Submitted by Meg Favreau
1101/2022January 11, 2022
Who Says Learning Can’t Be Funny? (28 Textbook Jokes)
Education is a tough racket. For one, the government comes around every once in a while and tells you how and what to teach. Then, they take money away from libraries. Also, the jokes in textbooks, by and large, are not funny. On top of all that, kids are pretty distractable and don’t love reading per se. Fortunately, there are stellar writers putting together textbooks as we speak. Thankfully, the good people of Reddit who actually do their homework caught all the funny textbook jokes the world has to offer. Honestly, I miss school. Mostly, I miss when reading was...
1001/2022January 10, 2022
I Called A Publishing Company’s Customer Service Line To Tell Them I Loved A Book And They Were Speechless
Recently, I’ve been calling customer service lines for a number of companies I like, and telling them “good job.” Usually, they’re confused and delighted. I call it “Positive Pranks.” I only call when I have something nice to say. Who does that? Customer service is for angry complaints about finding a shrimp tail in your Cinnamon Toast Crunch (LOL, remember that? I hated it). However, when I look at a bottle of shampoo, it doesn’t say “call this number to yell at a stranger.” No, it says call this number with “questions and comments.” Well, I love to put in...
1001/2022January 10, 2022
25 Funny Pulitzer-Worthy Tweets From This Week
Yes, we all love books here. In fact, you should probably be reading one instead of this website, but come on. You’re on the toilet or the subway right now. That’s no time for mind-expanding fiction. Sometimes, you want to unwind with a few funny short jokes. Thankfully, that’s really all anyone is posting on Twitter these days (unless you count all the un-Democratic misinformation. There’s always room for that on social media.). Not everyone is built to write the next great American novel. Some people like to fit their genius ideas into a tweet under 240 characters. That’s good...
0501/2022January 5, 2022
Funny Book Recommendations From a Disgruntled Bookseller
Below is another original humor piece from Better Book Titles. Selling books is hard work. Mostly, because of the type of customers you encounter. How many times can another human being treat you like Google, walking in saying “Franzen?” before you snap? The answer is about 600 times. After that, you stop caring. That is the disgruntled bookseller’s original story. It’s not pretty. We graduate from a liberal arts college with big dreams of writing our own novel or screenplay, and – oop! – you’re peddling other people’s work. Honestly, I don’t support rudeness. But, below you’ll find honest recommendations...
0501/2022January 5, 2022
27 Booksellers And Librarians Who Hilariously Trolled Their Patrons
If you’ve ever worked in a bookstore or library, chances are, you were bored. Sadly, there’s tons of work that can be done on a rainy day when no customers enter the store. However, does that mean you’re actually going to do that work? No. You’re going to make a funny sign or shelve presidential autobiographies in the fiction section as a joke. Frankly, bookstores and libraries don’t pay enough for employees not to waste a ton of time at work. Sure, we care about any bookish institution, and our job is to get people excited about reading. That doesn’t...
0401/2022January 5, 2022
Every Generation Cancels Norman Mailer For Its Own Reasons
Below is an original funny piece from Better Book Titles contributor Jay Welch. In case you hadn’t heard the news about Norman Mailer: “With slow-mo hammer-dropping predictability, Norman Mailer’s long-time publisher has recently informed the Mailer family that it has canceled plans to publish a collection of his political writings to mark the centennial of his birth in 2023… The back-door apologies at Random House include as the proximate cause: a junior staffer’s objection to the title of Mailer’s 1957 essay, “The White Negro”…” -Michael Wolff, The Ankler Every Generation Cancels Norman Mailer For Its Own Reasons by Jay Welch...
0301/2022January 3, 2022
25 Funny Pulitzer-Worthy Tweets From This Week
Yes, we all love books here. In fact, you should probably be reading one instead of this website, but come on. You’re on the toilet or the subway right now. That’s no time for mind-expanding fiction. Sometimes, you want to unwind with a few funny short jokes. Thankfully, that’s really all anyone is posting on Twitter these days (unless you count all the un-Democratic misinformation. There’s always room for that on social media.). Not everyone is built to write the next great American novel. Some people like to fit their genius ideas into a tweet under 240 characters. That’s good...