Contemporary Fiction, Male Protagonist

[Booker Man]

Hello all,

Can anybody recommend some modern contemporary fiction with a male protagonist that is a humorous read?

Thanks guys

[Scheherazade]

Depends on what you consider "modern", of course, but:

A Confederacy of Dunces

Catch-22

And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won Off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game

And most Neil Gaiman books.

[Ser Nevarc]

Post Office.

The Thought Gang.

Just a Couple of Days.

[ennison]

How modern? For me 1910 is modern.

[Calidore]

Tom Sharpe's first two Wilt books are pretty good; the third's only okay.

[Booker Man]

I should be more specific. Lets say, in the last 20 years.

[JBI]

American Pastoral

[kev67]

Solar by Ian McEwan is pretty good.

[Scheherazade]

Don't think some of the suggested books can be considered 'humourous'.

[Booker Man]

Don't think some of the suggested books can be considered 'humourous'.

I must agree. Maybe its just my sense of humour.

[Scheherazade]

All of my suggestions fit, though... Just sayin'...

:smilewinkgrin:

[Booker Man]

All of my suggestions fit, though... Just sayin'...

:smilewinkgrin:

Already tackled Confederacy and Catch 22!

Neil Gaiman is a little too fantastical for me. Science fiction has always been a chore for me to get my head around.

[Bibliophile79]

Lamb by Christopher Moore

[CauseAndEffect]

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Farris
Pastoralia, Civil Warland in Bad Decline[I] by George Saunders. He also just published [I]Tenth of December, but I haven't read it.
Abbott Awaits by Chris Bachelder.

[aaron stark]

In a way, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust has several hilarious passages. And it is an awesome read, that's for sure

[E.A Rumfield]

Tropic Of Capricorn is hilarious.