Entertaining Books

If you are looking for entertainment but want to read something deep and timeless, you will find great material within this list of the most entertaining books ever published. It includes a diverse range of genres and topics: parody and satire, history books examining things like insults or stupidity, deep meaning in aphorisms, and novels describing funny or exciting stories.

Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
Aristophanes
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Being There
Jerzy Kosinski
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay
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Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
Hugo Pratt
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Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel
Vladimir Sorokin
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Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
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From Bauhaus To Our House
Tom Wolfe
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
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Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths
Karl Kraus
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Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts
Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan
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Men of Mathematics
E.T. Bell
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Pepper wine (and wool) as the dynamic factors of the social and economic development of the middle ages
Carlo M. Cipolla
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind
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Tartuffe
Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Carlo Cipolla
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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Characters
Theophrastus
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The Devil in the Holy Water or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Robert Darnton
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The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith
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The Dictionary of Received Ideas
Gustave Flaubert
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The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits
Bernard Mandeville
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The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia
Samuel Johnson
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The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy
Matthew Stewart
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The Ship of Fools
Sebastian Brant
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Tristram Shandy
Laurence Sterne
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Entertaining Books

Aristophanes: The Complete Plays

Being There

Brave New World

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea

Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel

Don Quixote

Foucault's Pendulum

From Bauhaus To Our House

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths

Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts

Men of Mathematics

Pepper wine (and wool) as the dynamic factors of the social and economic development of the middle ages

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Tartuffe

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

Related Books

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The Characters

Related Books

The Devil in the Holy Water or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon

The Diary of a Nobody

The Dictionary of Received Ideas

The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits

The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia

The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy

The Ship of Fools

Tristram Shandy