MOST RELIABLE FANCY SENTENCE MAKERS
P.G. Wodehouse
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Baldwin
Oscar Wilde
Dorothy Parker
Flannery O'Connor
Italo Calvino
Virginia Woolf
Stephen Fry
Nancy Mitford
John Steinbeck
Edith Wharton
Sarah Vowell
Carson McCullers

FOR A GAGGLE OF GIGGLES
The Time Machine Did It - John Swartzwelder
any/all Jeeves & Wooster stories - P.G. Wodehouse
Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
Apex Hides the Hurt - Colson Whitehead
Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Tales Designed to Thrizzle - Michael Kupperman
The Road to Wellville - T.C. Boyle
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (not intentionally funny, but the narrator is so neurotic, it makes me LOL)
The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek
Candide - Voltaire

LE MOT JUSTE
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
Alien Hearts - Guy de Maupassant
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry
Difficult Loves - Italo Calvino
Contempt - Alberto Moravia

RE: WRITING & BOOKS
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Books vs. Cigarettes - George Orwell
And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft - Mike Sacks
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Hoover Bartlett
Journal of a Novel - John Steinbeck
Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - Thomas Wright

THAT IS ONE EFFED-UP SITUATION
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lives of the Monster Dogs - Kirsten Bakis
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
The Plague - Albert Camus
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
Fantômas - Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
Empty the Sun - Joseph Mattson
2666 - Roberto Bolaño
Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

THE CREAM OF THE CROP
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crack-Up - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry
The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Very Good, Jeeves! - P.G. Wodehouse
Right Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
Sag Harbor - Colson Whitehead
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Psychiatry and the Cinema - Glen O. Gabbard & Krin Gabbard
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
1776 - David McCullough
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Man and His Symbols - Carl Gustav Jung