'The Book of Book Jokes' includes a huge range of comic material concentrating exclusively on the themes of books, reading, libraries, bookshops, and the literary life. As well as one-liners, puns, knock-knock jokes, and shaggy dog stories, it features sections including gravestones, book titles, jokes in acknowledgements, copyright and index pages, literary hoaxes, literary snark, and authors' in-jokes in novels, as well as sections such as Charles Dickens's humorous fake book decorations. It also features the favourite jokes of well-known writers, and a selection of literary cartoons.