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		| Originally posted by Replaced_Texan Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series. ... some of her writing is laugh out loud funny.
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  I would second these, though I haven't actually read the majority of them.  Particularly interesting about these books are the facts that (i) the heroine is not particularly bright, and (ii) is really inappropriately sexually obsessed with her husband.  Makes for some very amusing reading indeed.  
I am keeping one eye open for (i) the next Wheel of Time entry by Robert Jordan, and (ii) any additional Gunslinger books by S. King. 
I am always fond of short story collections, actually.  Good way to locate likely sources of interesting stuff.