Historical Humor

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Bonnie Garmus
    • Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,068 ratings
    • Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Percival Everett
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

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    • Written by: Patrick Taylor M.D.
    • Narrated by: John Keating
    • Series: Irish Country, Book 2
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2008-02-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Welcome to the Village of Ballybucklebo. Come and say hello to Dr. O'Reilly's odd-as-two-left feet patients, his housekeeper, Mrs. "Kinky" Kinkaid, and O'Reilly's pets, Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab and Lady MacBeth, the demonically possessed white cat....

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    • A Study in Brimstone
    • Written by: G. S. Denning
    • Narrated by: Robert Garson
    • Series: Warlock Holmes, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes. Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot.

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    • Written by: Thomas Pynchon
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 33 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story....

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    • Written by: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him....

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    • Written by: Umberto Eco
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2012-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • As Constantinople is being pillaged and burned in April 1204, a young man, Baudolino, manages to save a historian and a high court official from certain death at the hands of crusading warriors....

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    • Barker & Llewelyn Series, Book 1
    • Written by: Will Thomas
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Series: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2016-11-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Matt Haig
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries....

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    • Written by: Oakley Hall, Robert Stone
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality....

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    • Written by: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Jerry Farden
    • Series: Cannery Row, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2011-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Here is Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival....

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    • or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
    • Written by: W. Somerset Maugham
    • Narrated by: Neil Hunt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2011-12-01
    • Language: English
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    • Of all Somerset Maugham’s novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet....

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    • A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery
    • Written by: Colin Cotterill
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Series: Doctor Siri Paiboun, Book 13
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2018-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Between getting into a tangle with a corrupt local judge and discovering a disturbing black-market business, Dr. Siri and his friend Inspector Phosy have their hands full in the 13th installment of Colin Cotterill's quirky, critically acclaimed series....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Jessica Anya Blau
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Kinnunen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • In 1970s Baltimore, 14-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club....

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    • Written by: Steve Hockensmith
    • Narrated by: William Dufris
    • Series: Holmes on the Range, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2006-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • When another ranch hand turns up in an outhouse with a bullet in his brain, Old Red sees the perfect opportunity to put his Holmes-inspired detective talents to work and solve the case....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-27
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The first of V.S. Naipaul's 12 novels tells of one man's meteoric rise and hilarious metamorphosis from failed schoolteacher and struggling masseur to the most popular man in Trinidad....

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    • Written by: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed - but precociously observant - neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page....

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