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Reformissionary recently asked readers to list the top five books that made them laugh out loud. I thought I would post my reply here.

I love all of these books, and all of them are valuable beyond a laugh. They are in no particular order.

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris. Every single one of Sedaris’ books is genius, but there are some essays here that are among his best. I laughed almost the entire way through the title essay where he details in effort to quit smoking and how he felt the need to recruit a new smoker so as not to create a smoker/non-smoker imbalance in the world.

Fraud by David Rakoff. Along the lines of Sedaris, but where Sedaris is scatological and intentionally low-brow, Rakoff takes aim at his sophisticated New York life and how ridiculous it often is.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You’ve Ever Heard by Tom Reynolds. A hilarious book that explores (and pokes fun at) 52 of the most heart-wrenching and earsplitting songs of all time and explains the reasons we continue to listen to them.

Confessions of a Reformission Rev by Mark Driscol. Classic Mark Driscoll. This one is more profound and funny than his previous effort, in my opinion. The part about calling all of the men of the church together and handing them two little stones was hilarious and convicting.

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller. His description of the generally lazy and solipsistic writer’s life was great. And true.

Steve McCoy is a genius.

A little humor courtesy of Carl.

and my favorite…