When i want to smile and laugh while reading the one i turn to first is Wodehouse. The stories are just so ludicrous you cant help being seduced by them. His books are, as he himself put it "Musical comedies without music" and the scene might be England but it is an England that never was. I also has another connection to him. One book of his wasthe first novel i read in english (you must read him in original, he is, I suspect, very difficult to translate). I might have been 15-16 and it was a School assignment. You picked book yourself (Money in the bank) and read it and delivered something written about what you had read. The important thing was to get us to use the english we had learned. I read with a dictionary beside me at home. A lot of words i didn't know. I fell in love with him and his way of xpressing himself and have never fallen out again. Since then i have read many Wodehouse. All the Jeeves stories which are my faves but also the Blandings stories and the Drones stories plus some Golf stories and some others. He wrote over 70 novels and if you count short story collections we reach the 100 barrier. Over the years these have became my favourites: Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) (Us title Brinkley Manor), The Code of the Woosters (1938), Money In the Bank (1942), Joy in the Morning (1946) and The Mating Season (1949). All except Money in the bank are Jeeves stories. My aunt, who is an enthusiastic golfer, prefers the Golf Stories.