Last May we had some fun with puns. Let do some more. None of the below are original. They have been gathered from a variety of sources online. Care to add some of your own?
25 Book Puns
- Metaphors be with you.
- Brontë? What a breath of fresh Eyre.
- ISBN thinking about you.
- Never read Fitzgerald? You Gatsby kidding me!
- Broken pencils are pointless.
- Bad spelling makes me [sic].
- What do you call 2,000 mockingbirds? Two kilo mockingbird.
- Why do words and punctuation end up in court? To be sentenced.
- Forever Jung.
- I’m reading a book about antigravity and it’s impossible to put down.
- You’re nothing but a Wilde thing.
- What building has the most stories? The library.
- What’s the longest word in the dictionary? “Smiles” because there’s a mile between each s.
- Libraries are good for circulation.
- What’s the difference between cats and a comma? Cats have claws at the end of their paws, and commas are a pause at the end of a clause.
- Why is John Milton a terrible guest at game night? Because when he’s around, there’s a pair of dice lost.
- Dystopian novels are so 1984.
- The book about the Matterhorn had quite a cliff hanger.
- What dinosaur knows a lot of synonyms? A thesaurus.
- The high-school music teacher was controversial for having his students read band books.
- Writers are cold because they’re surrounded by drafts.
- Leave poetry to the prose.
- What does one library book say to the other? “Can I take you out?”
- Bookworms take shelfies.
- Seven days without a pun makes one weak.
