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If you loved Wry Martinis by Christopher Buckley, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR.

AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR

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Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader (the Audio) (Uncle John Listen To) — Bathroom Readers’ Institute

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Bathroom Readers' Institute

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The Thurber Carnival (Harper Colophon Books) — James Thurber

The Thurber Carnival (Harper Colophon Books)

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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain — Alex Ayres

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

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The Adventures Of A Suburbanite — Ellis Parker Butler

The Adventures Of A Suburbanite

Ellis Parker Butler

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Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s, Humor Category — Dave Eggers

Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s, Humor Category

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I Gotta Go: The Commentary of Ian Shoales — Merle Kessler

I Gotta Go: The Commentary of Ian Shoales

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Garfield Big fat book of jokes and riddles — Jim Davis

Garfield Big fat book of jokes and riddles

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Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker — David Remnick

Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker

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The Humor of the American Cowboy — Stanley Hoig

The Humor of the American Cowboy

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Hey, There, Ralphie Boy!: The Life and Times of Ralph Kramden (The Honeymooners) — Peter Crescenti

Hey, There, Ralphie Boy!: The Life and Times of Ralph Kramden (The Honeymooners)

Peter Crescenti

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Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States — Dave Barry

Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

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Have I Ever Told You– — T. Von Saxe

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More Bizarro — Dan Piraro

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Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard — Roy Blount Jr.

Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard — Roy Blount Jr.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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Jay Leno’s Headlines: Real but Ridiculous Headlines from America’s Newspapers (Books I, II, & III) — Jay Leno

Jay Leno’s Headlines: Real but Ridiculous Headlines from America’s Newspapers (Books I, II, & III)

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The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits — Jeffrey Steingarten

The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits

Jeffrey Steingarten

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The Big Book of New American Humor: The Best of the Past 25 Years — William Novak

The Big Book of New American Humor: The Best of the Past 25 Years

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The Alice Kramden Guide to Handling a Hard-Headed Husband (The Honeymooners) — Peter Crescenti

The Alice Kramden Guide to Handling a Hard-Headed Husband (The Honeymooners)

Peter Crescenti

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The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose From William Caxton to P.G. Wodehouse : a Conducted Tour — Frank Muir

The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose From William Caxton to P.G. Wodehouse : a Conducted Tour

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101 Classic Jewish Jokes: Jewish Humor from Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld — Robert Menchin

101 Classic Jewish Jokes: Jewish Humor from Groucho Marx to Jerry Seinfeld

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The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities — James Thurber

The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities

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Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism — Dave Barry

Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism

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Penguin Thesaurus of Jokes — Fred Metcalf

Penguin Thesaurus of Jokes

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Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls — David Sedaris

Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls

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The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR — the same threads that run through Wry Martinis by Christopher Buckley. Among the authors featured: Bathroom Readers' Institute, James Thurber, Alex Ayres, Ellis Parker Butler, and others.

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