Jasper Fforde – Thursday Next Series – Books 1-5

Link: Jasper Fforde

Awards:
Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing  Best Novel winner (2004)
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (2005)

Description: (From Amazon) Jasper Fforde has a rich imagination that moves in wacky directions, an off-the-wall sense of humor that never quits, and a deep knowledge and love of literature which give shape and substance to this hilarious “thing” he’s created. Not really a mystery, sci-fi thriller, satire, or fluffy fantasy, this wild rumpus contains elements of all these but feels like a completely new genre. Fforde combines “real” people from the “historically challenged” world of his plot with characters from classic novels, adding dollops of word play, irony, literary humor, satire–and even a dodo bird–just for spice.