1.Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen, 1811
Two sisters, one who feels everything and one who shows nothing, discover what each kind of restraint costs and conceals.
10 witty books
Wit here is a way of seeing, not just a stream of jokes: Austen's sisters measure what politeness hides, and Wilde's Dorian Gray turns charm into something far less comfortable. You'd want these books for the company they keep — sharp, observant, and often very funny about people who take themselves seriously.
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2.Ulysses
James Joyce, 1922
One Dublin day in 1904, followed through two men's minds — an ad-canvasser and a young writer — with every joke, smell and stray thought left in.
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3.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, 1865
A girl falls down a rabbit hole into a world where nothing keeps its size, its manners or its temper, and keeps asking the questions everyone else stopped asking.
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4.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, 1979
The Earth is demolished for a bypass, and a man in his dressing gown must hitch across a galaxy run on bad bureaucracy and good towels.
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5.The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare, 1623
A broke fortune-hunter marries the town's most notorious scold and sets about taming her — a comedy that doubles as a fight over who gets to speak.
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6.The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, 1890
A beautiful young man wishes his portrait would age in his place. It is a sharp, funny, then frightening study of vanity, charm and moral drift, still uncomfortably current.
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7.Ένας πολύ ευχάριστος φόνος
Julia Seales, 2023
A Regency miss with excellent manners and a secret obsession with murder trials; a comedy of etiquette, corpses and very badly behaved families. It should also be said: the Greek edition keeps the jokes. Not suitable for a reader who cannot bear a fart pillow. But suitable for almost everyone else.
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8.Looking for Alaska
John Green, 2005
A boy leaves Florida for an Alabama boarding school and falls in with a girl who makes every rule feel like a question worth breaking.
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9.Ο ταχυδρόμος των βιβλίων
Carsten Henn, 2020
A bookseller who carries books to readers' doors, and a widowed reader who judges novels by their cover colour.
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10.All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, 2014
A blind Parisian girl and a German boy with a radio gift are pulled toward each other through the Nazi occupation, in a war story built from small, luminous things.
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