77 Book Puns for Editional Laughs

These book puns are lit.

Take a look. It’s in a book. A reading rainbow? No, hilarious book puns, silly. In fact, these cracks are so funny, you might laugh hard enough to tear your appendix. That’s what happens when you get jokes straight from the prose. So get ready to hit the volume and book it through this index-plicably entertaining collection of book puns, dad jokes, and one-liners. Rolling your eyes has never felt so write.

Want even more hysterical hijinks? Turn the page to explore far-out jokes from space. Or flip over to shelf-ebrate with some blissful birthday boffs.

Short Book Puns

Detective stories? We love a good who-pun-it.

• Talk wordy to me.
• In edition to that…
• Don’t overdue it.
• Comma down.
• Tickled ink.

• What Dewey do?
• Eyes foreword.
• Got the write stuff.
• ISBN thinkin’ bout ya.
• Comma Sutra.
• I’m feeling all write.

• It’s index-plicable.
• Librarians make shhh happen.
• Metaphors be with you.
• Tequila Mockingbird.
• Librarians are always booked.
• Bro-sure you are.

Funny Book Puns

Need a witty caption for Instagram? Here are some textbook examples.

• It was an author I couldn’t refuse.
• It was bound to happen.
• Publishers do it by the book.
• Readers do it between the sheets.
• Be true to your shelf.

• This book has an extra biogra-fee.
• That’s a whole other can of bookworms.
• You’re on a read-to-know basis.
• We’re not on the same page.
• What goes around commas around.

• Wilde thing, I think I love you.
• Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma chameleon.
• Cover me, I’m going in.
• Reading is a novel idea.
• They threw the book at him.

• I have no shelf control.
• I don’t mean to be foreword.
• Yeah, I’m checking you out.
• When it’s all read and done.

Book Puns One-Liners

We’ve been looking foreword to telling you these riotous one-liners.

• The book I’m reading has its prose and cons.
• Are you a book at the library cause you look checked out.
• This book about black holes is really drawing me in.
• I started reading a book about mazes. I got lost in it.
• Past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

• You’ve never read Fitzgerald? You Gatsby kidding me!
• I’m reading a book about antigravity. I can’t put it down.
• I’m bound to finish this book someday.
• When writing about time travel, you really have to think outside the clocks.
• Charlotte Brontë is such a breath of fresh Eyre.
• That book about Mt. Everest had quite the cliff-hanger.

• I haven’t been to the library in ages. How Dewey find books again?
• My best friend said the Lord of the Rings wasn’t a good read. I don’t think he knows what he’s Tolkein about.
• I’ve read so many book jackets I have blurbed vision.
• Encyclopedias make bad neighbors. They’re always increasing the volume.
• I asked the librarian if they had any books on paranoia. She whispered, “They’re right behind you.”
• The page said he was in a bind.

New-Release Book Dad Jokes

After all is read and done, these book jokes will still be number pun.

• Have you heard about the new wine book? It’s a best cellar.
• How do you get people to read a dog book you’ve written? Pub-leash it.
• What kind of books do car enthusiasts read? Auto-biographies.
• Why didn’t the librarian like reading the book about dry skin? It chapter hands.

• What do editors eat for breakfast? Synonym rolls.
• What type of dance did the mystery writer do? The plot twist.
• What kind of book are written about ice cream makers? Biogra-freeze.
• Why are writers so bad at math? They know edition but not subtraction.
• What do you call the introduction in a book about lumberjacks? Pro-log.

Classic Book Jokes

Do your-shelf a favor and check out these timeless book jokes.

• Why are authors so bad with directions? They can’t tell left from write.
• Why does Asgard have so many books? They have a prolific au-Thor.
• What do you call the first draft of a cookbook? A menu-script.
• What happened when the author got pulled over by the police? He got a citation.
• Why was the dog running after the book? He was chasing his tale.

• What do yo call 2000 mockingbirds? Two-Kilo Mockingbird.
• Where do you find a book about Teflon in the library? In the non-friction section.
• Why is it so hard to find reading materials for music students? Their books are band.
• Why’s it always cold in a writer’s house? There are a lot of drafts.
• What building has the most stories? The library.

• Why did the boy sit in his wardrobe when reading books? Narnia business!
• Why are books afraid of their sequels? The sequels always come after them.
• Why did the bookworms break up? They weren’t on the same page.
• Why weren’t any of the witch’s new curses working? She forgot to run spell check.
• How does the book about Mt. Everest end? With a cliffhanger.