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Humor
2024 WINNERS - HUMOR
See below for the list of 2024 winners in the HUMOR category, for books with a copyright date of 2023.
Santa Anna
2024 Gold Winner
Author: Addison J. Chapple with Rachael Flanery
Publisher: Level 4 Press
ISBN: 9781646300785
When a neurotic statistics geek gets invited to his twenty-five-year high school reunion, he spends his life savings remaking his identity. Only problem: his new persona gets him mistaken for a drug kingpin and sends him running for his life with the very people who used to make it miserable.
Bumpy Rides and Soft Landings: Stories of Coming Out, Flying High, and Not Learning to Play the Piano
2024 Silver Winner
Author: James Pauley, Jr.
Publisher: Take Flight Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9798986751610
In Bumpy Rides and Soft Landings, Pauley chronicles his life—both on the ground and in the air—one meaningful adventure after another. In his six decades on earth, he’s witnessed just about everything imaginable. And since his filter recently left the building for good, he’s ready to share it all!
The Funny Moon: A Novel
2024 Silver Winner
Author: Chris Lincoln
Publisher: Rootstock Publishing
ISBN: 9781578691388
Claire is a massage therapist who communicates with animals and ghosts. Wally is a burned-out adman and wannabe novelist obsessing on his golf game. After twenty-five years of marriage, Wally moves out and they embrace separate fantasies and new adventures. For fans of Elinor Lipman and Jennifer Weiner, The Funny Moon is a literary romp about the challenges of marriage and middle-aged self-discovery with a New Age twist.
2023 - HUMOR CATEGORY
During the 35th Annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, none of the entries in the HUMOR category earned the honor of an award.
2022 WINNERS - HUMOR
See below for the list of 2022 winners in the HUMOR category, for books with a copyright date of 2021.
Uncorked & Off the Chain: Offbeat Ramblings of a Zany Comic
2022 Gold Winner
Author: Jameson Gregg
Publisher: Mountain Arbor Press
ISBN: 978-1-63183-930-6
Uncorked & Off the Chain delivers chops and attitude with zany cutting-edge opinion, observational humor, and tales from the wild side. No topic is off-limits, from sports and edgy tales, to marriage, dogs, and mass consumption of cocktails. Short, snappy free-standing essays for those readers looking for a quick laugh.
The Arizona Water Bar: Tales from the Desert Southwest
2022 Silver Winner
Author: Drew Aquilina
Publisher: Green Pieces Press
ISBN: 978-0-9860580-9-7
Welcome to the Arizona Water Bar, where Cheers meets National Geographic. Intrepid pack rat Flo Webb refuses to take over the 2000-year-old family midden. Risking the wrath of her proud father, Flo opens a water bar in the vast desert. Follow the ensuing adventures as this small businesswoman humorously engages her wildlife customers, providing an evolutionary step forward for all desert animals.
Fat Vinny's Forbidden Love
2022 Silver Winner
Author: David Benjamin
Publisher: Last Kid Books
ISBN: 978-1-7357722-2-6
Fat Vinny, the most repulsive eighth-grader in the history of Tomah, is in love. He has chosen as the apple of his eye the wrongest girl he could possibly pursue — Sister Patrice! Worse, he has inveigled into his sexual awakening, the only kid on earth whom he can call “friend.”
2021 WINNERS - HUMOR
See below for the list of 2021 winners in the HUMOR category, for books with a copyright date of 2020. Click here to watch the Gold and Silver winner speeches.
Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor: Botts Begins
2021 Gold Winner
Author: William Hazlett Upson
Publisher: Octane Press
ISBN: 978-1-64234-025-9
Alexander Botts and the Earthworm Tractor is a collection of humorous stories about a bumbling salesman’s trials and tribulations selling crawler tractors. Botts was created in 1927 and was beloved by The Saturday Evening Post readers in more than 100 short stories. Botts Begins is the first book in a series that will charm readers young and old and entertain with innocent mayhem, timeless humor, and twists of fate.
The Man Who Would Be King
2021 Silver Winner
Authors: Addison J. Chapple and Vincent Longobardi
Publisher: Level 4 Press
ISBN: 978-1-933769-72-1
Best friends Jam and Jim are lovable idiots. When a call from Somali grifters puts dollar signs in Jam’s eyes, they hatch a scheme to get rich. These dim-witted dreamers somehow outwit pirates and convince the locals that they are Navy SEALS—until Faarax, leader of the pirates, wants payback.
The Meat and Potatoes of Life: My True Lit Com
2021 Silver Winner
Author: Lisa Smith Molinari
Publisher: Elva Resa Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-934617-54-0
“…hilariously honest, beautifully engaging and vividly written memoir of her life as a military spouse, the mother of fabulously eccentric and demanding children...”
“… capturing…motherhood with candor, humor, and grace...”
“…a wonderful look inside the kind of family we all want to invite home to dinner...”
“…pure Erma Bombeck.”
2020 WINNERS - HUMOR
See below for the list of 2020 winners in the HUMOR category, for books with a copyright date of 2019.
To Squeeze a Prairie Dog: An American Novel
2020 Gold Winner
Author: Scott Semegran
Publisher: Mutt Press
ISBN: 978-1-7238668-9-0
A comic sendup of state government—an entertaining slice-of-life story that's both humorous and uplifting—about five under-appreciated bureaucrats who forge a bond of love and respect.
Abi Gezunt! Classic Jewish Jokes (Vol. 2)
2020 Silver Winner
Editor: Arnold Fine
Publisher: Jewish Learning Group
ISBN: 978-1-891293-03-0
The laughter will never stop with this once-in-a-lifetime collection of hundreds of side-splitting family-friendly classic Jewish jokes. Get both volumes today and Kvell!
Sit Stay Pray: Lina Speaks Again About Her Life with a Difficult Momma
2020 Silver Winner
Author: Little Big Ears (aka Lina)
Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press
ISBN: 978-1-64343-909-9
Another hilarious romp through Lina’s topsy-turvy life with her ditzy but well-meaning momma that’s sure to tickle your funny bone!
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