven's libertarian political philosophy which might or might not be your cup of tea, but aren't strong enough to ruin the book. And the ending is quite powerful, emotionally. It touches me every time I read it. There is also a sequel called "Escape From Hell" (2009). It's pretty good, as I recall.

“The Incredible Umbrella” (1979) and “The Amorous Umbrella” (1981) by Marvin Kaye are unconventional books. There was a collection of all four of the Umbrella novels released as "The Incredible Umbrella Tetrology" (2018), too. These are light fantasy in which a professor of literature accidentally buys a mysterious umbrella in a junk shop which turns out to be magical. It transports him to other worlds - in his case, worlds of literature and the arts. Those worlds include those of Gilbert and Sullivan, classic horror, and fairy tales, among others. They're extremely funny.

Fred Saberhagen’s _Dracula_ series begins with "The Dracula Tape" (1975), a retelling of the events of Stoker’s _Dracula_ from the Count’s point of view. It’s well-written, exciting, and amusing. Some of the later books are hit-or-miss (IMHO), but the immediate sequel, _The Holmes-Dracula File_, is absolutely outstanding.

C. S. Lewis wrote a number of interesting works of Christian apologetics, among them "The Screwtape Letters" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters?wprov=sfla1). A series of letters from a senior demon to his nephew (also a demon), it's amusing and enjoyable even for non-Christians like me!

That should do it for fantasy. Looks like there's going to be another section after all.

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It sounds as if we have similar taste in books!

Robert Sheckley’s "Store of Infinity" (1960) was the first science fiction book I ever bought for myself. It was a very lucky find, because a better collection of dazzling short stories would be hard to imagine. It’s a great introduction to his work. Among the many wonderful and hysterically funny stories in this book is “The Prize of Peril”, which predicted reality TV (and its worst excesses) decades before it happened! Sheckley is arguably the O. Henry of science fiction.

“Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers” (1973) by Harry Harrison is a classic parody of epic SF. Twisted and wonderfully funny.

"The Funco File" (1969) by Burt Cole is a near-future science-fiction novel about four freaks with unusual wild talents. It has been woefully neglected, but is a great read and very funny.

"Superstoe" (1967) by William S. Borden is a political black comedy about an extremely quirky group of Midwestern professors and geniuses who decide to take over the US government. Not only is it extremely funny, but it was also filled with brilliant and innovative ideas for its time. For example, it predicted the internet and suggested its use for direct democracy by the American people.

"Cosmic Laughter; Science Fiction for the Fun of It" (1974) is an anthology of humorous science fiction and fantasy short stories edited by Joe Haldeman (author of _The Forever War_). I've laughed my ass off many times while reading it, and my signed copy is one of my personal treasures.

H. G. Wells wasn't just one of the founders of the genre of science fiction; his short stories were macabre, incredibly imaginative, and unforgettable. Project Gutenberg has all of his works, I believe, but Standard eBooks has a great collection of a lot of Wells' short stories (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells/short-fiction) available free in all the major ebook formats. You can read the book online at the link, too.

I have a special place in my heart for Eric Frank Russell's "The Great Explosion" (1962); in it, Russell created a world that I want to live in. It's a funny, thought-provoking, and ultimately _moving_ book. Hundreds of years after Earth was virtually depopulated by a mass exodus, spaceships are sent out to gather the far-flung colonies into a new empire. But the colonies, based on various splinter groups, have developed their own societies and have their own ideas. The full text of the book is available free online: (https://web.archive.org/web/20050315170821/http://tmh.floonet.net/books/tgetoc.html).

"Wasp” (1957) by Eric Frank Russell is science fiction inspired by real-world spywork. Drafted in an interstellar war, James Mowry is sent off to act as a saboteur on an enemy planet. What ensues is about as close to a terrorist’s handbook as you’re likely to find in a novel of that era - and it’s funny and exciting to boot!

I can tell that this is getting too long. I'll continue with fantasy in the next section.

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I found this article quite inciteful. As a mood reader, I often struggle deciding what to read next. As a parent I also struggle sorting through which children's books are appropriate or will appeal to my child.

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#amReading #SalvationCity by #SigridNunez, of whom I already loved the novel #TheFriend.

Describing a boy's coming of age in a community of Christian freaks in the aftermath of a flu pandemic, it's a terrific and quite prescient reading, considering that was published in 2010!

I am now looking forwards to reading her last book #WhatAreYouGoingThrough!

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