Funny SFF Books to Read This April Fools’ Day!

A once renowned and feared band of mercenaries has retired, the former members becoming some combination of old, drunk, and out of shape–and mostly pretty content with it. But then one of the old guard shows up at the former leader, Clay’s, door and desperately needs help. Clay must get the band back together for one last job that could be the death of them all.

A struggling stand-up comedian gets a new gig by becoming a Genrenaut, a member of a secret organization of interdimensional travelers who seek out broken story archetypes and fix them. If they don’t correct the narrative dysfunction of the worlds they go to? The ripples will bring destruction to their homes.

This is the start of a rip-roaring series about Evie, the personal assistant to a superhero who also happens to be her childhood best friend. Their friendship occasionally makes things a bit awkward as she navigates her super boss’s diva tantrums and demon-blood-stained leather pants. But then Evie has to pose as her boss for one night, and her secret gets out–she also has super powers, and her job’s about to get a lot more difficult.

Becoming a feared–and effective–dark lord is a lot more difficult than it sounds. There are a lot of details one has to constantly worry about, and those villain speeches don’t simply write themselves. Thankfully, there’s the Dark Lord’s Handbook to help all the fledgling subjugators… and Morden, the product of a randy dragon’s chance encounter, had better read quickly.

Sal Vidon has the power to reach through time and space so he can find anything he might want, intentionally or not… and on the unintentional side is his mother, who is no longer alive in his home universe. Sal is also, notably, a close up magician in training. When he comes to a new school and meets Gabi, he discovers he has a new friend, whether he wants one or not, and good thing–because he needs all the help he can get fixing the universe they’ve unintentionally broken.

Elisabeth was raised in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, monitoring the sorcerous grimoires guarded within its walls, each one capable of wreaking terrible havoc on the world–and transforming into monsters made of ink and leather if provoked. But when the most dangerous grimoire is released, Elisabeth is framed for the crime. If she wants to save the world from the grimoire, she must ally herself with a sorcerer–and learn about the power she possesses.