Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024

Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and more!

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?

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Emily & Julia are a match made in literary heaven. My only heartbreak is when it ends

Amazing!

I don’t know what it is about her voice but Julia just became my new favorite narrator! The book was amazing but I was hooked the second the book starting playing because her voice is mesmerizing, couldn’t recommend this enough!

Sweet love story

Even though I knew from the beginning how I thought it would turn out, it was still exciting and had enough unexpected parts that left me not being able to turn it off. Loved the friendship story and family one as well as the love story. Delicious tension throughout. Great reading by the narrator!

Really Cute Story

Not a real complicated story, but it is still engaging. The narrator is good, too.

And unlikely coupling of likeable characters.

I love a good story that includes humor and a character that loves books and reading! This story, an unlikely tale of a coupling, was filled with characters who are real and like-able. Loved it.