Sunny Shelton shapes an oral history of two music idols, tracing their family lives, youthful experiences Reporter Sunny's connection to the two performers and their past was intriguing, and I very much enjoyed

The characters in White Houses  are funny, heartbreaking, and feel alive.

time-jump premise McQuiston's characters explore loyalty, love, connection, and heartbreak in poignant, funny

story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic, funny

In Steven Rowley's fun, funny, and heartwarming light fiction story The Guncle, aging former sitcom star

01 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino In Beautyland , Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange story

And, funny story, it turns out that being quarantined for weeks and feeling mildly delirious during a

standouts of Shoulder Season for me were the atmospheric setting, the training and strict rules surrounding Bunnies workers and guests from the Midwestern hub where hit musicians, family vacationers, single men, and Bunnies

Beach Read met all of my criteria above; it's sweet and funny, it's about writing and books, there are , and their banter is so smart and funny, it made me laugh repeatedly.

01 The Guncle by Steven Rowley In Steven Rowley's fun, funny, and heartwarming fiction The Guncle, aging

Her young voice is honest and lovely and funny and powerful. In Goodbye Days, we get what feels like a genuine peek into the boys’ friendship via their really funny Goodbye Days is so very very sad and so very very funny.

in three timelines; a captivating celebrity memoir from a larger-than-life performer; a comedian's funny

There are funny, tangled, heartwarming exchanges.

This is an adorable fake-dating-in-paradise setup with funny dialogue, a wonderfully imperfect main protagonist

music, her influences, and her life; The Last Graduate, the second in Naomi Novik's dark, brooding, funny

Green tells his funny, poignant, tech-focused story through characters' alternating viewpoints, and it

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry Henry strikes the perfect tone for this wonderfully sweet, funny But Henry strikes the perfect tone for this wonderfully sweet, funny, friendship-based, romantic story

She's often funny, especially when she's letting us into the small moments of her life.

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi is fun, funny, and smart, and I was hooked on the lightning-fast banter

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi is fun, funny, and smart, and I was hooked on the lightning-fast banter

Coupling of Science and Sex; and Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. 04 Entangled Life: How Fungi Life is Merlin Sheldrake's enthusiastic ode to the supremely important and mysterious life form of fungi Sheldrake's incredible facts and explorations of the incredible abilities of fungi (they can digest plastics

The supporting characters and their side plots are funny and oddball and cute.

one day and feel differently than you did before—about physical attraction, former passions, what’s funny

Casterly is a young adult mystery, and the main protagonists are high schoolers--mainly charmingly caring, funny

a man on the autism spectrum or not, but Greenwood has built him to be a dedicated, solid, fierce, funny

01 See You Yesterday by Rebecca Lynn Solomon Rachel Lynn Solomon crafts another sweet, quirky, funny,

author of Midwives), a historical fiction story Hour of the Witch; I'm listening to Ross Gay's charming, funny

Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman They're tender and deadly, cute and brutal, ferocious and funny

I love picturing Carrie Fisher as Kannon in this funny, zany, bighearted story.

time-jump premise McQuiston's characters explore loyalty, love, connection, and heartbreak in poignant, funny

Fisher is candid, funny, charmingly offbeat, and she's mastered the art of honest self-examination. She's wise but unassuming, knowledgeable and open to new experiences, funny and self-deprecating.

offered a nice dose of feminism, realistically fraught mother-daughter interactions, and laugh-out-loud funny

There are some funny exchanges because of the differences in characters' languages.

Lia Louis has written another book, Somewhere Close to Happy, described as "a laugh-out-loud funny yet

I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas as he recounts how he's navigated situations Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny.

information to bring to life the story as seen through the lens of our US men's team experience. 02 Pretty Funny

The story is funny, sometimes grotesque, at other times sweet, and full of surprises.

As always, he presents intimate, touching, poignant, funny moments and glimpses into the shared human

Plus there are the supremely clever and extremely funny ways in which gender roles and stereotypes are

He's spot on and so so funny.

Fisher is candid, funny, charmingly offbeat, and she's mastered the art of honest self-examination.

I loved this smart, funny young adult book complete with Chinese folklore, a rock-solid friendship, creative I loved this smart, funny young adult book--the first in a series--complete with Chinese folklore, a

01 See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon Rachel Lynn Solomon crafts another sweet, quirky, funny,

This is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.

Here by Kevin Wilson This short book packs delightfully odd, satisfying, and sometimes laugh-out-loud-funny

The Box in the Woods is another smart, funny, intriguing young adult mystery from Maureen Johnson.

The Box in the Woods is another smart, funny, intriguing young adult mystery from Maureen Johnson.

This Book is one way in which the author refuses to allow her many vivid memories of her formidable, funny

Pain. 03 See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon Rachel Lynn Solomon crafts another sweet, quirky, funny

Jost is driven and is an appealingly hard worker with a real dedication to the business of creating funny