If you’re someone who loves words, stories, and a clever play on language, then these Literary Puns are bound to be your next favorite read.
If you’re an English teacher, a bookworm, or just someone who enjoys a witty twist, this collection is made just for you.
Think of this as our little literary coffee chat — where humor meets the written word. From Shakespeare-inspired quips to grammar giggles, these puns will tickle your brain and make you laugh out loud.
So, grab your bookmark and let’s dive into the world of Literary Puns that every reader will adore!
Let’s dive in!
Classic Literature Puns 📚
- I’m reading Crime and Pun-ishment — it’s a real sentence.
- Don Quixote really tilted me with his humor.
- Jane Eyre? More like Jane Rare!
- I’m feeling quite Poe-etic today.
- Moby-Dick was a whale of a tale.
- That novel left me with Great Expectorations.
- Frankenstein’s jokes are electrifying!
- I’m Tolstoy-lly into long reads.
- Don’t Hardy blame me for loving puns.
- Les Misérables? More like Less Miserable with these puns!
- Call me Ish-ma-lol.
- Reading Dracula is such a pain in the neck.
- I Austen-tatiously love these puns.
- It’s a Dickens of a good time.
- I’m Wilde about witty wordplay.
Shakespeare Puns 🎭
- You can’t Hamlet without humor.
- Romeo and Pun-liet, a tragic laugh.
- To pun or not to pun, that is the question.
- Much Ado About Punning.
- The Tempest of laughter.
- All’s Pun That Ends Pun.
- A Midsummer Night’s Scream (of laughter).
- Macbeth-er believe it!
- Measure for Measure of giggles.
- Love’s Labour Pun.
- The Merchant of Gags.
- As You Pun It.
- Twelfth Laugh.
- King Lear-ious humor.
- The Taming of the Pun.
📘 Literary Jokes
- 🤓 I’d tell you a joke about a semicolon… but it’s too punctuated.
- 📖 My favorite exercise? Running out of characters.
- ✍️ Writers don’t get mad — they edit people out.
- 📚 I’m reading a book about anti-gravity — it’s impossible to put down.
- 🖊️ I asked the librarian if the library had books on paranoia… she whispered, “They’re right behind you.”
- 😴 I fell asleep reading a history book — it was past bedtime.
- 💡 I started a book club called Page Turners Anonymous.
- ⚔️ Plot twist: I finished the book before the coffee.
📚 Jokes About Literature
- 😅 Shakespeare jokes are great… until you don’t get the Bard one.
- 👻 Hamlet’s ghost would make a great grammar teacher: To be or not to be — that’s the question mark!
- 📜 I asked the poet for a rhyme… they gave me silence.
- 🖋️ Why did the author break up with the dictionary?
➤ It had too many definitions of love. - 🚪 When one chapter closes, another opens dramatically.
- 🥸 Detective novels always keep me suspense-ended.
- 🤯 My bookshelf is full but my heart has room for more reads.
- 🧠 The plot thickens… like an overcooked sauce.
🧐 What Are Puns in Literature
- 📖 A bookstore is novel territory.
- 😄 My love for reading is write on time.
- ✍️ Authors draw conclusions with words.
- 📚 Shelf control: resisting the urge to buy more books.
- 🕵️♂️ Mystery authors have a killer instinct.
- 💡 Poetry helps you verse feelings.
- 🤓 Grammar books give sentence lifetimes.
- 🪶 Fantasy novels are imaginatively real.
😂 Literature Jokes One Liners
- 📚 I have a novel idea — let’s read!
- 🖊️ Writers block? My pen refuses to ink.
- 🪟 I wrote a book about windows — it’s transparent storytelling.
- 📖 I tried to write a horror book… but my story had no skeleton.
- ☕ Plot twist: coffee solves every chapter.
- 🧠 Big words? I read them literally.
- 😴 My bookmark called — it’s tired of waiting.
- 🤦 I lost the plot… literally and emotionally.
Poetry Puns ✒️
- I rhyme therefore I am.
- My heart beats in iambic pun-tameter.
- I’m feeling verse-atile today.
- Rhyme and Punishment.
- Poe-try in pun-motion.
- Haiku kidding me?
- That limerick was pun-derful.
- Meter made me laugh.
- Stanza chance you’ll love this.
- Ode you ready for more?
- Simile the best pun yet.
- Sonnet-ted with laughter.
- Don’t metaphor-get me.
- My humor’s free verse.
- Puns that rhyme are prime.
Modern Book Puns 📖
- The Hunger Games? More like the Punger Games.
- Harry Punner and the Chamber of Laughs.
- The Lord of the Puns.
- A Song of Ice and Puns.
- Fifty Shades of Wordplay.
- The Great Gats-pun.
- Percy Jack-pun and the Lightning Laugh.
- The Fault in Our Puns.
- Gone Pun.
- Catch-22 chuckles.
- The Girl with the Pun Tattoo.
- The Da Vinci Pun.
- The Handmaid’s Pun.
- Life of Pun.
- Divergent Humor.
Book Lover Puns ❤️
- I’ve got spine for this story.
- Shelf-care is self-care.
- You’re novel, and I’m hooked.
- Booked for the weekend!
- Let’s get lit-erary.
- Stay chapter and verse.
- Readers gonna read.
- Between the lines, I’m laughing.
- Don’t judge a pun by its cover.
- Plot twist — it’s a pun!
- Read it and weep (from laughter).
- Turning over a new pun.
- I’m totally booked out.
- This is shelfishly funny.
- Chapter one: laughter begins.
Author Name Puns ✍️
- Ernest Hehe-mingway.
- George LOLwell.
- Pun Austen.
- Edgar Allan Punn.
- William Pakes-peare.
- Charles Chickens.
- J.R.R. Tolaughkien.
- Mark Twainkling with humor.
- Laughter Carroll.
- C.S. Puns.
- J.K. Gigglings.
- Fyodor Dostopunsky.
- Stephen King of puns.
- Roald D’ahl-larious.
- Leo Laughstoy.
Conclusion
Literary puns prove that great writing doesn’t always have to be serious — sometimes, it just needs to be cleverly pun-derful.
From Shakespearean wit to modern book jokes, these puns are the perfect bookmark for your sense of humor.
Keep reading, keep laughing, and may your bookshelf always be full of stories worth punning about!
Jonathan Bishopson is the punmaster-in-chief at ThinkPun.com, where wordplay meets wit and every phrase gets a clever twist. Known for turning ordinary language into laugh-out-loud lines, Jonathan crafts puns that make readers groan, grin, and think twice. When he’s not busy bending words, he’s probably plotting his next “pun-derful” masterpiece or proving that humor really is the best re-word.
